This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake bodies, fake passports, fake speakers, a fake Commodore 64 CD-ROM, and Erich Morisse being mean to AI Gunnar builds a Gemini -powered virtual team: It's all about perspective. Farewell Pocket , hello Wallabag or Instapaper ? Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Fake Passport Generated by ChatGPT Bypasses Security An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos. The Simp...
Jul 15, 2025•36 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about best practices for manipulating AI models to enslave humanity! Moen’s lifetime warranty Gemini multimodal! When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved D&G Blade Runner Home Edition: Human or Not? How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit Emergent Misalignment: Researchers trained AI models to write flawed cod...
Jul 07, 2025•27 min
In this episode, Carolyn Ford welcomes back Dave Egts, Field CTO at MuleSoft, to Tech Transforms to explore the transformative power of AI in 2025. They dive into Dave’s top five AI predictions, with a special focus on the rise of agentic AI—AI that doesn’t just suggest, but acts. Dave explains the difference between generative AI and intelligent agents, why integration via APIs is the key to agent success, and how government agencies can prepare now. Listeners will learn: What “large action mod...
Apr 08, 2025•46 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about cockroaches with backpacks, hydrogels with Pong, and hackers with digital license plates! Paperlike Screen Protector Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds Hydrogels can learn to play Pong Lavarand Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell XKCD Exploits of a Mom with Little Johnny Tables Grandmother gets hundred...
Mar 29, 2025•30 min
Grape Job! This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks! Kobo Clara Color Libby Paperlike Screen Protector and Bumper Case Kindle Scribe Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Good-Bye to All That Kindle Unlimited Ghost Fleet D&G This Week in Mask Technology: Full-Face Masks to Frustrate Identification How a digital ‘you’ can sit through your agonizing web conference calls Infinite Jest D&G This Week in Fluoresc...
Mar 21, 2025•50 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about restaurants that don’t exist, restaurants with robots, and robots with speed cameras and thermite! Gunar prepares for a half marathon with Runna Gunnar is awarded the rank of Legendary on Call of Duty Mobile Dave enjoyed The Penguin The '#1 restaurant in Austin' doesn't exist Do Robots Love Their Customers? Automated Restaurants Face Human Issues. Related/prophetic? Kramer’s DIY pizza business plan Acquired IKEA Episode Speaking of restaurants: Chinese Pizza ...
Dec 23, 2024•34 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies! Gunnar enjoyed The Magnetic Fields ! Lauren bought a new car! Dave bought a new TV! Gunnar enjoyed Call of Duty Mobile ! EcoFlow Power Hat Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine See also: Slim Goodbody Make It Stick Writing advice: Keep the bear, and just the bear Cutting Room Floor A Chip Off the Old Rug: Ken Shirriff Finds a Pentium Processor Hiding in a Navajo Weaving Here’s What ChatGPT ...
Dec 16, 2024•40 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Steven Pousty about GIS, open source theology, and AI! Compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666 from episode 261 The European Patroleum Survey Group what3words Google Plus Codes Cardinal direction 5 of the World’s Most Interesting Directional Systems OpenStreetMap Overture Maps Foundation Prithvi WxC : NASA and IBM’s AI Foundation Model for Weather and Climate Universal basic income OSI getting “Open Source AI” really wrong Shōgun Epistemic closure Tobler's ...
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 11 min
This week, NotebookLM talks about the Dave and Gunnar Show Episode 263! Main Themes The Psychology of Influence and Manipulation: This episode explores how external factors, from large-scale events to seemingly harmless media, can shape our thoughts and actions. This theme is explored through discussions on propaganda, deep fakes, and the power of questioning techniques. The Blurring Lines Between Reality and Technology: The episode delves into the increasing sophistication of AI and its implica...
Oct 29, 2024•8 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching! Imagine Dragons in Houston at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion Psychological Warfare by Paul M.A. Linebarger Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen War Day by Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka RHEL AI released! Cryptominers made $100,000 from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks — the guests ran up a $1,500 electricity bill Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger The...
