Episode 140: Is AI the New Search?

02/22/23 • 48 min

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Ezequiel Lanza about AI-based search.

Special Guest: Ezequiel Lanza.

Links:

Perplexity AI: Ask Anything
Microsoft’s ChatGPT-Powered Bing Makes Search Interesting Again - The New York Times — Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.
Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality | TED Talk — The founder of Sirius XM satellite radio, Martine Rothblatt now heads up a drug company that makes life-saving medicines for rare diseases (including one drug that saved her own daughter's life). Meanwhile she is working to preserve the consciousness of the woman she loves in a digital file ... and a companion robot. In an onstage conversation with TED's Chris Anderson, Rothblatt shares her powerful story of love, identity, creativity, and limitless possibility.
Fraud Detection with Intel® Distribution of Modin* — This tutorial provides a use case where a credit card company might benefit from machine learning techniques to predict fraudulent transactions. This is the first part of a three-part series.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Ezequiel Lanza about AI-based search.

Special Guest: Ezequiel Lanza.

Links:

Perplexity AI: Ask Anything
Microsoft’s ChatGPT-Powered Bing Makes Search Interesting Again - The New York Times — Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.
Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality | TED Talk — The founder of Sirius XM satellite radio, Martine Rothblatt now heads up a drug company that makes life-saving medicines for rare diseases (including one drug that saved her own daughter's life). Meanwhile she is working to preserve the consciousness of the woman she loves in a digital file ... and a companion robot. In an onstage conversation with TED's Chris Anderson, Rothblatt shares her powerful story of love, identity, creativity, and limitless possibility.
Fraud Detection with Intel® Distribution of Modin* — This tutorial provides a use case where a credit card company might benefit from machine learning techniques to predict fraudulent transactions. This is the first part of a three-part series.

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk to Don Marti about Permission Slip, the new data privacy app from Consumer Reports.

Special Guests: Don Marti and Petros Koutoupis.

Links:

Introducing Permission Slip, the app to take back control of your data | Digital Lab at Consumer Reports — Privacy is a right. This is a fact in many states, and it’s one of our fervent beliefs at Consumer Reports. But that doesn’t mean privacy is easy. Anyone who’s tried to make their digital life more private knows how much effort it requires. We create data in nearly every interaction we have with companies. Keeping track and chasing after this data can feel convoluted, frustrating, even futile. The right to privacy is only real if you can use it. So today, we’re announcing a new, experimental service by Consumer Reports to help you do privacy better. Enter: Permission Slip.
Permission Slip by CR — Find out what companies know about us It’s no secret that a huge number of companies are collecting, buying and selling data about us. Find out what information they collect, and take action to help protect yourself.
blog: Don Marti

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls hear Dave Huseby's new ideas about identity verification and data authenticity in commerce.

Special Guest: Dave Huseby.

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Cryptid Technologies — Necessary Security at Unprecedented Scale We offer flexible APIs for building zero-knowledge proof based authentication and authorization, authenticated provenance, verifiable authenticity, and privacy preserving decentralized identity that scales to billions of people and devices.
IIW — The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. We meet in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!