web01.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:30:41 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Dave & Gunnar Show - Episodes Tagged with “Google” https://dgshow.org/tags/google Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera. en-us episodic Not our circus, not our monkey. David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera. no privacy, security, robots, internet, open source, technology David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson gunnar@hellekson.com Episode 256: Kufelik Olmak https://dgshow.org/256 2f711eb7-7e1b-4a0e-bedd-f85cf1c012f0 Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets 40:30 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets Fallout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(American_TV_series)) Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Buds#Pixel_Buds_Pro) Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced (https://gemini.google.com/advanced) Laudato Si (https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html), paragraph 107 HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-ceo-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-fights-viruses/) These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages Designed to Be Seen While Tripping (https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akkd9/psychedelic-cryptography-videos-have-hidden-messages-designed-to-be-seen-while-tripping) Too Drunk to Drive? Forget Ubers, Take a Basket Man Instead (https://www.historyinmemes.com/2023/02/19/too-drunk-to-drive-forget-ubers-take-a-basket-man-instead/) Cutting Room Floor * Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/once-too-scary-to-release-gpt-2-gets-squeezed-into-an-excel-spreadsheet/) * This Guy Made a Dating App Where You Can Only Date Him (https://gizmodo.com/flirt-with-los-mayers-app-developer-dating-art-1851258014) * Reggaeton Be Gone (https://www.hackster.io/roni-bandini/reggaeton-be-gone-e5b6e2) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Fallout, Google, Pixel Buds, Pixel Buds Pro, Gemini, Gemini Advanced, Pope Francis, Laudato Si, HP, printers, ink cartridges, ink, buffer overflows, psychedelic cryptography, cryptography, Turkey, Kufelik Olmak, Kufe, Kufeci, drinkinkg, baskets, gig economy, Uber, GPT-2, Excel, dating apps, reggaeton, Reggaeton Be Gone This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets

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]]> Episode 255: Living an Eternal Life of Strings and Wooden Whimsy https://dgshow.org/255 92227305-082e-4bd4-84ad-29cab3738aa6 Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots 32:21 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots Bloons TD 6 (https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Mobile/Bloons-TD-6.html) Google ~~Bard~~ Gemini ~~Ultimate~~ Advanced (https://gemini.google.com/) Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/meet-goody-2-the-ai-too-ethical-to-discuss-literally-anything/) MemGPT (https://memgpt.ai/) MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System (https://research.memgpt.ai/) MemGPT Explained! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQmZmFERmrg) Managerial ventriloquism: Own Your Words to Gain Authority (https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/own-your-words-to-gain-authority/) D&G This Week in What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Zoo Hopes Plan to Introduce Famous Cursing Parrots to Larger Flock Doesn't Backfire (https://gizmodo.com/zoo-hopes-plan-to-introduce-famous-cursing-parrots-to-l-1851194097) Cutting Room Floor * Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/functional-16-bit-cpu-built-and-runs-in-excel-including-128kb-of-ram-16-color-display-and-a-custom-assembly-language) * Pooky Park (AI-generated 1950s TV commercial for a creepy puppet theme park) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryNtckMT49M) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Bloons, Google, Bard, Gemini, Goody-2, MemGPT, managerial ventriloquism, parrots, cursing, CPUs, Excel, Pooky Park, AI This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots

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]]> Episode 248: Get the Most Out of Your Memories https://dgshow.org/248 1ac42b0a-55db-4fbc-9877-48a890b90b98 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them. 34:03 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them. Iceland (https://www.visiticeland.com/) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Across_the_Spider-Verse) Delete (https://www.netflix.com/watch/81565131?trackId=255824129) on Netflix Is A.I. the Future of Astrology? (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/style/astrology-co-star-ai.html) AI replacing psychics as 'fortune telling' droids put tarot readers out of work (https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ai-replacing-psychics-fortune-telling-30659524) Open source generative AI Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/hugging-face-releases-its-own-version-of-chatgpt/) FreedomGPT (https://www.freedomgpt.com/) GPT4All (https://gpt4all.io/index.html) Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Disinfo Attack With 'PoisonGPT' (https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwgn4/researchers-demonstrate-ai-supply-chain-disinfo-attack-with-poisongpt) AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users (https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/ai-writing-assistants-can-cause-biased-thinking-in-their-users/) Magic Editor in Google Photos: New AI editing features for reimagining your photos (https://www.blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-magic-editor-pixel-io-2023/) The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photo-book-that-captured-how-the-soviet-regime-made-the-truth-disappear) Cutting Room Floor * Fictional Brands Archive (https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/) * Retro MacOS desktop blanket trades pixels for thread, and it looks Mac-nificent (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/retro-macos-desktop-blanket-trades-pixels-for-thread-and-it-looks-mac-nificent/) * The Toronto Recursive History Project (https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/the-toronto-recursive-history-project) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Iceland, Spider-Man, Spider-Verse, Delete, Netflix, astrology, AI, Hugging Face, FreedomGPT, GPT4All, open source, PoisonGPT, supply chain attacks, AI writing assistance, bias, AI bias, Magic Editor, Google, Google Photos, Stalin, fictional brands, blankets, Toronto, recursion, plaques This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.

