What if our internet-connected world wakes up, becomes super-intelligent, and Skynet becomes a reality? Should we really be concerned about that? Entrepreneur Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking sure think so, and this past week Bill Gates joined them in expressing his concern about the coming super-intelligent machines.
The Gang, on the other hand, focuses on much more pressing issues like broadband, Apple making the most profit in one quarter than any company ever, and how annoying linkbait has become.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: What Makes A Fool Fall In Love by BooBoo Davis. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
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Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories
- CenturyLink blocks Livefyre service
- Centurylink Customers Unable To Use Comments On StarTribune.com for Days
- CenturyLink’s much-hyped Twin Cities 1-gig broadband rollout is slow in coming
- Rochester considers city-operated broadband
- Best Buy shifts emphasis from Super Bowl ads to digital marketing
- Fallon takes Loctite to advertising’s biggest night
- Startup 75F lands cash from Gopher Angels
- Playtabase and Fargo startup CoSchedule win CoCo pitch competition
Other Top Stories
- Apple Just Had The Most Profitable Quarter Of Any Company Ever
- Tim Cook Defused Steve Jobs’ Thermonuclear War, Then He Took Down Android
- Apple CEO: Fandroids are BINNING Android in favour of IPHONES (”…it emerged that most iPhone 6 users have come from Android”)
- The best Gmail app for the iPhone is now made by Microsoft
- Mergers and Acquisitions Deals Gravitate To Internet Of Things
- Welcome to SkyNet
- What is Skynet?
- Bill Gates Says He’s Concerned About Machines Becoming Super-Intelligent
- Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
- Elon Musk Donates $10M to Keep AI From Turning Evil
- Robots Are Learning To Cook The Same Way You Do — By Watching YouTube Videos
- Journalists beware, robots are writing articles and ‘it’s going well’
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: Moog Music Recreates a Trio of Its Legendary Modular Synths
- Tim: Prynt: the first instant camera case for iPhone and Android
- Graeme: Snapchat Discover
- Steve: Brainwavz Delta with Mic $25
Link Bait of the Week
Upcoming Events
- Date Night: How Data Science Leads to “I do”, February 3, 2015 (tickets)
- MinneDemo 19, February 5th, Guthrie Theater (tix released Jan 27th & Feb 2nd)
- SMBMSP #75 – Visuals That Compel & Influence, February 20th
- Hennepin County Geo Code, February 21-22
- When to Hire Outside Help: A Guide to Outsourcing for Small Businesses, February 26th
- IoT Fuse (Internet of Things event) March 19th, 2015 (tix here)
- Mobile March, March 26th, 2015
- MinneBar 10, April 11th, Best Buy HQ
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – April 21, 2015