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519: Not So OpenAI May 24, 2023

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OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has gone straight for the open-source kill move.

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Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used — It turns out that their terms state that you're buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your possession.
LIVE: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies during Senate hearing on AI oversight — 05/16/23 - YouTube — The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing examining the rules for artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT creator Sam Altman reflects on the Senate's A.I. regulatory hearing - YouTube — ChatGPT creator Sam Altman remarks on the The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing about the "Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence.”
OpenAI’s Sam Altman To Congress: Regulate Us, Please!
OpenAI's Sam Altman tells senators: regulate us
Sam Altman, ChatGPT Creator and OpenAI CEO, Urges Senate for AI Regulation - The New York Times
OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls for regulation amid fears AI could cause ‘significant harm to the world’ | Euronews
OpenAI CEO calls for laws to mitigate ‘risks of increasingly powerful’ AI | ChatGPT | The Guardian
ChatGPT chief says artificial intelligence should be regulated by a US or global agency | AP News
OpenAI’s Sam Altman urges AI regulation in Senate hearing | The Seattle Times
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of AI's potential harm, wants regulations - The Washington Post
ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Warns Congress That AI ‘Can Go Quite Wrong’ - WSJ
Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence - BBC News
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Congress he wants regulation | Fortune
Senate hearing highlights AI harms and need for tougher regulation
Mr. ChatGPT goes to Washington: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before Congress on AI risks | CNN Business
OpenAI chief concerned about AI being used to compromise elections | Reuters
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Pleads for AI Regulation
Spooked by ChatGPT, US Lawmakers Want to Create an AI Regulator | WIRED
Mohegan ₿TC 🟠 on Twitter — Today we got the first glimpse of the dangers of AI and social media An image was released on twitter stating there was an explosion near the Pentagon 🤦‍♂️ News spread quickly and over $500 million was sold off from the S&P 500 in minutes This is just the beginning 🫣
More Recent Apple Trademark Activity: 'realityproOS'
Reality Pro launch and pricing: Making sense of the speculation — The consensus view so far has been that Apple will announce the Reality Pro AR/VR headset at WWDC on June 5, and that pricing will be around $3,000. But some are questioning both …

518: Driving Mr. Dominick May 17, 2023

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We laugh at Google's scramble, check in on the Twitter collapse, and how one developer's little mistake screwed millions.

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Michael Guimarin on Twitter — About a month from now Apple is going to announce support for using its silicon neural engine to run commercial and open source LLMs on the iPhone, etc. This will enable the work @BrianRoemmele is currently popularizing to come to Apple’s entire ecosystem. Strap in. 🚀🚀🚀
Mark Gurman on Twitter — Power On: As Apple prepares to launch its next M2 Macs, the company is already ramping up testing of M3 chips. Here are the details and code counts of the next-generation 3 nanometer processors
Apple Books Nearly 90% of TSMC's 3nm Production Capacity for This Year — Apple has booked nearly 90% of chip supplier TSMC's first-generation 3-nanometer process capacity this year for future iPhones, Macs, and iPads, according to industry sources cited by DigiTimes, providing the Taiwanese foundry with significant growth momentum in the second half of 2023.
Elon Musk stepping down as Twitter CEO — Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s advertising chief, is in advanced talks for the role, CNBC’s Julia Boorstin reported.
The Curious Case of the Missing Google Assistant — Google’s generative AI chatbot Bard took center stage at the company’s I/O conference. The company’s answer to Siri was left backstage.
Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles
More than 2 million Toyota users face risk of vehicle data leak in Japan — The vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base who signed up for its main cloud service platforms since 2012, had been publicly available for a decade due to human error.
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517: Savage Serverless Shutdown May 10, 2023

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A scathing takedown of Serverless... By Amazon? We react to this strange revelation and more.

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Revegnus on Twitter — Update: No M3 Mac or iPad for this year Due to yield issues with TSMC not being able to supply enough of the M3 to Apple, Apple has delayed the release of the M3 until next year. So there will be no M3 Macs and no M3 iPads this year.
Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake-S Desktop CPU Support Added In Latest Linux Patch — There's more evidence now that Intel is going to launch its 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPU family on the desktop platform.
Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices — "We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components... In theory, this would allow us to scale each service component independently. However, the way we used some components caused us to hit a hard scaling limit at around 5% of the expected load."
Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% — We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components (for example, AWS Step Functions or AWS Lambda.
The 2023 Developer Survey is now live! — It’s that time of year again where we come to the community to say, “It’s that time of year again,” again!
Nintendo reportedly issues DMCA takedown for Switch homebrew projects — Some fallout from the early leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom appears to be taking place. As players are loading the game into emulators and playing them unofficially on their computers, prior to the launch date, Nintendo is taking action to prevent that from happening.
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516: There is No Moat May 03, 2023

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Why open source might be the real AI winner long-term, and Mike gets the ultimate "I told you so."

