TechBandits Shownotes June 14 2022

Blake Lemoine made headlines after being suspended from Google, following his claims that an artificial intelligence bot had become sentient.

Google's LaMDA AI system says it has consciousness. Should engineers believe it?

The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE Extraction Shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien world ravaged by a deadly storm, inhabited by monsters, and frequently raided by other ambitious Prospectors.

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It's a great question that it turns out we don't have a definitive answer for just yet, but as the actual olfactory nerves (smelly nerves? ;-) don't seem to be directly affected, it may be that the virus affects cells that work on the actual olfactory nerves instead.

Didn't see this coming, did you!? TechBandit Wulfpup was worrying about having to get another shot this time for HPV...a Vaccination that we were very surprised caused quite a fuss from some parents at our public school, I guess because it involved sexual activity? Wolfpup and I decided not to go into the details, but I'm a big fan of making sure everyone has access to the information they need...Especially before they need it...as Wulfpup put it "Prevention"!

MilkyCharms is a go to favourite for us to raid as he's a gamer using the awesome Quadstick and he's doing some serious damage to the "ablest" of gamers...definitely check him out...but keep in mind it's not alwasy family friendly.

Here's the Closed Captioning for Twitch Streaming...and I made sure to become a Patreon too! If anyone has other suggestions for how to make the stream, website social media, more accessible then please let me know!