Dave & Gunnar Show David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

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



Bloons TD 6
Google Bard Gemini Ultimate Advanced
Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything
MemGPT


MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System
MemGPT Explained!

Managerial ventriloquism: 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


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
Pooky Park (AI-generated 1950s TV commercial for a creepy puppet theme park)


We Give Thanks



The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

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.



Bali
’A mouse for your mouth’: New device allows users to scroll with their tongues
Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
Search X for "goes against OpenAI's"


See in particular
Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request”
Here’s a New Caption That Works for All New Yorker Cartoons—Especially in the Caption Contest
Lead Engager

The Opposite of Déjà Vu Is a Thing, And It's Even More Uncanny


Cutting Room Floor



1D Pac-Man is the best game I’ve played in 2024 (so far)
Ambiphone: For all your ambient number station needs
Dance Like David Byrne! An Easy-to-Follow Instructional Video Shows You How
Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral


We Give Thanks



The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

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



Gunnar says the Oura Ring is delightful
Dave achieves Platinum Pro?
Dave becomes an author using AI?
Diabolic Drive Stealthily Injects Keyboard Strokes While Being a Functional USB Drive
Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search


Related: Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers
Related: Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It

Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data
Polish police arrest man who pretended to be a mannequin before stealing jewellery


Related: Fake Waffle House worker steals from register at end of her ‘shift,’ Georgia police say

PARA method: corny, but it works!


Cutting Room Floor



Blood Sugar Sex Magik, but it's Donkey Kong Country (Full Album)
RATM - Killing in the Name, but it's Sega Genesis
News Broadcasts from Alternate Histories


The New Order is a narrative-driven Hearts of Iron 4 mod that’s compelling and bleak

The Talk: Kanye West & Elon Musk


We Give Thanks



The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

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



Gunnar endorses:


DND Beyond
Goodnotes and the virtues of the pen

Dave endorses:


Kindle Scribe
Julia

H/T Dwight Chamberlain: The Ben and Marc Show
RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war
211. Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk


Hardfork interview w/Sam Altman

D&G This Week in There, I Fixed It: Microsoft now lets you play a game during Windows 11 installs
Ex-NASA surveillance van with retractable roof cameras goes on sale
A federal agency wants to give safety tips to young adults. So it's dropping an album
ASIC Necklace


We Give Thanks



Dwight Chamberlain for the podcast doppelgänger tipoff!
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

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!


Key Topics


[02:17] Starting the Dave & Gunnar Show
[04:14] Dave's Role At Salesforce
[05:18] What's Scaring the Public Sector Most?
[10:22] Ways Agencies are Attracting Talent
[13:56] How Agencies Are Handling Legacy Systems
[15:45] What MuleSoft Does & Generative AI's Role
[22:44] Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer
[29:21] PoisonGPT
[36:07] Brain Organoids & Other Spooky, Ethically Questionable Experiments
[42:15] Tech Talk Questions: Halloween Edition


Quotable Quotes


Considerations for the Public Sector While Using AI: "As you're going on your AI journey, you've got to be looking at the EULA [End User License Agreement] and making sure that, okay, if I give you data, what are you going to do with it?"


On Bias & Disinformation in Generative AI: "There were some previous studies that show that people are more likely to go with the generative AI results if they trust the company and they trust the model. So it's like, 'Oh, it came from Google, so how can that be wrong?' Or 'I'm trusting the brand,' or 'I'm trusting the model.'"


Dave & Gunnar Show Episodes
Episode 165 - If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
Episode 185 - In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
Episode 227 - Meetings and Punishment
Episodes 248 & 249 - Stay tuned to the Dave & Gunnar Show for these episodes to go live


Additional Links
Minority Report
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Flowers For Algernon


We Give Thanks



Carolyn Ford for inviting Dave to Tech Transforms!
Special Guest: Carolyn Ford.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about their favorite things!



Grammarly
Pocket
Feedly
Blogtrottr
Slack
Remember the Milk
Todoist
Drafts
DayOne
1Password
Bitwarden
uBlock Origin
Video Speed Controller
GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800)
Chromebooks
Thermoworks Thermapens
Radbike Radrunner 2
Yamaha MT/FZ-09
Anything from Tom Bihn
Raspberry Pi 5 (coming soon!)
Scratch


The Great Guinea Pig Escape

Turing Tumble and Spintronics


We Give Thanks



Carolyn Ford for the topic idea and being a D&G superfan!
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
The D&G audience for spending your time with us through the years!