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Published 23 December 2024

e493 with Michael, Michael and Andy on digital storage for a century, AI datasets, videos & new Oreo flavors, hacking digital license plates and robots, and a whole lot more!

Andy, Michael and Michael start this episode off with a detailed article from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab detailing the challenges and complexities of storing and retrieving digital data for a hundred years. Sticking with the same institution of higher education (and the same Law Library), the next discussion deals with a dataset of one million public domain books to give the general public “highly-refined and curated content” to build AI models per the Wired article. Next up are discussions on the use of AI in generating video content and new Oreo recipes.

Then, the co-hosts turn to an article on hacking the Reviver digital license plates in use in California and Arizona. The team predicted that this may happen in 2018 in episode 200, in a very ‘back to the future’ moment.

Hardware supported by cloud services and data are always susceptible to those services continuing to be available. When the companies supporting the data and services close down, the hardware is bricked. A story for this week about emotional support robots for children becoming bricks reminds the co-hosts of the Gatebox anime-style holographic AI from episodes 159 and 218.

Wrapping things up for the episode, before they are ‘OUTATIME”, the co-hosts discuss how AI can be used to recreate the rules from thousand year old games and congratulate the newest chess world champion.

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