587: Our Inevitable Doom
100% Efficiency; PayPal layoffs; Microsoft & ChatGPT Plus; Spotify increases premium subscribers, loses more money; Tesla bitcoin loss; pushback against self-driving cars; Amazon shutting down grocery stores; Meta paid for data scraping while denouncing it; AI alien signals; Picard; Paramount+ With Showtime; Cunk on Earth; Earthside; Ask a Historian; After Babel; Barnes & Nobel is back; Wikenigma; the Dark Side with Dave; more playing around with ChatGPT; ElevenLabs AI voices; Stormtroopin'.
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IN THE NEWS
PayPal is laying off 2,000 employees
Report: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month
ChatGPT reportedly reached 100 million users in January
Spotify reaches 205 million Premium subscribers as losses mount
Tesla records $204M loss from bitcoin in 2022
The DOJ is looking into Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claims
San Francisco asks California regulators to halt or slow the rollout of driverless taxis
EU vows to get tougher on Big Tech privacy violations
Amazon Plans to Close Some Grocery and Convenience Stores
Documents show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing it
AI Finds Possible Overlooked Alien Signals In Radio Telescope Data
MEDIA CANDY
Paramount+ Premium will absorb Showtime and rebrand as 'Paramount+ With Showtime'
AT THE LIBRARY
Earthside - Quantum Earth, Book 2 by Dennis E. Taylor
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner
How Barnes & Noble Came Back From Near Death by Ezra Klein
Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
SECURITY HAH!
Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy outwit the Androids
ChatGPT's New Tool for Detecting Text Written by AI Doesn't Work Very Well
New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
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