David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

Dave & Gunnar Show

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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

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David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

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Society

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dgshow.org

Latest episode

Jun 4, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 260: As Long as I’m Not Wearing an Apple Watch, I’ll Never Get Credit For Standing 29.07.2024

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about another fake university, Brain Organoids as a Service (BOaaS?), and policing with drones! Apple Watch Oura Ring Xiaomi Smart Band 8 Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over fake university set up by ICE University of Farmington University of Farmington on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a...

Episode 259: AI Bad Breath 14.07.2024

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides and downsides of superalignment! Apple Care After World by Debbie Urbanski Ex-OpenAI employee speaks out about why he was fired: 'I ruffled some feathers' SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner Microsoft's new lightweight AI rivals GPT-3.5 — it's learning from children's books and fits on phones Introducing Superalignment P...

Episode 258: Terminator Contortionists 01.07.2024

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers! Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s ! Spam musubi ! Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys ! Nara Park deer ! Google Translate ! The creepy sound of online trackers Check the videos here ! A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings AI hallucinates soft...

Episode 257: Flowers from Heaven 11.05.2024

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese! Resident Alien (TV series) Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper Pixel Buds Pro A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam Commonwealth Legal Services Liberals accuse Conservatives of using AI for amendments to jo...

Episode 256: Kufelik Olmak 30.04.2024

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets Fallout Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced Laudato Si , paragraph 107 HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages Designed to Be Seen While Tripping Too Drunk to Dr...

Episode 255: Living an Eternal Life of Strings and Wooden Whimsy 02.03.2024

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots Bloons TD 6 Google Bard Gemini Ultimate Advanced Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything MemGPT MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System MemGPT Explained! Managerial ventriloquism: Own Your Words to Gain Authority D&G This Week in What Co...

Episode 254: I’m Sorry, But I Cannot Provide an Answer to Your Question as It Goes Against OpenAI’s Use Policy 30.01.2024

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu. Bali ’A mouse for your mouth’: New device allows users to scroll with their tongues Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It Search X for "goes against OpenAI's" See in particular L...

Episode 253: Better Than a Stick in the Eye 29.01.2024

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about poisoned USB drives, poisoned web searches, poisoned AI models, and a guy pretending to be a mannequin Gunnar says the Oura Ring is delightful Dave achieves Platinum Pro ? Dave becomes an author using AI ? Diabolic Drive Stealthily Injects Keyboard Strokes While Being a Functional USB Drive Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search Related: Google’s AI as...

Episode 252: Too Hip-Hop, Not Enough $15M Nikon Lithography Stepper 02.01.2024

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about notetaking, IP taking, and great deals on used surveillance vans! Gunnar endorses: DND Beyond Goodnotes and the virtues of the pen Dave endorses: Kindle Scribe Julia H/T Dwight Chamberlain: The Ben and Marc Show RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war 211. Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk Hardfork interview w/Sam Altma...

Episode 251: Unmasking the Specter: Mr. Egts' Journey into the Impact of Generative AI on Government Transformation 21.12.2023

This week Dave joins Dynatrace’s Carolyn Ford on the Tech Transforms Podcast about what's scaring the public sector most and how Salesforce is utilizing - and securing - AI to improve customer experience with their Einstein Trust Layer. Additionally, Carolyn and Dave dive into the spooky worlds of brain cell chips, mind-reading AI, and more! Key Topics [02:17] Starting the Dave & Gunnar Show [...

Episode 250: Our Favorite Things 15.12.2023

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about their favorite things! Grammarly Pocket Feedly Blogtrottr Slack Remember the Milk Todoist Drafts DayOne 1Password Bitwarden uBlock Origin Video Speed Controller GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) Chromebooks Thermoworks Thermapens Radbike Radrunner 2 Yamaha MT/FZ-09 Anything from Tom Bihn Raspberry Pi 5 (coming soon!) Scratch The Great Guinea Pig Escape Turing Tumble an...

Episode 249: Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar Wrap 28.10.2023

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Dave with caffeine, Dungeons and Dragons with AI, computer chips with brain cells, sleeping with discomfort, and the Heilmeier Catechism! Dreamforce Foo Fighters and furry mosh pit Who Are the Salesforce Characters? Caffeine 2, Dave 0 Awake Peanut Butter Chocolate Bites Panera Charged Lemonade Dungeons & Dragons with AI! Computer chip with built-in human br...

Episode 248: Get the Most Out of Your Memories 04.10.2023

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them. Iceland Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Delete on Netflix Is A.I. the Future of Astrology? AI replacing psychics as 'fortune telling' droids put tarot readers out of work Open source generative AI Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT FreedomGPT GPT4All Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Di...

