‘Tis the Season for Gaming | VR under the Christmas Tree | AI for Historical Preservation | Lego Fortnite Success
12/13/23 • 62 min
On this week's episode, the EU becomes the first governing power to enact laws around artificial intelligence.
Next, Hackl and Kebler discuss an article in the NY Times that focused on using AI to talk to the dead. Hackl talks about the benefits of AI for historical preservation. Also, ‘Tis the Season for Gaming and VR, as Hackl and Kebler discuss the success of the Fortnite x Lego collab and how the Meta Quests outsold AirPods on Amazon’s Black Friday sales.
Hackl interviews Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos, founder of Abundance Studio. Kostopoulos is a strategy and emerging technology advisor.
Producer Lily Snyder brings you the Dispatch from the Fringe.
Show Notes:
- EU Reaches Agreement on New “AI Act”: The World’s First Comprehensive AI Law
- Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead
- AI Can Reshape the Physical World—If We Regulate It Properly
- Fortnite x Lego Official Launch Trailer
- Would you believe a VR headset outsold AirPods during Black Friday? It happened
- Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos on LinkedIn
- Latinas pioneras en la IA: dando forma al futuro, un algoritmo a la vez
- Want to Trick an LLM? Try Asking It Nicely or Use Argentinian Spanish
- DLD Conference in Munich
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On this week's episode, the EU becomes the first governing power to enact laws around artificial intelligence.
Next, Hackl and Kebler discuss an article in the NY Times that focused on using AI to talk to the dead. Hackl talks about the benefits of AI for historical preservation. Also, ‘Tis the Season for Gaming and VR, as Hackl and Kebler discuss the success of the Fortnite x Lego collab and how the Meta Quests outsold AirPods on Amazon’s Black Friday sales.
Hackl interviews Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos, founder of Abundance Studio. Kostopoulos is a strategy and emerging technology advisor.
Producer Lily Snyder brings you the Dispatch from the Fringe.
Show Notes:
- EU Reaches Agreement on New “AI Act”: The World’s First Comprehensive AI Law
- Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead
- AI Can Reshape the Physical World—If We Regulate It Properly
- Fortnite x Lego Official Launch Trailer
- Would you believe a VR headset outsold AirPods during Black Friday? It happened
- Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos on LinkedIn
- Latinas pioneras en la IA: dando forma al futuro, un algoritmo a la vez
- Want to Trick an LLM? Try Asking It Nicely or Use Argentinian Spanish
- DLD Conference in Munich
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Cathy Hackl on LinkedIn
Lee Kebler on LinkedIn
Lily Snyder on LinkedIn
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Previous Episode
Eminem Fortnite Concert | KISS Avatars
In this episode, Hackl and Kebler talk about games, musical avatars, and the ecological impact of generative AI.
The musical group, Kiss, retires to leave the music to their avatars. Hackl shouts out Future Chicken, a game developed by Catherine Winder and Annabel Slaight. Kebler discusses the environmental impact of generative AI prompts from MIT. Hackl and Kebler segway into the Eminem Fortnite concert.
Hackl interviews Irena Cronin, Co-Founder & SVP of Product at DADOS Technology.
Producer Lily Snyder brings you the Dispatch from the Fringe.
Show Notes:
- Kiss say farewell to live touring, become first US band to go virtual and become digital avatars
- Kids Want Digital Currency And Subscriptions More Than New Games This Xmas
- The Game Awards trailer gets us hyped for the games of 2024
- Fortnite’s Eminem concert teased the future of the game
- A former Lucasfilm exec created this time-traveling chicken to help kids cope with climate change
- Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
- Irena Cronin on LinkedIn
- Who wants to farm potatoes in the metaverse? Exploring Roblox’s corporate hell-worlds
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Next Episode
Murderbot Diaries | Figma Adobe merger | Bribing ChatGPT
On this week's episode, Hackl and Kebler talk about Murderbot Diaries, a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series. Hackl and Kebler discuss the Figma Adobe merger failure. Hackl and Kebler talk about Marriott Bonvoy Land in Fortnite and Asgard’s Wrath 2 in VR. OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account. Kebler tries to break ChatGPT 4. Hackl and Kebler discuss Epic, Meta, and Unity joining the Alliance for OpenUSD.
Hackl interviews Nick Vinckier, Director of Corporate Innovation at Chalhoub Group.
Producer Lily Snyder brings you the Dispatch from the Fringe.
Show Notes:
- Apple is adapting the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series Murderbot
- Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger
- Fortnite’s Marriott Bonvoy Land is a ghost town of video game sadness
- VR’s killer app has finally arrived” - IGN gave it a perfect score and called it a masterpiece
- OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model.
- Alliance for OpenUSD Unveils Roadmap for Core USD Specification and Ecosystem Collaboration
- Nick Vinckier on LinkedIn
- The hottest new climate technology is bricks
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