Sep 18, 2024•43 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people! Gunnar espouses the virtues of the Leatherman Micra Dave enjoys D-Day Conneaut ! An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake Erie Ohio Renaissance Festival D&G This Week in Skeuomorphism: Here’s what the electric Dodge Charger’s “Fratzonic exhaust” sounds like See also: Motorcycle exhaust mod? People game AIs via game theor...
Sep 03, 2024•38 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666! Gunnar explores the neighborhoood with iNaturalist and Seek Black-bellied whistling duck Dave saw 7 bands over 7 days The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So Foo Fighters Steve Miller Band (80!) Journey Def Leppard (64!) Loverboy Sammy Hagar (76!) Yuengling brewery tour Qudi Mask 2 Watch this Steven Pousty , call your office: North Yorkshire Council to phase out ap...
Aug 26, 2024•34 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about another fake university, Brain Organoids as a Service (BOaaS?), and policing with drones! Apple Watch Oura Ring Xiaomi Smart Band 8 Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over fake university set up by ICE University of Farmington University of Farmington on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip The Age of the Drone Police Is Here Gorgon...
Jul 29, 2024•33 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides and downsides of superalignment! Apple Care After World by Debbie Urbanski Ex-OpenAI employee speaks out about why he was fired: 'I ruffled some feathers' SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner Microsoft's new lightweight AI rivals GPT-3.5 — it's learning from children's books and fits on phones Introducing Superalignment Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) Butlerian Jihad How AI Will Change Democracy No, an AI bot isn'...
Jul 14, 2024•59 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers! Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s ! Spam musubi ! Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys ! Nara Park deer ! Google Translate ! The creepy sound of online trackers Check the videos here ! A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware Texas Facilities Co...
Jul 01, 2024•44 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese! Resident Alien (TV series) Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper Pixel Buds Pro A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam Commonwealth Legal Services Liberals accuse Conservatives of using AI for amendments to jobs bill as votes loom EVs With Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China M.A.S.K. (TV seri...
May 11, 2024•31 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets Fallout Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced Laudato Si , paragraph 107 HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages Designed to Be Seen While Tripping Too Drunk to Drive? Forget Ubers, Take a Basket Man Instead Cutting Room Floor Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 g...
Apr 30, 2024•41 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots Bloons TD 6 Google Bard Gemini Ultimate Advanced Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything MemGPT MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System MemGPT Explained! Managerial ventriloquism: Own Your Words to Gain Authority D&G This Week in What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Zoo Hopes Plan to Introduce Famous Cursing Parrots to Larger Flock Doesn't Ba...
Mar 02, 2024•32 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu. Bali ’A mouse for your mouth’: New device allows users to scroll with their tongues Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It Search X for "goes against OpenAI's" See in particular Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request” Here’s a New Caption T...
Jan 30, 2024•38 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about poisoned USB drives, poisoned web searches, poisoned AI models, and a guy pretending to be a mannequin Gunnar says the Oura Ring is delightful Dave achieves Platinum Pro ? Dave becomes an author using AI ? Diabolic Drive Stealthily Injects Keyboard Strokes While Being a Functional USB Drive Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search Related: Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers Related: Spotify Has an AI Musi...
Jan 29, 2024•38 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about notetaking, IP taking, and great deals on used surveillance vans! Gunnar endorses: DND Beyond Goodnotes and the virtues of the pen Dave endorses: Kindle Scribe Julia H/T Dwight Chamberlain: The Ben and Marc Show RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war 211. Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk Hardfork interview w/Sam Altman D&G This Week in There, I Fixed It: Microsoft now lets you play a game during Windows 11 insta...
