The AmberMac Show

On this week’s show, award-winning journalist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Sirota joins us to discuss what’s at stake if we start to lose the Wayback Machine and the history of the internet online. In tech headlines, Amber and Jeff share more on how a sneaker company is trying to get in on the AI boom with an unexpected pivot, what an AI tribunal company wants to do to intimidate the mainstream media, which chatbot can write most like humans, and Apple’s amazing environmental report card, Plus, Mike Ross drops by the studio to unpack his latest hit show, Inside American Pie, a docu-concert (with PEI roots) about one of America’s favourite songs.
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David Sirota – Founder/Editor of The Lever + Oscar nominee/WGA-winner for Don’t Look Up: LinkedIn | X/Twitter
Mike Ross – Co-Creator & Musical Director of Inside American Pie: LinkedIn | Inside American Pie

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On this week’s show, Amber and Jeff break down why Anthropic’s latest AI model is not being released to the public, what META wants to do with your health data, the disgusting evolution of deepfake porn, and the mysterious history of the (possibly Canadian) inventor of Bitcoin. Plus, how satellites are destroying our night sky, what Greece is doing to protect young people on social media, and why the Electronic Frontier Foundation is saying goodbye to Elon Musk’s X. Our guests this week include Dwayne Matthews, a recognized Future of Education Strategist and Innovation Evangelist, and Christina Fox, the CEO of the TechAlliance of Southwestern Ontario, who unpacks the 3% problem women founders face.
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Christina Fox – CEO of the TechAlliance of Southwestern Ontario: LinkedIn
Dwayne Matthews – Future of Education Strategist & Innovation Evangelist: LinkedIn

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In this week’s episode, Amber and Jeff discuss why OpenAI just acquired the world's most popular tech podcast, what happened when 100 robotaxis stopped in the middle of the street in China, and - if you're following along with the Artemis II mission - how to use Wikipedia to keep track of the astronauts' time in space. And speaking of space, we talk to Rod Prazeres, the astrophotographer whose photos appear in the hit movie Project Hail Mary, and we chat with Peter MacLeod, the co-author of Democracy's Second Act.
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Peter MacLeod - Principal at MASS LBP & C0-Author of "Democracy's Second Act": LinkedIn | Book

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This week on The AmberMac Show, part two of our conversation with the Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, who shares his thoughts on humans confiding in chatbots and his views on Russia’s President Putin. In TheOtherMac, Jeff breaks down what you need to know about last week’s landmark social media addiction trial. Plus, why OpenAI killed SORA, why HBO’s John Oliver might have inspired some changes on Elon Musk’s X platform, and how a Canadian company is leading the way with Voice AI.
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Geoffrey Hinton – University of Toronto Professor & 2024 Nobel Prize (Physics): Wikipedia | X/Twitter

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On this week’s episode, part one of a two-part conversation with Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, who discusses with Amber how AI is shaping the future of work, why he is switching from ChatGPT, and lots more at RCIScience’s recent event. In this week’s news headlines, Jeff and Amber discuss how badly the internet is overrun with bots (and how much worse it will get), why Rivian will be coming to an Uber near you, Trump’s AI rules, Meta’s bad week, and some good Canadian news in quantum computing.
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