Episode 247: Full Jacob's Ladder 17.07.2023

Grammarly includes AI assistant ! Warp terminal? Ansible Lightspeed Google will add End-to-End encryption to Google Authenticator DebateDevil chirper.ai : Social Network for AI. No humans allowed. First, they came for the fortune cookie writers AI Is Coming for Your Fortune Cookies Radio station gets part-time AI DJ based on its midday host Sources: All AAA parks to use electronic strike zone in '...

Episode 246: AI-Generated Agitprop 26.06.2023

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about GPT inception, GPT automation, GPT ad experience optimization, and Andy Jassey’s interviewee skills ChatPDF Einstein GPT GitHub Co-pilot Amazon CodeWhisperer MidJourney is a lifestyle MidJourney Prompt Helper Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT D&G This Week in “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Dept: Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make...

Episode 245: Giant Asthma Inhaler with a Mouth 05.06.2023

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about questionable USB drives, questionable long-distance kissing machines, questionable cocktails, and answers with the Zeigarnik effect Sherwood Forest Faire in Austin, TX Marriott does MFA wrong iOS 16.4 brings Voice Isolation for cellular calls, here’s how to enable it Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face Chinese startup inv...

Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible 28.03.2023

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks Gunnar endorsed: time blocking @dgshowDotOrg@mas.to ! Perplexity AI : generative AI with citations! Edible NDAs : The need for a Non-Disclosure Agreement used to be a hard pill to swallow. Not anymore. Drinkers needed to help deputies with field sobriety training U.S. Marines Ou...

Episode 243: No Bamboozle 12.02.2023

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)! Gunnar’s Todoist breakthrough Dave endorsed: GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) ChatGPT Mastodon RSS ActivityPub PeerTube Pixelfed Friendica mastodon.social invite from Dave This is why we can’t have nice things Movetodon : Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon Moa Party : No bamboozle Spoti...

Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats 15.12.2022

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216! Gunnar endorsed: Outlanders ! Dave endorsed: OBS: Open Broadcast Studio (see YouTube video ) Rectangle (see YouTube video ) Change the behavior of the modifier keys on Mac John le Carré NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes ICE set up...

Episode 241: Apple-Inspired Feedbag 18.11.2022

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce! Karate! In the metaverse, no one can hear you scream: Bizarre Muzzle Microphone Keeps Your Mouth in the Metaverse Sold out: Cargo swim briefs This Website Can Figure Out What You're Typing Just By Listening to Your Loud Mechanical Keyboard Kinesis Advantage360 Type on Any Surface with the TypeAnywhere Fin...

Episode 240: It's not just a good idea, it's the law 11.11.2022

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs! GovCon Expert David Egts Joins MuleSoft as Public Sector Field CTO Pocket Drafts The Pentagon may require vendors certify their software is free of known flaws. Experts are split. Related: Brondell S1000-E Swash 1000 Elongated Bidet Toilet Seat With Remote Control Meet the Polish LARPers Who Pretend to Be American Cleveland Dyngus Day...

Episode 239: The Bottom Turtle 04.11.2022

This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell about his new book, Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud ! Check out Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum on episode 237 ! Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud by Mike Bursell Profian Defcon Blockchain Zero Trust : Poorly named? Would Explicit Trust be more accurate? Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Hardware Sec...

Episode 238: Harmonica-Playing Firefighters Holding Coke Bottles 01.10.2022

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about stable coins and slippery slopes SANDMAN Dave is now a TODAQ advisor! (See also D&G 216 !) What’s more stable than Bitcoin or UST? AriZona Iced Tea To learn more, check out their whitepaper D&G This Week in Slippery Slopes Quest 2 Add-On Increases VR Immersion by Making You Suffocate Finally, VR for your mouth This Controller Lets You Feel VR Objects Sl...

Episode 237: Confidentially Speaking 20.09.2022

This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum about confidential computing! Check out Mike on D&G 201 from 2020! Enarx Red Hat Profian McCallum-Relyea exchange Trusted computing Confidential computing – the new HTTPS? Confidential Computing Consortium Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Digital Rights Management (DRM) Intel SGX AMD SEV AWS Nitro Sy...

Episode 236: SodaStream Nighttime Formula 31.05.2022

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about technology-enhanced sleep, technology-enhanced image generation, and technology-enhanced job hunting Gunnar endorses: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Simply Piano Pianos.pub : Find a public piano to play Sur l'air de service ← Burger King in France Red Hat Summit ! Dave endorses: Grammarly Premium Google Calendar appoint...

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