Nov 15th 2023
This Week in Google 742
More Eel Guys Than You Know
Leo's GPTs, Alex Stamos on election disinformation, deepfakes, eels!
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Alex Stamos
- Discussion of upcoming Black Friday sales on Google Pixel phones and tablets
- Concerns with the Pixel tablet including laggy performance, inability to use independently from dock, and high pricing
- Leo shares his epiphany on the usefulness of AI for expert systems and personalized agents
- Demonstration of Leo's custom AI assistants for Lisp and Emacs programming languages
- Talk of Elon Musk's reputation decline after acquiring Twitter
- Discussion of studies showing people perceive AI-generated faces as more human than real faces
- Overview of lawsuit allowing school districts to sue social media companies for youth addiction
- Interview with Alex Stamos, former Facebook CSO and current Stanford professor
- Alex's perspective on risks of deepfakes in elections vs for individual harassment
- Thoughts on moral panic around social media and youth mental health
- Alex recounts attending a closed-door Senate AI hearing led by Senator Schumer
- Discussion of social media companies loosening policies on election misinformation
- Concerns about TikTok as a news source and possible propaganda risks
- Talk of new book "A History of Fake Things on the Internet" by Walter Shirer
- Alex's suggestion for comprehensive federal privacy regulations
- Revelation during Google antitrust trial of Apple's cut of Google search revenue
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Links
- Google's Black Friday Sale Starts Thursday - Thurrott.com
- The Humane AI Pin is a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager | Ars Technica
- White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
- Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them? - The New York Times
- Google’s C.E.O. Takes Another Turn on the Antitrust Witness Stand - The New York Times
- Apple Gets 36% of Google Revenue From Search Deal, Witness Says - Bloomberg
- In 2022, Meta quietly began letting ads say past US elections were “rigged” or “stolen”; sources say executives decided this based on free speech considerations
- *moral panic intensifies* Social media companies must face youth addiction lawsuits, US judge rules
- YouTube will show labels on videos that use AI
- I was part of Schumer’s AI Forum last week, and while it was closed door I’m allowed to talk about what happened
- Gandalf password AI game
- Basement eel pit guy on TikTok