608: The Way of the Grift
Grumpy Old Geeks
The Best Movies of All Time
Jason Priestley has a 75-inch television in his bedroom. He says he's going to have a movie marathon before the holidays. His top 10 list includes Pulp Fiction, Die Hard 3 and Fight club. The hunt for red October is also on the list.
Hello, summer; disinformation professor falsifies own data; AI is eating itself, recursion & model collapse looming; scammers, liars, grifters prosper; mandated return to office not working out great; Amazon's robot revolution; Congress limits AI usage; Vatican releases AI Ethics Handbook; Google violates its ad deal standards; Youtube disabling videos for ad-blocker use; Zoox!; IRL lied their asses off about users, still got $170 million from SoftBank; Aspartame & warm Mountain Dew; Star Trek; Silo; Reality; Fubar; the Machine; Apple News UI needs help; later, Stitcher; Google cancels Iris; mustaches and learning about being a woman; ElevenLabs Voice Library & the end of voice over actors; cosplaying mommy & arrested development; 4th of July Movie Marathon.
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FOLLOW UP
Harvard professor who studies dishonesty is accused of falsifying data
THE CURSE OF RECURSION: TRAINING ON GENERATED DATA MAKES MODELS FORGET
The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code
IN THE NEWS
Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution
Congress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPT
The Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics Handbook
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Contacted by Italy to Fight at Colosseum
Italian culture ministry denies reports of Musk vs Zuckerberg fight in Colosseum
Google Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research Finds
YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers
Zoox begins testing robotaxis on public roads in Las Vegas
SoftBank gave $170m to a social app whose users mostly didn't exist
Aspartame to be named a possible cancer-causer
MEDIA CANDY
Indiana Jones - Destined To Flop - The Critical Drinker
Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators
Ted Lasso charted a record-breaking billion minutes of viewing during finale week
APPS & DOODADS
ChatGPT for iOS now lets paid subscribers use Bing right from the app
Google is no longer building its own augmented reality glasses
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
ElevenLabs - Introducing: Voice Library
Jason’s 4th of July Birth Control Movie Marathon
1. Hackers
2. The Edge
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. Fight Club
5. The Professional
6. Pulp Fiction
7. The Hunt for Red October
8. Die Hard 3
9. Hard Boiled
10. The Crow
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