Dave & Gunnar Show

Not our circus, not our monkey.

About the show

David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

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Episodes

  • Episode 263: Failing the Turing Test

    September 18th, 2024  |  42 mins 50 secs
    airbnb, cryptominers, cynthia woods mitchell pavillion, deep-live-cam, deepfakes, gemini, gemini gems, gemini live, imagine dragons, nuclear war: a scenario, psychological warfare, rhel ai, selfies, the advice trap, the coaching habit, traffic cam photobooth, video conferencing, war day

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching!

  • Episode 262: Two Plus Two Was Five the Whole Time

    September 3rd, 2024  |  37 mins 59 secs
    ai, broadway, creativity, d-day, d-day conneaut, dodge charger, electric vehicles, evs, exhausts, false memories, fratzonic exhaust, game theory, generative ai, higgs boson, homogenization, influence, lake erie, leatherman, leatherman micra, ms-dos, music videos, musicals, ohio renaissance festival, rap, skeuomorphism, ultimatum game, world war ii, wwii

    This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people!

  • Episode 261: Not Bad if You Don’t Look Directly at Them

    August 26th, 2024  |  33 mins 56 secs
    aaron swartz, batman, black-bellied whistling ducks, brewery tours, british standards, british standards institution, bsi group, c compilers, def leppard, foo fighters, inaturalist, journey, keyboards, little johnny tables, loverboy, north yorkshire council, pacer, qudi mask, qudi mask 2, reliable gazetters, sammy hagar, seek, steve miller band, the hives, vim, xkcd, yuengling

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666!

  • Episode 260: As Long as I’m Not Wearing an Apple Watch, I’ll Never Get Credit For Standing

    July 29th, 2024  |  32 mins 59 secs
    apple watch, brain organoids, brain organoids as a service, brains, dfr, drone as first responder, drones, gorgon stare, ice, law enforcement, oura ring, university of farmington, usborne, vintage science books, xiaomi smart band

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about another fake university, Brain Organoids as a Service (BOaaS?), and policing with drones!

  • Episode 259: AI Bad Breath

    July 14th, 2024  |  59 mins
    after world, ai, apple care, butlerian jihad, ciws, close-in weapon system, democracy, leopold aschenbrenner, manhattan project, nuclear bomb shields, nuclear bombs, openai, phi, situational awareness, superalignment

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides and downsides of superalignment!

  • Episode 258: Terminator Contortionists

    July 1st, 2024  |  43 mins 42 secs
    ai, avatars, boston dynamics, deer, google translate, hawaii, i hope this email finds you, japan, kyoto, macaque monkeys, malware, meetings, monkeys, nara park, online trackers, otter.ai, robots, slack, slack hold music, slack huddles, spam musubi, surplus property, texas facilities commission, texas facilities commission state surplus property store, tokyo, typosquatting, video calls, zippy's

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers!

  • Episode 257: Flowers from Heaven

    May 11th, 2024  |  31 mins 21 secs
    1000 yard stare, ai, ai girlfriends, ai legislation, commonwealth legal services, drones, electric vehicles, evs, flowers from heaven, instapaper, law firms, legislation, mask, memberships, mit license, noise cancellation, pixel buds, pixel buds pro, resident alien, restaurants, robot lawyers, sad girl, scented thermal paste, seo, seo scams, tanks, thermal paste

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese!

