AI Inside explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world at large. Hosted by tech podcaster Jason Howell and media expert Jeff Jarvis, AI Inside takes a thoughtful look at the promise and challenges of AI while inviting some of the industry’s most notable players and thinkers to engage in thoughtful dialogue about AI, neither overhyping its potential nor dismissing public concerns about its development. With a deep interest in AI’s impacts on art and culture, Jason uses his rich experience in technology and creativity to understand its capabilities better. Jeff is a respected voice on technology’s influence on media and society, thanks to his popular blog BuzzMachine and books like ”The Web We Weave” and ”The Gutenberg Parenthesis.” Together, Jason and Jeff aim to advance public understanding of this world-changing technology at an important inflection point.
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Meta's Money Muscle
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis return for another week of AI news. We cover 1) Cloudflare launches tools for publisher control over AI crawlers 2) Creative Commons proposes dataset guidelines for AI training 3) Contradictory court rulings on AI and copyright 4) Getty Images drops claims against Stability AI in the UK 5) Senate strips federal ban on state AI regulations from tax bill 6) Meta’s superintelligence lab and the AI hiring frenzy 7) Microsoft’s new model claims breakthrough in medical diagnosis 8) MIT study questions AI’s impact on student critical thinking 9) The Velvet Sundown: is Spotify’s viral band AI-generated? 10) Preview of our interview with Rishad Tabakawala on AI’s impact on advertising.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
0:01:47 - Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
0:14:14 - Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem
0:17:42 - Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training
0:20:28 - Judge dismisses authors’ copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training
0:22:36 - Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues
0:24:55 - Senate Votes 99-1 to Strip AI Provision From Trump’s Tax Bill
0:27:55 - Adam Thierer reacts
0:33:03 -Zuckerberg Debuts Meta ‘Superintelligence’ Group, More Hires
0:35:22 - Someone has broken into our home and stolen something': An OpenAI exec on Meta's poaching spree
0:41:37 - Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors
0:44:43 - Has AI already rotted my brain?
0:55:03 - The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners
1:04:29 - Clip of upcoming interview with Rishad Tobaccowala about how AI tools like Veo 3 are reshaping ad creation and what this means for the future of advertising on TV and beyond.
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Anthropic's Copyright Victory
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down 1) Anthropic’s fair use win in the AI copyright case 2) Pirated book datasets and the looming shadow library trial 3) Apple’s rumored talks to acquire or partner with Perplexity 4) What a Perplexity deal could mean for Siri and search 5) Meta’s own interest in Perplexity and AI talent wars 6) Google’s new Chromebook Plus and on-device AI upgrades 7) Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses and the rise of wearables 8) UK study on kids’ generative AI habits 9) Chatbots filling therapy gaps for children 10) Sam Altman’s take on raising kids with AI 11) OpenAI’s IO trademark dispute with Jony Ive 12) Meta’s struggle to label AI-generated video 13) Senate’s move to block state AI laws 14) Perplexity’s Comet browser for Windows 15) John Oliver’s takedown of viral AI slop.
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CHAPTERS:
0:01:03 - Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims
0:25:35 - Bill Gross' ProRata.ai launches its "ethical search engine," gist.ai
0:28:27 - Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI
0:35:21 - Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence
0:38:48 - Google brings new Gemini features to Chromebooks, debuts first on-device AI
0:44:41 - Introducing Oakley Meta Glasses, a New Category of Performance AI Glasses
0:53:28 - Turing Institute study on children and AI
0:56:55 - Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help?
1:04:09 - OpenAI pulls promotional materials around Jony Ive deal due to court order
1:05:51 - OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable
1:07:10 - Meta told oversight board it can't automatically detect AI-manipulated video or audio.
1:08:13 - Senate Can Keep Ban on State AI Rules in Trump Tax Bill
1:09:51 - Perplexity's AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users
1:10:50 - John Oliver on AI slop
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AGI Barbie
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis return for another week of AI news. We cover Amazon CEO Andy Jassey warning of AI-driven job cuts, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei differing views on AI’s employment impact, new data challenging the “AI jobpocalypse” and the rise of emerging AI-related job titles, OpenAI’s $200M Pentagon contract, Google’s AI tools and the decline in news site traffic, the changing landscape of news consumption, Mattel’s partnership with OpenAI to bring AI to toys, Meta’s AI app privacy warnings, SAG-AFTRA’s video game strike resolution, the UK’s new data bill and AI training, Gemini’s new video upload feature, NVIDIA and Perplexity’s partnership for local language models, and Google’s new live AI Mode search feature.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
0:01:19 - Amazon CEO tells employees that AI will shrink its workforce
0:06:32 - Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he disagrees with almost everything Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says
0:09:37 - Economist: Why AI hasn’t taken your job
0:14:23 - A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You
0:27:04 - OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
0:28:38 - New Army Reserve Unit Enlists Silicon Valley Executives to Upgrade Tech
0:29:22 - Eisenhower on the military-industrial complex
0:34:40 - News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools
0:37:41 - Is Google about to destroy the web?
0:40:56 - AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games
0:47:21 - Meta warns users to 'avoid sharing personal or sensitive information' in its AI app
0:49:23 - SAG-AFTRA Suspends Strike Against Video Game Companies, Paving Way for Return to Work
0:50:31 - Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes
0:54:31 - Gemini app rolling out video upload and analysis
0:57:01 - Nvidia and Perplexity Team Up in European AI Push
0:58:25 - Search live with voice capabilities is now available in AI mode through Labs in the U.S.
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Huburistic Superintelligence
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis return for a deep dive into the week’s AI news. We cover Apple's new research paper exposing the illusion of AI reasoning, industry leaders' superintelligence hype and hubris, Altman’s “Gentle Singularity” vision, Ilya Sutskever’s brain-as-computer analogy, Meta’s massive superintelligence lab, LaCun and Pichai’s call for new AGI ideas, Apple’s on-device AI framework, NotebookLM’s new sharing features, pairing NotebookLM with Perplexity, Hollywood’s awkward embrace of AI tools, and the creative collision of AI and filmmaking.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
0:05:50 - Sinofsky on the costs of anthropomorphizing LLMs
0:07:34 - Nate Jones: Let's Talk THAT Apple AI Paper—Here's the Takeaway Everyone is Ignoring
0:13:46 - Altman's latest manifesto might be worth mention in comparison
0:19:33 - Ilya Sutskever, a leader in AI and its responsible development, receives U of T honorary degree
0:25:52 - Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
0:29:05 - Google CEO says AGI is impossible with today's tech
0:33:17 - WWDC: Apple opens its AI to developers but keeps its broader ambitions modest
0:39:57 - NotebookLM is adding a new way to share your own notebooks publicly.
0:42:01 - I paired NotebookLM with Perplexity for a week, and it feels like they’re meant to work together
0:45:26 - The Googlers behind NotebookLM are launching their own AI audio startup. Here's a sneak peek.
0:50:48 - Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss
0:55:05 - Luca Guadagnino to Direct True-Life OpenAI Movie ‘Artificial’ for Amazon MGM
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Meta’s AI Ad Takeover
This week on AI Inside, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Meta’s plan to fully automate ad creation and targeting by 2026, the rise of hyper-personalized ads, and the risks and rewards of letting AI take over decisions once reserved for humans. We also break down the New York Times’ landmark AI licensing deal with Amazon, the music industry’s negotiations with generative AI startups, and Google’s new app for running AI models on your phone.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
0:05:19 - Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI
0:15:33 - Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks
0:22:14 - Amazon and The New York Times’ AI deal signals a new wave of publisher partnerships
0:29:27 - Major record labels are reportedly in licensing talks with AI firms Udio and Suno
0:37:43 - Google’s brilliant new AI app might convince you to buy a more expensive phone
0:45:46 - Mary Meeker's first report in four years is focused on AI
0:56:23 - This Year’s Hot New Tool for Chefs? ChatGPT.
