Shallow HAL 9000 [14]

Unconscious and uncaring AI will come for us all. IE is undead. And Musk continues his hot streak of being an ass.

Show Notes

Shallow HAL 9000

Episode: 14 Published: 06/21/2022

Stories

What are we going to do when AI achieves consciousness?

Links:

• A Google engineer has been making some wild claims about a chat bot he was working on
• How easy it is to make people get emotional about inanimate objects such as an IKEA lamp
• Trying to find a way to describe AI that includes self-awareness
• The interview that Blake and co did with LaMDA
• There is a website called DALL-E mini
• In 2019 some researchers tried to get AI to invent a sport

Lightning Round

• Internet Explorer is Dead, but will never die
• HP Releases ���Dev One��� Laptop Preinstalled with Pop!_OS Linux
• RFC 1925 Rule number 11
• Elon Musk addresses Twitter employees, makes more enemies by being himself
  • A private slack chat which was promptly leaked
• Isovalent open sources Tetragon to leverage eBPF for security
• Pawel Zadrozniak releases the Floppotron 3.0 and what have I been doing with my life
• Cloud Field Day 14 is live this week!

Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

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Chaos Lever examines emerging trends and new technology for the enterprise and beyond. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner examine the tech landscape through a skeptical lens based on over 40 combined years in the industry. Are we all doomed? Yes. Will the apocalypse be streamed on TikTok? Probably. Does Joni still love Chachi? Decidedly not.