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This episode discusses the rapid advancements and implications of AI technology in various sectors, including law enforcement and business.

Episode 296. In this week’s update: Your license plate reader just got an upgrade, and now it wants to know what's in your pocket, too. The government finally admitted what security pros have been saying for years: AI means you have three days to patch, not three months. AI adoption went from 'we're running a pilot' to 'we're running the business,' and nobody sent a memo. Workers are saving 11 hours a week to AI, then spending six of those hours babysitting the AI and someone had to invent a word for that. Microsoft's AI chief said AI would automate most white-collar work, then clarified he meant 'tasks' and that one-word swap changes everything. Meta dropped $14 billion on AI talent, shipped its first proprietary model, and is now discovering that building the thing and selling the thing are completely different jobs. A UK police officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidence, and this isn't the first time British law enforcement has had an AI problem. Pokémon Go players spent years scanning the world for virtual creatures, and that data is now helping real drones navigate without GPS. This has been a week where the gap between what AI promises and what AI actually delivers has…

People in this episode

Host: R. Prescott Stearns Jr.

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• privacy
• security
• law enforcement
• technology impact
• automation

Keywords

• AI
• privacy
• security
• automation
• Microsoft
• Meta
• Pokémon Go
• law enforcement
• evidence fabrication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Meta, UK police

Products: Pokémon Go

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