1:02:57 - Real TikTokers are pretending to be Veo 3 AI creations for fun, attention
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The Veo-fication of Hollywood
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis are back for our weekly AI deep-dive. We cover Anthropic’s new Claude models and the “new model fatigue” problem, headline-grabbing AI blackmail tests and what they really mean, Google’s Veo 3 leap for generative video and what it means for creators, Duolingo’s AI-first shift and the jobs panic it sparked, plus a look at the “AI 2027” doomsday scenario and why it’s more fiction than fact.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
0:03:17 - Anthropic launches Claude 4, its most powerful AI model yet
0:11:10 - AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed
0:19:49 - AI revolt: New ChatGPT model refuses to shut down when instructed
0:22:19 - Inside Google's plan to have Hollywood make AI look less doomsday
0:25:18 - Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger’s dream
0:29:53 - Joanna Sterns stars in WSJ Veo film
0:41:44 - Duolingo CEO Clarifies AI-First Plan After Backlash, Says AI Won’t Replace Employees
0:44:03 - Meanwhile, Axios is in a full-blown jobs panic
0:46:12 - Anthropic appoints Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings to AI startup’s board of directors
0:49:19 - Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
0:54:20 - Ben Evans AI preso
1:00:38 - AI 2027
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Google's Nick Fox: Reinventing Google Search with AI Mode
Jason Howell sits down with Google’s Nick Fox at Google IO to reveal how AI is reinventing iconic products like Search and Maps, the surprising ways users are embracing AI Overviews and AI Mode, the challenge of balancing innovation with Google’s trademark simplicity, and what the future holds for web publishers and monetization. Jeff Jarvis joins for news discussion including Microsoft Build, and breaking news of OpenAI's big deal with Jony Ive.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
02:39 - Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search
10:59 - Warby Parker pops 16% on $150 million Google smart glasses partnership
21:24 - Google launches stand-alone NotebookLM apps for Android and iOS
23:12 - OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive’s AI devices startup for $6.4 billion
30:54 - Interview: Introducing Nick Fox and his role at Google
Nick Fox’s career journey and priorities as head of Search
Reinventing Google’s core products with AI
Balancing innovation with responsibility and user trust
How AI is changing user search behavior
What users are doing with AI Overviews and AI Mode
AI’s ability to answer complex, contextual questions
Distinguishing Google Search, AI Mode, and Gemini Assistant
Personalization and privacy in AI-powered search
How Google decides which AI features go where
Maintaining simplicity as Google Search evolves
Balancing rapid AI innovation with reliability and trust
Will AI Mode become the default Google Search experience?
How AI Mode chooses and ranks web sources
AI Overviews and the impact on publishers and web traffic
Monetization strategies for AI in Google Search
Agentic AI (Project Mariner) and the future of search monetization
Closing thoughts with Nick Fox
1:11:19 - Post-interview analysis and reflections
1:15:19 - Microsoft Build news and AI agent trends
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Intel’s Robert Hallock: The Rise of AI PCs
Robert Hallock, VP and GM at Intel, joins us for a deep dive into the rise of AI PCs and why they’re more than just a buzzword. We unpack how new hardware accelerators are making smarter, faster, and more private computing possible, and why local, offline AI is about to become as essential as graphics in tomorrow’s laptops. Robert explains Intel’s ecosystem strategy, the real differences between CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, and what it will take for AI features to reach everyone, not just creative pros but everyday users.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
0:01:41 - Defining the AI PC: What Makes It Different and Why Now?
0:03:47 - Architectural Shifts: How AI PCs Differ from Traditional PCs
0:05:29 - Intel’s Role in the AI Ecosystem: Hardware, Software, and Industry Enablement
0:08:20 - Lessons from the Past: The Intel Web Tablet and Driving Industry Change
0:09:32 - Hardware Evolution: What Needs to Change for AI PCs?
0:11:02 - Real-World AI PC Use Cases: Enterprise, Creative, and Consumer Adoption Waves
0:13:51 - Local vs. Cloud AI: Privacy, Personalization, and the Value of On-Device AI
0:16:50 - Trust and Branding: The Meaning of “AI Inside” for Intel
0:19:26 - Accessibility and User Personas: Who Benefits from AI PCs Today?
0:22:30 - The Graphics-AI Connection: Why GPUs Became Essential for AI Workloads
0:25:10 - The Evolution of GPUs: From Graphics to AI Powerhouses
0:26:56 - Gaming’s Role in Driving AI Adoption
0:28:00 - Historical Tech Drivers: Media, Typography, and Early AI Tools
0:29:37 - The Local AI Movement: Are We at an Inflection Point?
0:30:44 - AI Hardware Breakdown: CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs Explained
0:33:49 - Internal Challenges: Education and Customer Awareness at Intel
0:36:06 - Robert Hallock’s Role at Intel and Closing Thoughts
0:37:17 - Thank you to Robert Hallock and episode wrap-up
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Hey Gemini, Are We There Yet?
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis are back for another episode of AI Inside. We cover NVIDIA and AMD’s $10B Saudi chip deal, US-Saudi tech politics and China’s AI ambitions, AI leaders flip-flopping on regulation, copyright office drama and AI training fair use, Big Tech’s AI midlife crisis, Google’s Gemini expands to cars and wearables, scam protection for Android, ChatGPT’s impact on student learning, professors caught using AI, authenticity in AI-powered hiring, and a preview of our Intel AIPC interview coming Saturday.
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CHAPTERS:
0:03:15 - Nvidia, AMD Sell Chips to Saudi Arabia for AI Data Centers
0:08:32 - AI execs used to beg for regulation. Not anymore.
0:11:46 - The Giants of Silicon Valley Are Having a Midlife Crisis Over AI
0:17:41 - Trump fires head of Copyright Office two days following report that AI training may not be fair use
0:28:27 - Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
0:32:46 - Gemini smarts are coming to more Android devices & Android Faithful interview with Patrick Brady, VP of Android for Cars at Google about Gemini on Android Auto
0:49:53 - The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
0:55:31 - Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
0:58:07 - Robert Hallock, Channel Segment GM at Intel talks about the AI PC
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Altman's Orb Knows Your Humanity
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis are back for the latest AI Inside. We cover OpenAI’s nonprofit reversal and Musk’s ongoing lawsuit, Altman’s Orb stores for iris-scanning identity, Google’s confusing new AI Mode in search, Gemini 2.5 Pro’s IO Edition and coding challenge, Amazon’s Vulcan robots with a sense of touch, Apple’s AI search comments shaking up stocks, Reddit’s new human verification rules, why admitting AI use sparks distrust at work, an AI-generated impact statement in court, and the Associated Press’ Alberta-Quebec AI blunder.
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CHAPTERS:
OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations
0:12:45 - Welcome to Sam Altman’s Orb Store
0:25:38 - Google: New ways to interact with information in AI Mode
0:41:42 - Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance
0:44:57 - Amazon makes ‘fundamental leap forward in robotics’ with device having sense of touch
0:49:28 - Apple to add AI search partners to Safari as Google usage falls
0:52:03 - Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
0:54:20 - Being honest about using AI at work makes people trust you less, research finds
0:59:53 - AI of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court
1:05:04 - I smell AI...
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Emily Bender & Alex Hanna: “The AI Con”
Jeff and Jason sit down with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, co-authors of The AI Con, to unpack the myths and real-world harms behind today’s AI hype. They discuss why the term “AI” is so often misused, how Big Tech’s models can fail marginalized communities, and why smaller, community-driven AI projects can better serve local needs. The conversation also explores the pitfalls of generative tools, the challenges of democratizing art, and the urgent need for real accountability in the tech industry
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Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, renowned for her work in computational linguistics, language technology, and as co-author of the influential "Stochastic Parrots" paper. Alex Hanna is a sociologist and Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), whose work focuses on how data in computational technologies shapes racial, gender, and class inequalities. Buy their new book "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want" at http://thecon.ai
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Podcast begins
01:44 - Introducing Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
02:23 - Why “AI” Is Misleading: Better Terms for Today’s Tech
04:31 - What Is AI Actually Good For? Real-World Use Cases
06:29 - Hidden Data Opportunities in AI and Language Models
07:20 - Community-Driven AI: Real Benefits Beyond Big Tech
09:45 - The Thai Library Thought Experiment: Why AI Lacks Meaning
14:23 - Inside DAIR: Building Alternative AI Futures
19:13 - AI and Creativity: Remixing, Music, and Fair Compensation
24:00 - Does AI Democratize Creativity or Homogenize Voices?
33:47 - Debunking AI Doomerism and TESCREAL: Media’s Role
40:29 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: Podcast Origins and Mission
42:07 - Book Launch Details: The AI Con Release Events
45:07 - Can We Build Effective AI Guardrails?
50:30 - Synthetic Text Extruding Machine... STEM?
50:56 - Oxford Comma y/n?
