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Social media companies get even lower scores in terms of reputation, Elon Musk muses about developing his own competitor to ChatGPT and why would Alibaba get rid of what seemed to be a highly successful cloud offering?

You can’t count them out – today’s stories are about companies that are coming from behind with surprising results.  

Meta faces a US$1.3 billion dollar fine, the largest fine ever for violating GDPR privacy rules, Microsoft sounds the alarm on email fraud and why has China’s AI answer to ChatGPT been banned from talking about Winnie the Pooh?

Some time ago, the computer genius Alan Turing proposed a test to determine if a computer were sentient. A person would communicate with two unseen participants - one a computer and the other a human. When, or if, the person could not tell the difference between the computer and the real person, we would admit that “machines could think.” So that’s the framework we had in mind when we heard the claims of Blake  Lemoine, the Google engineer, that he thought Google’s LaMDa model was “sentient.” To give you an opportunity to decide, this interview is a bit of role playing: a re-enactment of Lemoine’s interviews with LaMDA which he published on a blog on Medium. Taylor Vince plays the role of LaMDA.

The US government is using invasive, AI powered monitoring to track refugees, asylum seekers and their own citizens. OpenAI puts ChatGPT on the iPhone. And Microsoft is placing a bet on nuclear fusion.

Six out of ten Americans thing that AI could “threaten civilization.” Big Tech companies look for cheaper overseas replacements for laid off workers. And 60 per cent of Twitter users say they’ve taken a break from the platform over the past year.

Open AI’s Sam Altman reassures Congress by saying “If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.”  CISOs feel that their companies are “likely to be attacked.” And a database named Cockroach aims to solve the problems of moving between cloud providers.

Android phones are being shipped with malware already installed, EU approved Microsoft-Activision deal, Google employees poke fun at AI products revealed at the I/O conference

Elon Musk names his new CEO.  AWS moves to give more price certainty to companies.  Linux and other Open-Source Skills remain in demand. And what exactly does Google have against Canada?

It takes billions of dollars to train an AI and build it, but above all the training is expensive. There is another company that has promised to make the AI model free and open source. And incredibly, they trained their model with only 5,000 employees. Today's guest is Mike Conover and he's from the firm Databricks. He's a big force behind their free open source AI they call Dolly.