This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about the upsides, downsides, and dark sides of GPT-3.
Google Home has presence awareness (https://9to5google.com/2020/07/07/google-assistant-presence-detection/)…. OR DOES IT?
Blix Vika+ (https://blixbike.com/products/vika-electric-folding-bike)
The Third Day (https://www.hbo.com/the-third-day)
Everything is Exhausting (https://www.ttbook.org/show/everything-exhausting)
Related (https://thehustle.co/how-to-avoid-burnout-by-working-less-and-doing-more/): "There are two types of hamsters in this world: Those who give 110%, & those who understand math"
GPT-3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3)
How Do You Know a Human Wrote This? (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/opinion/gpt-3-ai-automation.html)
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin (https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/)
A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it. (https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/14/1006780/ai-gpt-3-fake-blog-reached-top-of-hacker-news/)
What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics (https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-i-had)
GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about (https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/)
GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati (https://gizmodo.com/gpt-3-bot-spends-a-week-replying-on-reddit-starts-talk-1845305253)
Cutting Room Floor
* Australian Scientists Have Made a ‘Shazam’ for Snakes and Spiders (https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyxky/australian-scientists-create-shazam-for-snakes-and-spiders)
* COVID-ready Unnecessary Inventions (https://www.unnecessaryinventions.com/)
* Coffee table book of slides (https://twitter.com/hunterscott/status/1294428923514589192)
* Take a ‘COVID pulse’ in your city or state with this ingeniously simple map of case trends (https://www.fastcompany.com/90546219/take-a-covid-pulse-in-your-city-or-state-with-this-ingeniously-simple-map-of-case-trends)
We Give Thanks
* The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
