239 episodes

David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

Dave & Gunnar Show David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 10 Ratings

David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

    Episode 247: Full Jacob's Ladder

    Episode 247: Full Jacob's Ladder

    Grammarly includes AI assistant!
    Warp terminal?


    Ansible Lightspeed

    Google will add End-to-End encryption to Google Authenticator
    DebateDevil
    chirper.ai: Social Network for AI. No humans allowed.
    First, they came for the fortune cookie writers


    AI Is Coming for Your Fortune Cookies
    Radio station gets part-time AI DJ based on its midday host
    Sources: All AAA parks to use electronic strike zone in '23

    Your favorite new chatbot jailbreak is the ‘grandma exploit.’


    Jailbreak Chat



    Cutting Room Floor



    Mr. Hellekson, call your office


    Dune in the Style of H.R. Giger
    Star Wars by Wes Anderson Trailer | The Galactic Menagerie
    Want to Pretend You’re In a Wes Anderson Film? These Airbnbs Are the Ticket

    7 of the Weirdest AI-Generated Commercials...So Far
    Palate cleansers


    God only knows versión Beatle [IA]


    Original, non-AI version: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (Official Music Video)

    Robot Puppet Sings "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton


    Original, non-robot version: Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles




    We Give Thanks



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

    • 52 min
    Episode 246: AI-Generated Agitprop

    Episode 246: AI-Generated Agitprop

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about GPT inception, GPT automation, GPT ad experience optimization, and Andy Jassey’s interviewee skills



    ChatPDF
    Einstein GPT
    GitHub Co-pilot
    Amazon CodeWhisperer
    MidJourney is a lifestyle


    MidJourney Prompt Helper

    Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
    D&G This Week in “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Dept: Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI


    See this: Task-driven Autonomous Agent Utilizing GPT-4, Pinecone, and LangChain for Diverse Applications
    In related news: Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened
    Butlerian Jihad
    Agitprop

    That was fast! Microsoft slips ads into AI-powered Bing Chat


    Example

    Watch CNBC's full interview with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on message to investors, new AI tools and stock price


    Cutting Room Floor



    Erich Morisse, call your office: Here’s what our crazy radio spectrum looks like, in all its hidden beauty


    We Give Thanks



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

    • 40 min
    Episode 245: Giant Asthma Inhaler with a Mouth

    Episode 245: Giant Asthma Inhaler with a Mouth

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about questionable USB drives, questionable long-distance kissing machines, questionable cocktails, and answers with the Zeigarnik effect



    Sherwood Forest Faire in Austin, TX
    Marriott does MFA wrong
    iOS 16.4 brings Voice Isolation for cellular calls, here’s how to enable it
    Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face
    Chinese startup invents long-distance kissing machine
    Remembering When Cocktails Were Just Soup: Try the chicken soup martini!
    Boost Your Productivity With the Zeigarnik Effect


    Cutting Room Floor



    Mr Trololo A.I. Upscale: Eduard Khil as never seen before [HD]
    Man uses AI to generate 'selfies' taken with historical figures like Jesus and Cleopatra
    AI Will Smith Eating Spaghetti Hill Haunt You For the Rest of Your Life


    Arnold Schwarzenegger 1989 - 91 Nissin Cup Noodle Commercials



    We Give Thanks



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

    • 24 min
    Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible

    Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks



    Gunnar endorsed: time blocking
    @dgshowDotOrg@mas.to!
    Perplexity AI: generative AI with citations!
    Edible NDAs: The need for a Non-Disclosure Agreement used to be a hard pill to swallow. Not anymore.
    Drinkers needed to help deputies with field sobriety training
    U.S. Marines Outsmart AI Security Cameras by Hiding in a Cardboard Box
    Fake Name Generator — check the email address link too!


    Cutting Room Floor



    Ice Ice MATRIX featuring the cast of the Matrix and Wilford Brimley!
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's “Freebird” on Bagpipes


    We Give Thanks



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

    • 28 min
    Episode 243: No Bamboozle

    Episode 243: No Bamboozle

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)!



    Gunnar’s Todoist breakthrough
    Dave endorsed: GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800)
    ChatGPT
    Mastodon


    RSS
    ActivityPub


    PeerTube
    Pixelfed
    Friendica

    mastodon.social invite from Dave
    This is why we can’t have nice things


    Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
    Moa Party: No bamboozle


    Spotify podcasters are making $18,000 a month with nothing but white noise
    The Rise of the 15-Minute Meeting


    Cutting Room Floor



    Doctor Gustaf Zander’s Steam-Powered Exercise Machines
    Hipster Ipsum


    DeLorean Ipsum Text Generator



    We Give Thanks



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

    • 38 min
    Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats

    Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats

    This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216!



    Gunnar endorsed: Outlanders!
    Dave endorsed:


    OBS: Open Broadcast Studio (see YouTube video)
    Rectangle (see YouTube video)
    Change the behavior of the modifier keys on Mac
    John le Carré

    NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts
    US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes
    ICE set up a fake college to catch fraudsters. Students say they were duped.


    Check out unnj.edu on the Wayback machine, the Wikipedia article, and 80+ UNNJ graduates on LinkedIn

    D&G This Week in Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things: ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America


    ISO 128: Matching technical pen widths



    Cutting Room Floor



    Verified stickers: $8
    Tumblr blue internet checkmarks: 2 for $7.99
    Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation


    We Give Thanks



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

    • 34 min

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