Dave & Gunnar Show David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson
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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.
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Episode 256: Kufelik Olmak
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! -
Episode 255: Living an Eternal Life of Strings and Wooden Whimsy
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! -
Episode 254: I’m Sorry, But I Cannot Provide an Answer to Your Question as It Goes Against OpenAI’s Use Policy
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! -
Episode 253: Better Than a Stick in the Eye
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! -
Episode 252: Too Hip-Hop, Not Enough $15M Nikon Lithography Stepper
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! -
Episode 251: Unmasking the Specter: Mr. Egts' Journey into the Impact of Generative AI on Government Transformation
This week Dave joins Dynatrace’s Carolyn Ford on the Tech Transforms Podcast about what's scaring the public sector most and how Salesforce is utilizing - and securing - AI to improve customer experience with their Einstein Trust Layer. Additionally, Carolyn and Dave dive into the spooky worlds of brain cell chips, mind-reading AI, and more!
Key Topics
[02:17] Starting the Dave & Gunnar Show
[04:14] Dave's Role At Salesforce
[05:18] What's Scaring the Public Sector Most?
[10:22] Ways Agencies are Attracting Talent
[13:56] How Agencies Are Handling Legacy Systems
[15:45] What MuleSoft Does & Generative AI's Role
[22:44] Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer
[29:21] PoisonGPT
[36:07] Brain Organoids & Other Spooky, Ethically Questionable Experiments
[42:15] Tech Talk Questions: Halloween Edition
Quotable Quotes
Considerations for the Public Sector While Using AI: "As you're going on your AI journey, you've got to be looking at the EULA [End User License Agreement] and making sure that, okay, if I give you data, what are you going to do with it?"
On Bias & Disinformation in Generative AI: "There were some previous studies that show that people are more likely to go with the generative AI results if they trust the company and they trust the model. So it's like, 'Oh, it came from Google, so how can that be wrong?' Or 'I'm trusting the brand,' or 'I'm trusting the model.'"
Dave & Gunnar Show Episodes
Episode 165 - If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
Episode 185 - In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
Episode 227 - Meetings and Punishment
Episodes 248 & 249 - Stay tuned to the Dave & Gunnar Show for these episodes to go live
Additional Links
Minority Report
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Flowers For Algernon
We Give Thanks
Carolyn Ford for inviting Dave to Tech Transforms!
Special Guest: Carolyn Ford.