51:18 - Thank you to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna for joining the AI Inside podcast
Thank you to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna for joining the AI Inside podcast
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Slop Social
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI, OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT in a challenge to Google, researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments, and so much more on the AI Inside podcast!
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CHAPTERS:
03:15 - Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
12:36 - Duolingo More Than Doubles Courses as ‘AI-First’ Push Draws Heat
15:07 - Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons
16:09 - Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists
22:53 - Prompt engineer: The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
28:10 - Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI
37:45 - Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI
39:53 - Altman and Nadella, Who Ignited the Modern AI Boom Together, Are Drifting Apart
41:21 - OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google
42:58 - Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments
47:53 - Clip from our Interview with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, authors of The AI Con
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The Era of Experience
Hosts Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into OpenAI’s desire to buy Google Chrome, Perplexity AI’s talks with Samsung and Motorola, Google DeepMind’s claim that AI could cure all disease in a decade, and the Oscars’ decision to allow A.I.—with caveats—and more.
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CHAPTERS:
00:01:58 - OpenAI would buy Google's Chrome, exec testifies at trial
00:13:49 - Perplexity AI in Talks to Integrate Assistant Into Samsung, Motorola Phones
00:29:27 - Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
00:36:48 - Google just fired the first shot of the next battle in the AI war
00:49:18 - IEEE: Google Succeeds With LLMs While Meta and OpenAI Stumble
00:50:04 - Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’
00:58:31 - Oscars OK the Use of A.I., With Caveats
01:01:09 - ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it
01:03:12 - To stop scraping, Wikipedia releases Kaggle dataset
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Vegetative Electron Microscopy Doesn't Exist
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell dive into this week’s AI headlines: OpenAI prototypes a ChatGPT social feed, GPT-4.5 retires as GPT-4.1 arrives, OpenAI boosts memory and chat history features, Nvidia expands US chip production amid export control shakeups, Bill Gates predicts AI’s impact on teaching and medicine, ChatGPT Barbie Box memes challenge creative boundaries, Notion launches AI-powered email, Google’s DolphinGemma tackles dolphin communication, and “vegetative electron microscopy” becomes science’s latest digital artifact.
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CHAPTERS:
0:03:52 - OpenAI is building a social network
0:08:38 - ChatGPT now has a section for your AI-generated images
0:10:34 - OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding
0:13:16 - OpenAI's "agentic software engineer"
0:17:51 - ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats
0:24:02 - Nvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the US
0:29:09 - Bill Gates says AI is coming for 2 kinds of jobs that once seemed tech-proof
0:34:31 - ‘She helps cheer me up’: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots
0:41:13 - A.I. Action Figures Flood Social Media (Accessories Included)
0:47:28 - Notion Mail is a minimalist but powerful take on email
0:52:04 - DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
0:54:53 - Thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand
0:59:19 - A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
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Yann LeCun: Human Intelligence is not General Intelligence
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner, joins us to discuss the limits of today’s LLMs, why generative AI may be hitting a wall, what’s missing for true human-level intelligence, the real meaning of AGI, Meta’s open-source strategy with Llama, the future of AI assistants in smart glasses, why diversity in AI models matters, and how open models could shape the next era of innovation
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
0:01:40 - Introduction to Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta
0:02:11 - The limitations and hype cycles of LLMs, and historical patterns of overestimating new AI paradigms.
0:05:45 - The future of AI research, and the need for machines that understand the physical world, can reason and plan, and are driven by human-defined objectives
0:14:47 - AGI Timeline, human-level AI within a decade, with deep learning as the foundation for advanced machine intelligence
0:21:35 - Why true AI intelligence requires abstract reasoning and hierarchical planning beyond language capabilities, unlike today's neural networks that rely on computational tricks
0:30:24 - Meta's open-source LLAMA strategy, empowering academia and startups, and commercial benefits
0:36:10 - The future of AI assistants, wearable tech, cultural diversity, and open-source models
0:42:52 - The impact of immigration policies on US technological leadership and STEM education
0:44:26 - Does Yann have a cat?
0:45:19 - Thank you to Yann LaCun for joining the AI Inside podcast
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Nothing is Forever
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round, ChatGPT's image generation update sparking controversy, Amazon unveils its first agentic AI model, and Elon Musk's xAI takes a bold step toward the 'Everything App'.
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NEWS
0:02:07 - BREAKING: Google Gemini is shaking up its AI leadership ranks
0:06:21 - OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record
0:13:51 - ChatGPT’s new image generator is really good at faking receipts
0:23:03 - OpenAI plans to release a new ‘open’ AI language model in the coming months
0:28:37 - Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
0:33:18 - How Meta’s Upcoming $1,000+ Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Work
0:39:41 - Musk's social media firm X bought by his AI company, valued at $33 billion
0:42:20 - MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together
0:45:36 - Sinofsky: MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win?
0:48:28 - AI-made works can’t be copyrightable, says US court… for now, at least.
0:56:24 - The Bluetooth Lady Speaks! ‘Voice-Over Actors Will Be Artisans in the AI Age’
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Benchmarks for Mortals
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o image generation update, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro release, the emotional impact of chatbots on users, The Atlantic's LibGen database search tool, and more!
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NEWS
0:02:19 - OpenAI: Introducing 4o Image Generation
0:19:48 - Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model
0:32:27 - OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being
0:37:18 - The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
0:48:16 - Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
0:52:59 - Perplexity wants to buy TikTok and open-source its algorithm
0:55:50 - "KI ist nur ein Werkzeug. Jedes Werkzeug kann missbraucht werden"
1:03:07 - AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI
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NVIDIA's Economy of Tokens
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss NVIDIA's GTC conference with CEO Jensen Huang's keynote on tokens, the Vera Rubin CPU, and the intersection of AI and robotics, plus more!
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NEWS
0:02:23 - Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra GB300 and Vera Rubin, its next AI ‘superchips’
0:22:37 - Nvidia and Yum! Brands team up to expand AI ordering
0:25:49 - Google brings a ‘canvas’ feature to Gemini, plus Audio Overview
0:31:08 - Gemini 2.0, Google’s newest flagship AI, can generate text, images, and speech
0:34:42 - People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images
0:36:06 - Google plans to release new ‘open’ AI models for drug discovery
0:40:36 - EFF: California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly
0:49:11 - Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
0:57:36 - AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language
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New Week, New Seek (with Sameer Samat)
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis examine OpenAI's new agent tools for developers, the Manus AI model, and Apple's AI feature delays, plus insights from Sameer Samat, Head of Android at Google, on Android's AI future.
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NEWS
00:02:52 - OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agents
00:12:18 - Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’
00:18:56 - Apple says some AI improvements to Siri delayed to 2026
00:23:14 - Interview with Sameer Samat, Android Head at Google
00:43:51 - Larry Page Has a New AI Startup
00:46:03 - AI Search Has A Citation Problem
00:51:12 - OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writing
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The Agents Are Everywhere
Jason Howell returns from Mobile World Congress with some AI trends to discuss along with Jeff Jarvis. OpenAI has some pricey plans in the works, Amazon announces Alexa Plus, and more!
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NEWS
0:04:11 - Gemini Live ‘Astra’ video and screen sharing rolling out in March
0:13:52 - Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new ‘AI Phone’ priced at under $1K
0:16:56 - OpenAI Plots Charging $20,000 a Month For PhD-Level Agents
0:22:31 - The LA Times published an op-ed warning of AI’s dangers. It also published its AI tool’s reply
0:28:22 - The future of Google Search just rolled out on Labs - and AI Mode changes everything
0:35:41 - Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
0:38:06 - Judge denies Musk’s attempt to block OpenAI from becoming for-profit entity
0:39:18 - Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online
0:45:57 - Turing Award winners warn over unsafe deployment of AI models
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Agentic Browser Wars
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Anthropic's Claude 3.7 SONNET, Chegg suing Google over AI summaries, Perplexity's new Comet browser, the UK delaying AI regulation, and more!
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NEWS
02:50 - Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want
12:36 - Chegg sues Google for hurting traffic with AI as it considers strategic alternatives
19:24 - Perplexity AI teases a new browser 'for agentic search'
32:26 - UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration
32:57 - Daily Mail copyright screaming
33:20 - Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
35:50 - Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
40:55 - Introducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation
45:08 - AI ‘inspo’ is everywhere. It’s driving your hair stylist crazy.
