October 19, 2023

Tech News Weekly 308: Rebutting Andreessen's Manifesto

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1 hour 13 minutes

How are humans involved in the overall AI process? 23andMe suffers another data leak by hacker "Golem". And the Meta Quest 3 is being used publicly for hilarious and interesting results.

Solana Larsen of the Mozilla Foundation and the IRL Podcast joins the show to talk about human beings, the data workers behind AI systems being used daily.

Dave Karpf stops by to talk about Marc Andreessen's "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto" and his passionate response to Andreessen's manifesto and the line between tech optimism and pessimism.

Mikah talks about another data leak from the 23andMe breach that includes data from "the wealthiest people living in the U.S. and Western Europe."

And Jason shares some hilarious videos from a Verge article about the Meta Quest 3 being used publicly.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Solana Larsen and Dave Karpf

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October 19, 2023

Tech News Weekly 308: Rebutting Andreessen's Manifesto

Listen Later

1 hour 13 minutes

How are humans involved in the overall AI process? 23andMe suffers another data leak by hacker "Golem". And the Meta Quest 3 is being used publicly for hilarious and interesting results.

Solana Larsen of the Mozilla Foundation and the IRL Podcast joins the show to talk about human beings, the data workers behind AI systems being used daily.

Dave Karpf stops by to talk about Marc Andreessen's "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto" and his passionate response to Andreessen's manifesto and the line between tech optimism and pessimism.

Mikah talks about another data leak from the 23andMe breach that includes data from "the wealthiest people living in the U.S. and Western Europe."

And Jason shares some hilarious videos from a Verge article about the Meta Quest 3 being used publicly.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Solana Larsen and Dave Karpf

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

drata.com/twit

Melissa.com/twit

mylio.com/TWIT25

...more