Artificial intelligence brought the late Steve Jobs back from the dead for a fabricated interview with Joe Rogan that focuses on the Apple founder's religious beliefs, success and experience while taking lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). The nearly 20-minute discussion, featured on Podcast.ai, was generated with text-to-voice software that used previous recordings of both to create a coherent and cohesive interaction. The podcast host opens the discussion by praising Jobs for his innovations before likening him to Patrick Swayze in the movie'Ghost' and calling Jobs'a memory from the past' - then the pair dive into a deeper conversation. The late Apple founder recalls the time he took LSD and how it was a'profound experience for him' in which Rogan then asks Jobs what he learned from taking the elicit drug. 'It reinforced my sense of what was important.

"Whatever your job is the chances are that one of these machines can do it faster or better than you can." No, this is not a 2018 headline about self-driving cars or one of IBM's new supercomputers. Instead, it was published by the Daily Mirror in 1955, when a computer took as much space as a large kitchen and had less power than a pocket calculator. They were called "electronic brains" back then, and evoked both hope and fear. And more than 20 years later, little had changed: In a 1978 BBC documentary about silicon chips, one commentator argued that "They are the reason why Japan is abandoning its shipbuilding and why our children will grow up without jobs to go to". If one types "artificial intelligence" (AI) on Google Books' Ngram Viewer – a tool that allows us to check how often a term was printed in a book between 1800 and 2008 – we can clearly see that our modern-day hype, optimism and deep concern about AI are by no means a novelty.

After Meg Whitman dismissed speculation that she is replacing Travis Kalanick as Uber's CEO, the board is struggling to find someone to fill the company's top spot. Amidst the disorganization of the board, Kalanick continues to meddle despite the fact that he stepped down in June, according to Recode. The outlet reported that Kalanick has been telling people that he is'Steve Jobs-ing it', a reference to the Apple founder who was fired and then returned to the company. Sources have said Kalanick is trying to stay involved in daily operating decisions and is having a difficult time letting go of the company. Top executives are now hoping they can look to the board for help, the outlet said.