52:03 - O'Reilly: The End of Programming as We Know It
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Close Enough For Jazz... And AI
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss HP acquiring Humane, XAI releasing Grok-3, Mira Murati's new AI startup, the New York Times integrating AI in the newsroom, and more!
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NEWS
0:02:36 - HP to Acquire Parts of Humane, Ai Pin Startup From Ex-Apple Managers, for $116 Million
All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days
0:09:56 - Elon Musk’s xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI
0:19:30 - Mira Murati debuts Thinking Machines Lab, her AI startup
0:22:18 - New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools
0:29:40 - Google’s AI Efforts Marred by Turf Disputes
0:34:19 - Introducing Perplexity Deep Research
0:45:23 - On Probabilism and Determinism in AI
AI Agents are Everywhere and Nowhere
0:57:14 - Jeff rant: Dumbest AI memo you will ever read
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Move Fast, Break Things, on Rocket Fuel
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the AI Action Summit in Paris, Elon Musk's bid for OpenAI, the Thompson Reuters copyright lawsuit, massive AI spending by tech giants, and ChatGPT Operator buying expensive eggs!
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NEWS
0:02:00 - UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration
Macron touts Europe and trolls Trump at Paris AI summit
Roose: 5 Notes From the Big A.I. Summit in Paris
0:10:25 - Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI
0:16:00 - ‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.
0:18:45 - Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
0:25:55 - Tech Giants Double Down on Their Massive AI Spending
0:30:00 - Meta lays off thousands as it pivots to AI
0:31:21 - IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs
0:38:40 - Save the date: Google I/O is May 20-21, 2025.
0:39:51 - Google One AI Premium adds NotebookLM Plus, 50% student discount
0:43:47 - Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally – Here’s an early look at it
0:47:41 - AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
0:50:46 - I let ChatGPT’s new ‘agent’ manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs.
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Five Years of AI Ethics at Adobe (with Grace Yee)
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Adobe's AI ethics initiatives with Grace Yee, Meta's new Frontier AI Framework, Google's removal of weapons restrictions from AI principles, and OpenAI's new Deep Research tool.
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0:01:43 - INTERVIEW with Grace Yee, Senior Director of Ethical Innovation at Adobe
- Adobe’s core AI ethics principles:Accountability, Responsibility, Transparency
- Licensed Adobe Stock content and public domain material, filtered for harmful/copyrighted data
- Rigorous harm testing, iterative improvements, and internal beta testing for AI features
- Collaborative responsibility across AI layers
- AI as a tool to reduce manual tasks while preserving human creativity
- Importance of human oversight, verifying outputs, and using AI as an ideation tool, not a final product
- Balancing guardrails with user context and licensed training data
- Collaboration with policymakers, monitoring regulations (EU AI Act), and advocating harmonized standards
- Adobe’s participation in EU AI Code of Practice and international regulatory harmonization efforts
0:26:13 - Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky
0:31:09 - Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
0:34:50 - OpenAI Unveils A.I. Tool That Can Do Research Online
0:39:47 - OpenAI to release new artificial intelligence model for free
0:41:05 - Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
0:44:14 - Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff ‘AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency
0:46:33 - Josh Hawley: DeepSeek users in US could face million-dollar fine and prison time under bill
0:49:37 - Anthropic claims new AI security method blocks 95% of jailbreaks, invites red teamers to try
0:52:22 - AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research
0:55:15 - AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years
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Artificial Aesthetics (with Lev Manovich)
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive deep into AI's creative impact with Lev Manovich, author of Artificial Aesthetics, analyze the implications of DeepSeek's cost-effective AI development, and explore OpenAI's Project Operator for automated web browsing.
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0:01:43 - INTERVIEW
- Interview with Lev Manovich, professor of computer science at CUNY and co-author of "Artificial Aesthetics"
- Discussion of AI's impact on creativity and artistic expression
- Exploration of how AI tools serve as both collaborators and adversaries in artistic creation
- Deep dive into the concept of AI aesthetics versus traditional artistic concepts
NEWS
0:39:05 - DeepSeek... the Seekening!
- DeepSeek reaches No. 1 on US Play Store
- DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app
- Nvidia drops nearly 17% as China’s cheaper AI model DeepSeek sparks global tech sell-off
- OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family
- Jeff's take
0:50:02 - OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
0:51:37 - OpenAI: Introducing Operator
0:59:35 - Reid Hoffman: We can make AI work for us
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Samsung's AI Agents
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the $500 billion Stargate project investment in U.S. AI infrastructure, China’s innovative DeepSeek model outperforming GPT-4, Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event focusing on AI agents, Google’s classroom-focused Gemini tools, and more!
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NEWS
0:04:17 - Announcing The Stargate Project
0:10:31 - How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley Giants
0:16:20 - Samsung Galaxy Unpacked and Agents on phones
0:32:01 - New Google education tools for 2025
0:38:59 - Google Workspace enables the future of AI-powered work for every business
0:42:29 - Copilot is now included in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family
0:43:27 - The Shadow of Cognitive Laziness in the Brilliance of LLMs
0:52:44 - ‘ChatGPT saved my life’: Reddit user credits AI chatbot for diagnosing his rare medical condition
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Tech Agnostic (with Greg Epstein)
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Greg Epstein’s thoughts on tech worship culture in Tech Agnostic, OpenAI’s legal battles with publishers over copyright infringement claims, Amazon Alexa’s generative AI struggles with hallucinations, Google Notebook LM’s friendliness tuning updates, and more!
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0:01:48 - Interview with Greg Epstein
0:35:35 - Biden’s administration proposes new rules on exporting AI chips, provoking an industry pushback
0:38:39 - NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration’s Misguided ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule
0:40:42 - Biden signs ambitious order to bolster energy resources for AI data centers
0:42:08 - OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’
0:43:39 - The New York Times' takes OpenAI to court--again
0:46:43 - Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
0:43:21 - Amazon's upcoming Alexa AI brain transplant might make you use it more than just weather and timers
0:57:35 - Adobe’s new AI tool can edit 10,000 images in one click
0:59:33 - Slopaggedon: Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for "Does Corn Get Digested"
1:04:53 - Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans
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Out With Agents, In With Superintelligence
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss NVIDIA's big CES keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung and LG's AI ecosystem announcements, OpenAI's o3 update, and the unexpected benefits of the Rabbit R1 device for people with disabilities.
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NEWS
Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’
New AI powered Samsung refrigerators will allow direct grocery ordering with Instacart
Gemini is taking over Google TV - in a good way
LG’s 2025 OLED TVs are its best yet — but they risk going overboard with AI
LG unveils "affectionate intelligence" at CES
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rings in 2025 with cryptic, concerning tweet about AI's future
Hank Green's Cripslock Test for AGI
Altman's latest gospel: Reflections
Deepseek seems to be a big deal: Chinese model, cheaper to train
COMMUNITY
How the Rabbit R1 is finding use in accessibility
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Year in Review pt. 2
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the winners and losers in AI for 2024, the persistence of AI hallucinations, the most useful AI tools for creators, and their expectations for AI development in 2025.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Show begins
0:02:21 - The winners
0:02:35 - Nvidia
0:05:05 - OpenAI GPT-4o
0:08:17 - Hopfield and Hinton (Nobel Prize)
0:09:08 - Alphafold (Nobel Prize)
0:11:22 - xAI Colossus Data Center
0:13:27 - Open Source AI
0:17:25 - Anthropic
0:18:10 - OpenAI's ongoing soap opera
0:21:43 - The losers
0:21:59 - Intel funding has slowed
0:23:33 - Google/Gemini (woke, "glued pizza)
0:25:58 - Persistence of hallucinations
0:26:42 - Scarlett Johannson and OpenAI
0:27:48 - Microsoft Recall
0:29:05 - Big Tech stock decline regarding AI
0:29:49 - Stability losing Mostaque, Inflection AI losing Suleyman
0:30:28 - Devices of the year
0:31:10 - Rabbit R1
0:32:57 - Humane AI Pin
0:34:20 - IYO One
0:37:12 - Ive/Altman hardware rumor
0:38:24 - Cool tools
0:38:41 - NotebookLM
0:41:42 - RunwayML
0:42:00 - Udio and Suno
0:42:33 - Perplexity Pro
0:43:18 - GPT-4o, Sora, Ideogram
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Year in Review pt. 1
In this year-end review, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis examine the importance of AI to the tech story of 2024. From the biggest trends, to the ongoing fight over copyright and training data, to safety and regulation, and the moving goalposts of AGI.
