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/587FOLLOW UPWorld’s first electric dump truck stores as much energy as 8 Tesla Model S carsIN THE NEWSPayPal is laying off 2,000 employeesReport: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeksChatGPT Plus FAQOpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per monthChatGPT reportedly reached 100 million users in JanuarySpotify reaches 205 million Premium subscribers as losses mountTesla records $204M loss from bitcoin in 2022The DOJ is looking into Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claimsSan Francisco asks California regulators to halt or slow the rollout of driverless taxisEU vows to get tougher on Big Tech privacy violationsAmazon Plans to Close Some Grocery and Convenience StoresDocuments show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing itAI Finds Possible Overlooked Alien Signals In Radio Telescope DataMEDIA CANDYPicard Season 3 TrailerParamount+ Premium will absorb Showtime and rebrand as 'Paramount+ With Showtime'Cunk on EarthAT THE LIBRARYEarthside - Quantum Earth, Book 2 by Dennis E. TaylorAsk A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg JennerAfter Babel - Jonathan HaightHow Barnes & Noble Came Back From Near Death by Ezra KleinWikenigma - an Encyclopedia of UnknownsSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopCyber CraftKirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy outwit the AndroidsElevenLabs BetaChatGPT's New Tool for Detecting Text Written by AI Doesn't Work Very WellNew AI classifier for indicating AI-written textSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.