TWiG 703: Spicy Autocomplete - writeGPT, Privacy Sandbox, Musk's Twitter firing, Radio Garden

02/15/23 • 149 min

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Elon Musk's reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it.
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first.
Google's AI chatbot, Bard, sparks a $100 billion loss in Alphabet shares.
Eight Research Papers That Set Off the AI Boom.
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
How, why and when generative AI will kill the search engine.
writeGPT - OpenAI's GPT prompt assistant.
From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he's not happy about it.
Google Launches Privacy Sandbox for Android Beta Test.
Google Drive adding stylus and finger PDF annotation on Android.
YouTube TV subscribers will get a discount on NFL Sunday Ticket, access launches September 10.
Google Fiber rolling out $125/month 5 Gig service in 4 cities.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

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Elon Musk's reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it.
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first.
Google's AI chatbot, Bard, sparks a $100 billion loss in Alphabet shares.
Eight Research Papers That Set Off the AI Boom.
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
How, why and when generative AI will kill the search engine.
writeGPT - OpenAI's GPT prompt assistant.
From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he's not happy about it.
Google Launches Privacy Sandbox for Android Beta Test.
Google Drive adding stylus and finger PDF annotation on Android.
YouTube TV subscribers will get a discount on NFL Sunday Ticket, access launches September 10.
Google Fiber rolling out $125/month 5 Gig service in 4 cities.

Picks:

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary.
Matias Tactile Pro.
I Tried Microsoft's New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same.
Google unveils its own ChatGPT-like AI chatbot.
Bret Taylor starts AI company; Google VP joins.
Twitter Places Limits on Tweet Frequency, Impacting Business and Individual Accounts.
Google's AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in first demo.
Twitter execs acknowledge mistakes with Hunter Biden laptop story but say no government involvement.
Elon Musk Found Not Liable in Trial Over Tweets Proposing to Take Tesla Private.
Google will soon blur explicit images by default in search results.
Google is adding some new features for EVs with built-in Google Maps.
Google winds down feature that put playable podcasts directly in search results.
Google launches Android 14 Developer Preview for Pixel.
Jason Howell reviews the OnePlus 11 5G.
Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say.

Picks:

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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