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CHAPTERS:
0:05:52 - Trends
0:06:07 - Multimodality
0:14:17 - RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
0:24:38 - From chatbots to Agents
0:29:48 - From summary to creation
0:35:38 - Creativity and quality
0:39:05 - Search
0:43:33 - Copyright and the ongoing fight over training data and fair use
0:50:50 - AGI: Around the corner or BS?
0:56:43 - Regulation
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Feeling Lonely? ChatGPT's Just a Phone Call Away!
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis call OpenAI's 1-800-CHATGPT service, Google's Imagen 3 and Veo 2 updates, the anthropomorphization of Claude, MindStudio's workflow demo, and the implications of AI copyright exemptions.
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NEWS
- 0:09:38 - ChatGPT’s AI search engine is rolling out to everyone
- 0:13:13 - OpenAI launches ChatGPT Projects, letting you organize files, chats in groups
- 0:14:32 - Breaking today: 1-800-ChatGPT
- 0:19:33 - State-of-the-art video and image generation with Veo 2 and Imagen 3
- 0:23:32 - Sutskever says we've reached peak data and the way AI is built is about to change
- 0:26:40 - NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version
- 0:31:35 - UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI
- 0:34:00 - YouTube creators can now opt into third-party AI training
- 0:41:10 - Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer
- 0:43:43 - How Claude Became Tech Insiders’ Chatbot of Choice
- 0:51:20 - Mindstudio & how to make a worker
COMMUNITY
- 0:57:08 - DJ Rout points out how US-centric "guardrails" are
- 1:01:02 - Len share how you can get Perplexity Pro free for one year. Jeff shares another way.
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Hands-on With Project Astra and Project Moohan
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Jason's exclusive look at Google's Project Astra glasses, the new $200/month ChatGPT Pro tier, OpenAI's Sora and Canvas tools, Reddit's AI data licensing revenue, and more!
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NEWS
0:02:40 - I tried out Android XR, Google’s latest attempt to take on Meta and Apple
0:18:02 - Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
0:32:46 - 12 days of OpenAI
0:33:13 - OpenAI's o1 lies more than any major AI model. Why that matters
0:40:22 - OpenAI makes canvas, its editing tool, available to everyone
0:44:29 - Today, day 6: Advanced voice with video & Santa mode
0:50:44 - Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
0:54:34 - How Years of Reddit Posts Have Made the Company an AI Darling
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How Yara AI is Tackling the Mental Health Crisis
Jason Howell and Joe Braidwood, co-founder and CEO of Yara AI, explore the creation of Yara, the challenges in current mental health services, AI's potential in making mental wellness accessible, ethical AI design, and the importance of safety in AI healthcare applications.
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Yara AI
0:03:00 - Introduction of guest Joe Braidwood, co-founder and CEO of Yara AI
0:05:14 - Exploration of the connection between SwiftKey and Yara AI
0:09:06 - The evolution of ELIZA to where we are now with AI chatbots
0:11:50 - Joe's drive to develop Yara came out of personal experience
0:15:26 - Using a GPT as a replacement for a therapist
0:20:50- How to tackle the amnesic quality of LLMs in a therapeutic application
0:27:10- Jason's experience with the open beta of Yara
0:29:06 - Joe's live demo of Yara
0:32:14 - What is emotional intelligence and empathy when an AI provides it?
0:37:42 - The accessibility and inequality problem with mental health services
0:40:34 - How does Yara manage the problem of hallucinations?
0:50:20 - Peter Hames hired by Microsoft AI
0:55:55 - Closing the loop to the SwiftKey days
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Coca-Cola Ruins Christmas
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss newly released documents from the Elon Musk-OpenAI lawsuit, a surprising study on AI poetry, Microsoft's latest AI innovations at Ignite 2024, the potential of collaborative AI agents, and more!
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NEWS
0:03:50 - Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI
0:16:40 - ChatGPT is a poet. A new study shows people prefer its verses.
0:23:01 - Introducing Copilot Actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT teams
0:28:48 - A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
0:33:33 - Arc Institute releases ‘ChatGPT for DNA’
0:36:00 - DrDew sent in a video walkthrough of Particle News on iOS
0:47:00 - Coca-Cola causes controversy with AI-made ad
The Coca-Cola Christmas AI video
Coca Cola has done this before in 2023: Masterpiece
0:56:15 - Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."
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Super-Duper-Intelligence!
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Sam Altman's AGI predictions, challenges faced by AI companies in advancing their models, Anthropic's defense sector partnership, the release of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 for non-commercial use, and more.
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NEWS
0:06:01 - Altman's latest AGI BS prediction: a year
0:08:32 - More AGI BS predictions, and one dissent
0:11:36 - OpenAI Shifts Strategy as Rate of ‘GPT’ AI Improvements Slows
0:12:03 - OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
0:17:26 - Microsoft, A16Z AI manifesto: AI for startups
0:20:13 - Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
0:24:59 - AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source
0:28:51 - AI-powered tool may offer quick, no-contact blood pressure and diabetes screening
0:32:37 - Google’s AI ‘learning companion’ takes chatbot answers a step further
0:40:01 - Particle launches an AI news app to help publishers, instead of just stealing their work
0:48:10 - AI artwork of Alan Turing sells for $1m
0:51:40 - The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’ Makes History As First AI-Assisted Song to Earn Grammy Nomination
0:57:19 - Randy Travis’s beautiful baritone was lost. AI helped him sing again.
0:57:36 - YouTube is testing music remixes made by AI
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Who Needs Humanoid Robots Really?
Jason Howell and guest Mike Elgan analyze the post-election tech landscape for AI, OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search capabilities, the democratization of robotics programming, and more.
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NEWS
0:03:15 - What will the AI industry look like over the next four years of a Trump presidency?
0:05:58 - Introducing ChatGPT search
0:17:25 - OpenAI Swarm
0:23:15 - A faster, better way to train general-purpose robots
0:29:48 - Humanoid robots are a bad idea
0:34:30 - Who needs a humanoid robot when everything is already robotic?
0:39:20 - Anthropic: The case for targeted regulation
0:43:43 - Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications
0:45:20 - Exclusive: EU AI Act checker reveals Big Tech's compliance pitfalls
0:49:39 - Alexa’s New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab
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Google's Project Jarvis Takes Over the Browser
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Google's Project Jarvis browser control AI, GitHub's expansion of Copilot to multiple AI models, Meta's development of its own AI search engine, and Apple's rollout of Apple Intelligence features for select devices.
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NEWS
0:03:33 - Project Jarvis: Google Preps AI That Takes Over Computers
0:15:55 - More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
0:20:42 - GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI
0:29:38 - Meta builds AI search engine to cut Google, Bing reliance
0:30:50 - Meta AI gains access to Reuters news content in multi-year deal
0:33:50 - Meta is in fact the most well-placed company to take advantage of generative AI
0:38:25 - Meta takes on Google’s NotebookLM with new NotebookLlama
0:42:59 - Apple Intelligence is available today
0:45:38 - Humane bets others need its AIOS
0:49:55 - UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP ENTERS INTO A STRATEGIC COLLABORATION WITH ETHICAL AI MUSIC COMPANY, KLAY
0:53:25 - LIGHTNING ROUND
- Hospitals use a transcription tool powered by an error-prone OpenAI model
- LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today
- Linus Torvalds slams AI as ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’
- Stability AI Is No Longer Controlled by Former CEO Emad Mostaque
- Arcade, a new AI product creation platform, designed this necklace
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The AI Agent Era Has Begun
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell examine the shifting landscape of AI partnerships as Microsoft and OpenAI negotiate their future, while discussing Meta's latest language model and NVIDIA's entry into the "Open-ISH" AI arena.
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NEWS
- 0:02:22 - Meta under fire for ‘polluting’ open-source
- 0:07:46 - Meta Introduces Spirit LM open source model that combines text and speech inputs/outputs
- 0:12:47 - Nvidia just dropped a new AI model that crushes OpenAI’s GPT-4—no big launch, just big results
- 0:21:58 - Microsoft introduces ‘AI employees’ that can handle client queries
- 0:23:00 - Marc Benioff says Microsoft rebranding Copilot as AI 'agents' shows they're in 'panic mode'
- 0:26:00 - Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC
- 0:29:44 - Motorola reveals ambitious upcoming Moto AI features for its phones
- 0:31:34 - On-device AI could make apps obsolete
- 0:37:28 - The $14 Billion Question Dividing OpenAI and Microsoft
- 0:40:45 - Elon Musk, Tesla and WBD sued over alleged ‘Blade Runner 2049’ AI ripoff for Cybercab promotion
- 0:45:56 - Runway Act-One
- 0:51:00 - Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot
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How Microsoft is Making AI Trustworthy
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into the limitations of AI reasoning, Tesla's latest We, Robot event, and interview Sarah Bird from Microsoft about responsible AI engineering in the company and beyond.
