TWiT 980: Hed Dek Lede and Nut Graf - OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 19 May 2024

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign

GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)
It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
The panel discusses their experiences with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude
OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT
OpenAI Superalignment team is gone
2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds
Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way
French TikTok block in overseas territory sets 'dangerous precedent,' critics warn
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments
Vermont's data privacy law sparks state lawmaker alliance against tech lobbyists
How a smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal
Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it
Robert Dennard, IBM Inventor Whose Chip Changed Computing, Dies at 91

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Parr, Dan Patterson, and Iain Thomson

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0:00.0	It's time for Twit this week in tech great panel for you in Thompson is up in studio for us the US editor for the register.com
0:08.2	Our AI guru and the author of the AI analyst newsletter Ben Parr is here and from Blackbird AI Dan Patterson
0:16.4	his job is to use AI to debunk AI misinformation of course AI the topic the announcements from open AI on
0:26.2	Monday the chat gp d4 oh Google's announcements at Google I.O the firing or is it the departure of the trust and safety team at
0:36.2	Open AI? A lot of AI in the news. Plus a lot more. You stay here this week in
0:41.4	Tech is next.
0:43.0	Podcasts you love.
0:47.0	From people you trust.
0:49.0	This is Twit.
0:55.0	This is Twit this week at Tech, episode 980 recorded May 19th, 2024.
1:05.7	Head Deck lead in Nutgraf. It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news.
1:17.0	Lo and behold, here he is sitting right next to me.
1:20.0	My good friend Ian Thompson, who often fills in for me when I'm not around but it's good to get you up here when
1:24.8	Yeah, nice to get out and about it. You know it's it too much of this has been done remotely and obviously
1:30.8	geographically yes, but we kind of we couldn't even start to it
1:34.5	until I realized that we could do Zoom or actually the time was Skype because
1:38.8	nobody is near Petaluma. Oh except you. It's 40 minutes up the road. Yeah, we're just
1:46.4	a nice road from San Francisco. But fortunately we can get people on from all over the world.
1:50.4	Right? Just the side note, my God, how Skype fumbled that bag still just boggles me.
1:57.0	Yeah, I mean that is Ben Par, ladies and gentlemen author of the AI analyst, co-founder of Octane AI. He writes about AI for the information.
2:04.3	He's been a long time friend of the show as well and he's got a little octane
2:09.5	duhickey over his right left shoulder there.
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