Roboism

SUBTITLE: KATHY SAID IT. Alex and Kathy wade through the grey blobs of the past few weeks of Apple’s supposed Intelligence. LINKS AND SHOW NOTES: SUPPORT ROBOISM WITH A RELAY FM MEMBERSHIP [https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=21082] SUBMIT FEEDBACK [https://relay.fm/roboism/feedback] AIRPODS PRO 2 ADDS 'CLINICAL GRADE' HEARING AID FEATURE - 9TO5MAC [https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/09/airpods-pro-2-adds-clinical-grade-hearing-aid-feature/] PASSWORDS ON THE APP STORE [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/passwords/id6473799789] ACCESSIBILITY - THE LOST VOICE - APPLE [https://www.apple.com/accessibility/the-lost-voice/] WHY AI IMAGE EDITING ISN’T ‘JUST LIKE PHOTOSHOP’ - THE VERGE [https://www.theverge.com/24242800/ai-image-editing-photoshop-misinformation-deepfakes-elon-musk-grok-decoder-interview] SUPPORT RELAY'S CAMPAIGN FOR ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL! [https://tiltify.com/@alexcox/iconintervention?origin=dashboard]

Alex and Kathy catch up on Google's Gemini, Photoshop's AI features, and the latest period technology. LINKS AND SHOW NOTES: SUPPORT ROBOISM WITH A RELAY FM MEMBERSHIP [https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=21082] SUBMIT FEEDBACK [https://relay.fm/roboism/feedback] WHAT HAPPENED WITH GEMINI IMAGE GENERATION [https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-image-generation-issue/] GOOGLE APOLOGIZES FOR ‘MISSING THE MARK’ AFTER GEMINI GENERATED RACIALLY DIVERSE NAZIS - THE VERGE [https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini-generative-inaccurate-historical] ALWAYS INFINITY COMMERCIAL - YOUTUBE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2ec7xjaVs] AMAZON AND IROBOT AGREE TO TERMINATE PENDING ACQUISITION - JAN 29, 2024 [https://media.irobot.com/2024-01-29-Amazon-and-iRobot-agree-to-terminate-pending-acquisition] HAPTIC: REACHING OUT TO THE HUMAN SIDE OF TECH [https://www.patreon.com/alexcox] CONDUIT FM | COTTON BUREAU [https://cottonbureau.com/people/conduit-fm] SUPPORT ROBOISM [https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=21084&return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.relay.fm%2Fmembership]

Immediately after Sammy A's firing but before his rehiring, Alex and Kathy got together to discuss what led up to the OpenAI bonanza and how it affects the future of ordinary humans who don't have podcasts about robots LINKS AND SHOW NOTES: SUPPORT ROBOISM WITH A RELAY FM MEMBERSHIP [https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=21082] SUBMIT FEEDBACK [https://relay.fm/roboism/feedback] A PRIMER ON P(DOOM) : R/SINGULARITY [https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/183v33f/a_primer_on_pdoom/] P(DOOM) | THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER [https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/08/16/p-doom.html] TOP AI RESEARCHER DISMISSES AI 'EXTINCTION' FEARS, CHALLENGES 'HERO SCIENTIST' NARRATIVE | VENTUREBEAT [https://venturebeat.com/ai/top-ai-researcher-dismisses-ai-extinction-fears-challenges-hero-scientist-narrative/] MICROSOFT JOINS OPENAI’S BOARD WITH SAM ALTMAN OFFICIALLY BACK AS CEO - THE VERGE [https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981848/sam-altman-back-open-ai-ceo-microsoft-board] SAM ALTMAN IS BACK, SO WHAT’S NEXT FOR OPENAI AND CHATGPT? - THE VERGE [https://www.theverge.com/23966325/openai-sam-altman-fired-turmoil-chatgpt] READ MICROSOFT’S INTERNAL MEMOS ABOUT THE CHAOS AT OPENAI - THE VERGE [https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972572/microsoft-internal-memo-kevin-scott-openai] ANTHROPIC \ HOME [https://www.anthropic.com/] SATYA NADELLA ON (ALMOST) HIRING SAM ALTMAN [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/11/on-with-kara-swisher-satya-nadella-on-hiring-sam-altman.html] INTERVIEW WITH SAM ALTMAN TWO DAYS BEFORE HE WAS FIRED | EP 58 - YOUTUBE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdXr1PHFPo] WHO IS OPENAI’S SAM ALTMAN? MEET THE OPPENHEIMER OF OUR AGE [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-profile.html] CHATGPT TOOK THEIR JOBS. NOW THEY'RE DOG WALKERS AND HVAC TECHS. - THE WASHINGTON POST [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taking-jobs/] JEZEBEL ACQUIRED BY PASTE MAGAZINE [https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/jezebel-acquired-paste-magazine-1235812182/] SPORTS ILLUSTRATED PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY FAKE, AI-GENERATED WRITERS [https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers] AFTERMATH [https://aftermath.site/] GIVE YOUR ROBOT FRIEND THE GIFT OF SUPPORTING ROBOISM AND RELAY FM! [https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=21084] THE UNICORN SIDEKICK [https://www.theunicornsidekick.com/] ALEXCOX.COMPUTER [https://alexcox.omg.lol/]

