587: Our Inevitable Doom

100% Efficiency; PayPal layoffs; Microsoft & ChatGPT Plus; Spotify increases premium subscribers, loses more money; Tesla bitcoin loss; pushback against self-driving cars; Amazon shutting down grocery stores; Meta paid for data scraping while denouncing it; AI alien signals; Picard; Paramount+ With Showtime; Cunk on Earth; Earthside; Ask a Historian; After Babel; Barnes & Nobel is back; Wikenigma; the Dark Side with Dave; more playing around with ChatGPT; ElevenLabs AI voices; Stormtroopin'. Sponsors: Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase. Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us! Show notes at https://gog.show/587 FOLLOW UP World’s first electric dump truck stores as much energy as 8 Tesla Model S cars IN THE NEWS PayPal is laying off 2,000 employees Report: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks ChatGPT Plus FAQ OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month ChatGPT reportedly reached 100 million users in January Spotify reaches 205 million Premium subscribers as losses mount Tesla records $204M loss from bitcoin in 2022 The DOJ is looking into Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claims San Francisco asks California regulators to halt or slow the rollout of driverless taxis EU vows to get tougher on Big Tech privacy violations Amazon Plans to Close Some Grocery and Convenience Stores Documents show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing it AI Finds Possible Overlooked Alien Signals In Radio Telescope Data MEDIA CANDY Picard Season 3 Trailer Paramount+ Premium will absorb Showtime and rebrand as 'Paramount+ With Showtime' Cunk on Earth AT THE LIBRARY Earthside - Quantum Earth, Book 2 by Dennis E. Taylor Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner After Babel - Jonathan Haight How Barnes & Noble Came Back From Near Death by Ezra Klein Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns SECURITY HAH! The CyberWire Dave Bittner Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Cyber Craft Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy outwit the Androids ElevenLabs Beta ChatGPT's New Tool for Detecting Text Written by AI Doesn't Work Very Well New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text