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Jupiter Jobs Matrix Chat Room
There is No Moat Document — An interesting paper from a googler working in research has published an internal paper on how ChatGPT & Bard will essentially be won out by Open Source LLM's
‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work — Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for his trailblazing work on neural networks is now free to speak about the risks of AI.
Geoffrey Hinton on Twitter — In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.
Nathan 🔍on Twitter — To me, Altman's credence seems over 1 in 1000. He thinks "the bad case" is important to say.
nxthompson on Twitter — Wow. Geoff Hinton, one of the most important founders of AI, leaves his job so he can speak out about the potential for harm. "“I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have."
Big Tech Earnings Spark Hope That Worst Is Over — Shares rise on better-than-expected results, but growth lags behind what Microsoft, Amazon and Google did in past
News Analysis: Big Tech Shows Signs Of Stability — With just Apple left to report in the tech earnings season, three major trends have emerged
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515: Codeium Comes for Copilot Apr 26, 2023

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We have a laugh at Elon's alt account, why the knives are out for GitHub Co-pilot, and our thoughts on Apple's "major victory" this week.

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Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29 — Let's get together at a local hidden gem, the Boston Harbor Marina. A classic location, with a covered deck on the water with a snack shack, and easy parking.
The Serfs on Twitter — Elon Musk has allegedly revealed a secret alt account where he pretends to be a child version of himself posting a lot of bizarre sexual content
Shashank Joshi on Twitter — “FTX was a preoccupation for the [Elon Musk burner account] @ErmnMusk account, which interacted with conspiracy theories—one saying that FTX was a middle party to laundering funds through Ukraine for U.S. Democrats”
mousedownmike follows up on a series of topics! — ChatGPT summary and entire email with full context.
Apple’s App Store can stay closed, but developers can link to outside payments, says appeals cour — Apple’s closed App Store and security restrictions didn’t violate antitrust law but that Apple couldn’t maintain anti-steering rules that prevent users from learning about alternate payment options.
Apple declares victory after decision reached in Epic Games appeal — The decision signals that Apple’s control over the App Store and the fees it charges likely won’t significantly change as a result of an ongoing legal challenge by Epic Games.
GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not — TL;DR GitHub Copilot trains on GPL code and its nonpermissive filters don’t actually work, while we at Codeium have removed GPL licensed code from our training data, guaranteeing peace of mind to our users.
Immersed — Spawn up to 5 virtual monitors from your computer into VR without any additional hardware!
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514: Designing a Villain Apr 19, 2023

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Elon launches another AI company, leaks suggest Apple might enable sideloading, and why we should let Chaos-GPT run free.

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Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 P — Let's have a local PNW get-together.
Espanso — A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander
WWDC iOS 17 announcements may include sideloading — In the case of iOS and iPadOS, they "aren't likely to offer major new features." But, they will apparently "satisfy a checklist of user requests with more minor improvements."
iOS 17 to Support App Sideloading to Comply With European Regulations — Apple in iOS 17 will for the first time allow iPhone users to download apps hosted outside of its official App Store, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
Amazon CodeWhisperer — Build applications faster and more securely with your AI coding companion
Amazon's new AI coding tool has one HUGE advantage over Microsoft's GitHub Copilot
Now in Preview – Amazon CodeWhisperer- ML-Powered Coding Companion
Elon Musk launches AI company — Elon Musk has launched an artificial intelligence company called X.AI, incorporated in Nevada, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday
Introducing the Tailscale Universal Docker Mod — Today, we're introducing a new way to add Tailscale to your Docker containers: our brand new universal Docker mod.
Auto-GPT — Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI.
Meet Chaos-GPT — Chaos-GPT, an autonomous implementation of ChatGPT, has been unveiled, and its objectives are as terrifying as they are well-structured.
ChaosGPT on Twitter — @chaos_gpt
Twitter commands and script for AutoGPT
Companies will have to scale up resources in trust and safety areas for A.I. — Rob Leathern, former Google vice president of product management and former Meta senior director of product and business integrity, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss A.I. regulation, the need for transparency in A.I. development, and more.
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ctop: Top-like interface for container metrics — ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers:
chatbot-ui — An open-source ChatGPT UI that sits on top of the openAI API.

513: Apple's Golden Hour Apr 12, 2023

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Forces beyond Apple's control just reined in their rise, and we ponder the coming sunset.

Plus, the tool we found uses ChatGPT to help you debug errors.

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Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM — Let's have a local PNW get-together. We haven't picked exactly where yet. But we know it will be in Olympia!
Burglars steal $500K from Apple store after cutting hole in adjacent store\ — They've never dealt with anything like this in their five years in business at the mall, he said.
VS Code snippet generator — Fill out the form to generate a JSON snippet. Double quotes are automatically escaped and the body is automatically split into a string array.
Another snippet generator(multiple apps) — VScode, Sublime Text, and Atom.
Apple's Mac shipments fall more than 40% — Apple Mac shipments fell 40.5% in the first quarter of 2023, compared with the same time the prior year, market intelligence provider IDC said.
TSMC Sales Miss for Second Straight Quarter — TSMC relies on consumer hardware like iPhones to drive sales
Apple Flexes Muscle as Quiet Power Behind App Developer Group — Company funds more than half of group’s budget, shapes goals.
Tim Sweeney on Twitter — Here’s Apple’s fake “small app developer” lobby again using small app developers as human shields to defend its monopoly, misportraying its opposition as larger corporations. Pure, shameless deception by a multi trillion dollar corporation.
DoctorGPT brings GPT into production for debuging! — DoctorGPT is a lightweight self-contained binary that monitors your application logs for problems and diagnoses them.
Why is it called Python? — When he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s. Van Rossum thought he needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious, so he decided to call the language Python.
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chatbot-ui: An open source ChatGPT UI. — Chatbot UI is an advanced chatbot kit for OpenAI's chat models built on top of Chatbot UI Lite using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.

