Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 365

Episode 365 has chatbots, CAPTCHA, Trump and yet more GDPR woes!

Episode 365 has chatbots, CAPTCHA, Trump and yet more GDPR woes!

Episode 365 kicks off with discussion around Donald Trump’s recent courting of the crypto world. From there talk moves to Mozilla’s recent decision to enable Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA) by default – and that’s got some in the EU worried.

To wrap up the team discuss two stories related to A.I – first around Microsoft suggesting that omnipresent AI companions will soon be a thing, and second how AI is now capable of completing CAPTCHA quicker, and more efficiently than any human.  How the tables have turned.

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