Grumpy Old Geeks
Grumpy Old Geeks
Hosts Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister have over 40 years of professional website building experience between them. Every week they discuss what went wrong on the Internet and who's to blame.
"Sporting a nice balance of serious sensibilities, sarcastic cynicism, and downright funny moments, it’s a good case study of the realities of the online experience. " ~ Fast Company
Recent Episodes
604: Systematic Ambivalence
June 3, 2023
Facebook generation wants boundaries; doom scrolling & devices are messing with us; AI boom running out of chips; AI is both an object of ridicule & presents risk of extinction - just like eggs; moral outsourcing in big tech…
603: Self-Driving Human
May 27, 2023
AI CEOs say AI poses existential threat, plow forward anyway; Meta fined for violating EU data privacy; Twitter #DeSaster; Lorem Epsom NoNummy Amazon snacks; can't get Twitter to work guy OK'd to put chips in your brain; Doo…
602: Urban Doom Loop
May 20, 2023
Theranos is the New Black; Section 230 upheld; UBI to combat AI; Montana bans TikTok; EU approves Microsoft takesover of Activision Blizzard; another Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving tech; Personal Voice; on…
601: How Does Work Work?
May 13, 2023
RIP, Metaverse; nobody knows how LLMs work; CEOs that don't go into offices want you to go in; ChatGPT is low-paid people; sure, let's let AI generate mRNA vaccines; OURA acquires Proxy, but not science; MTV News shuttered; …
600: Technically Sweet
May 6, 2023
AI doesn't exist but may be dangerous anyway; self-destruct buttons are important for rockets; Kamala Harris & Snoop Dogg weigh in on AI; IBM pauses hiring, looking to onboard AI; Marissa Mayer takes another whack; open-sour…
599: Osaka
April 29, 2023
Spin the wheel of Invictus; more tech layoffs; ChatGPT's staggering daily cost; it's not your data; AI-generated political ads are here; Spotify CEO unsure about AI progress; Elon's The #26a7de Letter; SpaceX rocket goes rea…
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