Mar 15th 2023
This Week in Google 707
Heartlessness As a Service
GPT-4, T-Mobile buys Mint Mobile, Biden's TikTok demand, Gowalla returns
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mike Elgan
- OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.
- Silicon Valley Bank is imploding, prompting bank run.
- T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal.
- OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model (again).
- Grammarly adds ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more.
- Gmail, Google Docs, and more are getting ChatGPT-like generative AI features.
- Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.
- Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly.
- The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) presents Stochastic Parrots Day.
- Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3.
- Carrot Weather gets a snarky ChatGPT update.
- Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action.
- Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.
- TikTok now offers a feed dedicated to science and tech.
- Meta is working on a decentralized social app.
- Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment.
- Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT.
- Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition.
- YouTube TV Multiview lets you watch up to 4 games in preview for March Madness.
- Google Play will now machine translate Android apps for free.
- Google Workspace is getting a price increase and other changes.
- March Pixel Feature Drop with Android 13 QPR2 is now rolling out.
- Stranded on a mountain, he tied his phone to a drone to text for help.
- Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.
- A Look Inside Elon Musk’s $50,000 Prefab Tiny House.
- The Biden administration demands that TikTok be sold or risk a nationwide ban.
Picks:
- Stacey - Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Hardcover by Jenny Odell.
- Jeff - Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today, and I’m Going to Write About It.
- Jeff - Lifehacker sold by G/O to Ziff Davis.
- Jeff - Here’s Everything That Happened at the #BlackTwitterSummit.
- Jeff - The Color Printer.
- Mike - ChatPDF.
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Links
- OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model - The Verge
- Silicon Valley Bank is imploding, prompting bank run
- T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile in $1.35 billion deal | TechCrunch
- Grammarly adding ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more
- Gmail, Google Docs, and more are getting ChatGPT-like generative AI features
- Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3 - The Verge
- Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update - 9to5Mac
- Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action | TechCrunch
- TikTok now offers a feed dedicated to science and tech | Engadget
- Gowalla is back
- Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT - The New York Times
- Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition
- YouTube TV Multiview lets you watch up to 4 games, in preview for March Madness
- Google Play will now machine translate Android apps for free
- Google Workspace is getting a price increase and other changes
- March Pixel Feature Drop with Android 13 QPR2 now rolling out
- Stranded on a mountain, he tied his phone to a drone to text for help
- Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff - BBC News
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
- Kottke is 25
- Lifehacker sold by G/O to Ziff Davis
- Report on Black Twitter Summit
- The Color Printer
- ChatPDF