This Week in Tech 927

AI ethics, Google IO, Absci, Replika, AM radio in cars, Spotify rejects AI songs

• The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb.
• Google IO saw the introduction of many of the company's AI efforts. 
• A Charge of Bots — The Tech World As We Know It Is About To Be Rewritten. 
• BS Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber. 
• ChatGPT Plugins And Web Browsing Beta Rollout For Plus Users. 
• What about "The Singularity"? 
• Google is changing up Search. What does that mean for news publishers? 
• What is the best-case scenario of where AI is headed in 5-10 years? 
• Absci: Biologics Drug Discovery. 
• Why Linda Yaccarino was picked as Twitter CEO by Elon Musk. 
• Review: ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ is video game bliss. 
• An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute. 
• Replika: The AI companion who cares. 
• Has Meta given up on the Metaverse? 
• Checking in on some of the latest shows on Apple+ and HBO. 
• End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars. 
• Groundbreaking Pilot of New Friendly™ Mosquitoes Demonstrates 96% Suppression of Dengue-spreading Aedes aegypti in Urban Communities in Brazil. 
• Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams. 

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• Transcripts: This Week in Tech Episode 927 Transcript

Links

• Why Linda Yaccarino was picked as Twitter CEO by Elon Musk - The Washington Post
• Google is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers? | Nieman Journalism Lab
• End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars - The Washington Post
• Groundbreaking Pilot of New Friendly™ Mosquitoes Demonstrates 96% Suppression of Dengue-spreading Aedes aegypti in Urban Communities in Brazil — Oxitec
• Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams | Ars Technica