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Fake or News: Sand Batteries, AI Maps and McCartney Kicked Off Reddit · Coffee with Developers

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  SPEAKER_00: Eleftheria, we're gonna go for fake or news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your first headline, tell us if it's real or if we made it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: AI-powered drones are now capable of creating 3D maps of entire cities in under 24 hours.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh I will say true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's have a look.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fake.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh gosh, okay.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see how you get on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finland's radical answer to renewable energy's biggest headache, the world's largest sand battery.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: No.
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  SPEAKER_02: I will say fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would say fake as well, I think so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's news.
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  SPEAKER_01: I shouldn't keep prepared.
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  SPEAKER_01: I should have read the news.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's too much to go around, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded.
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  SPEAKER_02: That could be true.
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  SPEAKER_02: So yes, I will say that it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: It feels like it could be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hey, we got one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, that's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least you're a lot neat leaving empty-handed, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've beaten humans at chess.
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  SPEAKER_02: I will say again that uh this is correct as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think so as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scientists develop an app that translates dog barks into human speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: That'd be good.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, I will say this one is fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's always the things that actually sound like they'd be really cool and useful that I think end up being fake, so let's have it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Musk says Tesla is moving full self-driving to a monthly subscription, like everything.
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  SPEAKER_02: That could be true.
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  SPEAKER_02: Give me give me a few seconds to think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I I will still say it's fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, we got it wrong, but the fact you thought it could be news in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Major smartphone makers quietly shift to on-device AI models amid rising cloud cops.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: Can I have any help here?
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you know the answers?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't know the answers, but I think I haven't heard anything about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it wouldn't surprise me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: My fault.
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shoe company Allbirds is turning into an AI compute provider.
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  SPEAKER_01: It sounds too weird.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would say fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I don't know though.
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  SPEAKER_00: I th I I've got a feeling it's real.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's go with real.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually remember the story and I remembered that it was all birds.
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  SPEAKER_00: They do shoes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: GitHub Copilot introduced legacy mode for maintaining COBOL and Fortran system.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I feel that I shouldn't know about that, but I still don't know it.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I won't say fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Family says AI travel agent went rogue and spent$100,000 on a vacation booking.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm still going to say fake, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: $100,000, it feels like it could be$150 or$70,000 or$80, and it'd be it'd be a fake headline then.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul McCartney banned from Reddit after promoting himself in a Paul McCartney subreddit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that story.
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  SPEAKER_00: If that is real, please tell me that's real.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: I get it's it sounds a bit weird, but I'm going to say it's real.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody could make this up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surely this is real.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love the idea of Paul McCartney just like on his iPhone on Reddit, scrolling and like getting banned.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just actually spamming people as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: An AI agent was banned from creating Wikipedia articles, so it wrote angry blogs about being banned.
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  SPEAKER_02: I will say fake.
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  SPEAKER_02: It could be true, but I will stay with fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, wrong answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see how you've done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're actually second because if you look, you're in line with Roxy Rodriguez Becker.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you got the same streak of four?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, yes, strong, show him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.