Alex talks AI, gatekeeping, and Digital Miyazaki with friend of the show and developer advocate Jay Miller. GUEST STARRING: Jay Miller [http://www.relay.fm/people/jaymiller] LINKS AND SHOW NOTES: SUPPORT ROBOISM WITH A RELAY FM MEMBERSHIP [https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=21082] SUBMIT FEEDBACK [https://relay.fm/roboism/feedback] K. JAY MILLER [https://kjaymiller.com/] MICROSOFT COPILOT [https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/] STEVE BALLMER - WEB DEVELOPERS - YOUTUBE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spwU2P5U_1U] CONDUIT #59: EVERYTHING IS BROKEN! - RELAY FM [https://www.relay.fm/conduit/59] ABOUT GITHUB [https://github.com/about] LLAMA 2 - META AI [https://ai.meta.com/llama/] THIS BUNCH OF GRAPES JUST SOLD FOR $11,000 IN JAPAN | CNN [https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/japan-grapes-expensive-fruit-intl-hnk/index.html] FACE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE LED TO HIS ARREST. IT WAS DEAD WRONG | WIRED [https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-software-led-to-his-arrest-it-was-dead-wrong/] PREGNANT WOMAN'S ARREST IN CARJACKING CASE SPURS CALL TO END DETROIT POLICE FACIAL RECOGNITION | AP NEWS [https://apnews.com/article/detroit-police-facial-recognition-lawsuit-cab0ae44c1671fc30617d301b21b2d13] THE SUNDAY READ: ‘SPIRITED AWAY TO MIYAZAKI LAND’ - THE NEW YORK TIMES [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/podcasts/the-daily/spirited-away-miyazaki-land-studio-ghibli.html] MIMESTREAM | A NATIVE MACOS EMAIL CLIENT FOR GMAIL [https://mimestream.com/] JOURNAL - BRETTTERPSTRA.COM [https://brettterpstra.com/projects/journal-cli/] JARON LANIER - WIKIPEDIA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier] BLOOD IN THE MACHINE BY BRIAN MERCHANT | HACHETTE BOOK GROUP [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown] HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE WORLD, I GUESS - YOUTUBE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs] ALEXCOX.OMG.LOL [https://alexcox.omg.lol/] BLACK PYTHON DEVELOPERS COMMUNITY [https://github.com/BlackPythonDevs]

SUBTITLE: HI JILL! Alex gives Kathy a rundown of their cautious optimism for visionOS, and how we can have more agency in this new era of computing. Becoming more cyborgian can mean we also learn how to be more human. Kathy wants Alex to calm down because she's focused on preparing for Relay FM's annual Podcastathon to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. TOMORROW, Friday, September 22nd! Alex notes that these two events, one weird and abstract, another weird but also a concrete way to help the fight in eradicating childhood cancer. If none of that made sense, good! It means you'll like this episode. LINKS AND SHOW NOTES: SUPPORT ROBOISM WITH A RELAY FM MEMBERSHIP [https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=21082] SUBMIT FEEDBACK [https://relay.fm/roboism/feedback] INTRODUCING APPLE VISION PRO - YOUTUBE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX9qSaGXFyg] EXCLUSIVE: APPLE TESTING SIRI LANGUAGE GENERATING FEATURES [https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/16/apple-testing-siri-natural-language-generating-chatgpt/#] LEARN - VISIONOS - APPLE DEVELOPER [https://developer.apple.com/visionos/learn/] EXCLUSIVE: APPLE TESTING SIRI LANGUAGE GENERATING FEATURES [https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/16/apple-testing-siri-natural-language-generating-chatgpt/#] WORK WITH APPLE - VISIONOS - APPLE DEVELOPER [https://developer.apple.com/visionos/work-with-apple/] HAPTIC WITH ALEX COX [https://hapticfm.transistor.fm/] CONDUIT - RELAY FM [https://www.relay.fm/conduit] DONATE TO ST. JUDE CHILDEN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL! [https://tiltify.com/@alexcox/moneyplease] Alex needs that sweet sweet laptop sleeve.