Jun 5th 2016
This Week in Tech 565
Miss Honeybelle
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
AI everywhere, Elon Musk is living in a simulation, FBI tracking tattoos.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Guests:
Becky Worley,
Harry McCracken
Elon Musk thinks we are living in a computer simulation, and that one AI company will plunge us into despotism. Also, Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends, Snapchat passes Twitter, and the FBI is tracking tattoos
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Links
- AI everywhere, Elon Musk is living in a simulation, FBI tracking tattoos
- Elon Musk: The chance we are not living in a computer simulation is 'one in billions'
- Amazon Alexa now has over 1,000 Skills, up from 135 in January
- Google building Assistant ‘character’ with backstory and childhood
- Alexa could be the 4th pillar of Amazon, says Jeff Bezos | VentureBeat | Bots | by Jordan Novet
- Facebook spares humans by fighting offensive photos with AI | TechCrunch
- Periscope has a new plan to fight back against internet trolls - Recode
- Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage - Bloomberg
- Amazon sues sellers who buy fake reviews
- Sources! say! Twitter's! after! you! Yahoo!
- The best Meeker 2016 Internet Trends slides and what they mean
- Leaving the Nest. | Nest
- FBI is building a tattoo tracking AI to identify criminals
- Lenovo cries 'dump our support app' after 'critical' hole found
- Microsoft makes blocking Windows 10 update near impossible
- Walmart will test last-mile grocery delivery via Uber, Lyft and Deliv
- Saudi Arabia just invested a historic amount of cash in Uber
- The Sims 4 discards gender rules for all clothing, customizations