e443 — In the Stone | Games At Work dot Biz

stone chimney, Pisgah National Forest, NC — Photo by Michael Martine, Pisgah National Forest, NC October 2018

Published 4 December 2023

Back at full co-host strength, Andy, Michael and Michael get together to have a fantastic discussion on AI, 3D printing, retro gaming and emulation solutions.

With the regulations, philosophy and laws dealing with AI evolving so rapidly, it’s a good thing that there is a podcast with real human cohosts to deal with it all. The first article deals with generated sports articles from Sports Illustrated purported to have been written by real humans. Next up is a detailed post from Cory Doctorow with many detailed links to other posts & articles dealing with the conflict between “Effective Altruism” and “Effective Accelerationism”. Then, the cohosts discuss the ramifications of a ruling in the Sarah Silverman case. A reminder: Andy, Michael and Michael are not attorneys, barristers, judges, solicitors or other members of the legal profession. Shifting to LLMs, the team take on a couple of articles dealing with ScienceGPT and the attention organizations like Hugging Face have received in the wake of the Sam Altman situation from the past week and a half.

Next up, two Hackaday articles are stacked up against one another – the first dealing with the deconstruction of the first 3D printed house in Iowa. The concept of 3D printing houses is not new to the podcast. It was something that was discussed in 2014 in e81! Even more fun was the juxtaposition of another Hackaday article. This one dealt with an autonomous vehicle that uses computer vision to assemble stone walls. This reminds Andy of the stone walls across the UK and Michael M of the stone walls in Chapel Hill (slightly more recent than those in the UK!).

The team winds up with a few stories about retro games with DOS_deck, Whisky and Wine.

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