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NEWS
0:02:13 - Hype-puncturing paper: LLMs can't reason; they mimic; changing a name throws them
0:09:30 - On topic: Mims on LeCun: This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
0:14:23 - Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill
0:19:05 - Elon Musk’s Beer-Pouring Optimus Robots Are Not Autonomous
0:25:26 - Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta
0:28:35 - Interview with Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s Global Lead for Responsible AI Engineering
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Canvas: OpenAI's Answer to Integrated AI Workspaces
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Meta's new Movie Gen tool for AI video creation, Jason demos OpenAI's new Canvas interface, the controversial I-XRAY facial recognition demo and Zillow's AI staging acquisition.
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NEWS
- Meta Unveils Instant A.I. Video Generator That Adds Sounds
- How Meta Movie Gen could usher in a new AI-enabled era for content creators
- Amazon Ads AI adds motion to still images for ads
- OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects
- OpenAI Leaders Say Microsoft Isn't Moving Fact Enough to Supply Servers
- Let's debunk confused techno-panic over "doxing glasses"
- Zillow Group acquires AI company offering virtual staging
- Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads
- Google Exec Says Data Gives It an Edge in AI Search
- Godfather of AI' shares Nobel Physics Prize
- Google DeepMind boss wins Nobel for proteins breakthrough
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The Line Between Not Human and Human
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into OpenAI's leadership changes, Meta's AR glasses prototype, Google DeepMind's AI chip design breakthrough, and more.
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NEWS
- OpenAI’s Complex Path to Becoming a For-Profit Company
- SoftBank to Invest $500 Million in OpenAI
- Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round
- Behind OpenAI’s Staff Churn: Turf Wars, Burnout, Compensation Demands
- OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers
- Meta Connect 2024: Quest 3S, Llama 3.2, & More
- Introducing Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses
- Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet
- Samsung's latest premium Chromebook has a big screen and a dedicated AI key
- California Governor Vetoes Sweeping A.I. Legislation
- Gavin Newsom Vetoes Terrible AI Bill 1047, But Brace For Something Worse
- How AlphaChip transformed computer chip designPollsters are turning to AI this election season
- Exponential growth brews 1 million AI models on Hugging Face
- MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art
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The Intelligence Age or The Hype Age?
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell talk about how Hollywood is embracing AI with Lionsgate partnering with Runway ML, Electronic Arts showcases AI-driven gameplay concepts and Jason gives a live demo of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice mode.
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NEWS
- @OpenAI: Advanced Voice is rolling out to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week.
- After Apple, Jony Ive Is Building an Empire of His Own
- Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into ‘god mode’ with latest AI post
- Speaking of AI hype: a paper on it from a conference JJ watched
- Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration
- Google Quantum AI demonstrates a quantum memory system that greatly reduces error rates
- An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 percent of the time
- How Google Trains AI with Your Help through CAPTCHA@geoffkeighley
- EA Chief Strategy Officer Mihir Vaidya demonstrates how EA plans to super-charge user-created game content with AI in this concept video
- Related: Super Mario 64 Re-Imagined
- Andy Serkis Teases New Project Featuring “AI Characters”
- Runway Partners with LionsgateJames Cameron Joins Board of Stability AI in Coup for Tech Firm
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o1 Unveiled: OpenAI's Next Big Thing
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell analyze the hype surrounding OpenAI's o1 model, experiment with NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, and examine the potential impacts of AI on surveillance and creative industries.
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NEWS
- OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Can Reason Through Math and Science
- OpenAI is launching an ‘independent’ safety board that can stop its model releases
- I just built a fully functional 2D FlappyBird game in 3-4 minutes using OpenAI o1
- NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources
- Listening To The Algorithm
- Google is now rolling out Gemini Live to free users on Android
- Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line
- The 'godmother of AI' just raised $230 million for her AI startup
- Tencent’s new AI can create open-world video games from text
- Google’s GameNGen: AI breaks new ground by simulating Doom without a game engine
- Runway launches new video-to-video AI tool — here's what it can do
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Influencer Marketing Gets an AI Makeover
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Apple's AI-infused iPhone 16 launch, Google's enhancement of Photos with broader AI search capabilities, Waymo's report on autonomous vehicle safety, and more!
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NEWS
- Apple Intelligence has an official release date – but it won't be on your new iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro at launch
- Visual Intelligence: AI-powered visual search comes to the iPhone
- Improved search in Google Photos — plus early access to Ask Photos
- Google AI Overviews rollout hits news publisher search visibility
- US, EU, UK, and others sign legally enforceable AI treaty
- WayMo safety data
- Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators
- AI to multiply influencer videos
- ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention Alex Morgan
- Isaac by Weave Robots
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Amazon's Next-Gen AI Alexa
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into Amazon's AI plans for Alexa, Elon Musk's Colossus announcement, the cultural implications of AI in entertainment and elections, and more!
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NEWS
- Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp
- @elonmusk: This weekend, the @xAI team brought our Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online.
- Why Musk’s AI Rivals Are Alarmed by His New GPU Cluster
- OpenAI plans to build its own AI chips on TSMC's forthcoming 1.6 nm A16 process node
- NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools
- AI’s impact on elections is being overblown
- Jeff summary: This is excellent on the overblown fears about AI and elections and the results of #MoralPanic over technology.
- Yuval Noah Harari: What Happens When the Bots Compete for Your Love?
- The Next Generation Pixar: How AI will Merge Film & Games
- Why killer AI is such an alluring horror villain
- @1x_tech: Introducing NEO Beta. Designed for humans. Built for the home.
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Amazon Saves 4,500 Developer Years with AI
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore OpenAI's Orion and Strawberry advancements, the impact of AI on the music creation process, how AI saved Amazon an estimated 4,500 developer years of work in application upgrades, and more.
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NEWS
- OpenAI Shows ‘Strawberry’ AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop ‘Orion’
- No one’s ready for this
- Hello, you’re here because you said AI image editing was just like Photoshop
- See also: NYTimes from 1990
- Gannett is shuttering site accused of publishing AI product reviews
- Chinese and US scientists create AI model to help develop new drugs
- Apple Explores Robotics in Search of Life Beyond the iPhone
- This robot from Disney Research can imitate human facial movements
- Why musicians are smart to embrace AITop 100 GenAI consumer apps
- Jassey: Ave time to upgrade application plummeted from 50 developer-days to hours
- ‘Megalopolis’ Cuts Ties With Marketing Consultant Behind Trailer Debacle; Fabricated Critic Quotes Were Generated By AI
- Perplexity AI plans to start running ads in fourth quarter as AI-assisted search gains popularity
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Hands-on With Gemini Live
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell showcase the AI features of the new Google Pixel 9 phone, discuss updates to California's SB 1047 bill Eric Schmidt's retracted comments on AI startups, and Taylor Swift deepfakes used as political propaganda.
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HANDS ON
- Hands on With Pixel 9 AI features (Gemini Live, Pixel Screenshots, etc)
NEWS
- California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic
- Pelosi Statement in Opposition to California Senate Bill 1047
- Trump posts deepfakes of Swift, Harris and Musk in effort to shore up support
- Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’
- Former Google boss bets on NVIDIA in the AI race: "When Microsoft did the OpenAI deal, it was the stupidest idea I’d ever heard"
- AI poses no existential threat to humanity – new study finds
- New AI algorithm can predict the 'tipping points' for future disasters, scientists say
- Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI Art Generators
- Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type
- Gen 3 alpha turbo
- Google’s upgraded AI image generator is now available
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Gemini Live Pumps Up The Volume
Jason Howell shares his firsthand experience from Google's hardware event, highlighting new AI features in Pixel devices like the "Add Me" photo tool and AI-powered screenshot organization. Jeff Jarvis and Jason also discuss California's controversial AI safety bill and its potential impact on innovation, and examining Meta's new VFusion3D AI tool for creating 3D imagery.
