e494 - License to Brick

North Carolina custom automobile license plate “BRICKED”
Published 23 December 2024
e493 with Michael, Michael and Andy on digital storage for a century, AI datasets, videos & new Oreo flavors, hacking digital license plates and robots, and a whole lot more!
Andy, Michael and Michael start this episode off with a detailed article from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab detailing the challenges and complexities of storing and retrieving digital data for a hundred years. Sticking with the same institution of higher education (and the same Law Library), the next discussion deals with a dataset of one million public domain books to give the general public “highly-refined and curated content” to build AI models per the Wired article. Next up are discussions on the use of AI in generating video content and new Oreo recipes.
Then, the co-hosts turn to an article on hacking the Reviver digital license plates in use in California and Arizona. The team predicted that this may happen in 2018 in episode 200, in a very ‘back to the future’ moment.
Hardware supported by cloud services and data are always susceptible to those services continuing to be available. When the companies supporting the data and services close down, the hardware is bricked. A story for this week about emotional support robots for children becoming bricks reminds the co-hosts of the Gatebox anime-style holographic AI from episodes 159 and 218.
Wrapping things up for the episode, before they are ‘OUTATIME”, the co-hosts discuss how AI can be used to recreate the rules from thousand year old games and congratulate the newest chess world champion.
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Selected Links
Data Storage
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab Century-Scale Storage (lil.law.harvar...)
The Long Now Foundation (longnow.org)
National Park Service History of Muir Woods (www.nps.gov/mu...)
Wikipedia article: Disk pack (en.wikipedia.o...)
AI
Wired article: Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft (www.wired.com/...)
Institutional Data Initiative (institutionald...) at Harvard Law School Library
MIT Technology Review article: This is where the data to build AI comes from (www.technology...)
Ars Technica article: A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement (arstechnica.co...)
Gizmodo article: Oreo Maker Says It’s Using AI to Create New Snacks (gizmodo.com/or...)
Hackin’ like 007
Wired article: Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets (www.wired.com/...)
Reviver (reviver.com)
Games at Work e200: Eye in the Sky (gamesatwork.bi...)
Gizmodo article: This Playdate Mod Turns the Handheld Into the Cutest Little Robot Ever (gizmodo.com/th...)
Techdirt article: Startups Implosion Will Render $800 Emotional Support Robots For Children Into Useless Bricks (www.techdirt.c...)
Games at Work e218: Virtually Married (gamesatwork.bi...)
Games at Work e444: Glitch in the Matrix (gamesatwork.bi...)
Thousand Year Checkmate
New Scientist article: The ancient board games we finally know how to play - thanks to AI (www.newscienti...)
David Allen Green blog post: “Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” - the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending (davidallengree...)
Music Genome Project (www.pandora.co...)
GameTable article: Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (gametable.netw...)
chess.com (chess.com) article: 18-Year-Old Gukesh Becomes Youngest-Ever Undisputed Ch...