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]]> Episode 192: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed https://dgshow.org/192 93e9b480-c6a4-4a15-9882-1645f65fb04b Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the pros and cons of virus tracking, health data tracking, robot cooks, and word choice 49:03 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about the pros and cons of virus tracking, health data tracking, robot cooks, and word choice Rehanging a door == [If You Give a Mouse a Cookie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IfYouGiveaMouseaCookie) Instacart (https://instacart.com/) Sam’s Club (https://www.samsclub.com/) Radiolab Dispatch (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispatch-numbers) Viewer mail: Adam Fuhrer says… Hey David, just wanted to say thanks for mentioning colors.lol (https://colors.lol/) on your podcast. Love the show! Hope you're doing well. Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/apple-and-google-detail-bold-and-ambitious-plan-to-track-covid-19-at-scale/) Singapore introduces contact tracing app to slow coronavirus spread (https://www.zdnet.com/article/singapore-introduces-contact-tracing-app-to-slow-coronavirus-spread/) GoodRx Shares My Prescriptions With Third Parties—and It's Perfectly Legal (https://gizmodo.com/goodrx-shares-my-prescriptions-with-third-parties-and-i-1841772965) Making French fries sucks. This robot does it for $3 an hour with no breaks (https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-27/flippy-fast-food-restaurant-robot-arm) The Meritocracy Trap (https://www.themeritocracytrap.com/) 'Would you be willing?': words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid) (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/04/would-you-be-willing-words-turn-conversation-around) Nonviolent Communication (https://nonviolentcommunication.com/) Cutting Room Floor * IMissTheOffice (https://imisstheoffice.eu/): an ambient noise generator specializing in recreating the pre-coronavirus audial world of fluorescent lights, watercooler conversation, and beeping office electronics * Amazon Dating (https://amazondating.co/) * Best motto ever: Allegheny Shredders (https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/778728396499013634) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! * Adam Fuhrer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamfuhrer/) for colors.lol (https://colors.lol/) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Instacart, Sam's Club, Radiolab, colors.lol, Apple, Google, COVID-19, Singapore, GoodRx, robot cooks, The Meritocracy Trap, word choice, Nonviolent Communication, IMissTheOffice, Amazon Dating, Allegheny Shredders This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the pros and cons of virus tracking, health data tracking, robot cooks, and word choice

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  • IMissTheOffice: an ambient noise generator specializing in recreating the pre-coronavirus audial world of fluorescent lights, watercooler conversation, and beeping office electronics
  • Amazon Dating
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]]> Episode 181: Freedom Is Slavery https://dgshow.org/181 e42e32e2-785f-4b46-8862-1f9d823f1529 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order) 35:33 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) Dark (https://www.netflix.com/title/80100172) Camping towels (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-packable-camp-towels/) Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa55z8/researchers-fool-recaptcha-with-googles-own-speech-to-text-service) One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538194/google-duplex-ai-restaurants-experiences-review-robocalls) Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy? (https://www.wired.com/story/why-is-voice-shopping-bad/) Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/google-launches-calljoy-a-virtual-customer-service-phone-agent-for-small-businesses/) Uber’s premium customers can now push a button to tell their drivers to be quiet (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/15/18624906/uber-black-quiet-mode-luxury-feature-lyft-zen) Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans (https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/googles-ai-group-moves-on-from-go-tackles-quake-iii-arena/) Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents (https://deepmind.com/blog/capture-the-flag-science/) Centaur: How combined human and computer intelligence will redefine jobs (https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/how-combined-human-and-computer-intelligence-will-redefine-jobs/) Princesses need pockets: A plea for jeans that fit our lives and our waistlines (https://www.androidcentral.com/princesses-need-pockets) Articles of Interest #3: Pockets (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/pockets-articles-of-interest-3/) Tyranny of Structurelessness (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm) by Jo Freeman Cutting Room Floor * Even more secret Telegrams (https://medium.com/@labunskya/secret-telegrams-bdd2035b6e84): how to do a private covert channel over users blocking each other on Telegram * For less than $10, anyone can make an AI write a fake UN speech (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/for-less-than-10-anyone-can-make-an-ai-write-a-fake-un-speech/) * User Inyerface (https://userinyerface.com/game.html) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! RHEL 8, Dark, camping towels, ReCAPTCHA, UnCaptcha, Google, Duplex, CallJoy, Amazon Basics, Uber, Quake, Centaur, pockets, holsters, structurelessness, Telegram, AI, User Inyerface This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order)

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Cutting Room Floor

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 176: The Argument Dilution Effect https://dgshow.org/176 439c19ef-137a-4404-80a8-078768e24e44 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the risks of improperly testing malware, the risks of reading the wrong things, the risks of using Google services that haven’t been killed yet, and the risks of downplaying risk 41:36 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about the risks of improperly testing malware, the risks of reading the wrong things, the risks of using Google services that haven’t been killed yet, and the risks of downplaying risk Dave tries Jabbrrbox (https://dgshow.org/162) Gunnar organizes Todoist (https://todoist.com/r/gunnar_xbegbz) by Meeting D&G This Week in Irony: Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn't him (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5046925/man-angry-his-photo-was-used-to-prove-all-hipsters-look-alike-then-learns-it-wasn-t-him-1.5046933) Google Play malware used phones’ motion sensors to conceal itself (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/google-play-malware-used-phones-motion-sensors-to-conceal-itself/) D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/) The Argument Dilution Effect: How Drug Company Ads Downplay Risks (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-drug-company-ads-downplay-risks/) How to Read 80ish Books a Year (And Actually Remember Them) (https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-read-good) The Weeds Podcast (https://www.vox.com/the-weeds) Cutting Room Floor * Watch Scientists Express Their Research in Interpretive Dances (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59xyan/watch-scientists-express-their-research-dance-your-phd-aaas) * Hot or Not for fake people (https://thecleverest.com/judgefakepeople/) * Human Blinders Block Out Distractions (https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/18/Human-Blinders-Block-Out-Distractions/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Jabbrrbox, Todoist, hipster effect, Android, Google, vendor abandonment, argument dilution effect, reading, The Weeds Podcast, interpretive dance, AI-generated people, human blinders This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the risks of improperly testing malware, the risks of reading the wrong things, the risks of using Google services that haven’t been killed yet, and the risks of downplaying risk

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