Techtonic with Mark Hurst:
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Above: A Simple Desultory Techtonic, the 2023 marathon premium. Four tracks by Si-mark and Scott-funkel (music led by Scott Williams; Matt Fiveash on bass; recording by Lily Wen), 16 more tracks chosen by Mark Hurst, cover designed by Greg Harrison.
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Here are the first four tracks of the album, performed by Scott and me ("Si-mark and Scott-funkel"), with help from Matt Fiveash and Lily Wen, covering some classic Simon and Garfunkel tunes – with dystopian lyrics written in:
1. The Sounds of Surveillance
2. A Simple Desultory Techtonic
3. The Only Honest Man in Big Tech
4. The Internet
The remaining 16 tracks are tech-themed songs that, for the most part, I have played on past Techtonic episodes. So the CD contains a full 20 tracks – delivering desultory dystopia!
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This week: DJ Bryce, host of Bryce (Friday 12noon - 3pm Eastern)
News:
• Vanderbilt apologizes for using ChatGPT in email on Michigan shooting (The Guardian, Feb 22, 2023): “Officials at Vanderbilt University apologized for using an AI chatbot to write a consoling email to students after a mass shooting at Michigan State University.” One student said, “Deans, provosts, and the chancellor: do more. Do anything. And lead us into a better future with genuine, human empathy, not a robot.”
• Briant Merchant in the LA Times (Feb 16, 2023): “Search engines have always been unreliable conduits for truth, but chatbot search interfaces are particularly treacherous, owing to what’s been dubbed the ‘one true answer’ problem: Rather than present a list of possible results and inviting users to select among them, they serve up one canonical answer. When the question is ‘Is it safe to boil a baby?’ and the answer is ‘Yes’ — a real-life example from Bing — you’ve got trouble.”
• Article in Slate (March 8, 2023) about RadioGPT, “a new tool from the Ohio-based software company Futuri Media that fully digitizes the broadcast host as you know it. . . . [using] GPT-3, the large language model that powers the hit chatbot ChatGPT; and A.I.-voice ‘personalities’ made by Futuri that can learn the info scraped by TopicPulse and aggregated by GPT-3 to read readymade copy live on air.” Thanks to listener Joe S. for sending this in!
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