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NEWS
- Gemini Live is the best AI feature I've seen so far from Google
- Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a trainwreck
- Google’s Gemini Live AI Sounds So Human, I Almost Forgot It Was a Bot
- OpenAI is worried that ChatGPT-4o users are developing feelings for the chatbot
- Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots
- The brewing storm over California’s AI bill
- California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters, but Silicon Valley warns it will cause one
- VFusion3D: Learning Scalable 3D Generative Models from Video Diffusion Models
- Brands should avoid this popular term: AI. It’s turning off customers
- Here’s how much tech companies are spending to tell you AI is amazing
- Humane's returns outpace sales
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White House: Open Source AI is A-O-K
In this episode of AI Inside, hosts Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into the latest AI industry developments, including Character.ai's CEO returning to Google, NVIDIA's chip delay, OpenAI's text detection tool, and (gasp) autonomous dental robots.
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NEWS:
- Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google
- Struggling AI Startups Look for a Bailout from Big Tech
- Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
- As Regulators Close In, Nvidia Scrambles for a Response
- White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now
- Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case
- ‘A magazine made by humans’: Atlantic writers push back on AI
- Prorata.ai
- There’s a Tool to Catch Students Cheating With ChatGPT. OpenAI Hasn’t Released It.
- Gary Marcus: OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid
- WaPost runs letter from doomer Future of Life Institute against Altman's op-ed
- Dental AI startup raises $30 million, including from Mark Zuckerberg’s dad
- Perceptive.io
- AI music startup Suno hits back at record labels
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Ratted Out By Your AI Friend
Join Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis as they explore recent developments in AI, from Apple's upcoming Apple Intelligence beta to OpenAI's SearchGPT product, before sitting down with Qualcomm's Vinesh Sukumar to discuss the cutting-edge of on-device AI.
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NEWS:
- Apple's AI Features Rollout Will Miss Upcoming iPhone Software Overhaul
- Apple releases first preview of its long-awaited iPhone AI
- Apple to Adopt Voluntary AI Safeguards Established by Biden
- OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
- AI's search quake shakes media landscape
- OpenAI starts rolling out its Her-like voice mode for ChatGPT
- Altman: Opinion Who will control the future of AI?
- friend
- Covid-era whiz kid is back, and he brought a Friend
- AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name
- Then again... AI Companions Reduce Loneliness, says study
- Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn't Making Any Serious Money
INTERVIEW:
- Introduction of guest Vinesh Sukumar, head of Generative AI Product, from Qualcomm
- Vinesh's background and experience, including competing in the 1992 Olympics
- Discussion of AI's impact on the Olympics and sports
- Qualcomm's approach to on-device AI and edge computing
- The importance of personalized AI experiences
- Examples of AI applications in everyday life, including photo editing and creative tools
- Qualcomm's focus on multimodality in AI development
- Future directions for AI at Qualcomm, including orchestration and edge-cloud collaboration
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Zuckerberg's Open Source Redemption Tour
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell talk through a very consequential week in AI news, beginning with the release of the first open-source frontier AI model, the 305 billion parameter version of Llama 3.1! Also, GPT-4o attempts to plug the "ignore all previous instructions" hole, OpenAI is giving it back to the New York times, and so much more!
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NEWS
- Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet
- Zuck: Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
- Meta just took the AI fight to OpenAI in a big way — here's how Llama 3.1 beats ChatGPT
- OpenAI debuts mini version of its most powerful model yet
- OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole
- “Ignore all previous instructions”
- OpenAI asks New York Times to disclose reporters’ notes in ‘vindictive’ legal move
- Jeff Jarvis post on the story OpenAI/NYT story
- A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation
- The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast
- Study reveals rapid increase in web domains blocking AI models from training data
- Altman experiment: The results of the biggest study on guaranteed income programs are finally in
- Available now: Stems 🥳 Pro & Premier users can now separate the vocals and instrumentals from songs, which will give you more control over how to use Suno.
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OpenAI's 'Strawberry' Agent
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into OpenAI's "Strawberry" project for autonomous web research, discuss Google's selective indexing practices, explore Disney's partnership with AudioShake to deconstruct its music catalog using AI, and more!
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NEWS
- Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
- With an OpenAI leak, the race for "agentic AI" is on
- An update to Reuters’ article detailing OpenAI’s ‘Strawberry’ revealed that an internally tested model scored over 90% on a benchmark of ‘championship math problems’
- OpenAI's AGI progress chart
- OpenAI teams with Arianna Huffington to create AI-powered ‘health coach’
- In Constant Battle With Insurers, Doctors Reach for a Cudgel: A.I.
- The Washington Post debuts AI chatbot
- Microsoft, Apple Drop OpenAI Board Plans as Scrutiny Grows
- Perplexity planning revenue sharing program with web publishers next month
- As the web is filled with AI junk, Google switches to selective indexing
- Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract
- Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations
- Disney Music Group Teams With AudioShake to Separate Stems of Classic Songs Using AI
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Tracking Local Government with LocalLens
Jason Howell talks with Matt Post, co-creator of LocalLens, an AI-powered platform revolutionizing access to local government information by summarizing and analyzing meeting data across municipalities.
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INTERVIEW: Matt Post, thelocallens.org
- Overview of LocalLens as an AI-powered database of local government meeting summaries
- Discussion of the importance of local government transparency and participation
- Explanation of how LocalLens collects and analyzes data from various local government meetings
- Challenges of scaling LocalLens to cover more municipalities across the United States
- How LocalLens has helped uncover noteworthy local government actions
- Addressing concerns about AI accuracy and potential errors in summaries
- LocalLens' approach to correcting inaccuracies and linking to original sources
- Potential future applications of AI in government transparency, including multimodal AI
- Plans for expanding LocalLens and seeking partnerships or funding (contact Matt Post!)
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The TESCREAL FAQ (with Émile P. Torres)
This week hosts Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis welcome Dr. Émile P. Torres, philosopher and researcher who coined the term TESCREAL to describe the complicated ideologies driving the push toward AGI, as well as explore recent news in AI disclosure and consumer tech integration.
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INTERVIEW: Dr. Émile P. Torres
- Explanation of the TESCREAL acronym and its component ideologies
- Overview of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its relation to the TESCREAL bundle
- Discussion of the differences between AI "doomers" and "accelerationists"
- Exploration of the connection between TESCREAL ideologies and eugenics
- Analysis of recent news related to TESCREAL and AI development
NEWS:
- YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice
- Google to require disclosures for digitally altered content in election ads
- Meta changes its label from ‘Made with AI’ to ‘AI info’ to indicate use of AI in photos
- Apple’s Devices Are Lasting Longer, Making AI Strategy Even More Critical
- Exclusive: This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9
- AI does gymnastics
- The deluge of bonkers AI art is literally surreal
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Democratizing AI Creation with MindStudio
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis talk with the creators of MindStudio.ai, a no-code AI development platform where enterprises and individuals can build custom AI solutions tailored to their needs.
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INTERVIEW TOPICS
- Introducing guests Dmitry Shapiro (CEO) and Sean Thielen (CTO) of MindStudio, their backgrounds and how they met
- The pivotal moment of ChatGPT's release and their vision for MindStudio as a model-agnostic, low-code/no-code platform for building AI applications
- Overview of MindStudio's features: creating multi-step AI workflows, comparing models, calling APIs, uploading data, publishing apps for human or programmatic use
- MindStudio's business model, pricing tiers, and monetization opportunities by selling created AI applications
- Examples of how enterprises use MindStudio for automation (resume screening, sales, customer support), building custom AI assistants, and replacing old software with tailored AI applications
- Addressing individual users, artists, and creators using MindStudio for creative projects, productivity, and efficiency
- Handling model updates, switching between models, and MindStudio's model-agnostic approach
- The value of empowering non-technical users to build AI solutions close to their work, avoiding one-size-fits-all tools
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Why AI Literacy in Newsrooms Matters (with Nikita Roy)
AI continues to shake up how news is created and consumed. Guest Nikita Roy, host of the Newsroom Robots podcast, talks with Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis about the opportunities and challenges facing media companies.
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INTERVIEW TOPICS
- Welcoming guest Nikita Roy, host of Newsroom Robots podcast
- Norway's media companies like Schibsted and iTromsø leading in AI adoption for journalism
- Lack of AI literacy and experimentation in North American newsrooms compared to Europe
- Concerns around using news content to train AI models (copyright, compensation)
- Potential for new interactive AI-powered news experiences beyond traditional articles
- Examples of startups/tools for data journalism, video creation, meeting transcription etc.
