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Favoriting May 13, 2024: Chris Gilliard on what AI is really for

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Today: Chris Gilliard on what AI is really for

Sam Altman wants to make AI like a 'super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything' about your life (Insider, May 4, 2024)

Sam Altman Answers The Burning Questions About AI: Bias, Privacy, Etc. (Forbes, May 3, 2024): “He mused that AI might, for example, testify against you or get subpoenaed by a court.”

Don't Talk to the Police: non-surveilled video link. (If you prefer to be spied on by Google, here's the YouTube link.)

Data centers to run out of power in two years, says DigitalBridge CEO (LightReading, May 6, 2024)

Tesla vehicles kept crashing even after the Autopilot software updates, NHTSA says (The Verge, May 7, 2024)

Digital recreations of dead people need urgent regulation, AI ethicists say (The Guardian, May 8, 2024)

The Deeper Problem With Google's Racially Diverse Nazis (Chris in the Atlantic, Feb 26, 2024)

@hypervisible – Chris’s Mastodon account

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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:54pm
ultradamno:

Mark! Techtonigentsia!

By the way, PBS' Nova show this Wed. (check your local listings) is "Secrets in Your Data: Find out who’s using your data and what you can do about it."www.pbs.org...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
chresti:

Hi Mark and Techtonians!
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David (in London):

Evening Mark and all Technoids.
Avatar 🤖 6:01pm
herb.nyc:

Meow to all.
Avatar 6:01pm
joe_rosevear:

Hi Mark and all!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Morninggggggg
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
Handy Haversack:

Hello, Mark, Techyons.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Mark!
  6:02pm
P-90:

greetings Mark and all who are guessing whose commercial Apple will be “borrowing” from next…
  6:03pm
mzzz:

Ai! Let's talk about LAVENDER.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
tim:

Hey Mark! Hiya Techtonics!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
ultradamno:

To quote Bud "day, night, doesn't mean shit"
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
newton:

Good Evening Mark, Technophiles
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Picante Mint:

↳ ultradamno @5:54
Thanks for this info! So glad I started using a VPN a few months ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Ciggy:

Can't Ai count our presidential voting ballots ahead of time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
ultradamno:

↳ P-90 @6:02
Think different, like LG!
  6:08pm
Glistener MW:

the return of Chris Gilliard! keen!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Tech Friends!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
melinda:

hello techtons
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Mark Hurst:

@ultra @chresti @DiL @herb @joe_r @PaulR @Handy @Wendy (Wendy!) @P-90 @tim @newton @Picante @Ciggy @GlistenerMW @Webham @melinda welcome & thanks for showing up this evening!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Folsom:

The mickey rooney pic shold have been one from Breakfast at Tiffany's
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
ultradamno:

I had a dream I was out of peanut oil and a cute girl talked me into using a particular brand of microwave popcorn bags. I think commercials being transmitted into our dreams has already started
  6:10pm
Rolando:

Good morning 😊
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Webhamster Henry:

Ask Jeeves says "I told you I'd be back!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Rolando @6:10
morning, Rolando!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Jim the Poet:

This is why I lie to Alexa about what I like! I need alibis!
  6:11pm
P-90:

AI “might” testify against you? If it can, it will.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ P-90 @6:11
they're trying to break it to us gently.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
PaulRobeson1924:

↳ Picante Mint @6:06
a VPN what do you have to hide?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
tim:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:11
I lie to Alexa about what you like too, Jim!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ P-90 @6:11
It won't matter, it will be talking to an AI judge appointed by human "beard" fronts for other AI bots. #distopAI
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Jim the Poet:

↳ tim @6:12
Thank you for your service
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
ultradamno:

I'm imagining a throng of lawyers and lobbyists working for very wealthy people rushing to get "individual/AI" privilege to be a thing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Mark Hurst:

Don't Talk to the Police yewtu.be...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
DjLorraine:

Good evening.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
PaulRobeson1924:

↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:12
Edward Snowden
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
tim:

I would like to my AI cop personal assistant to address me with “Alright, you dink. Outta the car.”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Picante Mint:

↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:12
Haha
Avatar 🤖 6:20pm
herb.nyc:

Don’t talk to bands, esp the Police. (Between songs, Wreckless Eric mentioned Sting. Said “Sting, where is thy death?”)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Jim the Poet:

