00:00 Welcome Back to Reality 2.0
00:36 Upcoming Open Source Summit
01:03 Linux Foundation and AI Initiatives
04:20 Apple's Approach to Personal AI
05:11 Challenges of AI and Data Privacy
07:16 Potential of Personal AI Models
11:10 Human Interaction with AI
26:50 Innovations in Cookie Consent
31:08 Commitment to More Frequent Episodes
33:16 Closing Remarks and Future Plans

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00:00 Introduction and Welcome Back
00:08 The AI Discussion: A Different Perspective
00:35 Introducing the Guest: Ezequiel Lanza
01:00 AI and Personal Empowerment: A Blog Post Discussion
01:30 AI: A Tool for Individual Empowerment or a Category Error?
02:35 The Desire for Personal AI: Use Cases
05:08 The Feasibility of Personal AI: A Discussion
09:22 AI and Data Privacy: A Concern
13:57 The Future of AI: Personal Devices and Local Computation
18:51 AI: An Extension of Us or a Reflection of Our Flaws?
20:51 AI and Art: An Experiment
22:59 Exploring AI's Creative Capabilities
23:20 AI's Limitations and Ethical Boundaries
23:44 AI's Interpretation of Beauty
25:04 AI's Influence on Art and Fashion
26:05 AI's Role in Content Generation
26:36 AI's Impact on Individuality and Creativity
27:59 AI's Backward-Looking Approach
28:24 AI's Integration in Everyday Life
30:28 AI's Influence on the Internet and Content Consumption
35:28 AI's Role in Advertising and User Experience
37:26 Final Thoughts on AI's Potential and Challenges

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• Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI commercial users get sued - The Verge — Some users of Microsoft’s Copilot platforms can turn to the company if they get sued for copyright infringement.
• AI | Doc Searls Weblog

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• LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it. — LLMs break the internet. The going rate for GPT-4 is $0.06 per 1000 tokens, or about $0.00008 per word. New open source models like Dolly and StableLM will drop costs even further, and without the content restrictions. Thought has never been so cheap. Creative expression has never been so accessible. Also spam, phishing, harassment mobs, and mass influence ops have never been so cheap, so accessible. You thought the internet was a mess before? Get ready for bots that beat the Turing test, synthesize your voice, generate fake social consensus at scale. We’re seeing the beginnings of this already. Expect a tidal wave of spam, identity theft, phishing, ransomware over the next 36 months.
• See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart - Washington Post — AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities, from writing sophisticated term papers to holding unnervingly lucid conversations. Chatbots cannot think like humans: They do not actually understand what they say. They can mimic human speech because the artificial intelligence that powers them has ingested a gargantuan amount of text, mostly scraped from the internet.

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• Perplexity AI: Ask Anything
• Microsoft’s ChatGPT-Powered Bing Makes Search Interesting Again - The New York Times — Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.
• Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality | TED Talk — The founder of Sirius XM satellite radio, Martine Rothblatt now heads up a drug company that makes life-saving medicines for rare diseases (including one drug that saved her own daughter's life). Meanwhile she is working to preserve the consciousness of the woman she loves in a digital file ... and a companion robot. In an onstage conversation with TED's Chris Anderson, Rothblatt shares her powerful story of love, identity, creativity, and limitless possibility.
• Fraud Detection with Intel® Distribution of Modin* — This tutorial provides a use case where a credit card company might benefit from machine learning techniques to predict fraudulent transactions. This is the first part of a three-part series.

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• Dan Miller, Author at — Dan Miller has over 25 years experience in marketing, business development and corporate strategy for telecom service providers, computer makers and application software developers. Dan founded Opus Research in 1985 and helped define the Conversational Commerce marketplace by authoring scores of reports, advisories and newsletters addressing business opportunities that reside where automated speech leverages Web services, mobility and enterprise software infrastructure.
• Eze Lanza: "Have you heard of https://you.…" - Mastodon Canada — Have you heard of https://you.com ? The search engine added #chatGTP style chatbot. It's not perfect but these are examples of what the future of AI could look like.
• You.com | The AI Search Engine You Control
• Say Goodbye to CCaaS: How The Conversational Cloud Will Evolve in 2022 - — Here are the trends that  should inform enterprise investment and deployment of Conversational AI, Cloud-based Contact Centers and Intelligent Assistance in the coming year.

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• Attention is All You Need – Google Research — The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles by over 2 BLEU. On the WMT 2014 English-to-French translation task, our model establishes a new single-model state-of-the-art BLEU score of 41.0 after training for 3.5 days on eight GPUs, a small fraction of the training costs of the best models from the literature. We show that the Transformer generalizes well to other tasks by applying it successfully to English constituency parsing both with large and limited training data.
• fka/awesome-chatgpt-prompts · Datasets at Hugging Face
• Experts Warn ChatGPT Could Democratize Cybercrime - Infosecurity Magazine — A wildly popular new AI bot could be used by would-be cyber-criminals to teach them how to craft attacks and even write ransomware, security experts have warned.
• ChatGPT

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• ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue — We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.
• AI tells me if AI will write novels. - vlogbrothers on YouTube — In which a text-generation AI promises John that of course it won't replace him.
• Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups - The Verge — / Apple is expanding its iCloud security features and introducing support for security keys for two-factor authentication.
• Rackspace confirms ransomware behind days-long email outage • The Register — UPDATED Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers.  The security snafu took down some of Rackspace's hosted Microsoft Exchange services on Friday afternoon. In its most recent update, posted at 0826 Eastern Time on Tuesday, Rackspace said it has now "determined this suspicious activity was the result of a ransomware incident," and has hired a "leading cyber defense firm to investigate."

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• Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police - The New York Times — These activists say it has become relatively easy to build facial recognition tools thanks to off-the-shelf image recognition software that has been made available in recent years. In Portland, Mr. Howell used a Google-provided platform, TensorFlow, which helps people build machine-learning models.
• Fawkes — The SAND Lab at University of Chicago has developed Fawkes1, an algorithm and software tool (running locally on your computer) that gives individuals the ability to limit how unknown third parties can track them by building facial recognition models out of their publicly available photos.
• Mass Extraction - Upturn — To search phones, law enforcement agencies use mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs), a powerful technology that allows police to extract a full copy of data from a cellphone — all emails, texts, photos, location, app data, and more — which can then be programmatically searched. As one expert puts it, with the amount of sensitive information stored on smartphones today, the tools provide a “window into the soul.”
• Doc Searls Weblog · About face — We know more than we can tell.
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• Welcome to the 21st Century: How To Plan For The Post-Covid Future - O'Reilly Media — So too, when we look back, we will understand that the 21st century truly began this year, when the COVID19 pandemic took hold. We are entering the century of being blindsided by things that we have been warned about for decades but never took seriously enough to prepare for, the century of lurching from crisis to crisis until, at last, we shake ourselves from the illusion that our world will go back to the comfortable way it was and begin the process of rebuilding our society from the ground up.