Jan 02, 2024•40 min
This week Dave joins Dynatrace’s Carolyn Ford on the Tech Transforms Podcast about what's scaring the public sector most and how Salesforce is utilizing - and securing - AI to improve customer experience with their Einstein Trust Layer. Additionally, Carolyn and Dave dive into the spooky worlds of brain cell chips, mind-reading AI, and more! Key Topics [02:17] Starting the Dave & Gunnar Show [04:14] Dave's Role At Salesforce [05:18] What's Scaring the Public Sector Most? [10:22] Ways Agencie...
Dec 21, 2023•50 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about their favorite things! Grammarly Pocket Feedly Blogtrottr Slack Remember the Milk Todoist Drafts DayOne 1Password Bitwarden uBlock Origin Video Speed Controller GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) Chromebooks Thermoworks Thermapens Radbike Radrunner 2 Yamaha MT/FZ-09 Anything from Tom Bihn Raspberry Pi 5 (coming soon!) Scratch The Great Guinea Pig Escape Turing Tumble and Spintronics We Give Thanks Carolyn Ford for the topic idea and being a D&G superfan! The D&...
Dec 15, 2023•42 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Dave with caffeine, Dungeons and Dragons with AI, computer chips with brain cells, sleeping with discomfort, and the Heilmeier Catechism! Dreamforce Foo Fighters and furry mosh pit Who Are the Salesforce Characters? Caffeine 2, Dave 0 Awake Peanut Butter Chocolate Bites Panera Charged Lemonade Dungeons & Dragons with AI! Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create c...
Oct 28, 2023•30 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them. Iceland Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Delete on Netflix Is A.I. the Future of Astrology? AI replacing psychics as 'fortune telling' droids put tarot readers out of work Open source generative AI Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT FreedomGPT GPT4All Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Disinfo Attack With 'PoisonGPT' AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users Magic E...
Oct 04, 2023•34 min
Grammarly includes AI assistant ! Warp terminal? Ansible Lightspeed Google will add End-to-End encryption to Google Authenticator DebateDevil chirper.ai : Social Network for AI. No humans allowed. First, they came for the fortune cookie writers AI Is Coming for Your Fortune Cookies Radio station gets part-time AI DJ based on its midday host Sources: All AAA parks to use electronic strike zone in '23 Your favorite new chatbot jailbreak is the ‘grandma exploit.’ Jailbreak Chat Cutting Room Floor M...
Jul 17, 2023•52 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about GPT inception, GPT automation, GPT ad experience optimization, and Andy Jassey’s interviewee skills ChatPDF Einstein GPT GitHub Co-pilot Amazon CodeWhisperer MidJourney is a lifestyle MidJourney Prompt Helper Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT D&G This Week in “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Dept: Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI See this: Task-driven Autonomous Agent Utilizing GPT-4, Pinecone, and LangChain...
Jun 26, 2023•40 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about questionable USB drives, questionable long-distance kissing machines, questionable cocktails, and answers with the Zeigarnik effect Sherwood Forest Faire in Austin, TX Marriott does MFA wrong iOS 16.4 brings Voice Isolation for cellular calls, here’s how to enable it Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face Chinese startup invents long-distance kissing machine Remembering When Cocktails Were Just Soup : Try the chicken soup ...
Jun 05, 2023•24 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks Gunnar endorsed: time blocking @dgshowDotOrg@mas.to ! Perplexity AI : generative AI with citations! Edible NDAs : The need for a Non-Disclosure Agreement used to be a hard pill to swallow. Not anymore. Drinkers needed to help deputies with field sobriety training U.S. Marines Outsmart AI Security Cameras by Hiding in a Cardboard Box Fake Name Generator — check the email addres...
Mar 28, 2023•28 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)! Gunnar’s Todoist breakthrough Dave endorsed: GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) ChatGPT Mastodon RSS ActivityPub PeerTube Pixelfed Friendica mastodon.social invite from Dave This is why we can’t have nice things Movetodon : Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon Moa Party : No bamboozle Spotify podcasters are making $18,000 a month with nothing but white noise The Rise of the 15-Minute Meet...
Feb 12, 2023•39 min
