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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 258: Terminator Contortionists

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

    • Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s! Spam musubi!
    • Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys! Nara Park deer! Google Translate!
    • The creepy sound of online trackers
      • Check the videos here!
      • A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings
      • AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
      • Texas Facilities Commission State Surplus Property Store

        • Cutting Room Floor

        • Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good?
          • 60-minute loop
          • I Hope This Email Finds You (part 1 and part 2)
          • Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen

            • We Give Thanks

            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
              • 44 min
            • Episode 257: Flowers from Heaven

              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!

              • Resident Alien (TV series)
              • Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper
              • Pixel Buds Pro
              • A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam
                • Commonwealth Legal Services
                • Liberals accuse Conservatives of using AI for amendments to jobs bill as votes loom
                • EVs With Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China
                  • M.A.S.K. (TV series)
                  • Cheap Russian drones overwhelm US-made Abrams tanks, taken out of action
                  • Want to feel special? Stores and restaurants with paid memberships are betting on it

                    • Cutting Room Floor

                    • New thermal paste smells like flowers from heaven
                    • MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI
                      • See also: Jenkins, I call on you now
                      • What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You?

                        • We Give Thanks

                        • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                          • 32 min
                        • Episode 256: Kufelik Olmak

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

                          • Fallout
                          • Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro
                          • Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced
                            • Laudato Si, paragraph 107
                            • HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges
                            • These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages Designed to Be Seen While Tripping
                            • 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
                              • This Guy Made a Dating App Where You Can Only Date Him
                              • Reggaeton Be Gone

                                • We Give Thanks

                                • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                  • 41 min
                                • Episode 255: Living an Eternal Life of Strings and Wooden Whimsy

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

                                          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!
                                                  • 38 min
                                                • Episode 253: Better Than a Stick in the Eye

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

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

                                                                        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.

                                                                          50 min
                                                                        • Episode 250: Our Favorite Things

                                                                          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!
                                                                                • 43 min
                                                                              • Episode 249: Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar Wrap

                                                                                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!

                                                                                • Dreamforce
                                                                                  • Foo Fighters and furry mosh pit
                                                                                  • Who Are the Salesforce Characters?
                                                                                  • Caffeine 2, Dave 0
                                                                                    • Awake Peanut Butter Chocolate Bites
                                                                                    • Panera Charged Lemonade
                                                                                    • Dungeons & Dragons with AI!
                                                                                    • Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
                                                                                    • Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
                                                                                      • Related:
                                                                                        • Simpsons Trampoline
                                                                                        • Amazon Kitchen Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar Wrap
                                                                                        • Tokyo Coffee Shop Introduces Standing Nap Pods
                                                                                        • $165 Airplane Face Rest Promises a More Comfortable Flight
                                                                                        • The Heilmeier Catechism
                                                                                          • See also:
                                                                                            • Crafting Better Proposals Using the Heilmeier Catechism
                                                                                            • Catalyzing Innovation in Health & Medicine with Renee Wegrzyn, PhD at Ginkgo Ferment 2023

                                                                                              • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                              • Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Soup Nazi and Elaine
                                                                                              • Hand Grenade Throwing as a College Sport
                                                                                              • Listen to Werner Herzog Read a Book of AI Poetry
                                                                                                • Free sample
                                                                                                • Also: Werner Herzog reviews Trader Joe’s

                                                                                                  • We Give Thanks

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

                                                                                                  About Dave & Gunnar Show

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