Dave & Gunnar Show David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese!



Resident Alien (TV series)
Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper
Pixel Buds Pro
A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam


Commonwealth Legal Services

Liberals accuse Conservatives of using AI for amendments to jobs bill as votes loom
EVs With Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China


M.A.S.K. (TV series)
Cheap Russian drones overwhelm US-made Abrams tanks, taken out of action

Want to feel special? Stores and restaurants with paid memberships are betting on it


Cutting Room Floor



New thermal paste smells like flowers from heaven
MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI


See also: Jenkins, I call on you now

What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You?


We Give Thanks



The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets



Fallout
Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro
Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced


Laudato Si, paragraph 107

HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges
These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages Designed to Be Seen While Tripping
Too Drunk to Drive? Forget Ubers, Take a Basket Man Instead


Cutting Room Floor



Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet
This Guy Made a Dating App Where You Can Only Date Him
Reggaeton Be Gone


We Give Thanks



The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots



Bloons TD 6
Google Bard Gemini Ultimate Advanced
Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything
MemGPT


MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System
MemGPT Explained!

Managerial ventriloquism: Own Your Words to Gain Authority
D&G This Week in What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Zoo Hopes Plan to Introduce Famous Cursing Parrots to Larger Flock Doesn't Backfire


Cutting Room Floor



Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language
Pooky Park (AI-generated 1950s TV commercial for a creepy puppet theme park)


We Give Thanks



The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu.



Bali
’A mouse for your mouth’: New device allows users to scroll with their tongues
Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
Search X for "goes against OpenAI's"


See in particular
Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request”
Here’s a New Caption That Works for All New Yorker Cartoons—Especially in the Caption Contest
Lead Engager

The Opposite of Déjà Vu Is a Thing, And It's Even More Uncanny


Cutting Room Floor



1D Pac-Man is the best game I’ve played in 2024 (so far)
Ambiphone: For all your ambient number station needs
Dance Like David Byrne! An Easy-to-Follow Instructional Video Shows You How
Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral


We Give Thanks



The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about poisoned USB drives, poisoned web searches, poisoned AI models, and a guy pretending to be a mannequin



Gunnar says the Oura Ring is delightful
Dave achieves Platinum Pro?
Dave becomes an author using AI?
Diabolic Drive Stealthily Injects Keyboard Strokes While Being a Functional USB Drive
Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search


Related: Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers
Related: Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It

Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data
Polish police arrest man who pretended to be a mannequin before stealing jewellery


Related: Fake Waffle House worker steals from register at end of her ‘shift,’ Georgia police say

PARA method: corny, but it works!


Cutting Room Floor



Blood Sugar Sex Magik, but it's Donkey Kong Country (Full Album)
RATM - Killing in the Name, but it's Sega Genesis
News Broadcasts from Alternate Histories


The New Order is a narrative-driven Hearts of Iron 4 mod that’s compelling and bleak

The Talk: Kanye West & Elon Musk


We Give Thanks



The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about notetaking, IP taking, and great deals on used surveillance vans!



Gunnar endorses:


DND Beyond
Goodnotes and the virtues of the pen

Dave endorses:


Kindle Scribe
Julia

H/T Dwight Chamberlain: The Ben and Marc Show
RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war
211. Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk


Hardfork interview w/Sam Altman

D&G This Week in There, I Fixed It: Microsoft now lets you play a game during Windows 11 installs
Ex-NASA surveillance van with retractable roof cameras goes on sale
A federal agency wants to give safety tips to young adults. So it's dropping an album
ASIC Necklace


We Give Thanks



Dwight Chamberlain for the podcast doppelgänger tipoff!
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!