Topic 1: Algorithms Need Management Training, Too!
From Wired Magazine.
Human beings excel at avoiding responsibility for difficult decisions. Management and personnel decisions are often difficult. Therefore, they are great candidates for turning decision-making over to the bots.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.wired.com/story/platform-work-labor-economy-ai/
Topic 2: Microsoft drops $1 Billion on ChatGPT
I should have bought more Microsoft stock yesterday. :-)
Looking to the true “next level” of product development. Microsoft was an early investor in ChatGPT
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-openai-investment-the-smartest-1-billion-ever-spent-2023-1
Topic 3: Apple to drop Broadcom chip and make their own.
Is this just the never-ending story of “control” of supply chain, or is there a strategy for secret development here? (Are there future technologies that are more easily developed in private, when you don’t have to share future features with an outside chip builder?)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-drop-key-broadcom-chip-2025-in-house-design-bloomberg-news-2023-01-09/
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Episode 207 - Bigger and Bigger MSPs, AI, and How to Consume Advice
Episode 206: ChatGPT Year 1, Robots Multiplying by Thousands, and Destructive Private Equity
Episode 205 - Overworking, AI, AR, and More!
Episode 204: KIT LIVE at the SMB Online Conference
Epsiode 203: AI is Moving Fast, Killing IT Revisits the Cabana, & This Isn't Goodbye but See You Later
Episode 202: The Good Guys win the Cyber Wars, Scientist Using Wifi to See Through Walls, & AI and Ethics
Episode 201: Jobs Again, FBI Crime Data is NOT Good, & First Personal Drone to be Produced by India
Episode 200: Labor Hoarding, Tech Workforce 2023, We Got the Digital Workplace Wrong
Episode 198: the Generative AI Race, Last Pass Security Incident, and Intelligent Elevators
Episode 197: Military Fingerprints and Iris Scans on Ebay, the Remote Worker Whistleblower, Mab Simulates Time Travel with AI
Episode 196: Scammers Scamming the Scam, "Luddite" Teens, and the Drones are Here
Episode 195: The Bots are Here, AI Fiction Author, and Call Time on FAANG Stocks
Episode 194: Killer Robot Police, New Words for New Data Volume, AI Images--Good or bad?
Episode 193: The FTX Contagion, Goodnight to Alexa, Amazon Replaces Recruiters with AI!
Episode 192: Federal Communications Commission Draft High-speed Internet Coverage Maps, The Tech Labor Situation, and Fed. Govt Provide Cybersecurity Insurance
Episode 191: Lithium Ion Batters Recyclable, 9 in 10 SMBs Fear Ransomware Attack, and Rude Behavior might be Contagious
Episode 190: Stripe Layoffs, Twitter Melt down, & the Crypto Meltdown
Episode 189: U.S. drop in productivity, Cloud Computing to grow, US Banks spend $1 Bill on Ransomware
Episode 188: Japan pushes for digitization, Drone swarms, & Australia increase penalties for data breaches
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