With bots like this, who needs friends?

This week we ignore the AI pause, play D&D with Snoop Dogg, and keep podcasters on their toes.

FOLLOW

• MOMENTOUS

• The MOMENTEAM

• MOMENTOUS Live podcast

FOLLOW-UP

• Apple Preparing iOS 17.0.3, Likely With Bug Fix for iPhone 15 Pro Overheating Issue

• Six Months Ago Elon Musk Called for a Pause on AI. Instead Development Sped Up

• ChatGPT gets a huge update: AI bot can now browse the INTERNET to provide more accurate responses

• How to Use ChatGPT’s New Image Features

• You can now use the DALL-E 3 AI image generator inside Bing Chat

• See also: "Make me a photorealistic picture of a jack-o-lantern taking a shower in a waterfall but the water is all spiders”

• ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak

NEWS

• Meta Connect 2023: Everything you need to know about Quest 3 VR, Ray-Ban smart glasses and Meta AI

• Meta Connect

• Meta filmed Mr Beast, Paris Hilton and 26 more to build celebrity AIs based on Llama 2

• Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses livestream to Instagram and Facebook

• Exclusive-Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday

• Google is making it harder for bulk senders to fill your Gmail with spam

• Apple and Google want to shift how you listen to podcasts

• See also: Overcast

• Social media, streaming services must register with the CRTC by November

• CRTC takes major step forward to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework

• Elon Musk fails to understand new CRTC regulation, claims Trudeau is ‘trying to crush free speech’

• LILLEY: Yes, the CRTC's podcast registry could lead to censorship

ENTERTAINMENT

• What to Expect from Loki Season 2

• ‘Moonlighting’ Is Coming To Hulu, Finally

• Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning

PICKS

• “AI Is All Around Us” - Neil deGrasse Tyson Says We Shouldn’t Worry About Artificial Intelligence

• AI comes to Arc in Arc Max - and it doesnt' suck.

• Arc from The Browser Company

• The Browser Company | Building Arc

• Ahsoka

• AHSOKA and Star Wars REBELS RECAP

• See also: Ahsoka's Premiere Shows Lots of Star Wars Promise

• See also: Rogue Leader - YouTube

• Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398

PROJECTS

• BONUS Amazon Prime Big Deal Days: The Best October Prime Day Tech Deals 2023

• Molotov - Scratch Action

• AI Named This Show: Are AI Clones Coming For Your Job?

NEXT WEEK

• Google Pixel event: how to watch and what to expect