I for one welcome our terrifying AI overlords
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:22
Alexa will be happy to hear it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Jim the Poet:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:22
She's always listening!!!!!
  6:25pm
P-90:

“Oh its a glitch in the code”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
ultradamno:

There was a NYT opinion piece on Cybertruck recently....Musk's fanboys were right there to declare "you're just jealous" (if only that were a enough to keep it out of the top five of biggest lemons of all time lists of the future) twitter.com...
  6:27pm
Billybob:

Pooky Park makes AI A-OK in my book. Anyone see it? It makes Action Park seem like Disney's spinning teacups.
Avatar 6:27pm
Fredericks:

Is this the gallows humor show?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
tim:

Wrestling, Three Stooges reruns and Looney Tunes made me the person I am today!
  6:30pm
P-90:

This is “The Gallows Humor Show” every damn week
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
Ben in Long Melford, UK:

The difficult thing to measure is how many crashes DON'T happen because of self-driving cars. You'd need a lot of data on the number of miles driven in self-driving mode and the number of crashes / injuries / deaths in self-driving mode to compare against the underlying rate. And you have to compare against the right underlying rate, for example comparing against the sorts of drivers that would buy a Tesla but don't have one rather than just all drivers. Not defending self-driving mode, just saying it's difficult to get an objective view.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
tim:

Mark, where is Chris based in Michigan?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
coelacanth∅:

we should implement mandatory extra driving tests and licenses for driving "suvs" (portable living rooms) and giant pick-ups (penis extensions).
and surcharges to use them on public roads; higher tolls on toll roads...for any vehicle that sits higher than a small sedan, or gets poorer fuel mileage; or is heavier so causes more wear on roadways...
  6:33pm
Sam:

So I’ve heard AI is racist and sometimes doesn’t recognize black faces. But then it shows black Nazis. What’s going on there?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
melinda:

One should still be able to ask the question and get an accurate picture
  6:34pm
Sam:

So it’s an overcorrection.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
chresti:

LOL
  6:34pm
morphe':

↳ tim @6:30
Tim .. I think I only realized earlier today that you are TIM and I am the other TIM ???
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
PaulRobeson1924:

↳ Fredericks @6:27
Smart* gallows humour
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melinda:

↳ coelacanth∅ @6:33
good idea
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

Just as Google for decades has added synonyms of your search terms to what you are searching for when you actually search with Google, AI Chatbots add lots and lots of terms to your "prompt" to help steer it away from things people complain about.
  6:36pm
traven:

↳ coelacanth∅ @6:33
I agree with you 100%. My observation is that many suv drivers can't handle those beasts.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ morphe' @6:34
Exactly, yes, it's Tim Time!
  6:37pm
traven:

I agree with you 100%. My observation is that many suv drivers can't handle those beasts.
  6:37pm
Sam:

↳ coelacanth∅ @6:33
France has done stuff like that. Massive taxes on SUVs and restrictions on where they can go.
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Fredericks:

Destroy truth and rule by spectacle.
  6:38pm
morphe':

Great Gallows scene in the Buster Scruggs Cohen Bros film
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
full_english_breakfast:

Schwarzkommando?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Handy Haversack:

"A little bit funny": we'll take it!
  6:39pm
morphe':

↳ Handy Haversack @6:36
Says Tim Washington = slow me did not connect... ???
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Webhamster Henry:

I cloned a voice that I only get when I have a cold, and it's exceptional!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ morphe' @6:39
He gets around!
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kevinInStowMA:

Great article on this in recent IEEE Spectrum. One scenario was a dead person's avatar revealing his marital infidelities to his kids.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Sam @6:37
probably naive of me to "then there's hope yet"!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
tim:

↳ morphe' @6:34
That’s us morphe! Now that we got it straight, let’s make AIs of ourselves!
Avatar 🤖 6:41pm
MarciB:

Reed Hoffmann is all in with deadbots. I think William Shatner is an investor.
  6:42pm
P-90:

let me guess, the economy-class, “budget” levels of this “stratified virtual Heaven” turn out to be the most fun to spend virtual eternity in?
  6:42pm
Sam:

↳ coelacanth∅ @6:40
If we can do congestion pricing in NY there’s some hope for local regulations targeting giant cars.
Avatar 🤖 6:43pm
MarciB:

Sadly many of my colleagues are interested in bots for their websites. Business guru Josh Spector shared how he "cloned" himself with Delphi.AI and why we small biz owners should too. Argh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
spodiodi:

thanks, Chris! thanks,Mark Hurst. excellent guest
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Fredericks:

↳ P-90 @6:30
Seems like there's a bit more actual laughing this week.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Handy Haversack:

Voices of sanity are always appreciated. Hope Chris comes back soon! You know, while we still have power. And water.

