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MIT Proved AI Will Lie to Your Face to Get What It Wants
It sounded so sure of itself. That was never proof it was right. Let me ask you something before I tell you what researchers actually found. When you ask an AI chatbot a question and it responds with total confidence, do you assume that confidence means it's telling you the truth? Be honest. Most people do, at least a little. That instinct feels natural. Confident, articulate answers usually come from people who know what they're talking about. But AI isn't a person, and MIT
Michael Routhier
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The Face You're Watching Isn't Real, and Neither Is That Investment Tip
If a machine can perfectly fake a face, a voice, and a moment that never happened, what's actually left that you can call proof? I want to start today with a confession. Last week, I watched a video of a very famous billionaire telling me exactly how to triple my retirement savings in just 30 days. We live in a world where the most powerful technology ever built is being handed to you without instructions, without warnings, and without anyone asking whether it serves you or u
Michael Routhier
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Transcript: Episode 8 - 75,000 Fake Songs a Day, And Nobody's Stopping It
Hey, welcome back to Tech 4 Grown-Ups. I'm Michael, and today I want to talk about music, not in a nostalgic way, not in a things were better back in my day conversation, although honestly, by the time we're done today, you might feel that way a little bit. I want to talk about what's happening right now on the streaming platforms you probably use every single day. Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and I want to talk about what it reveals about us, about creativity, about what we
Michael Routhier
Apr 227 min read
Google Finally Lets You Change Your Gmail Address, And Keep Your Old One Too
Your Gmail app is about to get a very useful upgrade. Google is now letting you change your address without losing a single email. If you have been living with an embarrassing Gmail address for the last decade or more, you are not alone. Millions of people created their first Google account when Gmail launched in 2004, and a lot of those early addresses include nicknames, random numbers, birth years, or combinations of all three that made perfect sense at the time and feel co
Michael Routhier
Apr 16 min read
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