  • Episode 256: Kufelik Olmak

    April 30th, 2024  |  40 mins 30 secs
    baskets, buffer overflows, cryptography, dating apps, drinkinkg, excel, fallout, gemini, gemini advanced, gig economy, google, gpt-2, hp, ink, ink cartridges, kufe, kufeci, kufelik olmak, laudato si, pixel buds, pixel buds pro, pope francis, printers, psychedelic cryptography, reggaeton, reggaeton be gone, turkey, uber

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets

  • Episode 255: Living an Eternal Life of Strings and Wooden Whimsy

    March 2nd, 2024  |  32 mins 21 secs
    ai, bard, bloons, cpus, cursing, excel, gemini, goody-2, google, managerial ventriloquism, memgpt, parrots, pooky park

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots

  • Episode 254: I’m Sorry, But I Cannot Provide an Answer to Your Question as It Goes Against OpenAI’s Use Policy

    January 30th, 2024  |  37 mins 38 secs
    ai, amazon, ambiphone, bali, basal cognition, cartoons, coughing, dancing, david attenborough, david byrne, déjà vu, generative ai, input devices, jamais vu, linkedin, new yorker, number stations, openai, pac man, tongues, twitter, vr, x

    This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu.

  • Episode 253: Better Than a Stick in the Eye

    January 29th, 2024  |  38 mins 17 secs
    ai, ai-generated content, alternate histories, american airlines, chatbots, diabolic drive, donkey kong, donkey kong country, elon musk, fake news, jewelry, kanye west, nightshade, oura ring, platinum pro, poisoning, poland, police, rage against the machine, red hot chili peppers, sega, sega genesis, spotify, theft, thumb drives, usb, waffle house, writing

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about poisoned USB drives, poisoned web searches, poisoned AI models, and a guy pretending to be a mannequin

  • Episode 252: Too Hip-Hop, Not Enough $15M Nikon Lithography Stepper

    January 2nd, 2024  |  40 mins 17 secs
    1984, ai, ai executive order, asic necklaces, ben and marc show, dnd beyond, goodnotes, julia, kindle, kindle scribe, nasa, open hardware, open source, public sector music albums, risc-v, sam altman, surveillance vans, windows, windows 11

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about notetaking, IP taking, and great deals on used surveillance vans!

  • Episode 251: Unmasking the Specter: Mr. Egts' Journey into the Impact of Generative AI on Government Transformation

    December 21st, 2023  |  49 mins 58 secs

    This week Dave joins Dynatrace’s Carolyn Ford on the Tech Transforms Podcast about what's scaring the public sector most and how Salesforce is utilizing - and securing - AI to improve customer experience with their Einstein Trust Layer. Additionally, Carolyn and Dave dive into the spooky worlds of brain cell chips, mind-reading AI, and more!

  • Episode 250: Our Favorite Things

    December 15th, 2023  |  42 mins 1 sec
    1password, bitwarden, blogtrottr, chromebooks, dayone, drafts, feedly, flint, fz-09, gl.inet, grammarly, lauren egts, mt-09, pocket, radbike, radrunner, raspberry pi, raspberry pi 5, remember the milk, scratch, slack, spintronics, the great guinea pig escape, thermapens, thermoworks, todoist, tom bihn, turing tumble, ublock origin, video speed controller, yamaha

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about their favorite things!

  • Episode 249: Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar Wrap

    October 28th, 2023  |  29 mins 59 secs
    ai, amazon kitchen, arnold schwarzenegger, arpa, arpa-h, awake peanut butter chocolate bites, brain cells, caffeine, computer chips, dreamforce, dungeons & dragons, elaine, foo fighters, hand grenades, heilmeier catechism, lorem ipsum, nap pods, panera, panera bread, panera charged lemonade, recipies, salesforce, seinfeld, soup nazi, sports, supermarkets, the simpsons, trader joe's, trurest, werner herzog, yelp

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Dave with caffeine, Dungeons and Dragons with AI, computer chips with brain cells, sleeping with discomfort, and the Heilmeier Catechism!

  • Episode 248: Get the Most Out of Your Memories

    October 4th, 2023  |  34 mins 3 secs
    ai, ai bias, ai writing assistance, astrology, bias, blankets, delete, fictional brands, freedomgpt, google, google photos, gpt4all, hugging face, iceland, magic editor, netflix, open source, plaques, poisongpt, recursion, spider-man, spider-verse, stalin, supply chain attacks, toronto

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.