About this episode

The episode discusses the rapid developments in the AI industry, corporate layoffs, and ethical concerns surrounding technology.

This week, the AI industry continues its speedrun toward becoming the tech equivalent of a late-stage casino. Elon Musk insists reports of aid-cut-related deaths don't exist despite mountains of evidence, SpaceX stock slides far enough to knock him out of the trillionaire club, and a startup is literally suing the U.S. government because Anthropic's Fable 5 model got turned off after three whole days of availability. Once again, we revisit the First Commandment of Grumpy Old Geeks: never build your company on someone else's platform. Meanwhile, gas stations are being accused of using AI to coordinate prices, corporations are discovering that AI tokens cost actual money, and a Microsoft researcher used goats in Age of Empires II to demonstrate that maybe, just maybe, people are projecting way too much intelligence onto chatbots. The goats emerge with their reputations intact. The AI industry, less so. The workforce bloodbath rolls on as Oracle quietly sheds 21,000 employees while blaming AI, Norway bans generative AI for elementary school students after discovering that children should probably learn to read before outsourcing their homework to robots, and the FCC flirts with…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister, Dave Bittner

Topics covered

• AI industry
• Elon Musk
• corporate layoffs
• AI ethics
• technology news
• surveillance
• generative AI

Keywords

• AI
• Elon Musk
• SpaceX
• Oracle layoffs
• Meta surveillance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SpaceX, Anthropic, Oracle, Meta

Places: Norway

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