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No Baby in a Backpack Yet - DTNS 4631 Extended

Added 2023-10-24 21:18:20 +0000 UTC

Artificial wombs. What are they and what role will they play in health care? Plus Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, has created a tool called Nightshade that lets creators fight back by “poisoning” their works to prevent LLM models from training on it without permission. And is POSSE, Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere, the solution to decentralizing the social media space.

Scavenger Party at Roger's - GDI 4631 starts at 31:18

A Dutch company is hoping to test IVF in space. Immortality is harder than just making babies. Space talk takes over. Would you ever live in The Belt? You need to have 5 very special people. Tom has a good Sci Fi book recommendation. Will Roger send his kids to Jupiter? The group discussed what we need to survive long term off the planet. It all comes back to potatoes. Roger wants to colonize Mars with bees. Do you think moths are cute? Roger is at war with some coyotes. Sarah saw a gang of racoons.

Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.

https://www.engadget.com/apple-confirms-scary-fast-event-for-the-night-of-october-30-164836214.html?src=rss

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