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Published 13 Feb 2023

Michael R and Andy start things off for this edition of Games at Work with a follow up story about smart appliances, this time in the form of comics. Multiple comics. Check them out in the show notes below. Then, the team turns to Cory Doctorow’s recent blog post on the combination play of lock-in, high switching costs or platform exploitation, an example of which is actually the subject of one of the comics from the Marketoonist article.

Next up, is an article about how Interpol is learning how to police crime in the metaverse. How are they doing this? Well, for a start, Interpol has built a VR version of it’s headquarters for training. Andy and Michael also consider the word soup article from VentureBeat dealing with all things metaverse, including the concept of “metanomics”.

Wrapping up the episode for this week are a couple of AI articles dealing with AI based voice acting and ChatGPT being asked to draw itself via DALL-E. Of course, the latest LEGO LoTR announcement of the Rivendell set truly captures the imagination!

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