TWiT 927: The Cheese Tax - AI ethics, Google IO, Absci, Replika, AM radio in cars, Spotify rejects AI songs

05/14/23 • 148 min

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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 FriendlyTM 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.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Phil Libin

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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 FriendlyTM 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.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Phil Libin

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

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AI chatbots, Writer's Guild strike, Pluto ad-supported TV

AI is already writing books, websites, and online recipes.
AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms.
Google Adding AI Chatbot, More Video to Stay On Top of Search.
Amnesty International criticized for using AI-generated images.
I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family.
Larry Magid: Voice cloning makes virtual kidnapping more convincing.
DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs.
Samsung Bans ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Other Generative AI Use by Staff After Leak.
Writers Guild On Strike Against Hollywood Studios As Contract Talks With Fail.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO says writers' strike will be ended by 'love for the business and the love for working.'
Pluto co-founder is building an ad-supported TV.
Judge Dismisses F.T.C. Lawsuit Against Kochava, a Location Data Broker.
Google accounts now support passkeys for password-free sign-in.
Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy.
The Morning After: Google officially reveals its first foldable phone: The Pixel Fold.
'The Godfather of AI' Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead.
Tim Cook Just Was Asked About AI. His 3-Word Response Was the Best I've Heard Yet.
Inside Amazon's canceled plan to make Halo a fitness success.
Solidigm Synergy 2.0 SSD Software with benchmarks.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louise Matsakis, Allyn Malventano, and Janko Roettgers

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TikTok Montana ban, Instagram's Twitter clone, Tears of the Kingdom, and more.

Everything we know about Instagram's Twitter clone, due this summer.
How Apple's headset could be a $3,000 flopâand a success.
Pixel Fold.
TikTok Users Sue Montana, Calling State Ban Unconstitutional.
Dear Section 230 Critics: When Senators Hawley And Cruz Are Your Biggest Allies, It's Time To Rethink.
Tears of the Kingdom sold 10 million copies in just three days.
Supreme Court sides against Andy Warhol Foundation in copyright infringement case.
Supreme Court Leaves 230 Alone For Now, But Justice Thomas Gives A Pretty Good Explanation For Why It Exists In The First Place.
Google reaches $39.9 million privacy settlement with Washington state.
The government can't seize your data â but it can buy it.
Apple created its new voice feature forâand withâpeople with ALS.
CNET staff are unionizing, citing editorial independence and use of AI tools.
AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit.
Have we oversold the potential of AI?
Bard vs ChatGPT.
OpenAI chief concerned about AI being used to compromise elections.
NASA picks Blue Origin to make a second human-crewed lunar lander.
D&D streaming TV channel on the way, will include cartoons, actual play.
Cord-Cutting Q1 2023: Pay-TV Ops Lose 2.3M Subs, Worst Quarter to Date.
The triumphâyes, triumphâof BlackBerry.