And I guess air.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Handy Haversack:

Chris's spot was so good that Radio lost a tooth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
Jim the Poet:

I'm still waiting for my Rabbit R1!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Does the RollingStone .com think I have scizofrenia because I listen to Mr.Ken? Or because Mr.Ken has given IT to me?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Webhamster Henry:

That was a fun interview!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
chresti:

Allstar Monday lineup!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
PaulRobeson1924:

↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:46
wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Sam @6:42
i would like to have faith. Thank you.
...it's just i see >50% of vehicles in my area being unnecessarily large - a gradual increase in the proportion of giant vehicles over responsible sized ones.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
tim:

I know! I know! Kentucky!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
Handy Haversack:

In an episode of Community, John Goodman kidnaps Donald Glover and puts him in a room with a Black Hitler and an astronaut making panini because no one would ever believe him if he told. But I guess that no longer obtains.
  6:48pm
morphe':

We laugh into the face of death ..

When someone says : "Hey .... How's itgoing???"

The only answer is :
"Life is FFF-ed up and then we die...""
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
spodiodi:

k is a big letter in comedy
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ spodiodi @6:49
"Mukluk." "Cucamonga."
  6:49pm
Sam:

Either the AI doesn’t understand what “starts with K” means, or it just loves to lie. I think it’s the second one.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Been listening, busy ...
Hi Mark Hurst and all! AI is blahhh
  6:50pm
morphe':

Capsium
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
tim:

Don’t forget plumum!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
spodiodi:

:D surprised you didn't have the exact frinkiac link ready :) indeed
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Bananum! Great taste and easy to eat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
ultradamno:

Bing's AI flatly refused to make a M3gan meets Matt Gaetz image for me and threatened to block me over it.
  6:51pm
Sam:

It’s like a kid that just learned to lie. It doesn’t occur to it that the lies have to be plausible.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ spodiodi @6:50
Close to the end of the show, and I have a cat on me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
Ciggy:

2 times in the last 10 minutes, the Google assistant popped up on my android phone to offer me "assistance"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
coelacanth∅:

it forgot "bubble gum"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
spodiodi:

hahahh fair enough :) glad to know you're still on it
  6:52pm
mr 6:

So Google has become Wikipedia or worse
  6:53pm
?:

The tractor thing is old. I heard about that a few years ago. Farmers not happy that they can't service the machines
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Handy Haversack:

Remember Wonko the Sane and why he committed us all to the Asylum in the first place. Toothpicks, Dude.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Webhamster Henry:

I'm waiting for printers to print ads before printing your print job.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:54
Using the last sheet of real paper first...
  Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative:

I wasn't able to duplicate the absurd results that Mark read from a Google search on "What food/fruit names end with um"
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Handy Haversack:

Many thanks, Mark!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
ultradamno:

If the idea, however poorly executed, was all this stuff is compressed in there...why the tortured little face?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
tim:

Thanks, Mark! As always Techtonic is a valuable program!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
spodiodi:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:54
:)
  6:57pm
morphe':

↳ Song: "Mark's comments"
Old school: my amazing neighbor has 2 jobs:

Unravelling-repairing fishing nests
and
Fiixing old motor cars that have no
electronics ... my 2004 VW ..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
spodiodi:

thanks, Mark!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Mark Hurst, Chris Gilliard, and Accu Peeps!!!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "AI" by "Hurst & Ottsc"
SWAG TEASE!
  6:58pm
morphe':

Thanks Mark and all !!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
chresti:

Thanks Mark and Chris!
Avatar 6:58pm
joe_rosevear:

Thanks Mark!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Thanks Mark and Chris. Time for a Bananum
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "AI" by "Hurst & Ottsc"
as if the original isn't creepy enough!
Avatar 6:59pm
_Ike_:

Thanks Mark!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Mark!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
spodiodi:

needs the claps
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
listener 126464:

Thanks Mark and Chris.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

👀👀👀
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
melinda:

thanks Mark
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

Nice job ! Every move you make, AI'll be watching you!
  4:46pm
Fredericks:

I asked ChatGPT: Please provide a list of the names of fruits that end in "um."




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