AI as a Modern Deity

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Greg Epstein’s thoughts on tech worship culture in Tech Agnostic, OpenAI’s legal battles with publishers over copyright infringement claims, Amazon Alexa’s generative AI struggles with hallucinations, Google Notebook LM’s friendliness tuning updates, and more!

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0:01:48 - Interview with Greg Epstein

0:35:35 - Biden’s administration proposes new rules on exporting AI chips, provoking an industry pushback

0:38:39 - NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration’s Misguided ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule

0:40:42 - Biden signs ambitious order to bolster energy resources for AI data centers

0:42:08 - OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’

0:43:39 - The New York Times' takes OpenAI to court--again

0:46:43 - Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

0:43:21 - Amazon's upcoming Alexa AI brain transplant might make you use it more than just weather and timers

0:57:35 - Adobe’s new AI tool can edit 10,000 images in one click

0:59:33 - Slopaggedon: Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for "Does Corn Get Digested"

1:04:53 - Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans

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