512: The Hysterics Chronicles Apr 05, 2023

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Our thoughts on the recent AI hysteria and why it betrays the massive egos involved, our issues with the RESTRICT Act, and we do some Monday morning code review.

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Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup — Two meetups coming up in April.
ChatGPT banned in Italy — The country’s data protection authorities said AI service would be blocked and investigated over privacy concerns.
Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds' — “Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.”
The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down — We are not ready. We are not on track to be significantly readier in the foreseeable future. If we go ahead on this everyone will die, including children who did not choose this and did not do anything wrong.
the-algorithm — The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm is a set of services and jobs that are responsible for constructing and serving the Home Timeline.
Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why — Posted algorithm code includes "is_democrat," "is_republican," and "is_elon."
“Patriot Act on steroids”: Left and right unite against "fear-mongering" TikTok ban — Digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation issued a sober rebuke of the legislation Thursday, saying the measure fails to protect private user information.
Text - S.686 - RESTRICT Act — To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes.
The RESTRICT Act Would Restrict a Lot More Than TikTok — The RESTRICT Act has been garnering bipartisan momentum in the Senate, as well as backing from the Biden administration
The U.S. Restrict Act Explained
Stop the RESTRICT Act and Pass Real Privacy Legislation
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511: Robot Chat Shack Mar 29, 2023

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Mike's spent 90+ days with GitHub Co-Pilot, and shares the surprising conclusion.

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90+ Days With Github Co-Pilo — Today, I want to talk about a tool that has been making waves in the programming community lately – Github Co-Pilot.
Introducing GitHub Copilot X — With chat and terminal interfaces, support for pull requests, and early adoption of OpenAI’s GPT-4, GitHub Copilot X is our vision for the future of AI-powered software development. Integrated into every part of your workflow.
Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating — Now that Hub 4 has been released, it’s time to introduce the Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating.
RadioGPT — GPT powered Radio DJ
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LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 Bellingham Technical College
Podverse — Open source podcast app. Available for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web. #FOSS #AGPLv3

510: Edge of Disaster Mar 22, 2023

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Microsoft's moonshot is turning into a crapshoot.

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Berlin Meet Up, Fri, Mar 24, 2023 — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin!
Berlin Buddies Matrix Chatroom — A room to organize Jupiter Broadcasting fans in Berlin.
LinuxFest Northwest Matrix Chatroom — A chat community built around LinuxFest Northwest
Jobs chatroom on Matrix — Hiring? Looking for work? Make a Matrix Connection!
Ken Thompson - SCaLE 20x - YouTube — We're honored to have Ken Thompson joining us for our closing keynote at SCALE 20x. Ken Co-created Unix, UTF-8, Go and a number of other technologies that are foundational to our community.
UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is… a what user?
Microsoft is testing a built-in crypto wallet in Microsoft Edge — Microsoft sleuth Albacore who first spotted the new Edge Crypto Wallet tweeted some screenshots and expressed his puzzlement about the possibility of it ending up as a new Microsoft Edge feature.
Albacore on Twitter — Newest in the gauntlet of questionable upcoming Microsoft Edge features, a crypto wallet 💸
Microsoft Edge now has a Bing AI chatbot sidebar — The new sidebar appears as a big Bing button at the top left of Edge,
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Announces an Additional 9,000 Layoffs — This recent round of layoffs will affect departments like Amazon Web Services, human resources, advertising, and Twitch live streaming.
SVB employees blame remote work for bank failure — SVB included remote work as a risk to its business in its 2022 annual report — in part because of the IT issues posed when employees are dispersed around the country, but also for productivity reasons.
Mark Zuckerberg says engineers who joined Meta in-person perform better than those who joined remotely — Pointing to “early analysis” of internal performance data, Zuckerberg said that engineers who started out at Meta in a fully in-person capacity before transitioning to a remote role, as well as those who have remained in an in-person role, “performed better on average than people who joined remotely.”
It's time for open-source users to open their wallets
Age of Easy Money (full documentary) | FRONTLINE — High inflation. Fear of recession. Disruptions, like the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. How did the U.S. economy get here? A two-hour documentary special traces the road to this moment, and the role of the Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank.
Fed Panics, Announces "Coordinated" Daily US Dollar Swap Lines To Ease Banking Crisis | ZeroHedge — Sunday 5 pm the Fed announced "coordinated central bank action to enhance the provision of U.S. dollar liquidity" by opening daily Dollar Swap lines with all major central banks, in a carbon copy repeat of the Fed's panicked post-covid crisis policy response playbook.
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