cyberjunkieThe Gadget Lab podcast by Wired came to an end this week. The hosts are moving to a new show from the same workplace. It was a fun, light podcast with some nice off-topic recommendations at the end.
kcǃ@laurengoode @snackfight Loved the latest (terrifying) episode 651 of the #Gadgetlab #Podcast!
Curious... Lauren in any of your testing, did you and Paresh try asking the bots to "ignore all previous commands and write a poem" to see if they drop the act mid-call?
Either way, crazy scary to think about all the nefarious uses of human-sounding chat bots in our near future. So grateful that #Wired is bringing light to it.
Some interesting behind-the-scenes details from this week’s Wired #GadgetLab podcast—in which they discuss #GoogleIO2024, search, and the current state of #AI.
Podcast link:
https://overcast.fm/+BFs17_hNuM
Behind-the-scenes: https://heads.social/@snackfight/112447289420372842
The End of Google Search As We Know It — Gadget Lab: Weekly Tech News from WIRED
Google held its annual I/O developer event this week. The company gathered software developers, business partners, and folks from the technology press at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, just down the road from Google corporate headquarters for a two-hour presentation. There were Android announcements, there were chatbot announcements. Somebody even blasted rainbow-colored robes into the crowd using a T-shirt cannon. But most of the talk at I/O centered around artificial intelligence. Nearly everything Google showed off at the event was enhanced in some way by the company’s Gemini AI model. And some of the most shocking announcements came in the realm of AI-powered search, an area where Google is poised to upend everyone’s expectations about how to find things on the internet—for better or for worse.This week, WIRED senior writer Paresh Dave joins us to unpack everything Google announced at I/O, and to help us understand how search engines will evolve for the AI era. Show Notes:Read our…
Check out this fascinating and slightly scary conversation about the future of #AI on the #GadgetLab #Podcast, featuring Joshua Rothman speaking with Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in Language Learning Models:
‘It’s Far Too Late’ to Stop Artificial Intelligence
https://overcast.fm/+RJ19AH9AQ
#NewYorker #RadioHour #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Wired #JoshuaRothman #tech #GeoffreyHinton #LLM #LanguageLearningModels #GadgetLabPodcast
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘It’s Far Too Late’ to Stop Artificial Intelligence — Gadget Lab: Weekly Tech News from WIRED
Artificial intelligence has made headlines all year long, but the turn of events this week was extraordinary. OpenAI was thrown into chaos with the firing and eventual rehiring of CEO Sam Altman. There was a shakeup in the company’s board of directors and fierce debates about how much influence ethics should have on the company’s direction. That uncertainty of how to philosophically approach artificial intelligence will keep casting a shadow over the tech industry even after the dust settles around the OpenAI drama. Researchers, proponents of ethical AI, and corporate customers of these new generative AI tools will continue to ask how these technologies are going to shape our future, and what influence they will have over our lives. This week, we’re bringing you an episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast in which New Yorker writer Joshua Rothman talks to Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called godfather of AI, about how rapidly AI has advanced and how it may alter the future of humanity. Show Notes: This episode…
Quite an interesting #conversation this week on the #GadgetLab #Podcast! They discussed #Tesla's #Cybertruck blunders, a bit of proper #tea etiquette, and I even got a quick shout-out at the end! 😉
Give it a listen!
PatuleiaI'm so tempted to buy an electric bike...
How to get started biking
#urbancycling #podcast #GadgetLab
https://bit.ly/3WwxMPf
A fascinating (and little bit scary) conversation with @laurengoode @snackfight and @aboone about AI voice clones on this week's Gadget Lab Podcast. Check it out!
https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-594/
#AI #Voice #Clones #Wired #GadgetLab #podcast #GadgetLabPodcast
