TWiT 1004: Embrace Uncertainty - Political Texts, Daylight Saving Time, Digital Ad Market

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Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

The panel discusses the implications of the 2024 US elections to the tech industry
Alexa's New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab
Why do we keep changing our clocks?
ChatGPT Search
Online political ads--we're almost done!
Elon Musk Wants You to Think This Election's Being Stolen
Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine
Digital ad market booms for Big Tech

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Nicholas De Leon, and Amy Webb

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in Tech.
0:01.6	Shoshana Weissman is here from the Sloth Committee and R Street.org.
0:05.8	Nicholas DeLeon from Consumer Reports and our futurist Amy Webb.
0:10.0	We will, of course, talk about the upcoming election.
0:13.7	How much did tech influence the kind of uncertainty of this election?
0:20.6	Amy talks about embracing uncertainty
0:23.0	with regard to AI as well as everything else.
0:26.8	A new AI website to help you vote.
0:29.7	We'll talk about why Alexa's AI brain is stuck in the lab
0:33.4	and Chinese sanctions hitting a U.S. drone maker,
0:36.5	that and a whole lot more coming up.
0:38.4	Twit is next.
0:42.8	Podcasts you love.
0:44.6	From people you trust.
0:47.1	This is Twit.
0:57.2	This is Twit. This Week in Tech.
1:01.5	Episode 104 recorded November 3, 2024.
1:03.9	Embrace Uncertainty.
1:13.7	It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news.
1:15.0	Oh, we have a good panel today.
1:17.6	We've been kind of on a roll lately.
1:23.5	Amy Webb is back, not just back on the panel, but back from a hundred, several hundred mile bicycle ride through Spain.
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