- Need for better data infrastructure and talent to build advanced AI systems in newsrooms
- Importance of AI literacy training for all newsroom roles, not just technical teams
- Collaboration vs litigation approach - contrasting Schibsted making its own LLM to NY Times lawsuit
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The Future of Voice Interaction (With Justin Uberti)
Justin Uberti, creator of WebRTC and now Founder of Fixie.ai, shares insights into the development of AI.town, a platform for engaging with AI personalities through voice, and the potential impact of conversational AI on various industries.
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INTERVIEW TOPICS
- Introduction to Justin's background (WebRTC, Hangouts Video, Duo, Stadia)
- The shift towards conversational AI and voice interactions
- Fixie.ai and AI.town - enabling voice conversations with AI characters
- Transitioning from text-based to voice-based AI interactions, potential use cases
- Creating AI characters, enabling role-play conversations
- Ethical considerations and voice cloning technology
- The nature of human conversation (filler words, turn-taking protocols)
- Incorporating human conversational quirks into AI speech
- V1 vs V2 voice technology (speech recognition - text - speech vs. direct speech-to-speech)
- Open-source speech AI model Ultravox.ai, leaderboard for fastest AI models (thefastest.ai)
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How AI Fueled the ANOM Takedown (with Joseph Cox)
The FBI created a fake encrypted phone company called ANOM, targeting criminal organizations worldwide in an unprecedented honeypot operation. Joseph Cox, renowned cybersecurity journalist from 404media and author of "Dark Wire," reveals how artificial intelligence drove this groundbreaking investigation, enabling the FBI to monitor criminal communications and make arrests on a historic global scale like never before.
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INTERVIEW:
- Joseph Cox's new book "Dark Wire" details the FBI's unprecedented sting operation running an encrypted phone company used by criminals.
- The role of AI in translating intercepted messages from different languages and detecting criminal content within the massive trove of 22 million messages.
- The ethical implications and potential overreach of such a large-scale operation that swept up some non-criminal users.
- The FBI developing its own AI system in-house, without help from tech companies, to analyze the intercepted data.
- The broader trend of law enforcement increasingly adopting AI for tasks like automated report writing from body cam footage.
- How the book and reporting on this story has shaped Joseph Cox's worldview and approach at his publication 404 Media.
- Netflix optioning the rights to adapt "Dark Wire" into a movie.
NEWS:
- Nvidia Unveils Next-Generation Rubin AI Platform for 2026
- This is Lunar Lake — Intel’s utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks
- Even the Raspberry Pi is getting in on AI
- Google Refines AI Search Overviews After Odd Results
- Introducing Perplexity Pages
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What's In Anthropic's Black Box
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell talk about the challenges of Google's AI search errors, the implications of OpenAI's funding and internal conflicts, Elon Musk's ambitious xAI supercomputer project, and the potential of AI for companionship and sentience.
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NEWS:
- Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online
- Google AI Search getting everything wrong
- Elon Musk raises $6 billion to challenge OpenAI@ylecun
- Yann Lecun: "Join xAI if you can stand a boss who"
- Elon Musk plans xAI supercomputer, The Information reports
- OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model
- Former OpenAI board member explains why they fired Sam Altman
- Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team
- AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
- Apple’s AI to include transcription, photo editing, search, & “software that can create custom emojis on the fly”
- Report: Apple signs deal with OpenAI for iOS, still wants Google as an 'option'
- California Senate passes really bad AI bill with big impact on open-source
- How A.I. Made Mark Zuckerberg Popular Again in Silicon Valley
- Could AI help cure ‘downward spiral’ of human loneliness?
- No, Today’s AI Isn’t Sentient. Here’s How We Know
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GPT-4o Voice Drama, Copilot + PC, Humane's Quibi Vibes
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Microsoft Recall, OpenAI GPT-4o voice sounding very similar to Scarlett Johansson, Reddit's data deal with OpenAI, and the struggles of Humane AI's product.
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NEWS
- New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
- Microsoft introduces Phi-Silica
- Microsoft unveils ‘Copilot + PC’ initiative
- Get ready for the AI PC
- Microsoft teams with Khan Academy
- OpenAI to Pull Johansson Soundalike Sky’s Voice From ChatGPT
- Scarlett Johansson says she was 'shocked, angered' when she heard OpenAI's voice
- OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
- Science paper with many authors on AI risk
- Jeff's reaction
- Compare/contrast with paper on science & AI
- Ads creativity and performance at scale with Google AI
- Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies
- OpenAI partners with Reddit
- Humane is looking for a buyer
- Meta is reportedly working on camera-equipped AI earphones
- Remember: the Iyo One
- Facebook Parent’s Plan to Win AI Race
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Google Gemini and the Wall of Noise
Unpack the AI noise from Google I/O 2024 and OpenAI's GPT-4o reveal, with Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, and guest Mike Elgan analyzing the impact on search, content creation, voice interactions, and the evolving interactions between humans and AI.
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NEWS:
- Google I/O 2024: everything announced
- Google’s broken link to the web
- Google rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soon
- Google’s generative AI can now analyze hours of video
- Google's Project Astra uses your phone's camera and AI to find noise makers, misplaced items and more.
- OpenAI debuts GPT-4o ‘omni’ model now powering ChatGPT
- Mike's article: We're all talking to AI now
- The case against teaching kids to be polite to Alexa
- Meet My A.I. Friends
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Apple Ups Its AI Ante With the M4 Chip
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Apple's M4 chip, OpenAI's deepfake detector, Microsoft's MAI-1 model, and the impact of AI on stock photography and audiobook professions.
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NEWS
- Apple’s new M4 chip is focused on AI
- Apple Is Developing AI Chips for Data Centers, Seeking Edge in Arms Race
- OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity
- OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers
- Fights over disclosing AI content
- Those A.I. posters in True Detective: Night Country were supposed to be a knock on A.I., apparently
- Meet Microsoft MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete With Google, OpenAI
- Gary Marcus: Microsoft and OpenAI’s increasingly complicated relationship
- The teens making friends with AI chatbots
- The Last Stock Photographers Await Their Fate Under Generative AI
- Invite-Only KDP Beta for Audiobooks
- Amazon has 40,000+ "virtual voice" audiobooks since it opened the doors last November
- HarperCollins Publishers and ElevenLabs to Bring More Stories to Life Through Audio
- AI Dungeon
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Should It Just Be An App?
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into the ongoing debate around AI hardware devices like the Rabbit R1, licensing deals for AI training data, and a child learning study that challenges assumptions about machine intelligence.
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NEWS
- Rabbit R1, a thing that should just be an app, actually is just an Android app
- Android Faithful #42 - Down the Rabbit Hole
- Amazon expands enterprise AI play with wider availability of its Q chatbot
- Meta and Reasonable Doubt
- Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models
- The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal
- 8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.
- OpenAI introduces "Memory" feature for ChatGPT Plus users
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders to Serve on AI Safety Board
- From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
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Rabbit R1 First Look
In this episode, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the Rabbit R1 AI device with guest Mark Spoonauer from Tom's Guide, delving into its capabilities, design, and potential use cases. Also, Microsoft's VASA-1 model, Meta's slew of AI announcements, the closure of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, and the appointment of Paul Cristiano to the US AI Safety Institute.
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INTERVIEW WITH MARK SPOONAUER, EIC OF TOM'S GUIDE
- First impressions of the Rabbit R1 AI device
- Design and form factor of the Rabbit R1
- Capabilities and limitations of the Rabbit R1
- Potential use cases for the Rabbit R1
- Comparison with other AI devices like Meta's Ray-Ban glasses
- Pricing and availability of the Rabbit R1
- Concerns about the Rabbit R1 being a companion device rather than a phone replacement
- Social implications and potential issues with the Rabbit R1
NEWS
- The Humane AI pin bad-review backlash
- AI wearables like Limitless
- Limitations of audio-only AI interfaces like the IYO One
- Closure of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute and resignation of Nick Bostrom
- Appointment of Paul Cristiano as head of US AI Safety Institute at NIST
- Microsoft's new VASA-1 AI model for animating faces from photos and audio
- Google's restructuring, combining Android and hardware teams for AI integration
- YouTube's new "Ask" feature for premium subscribers to interact with videos using AI
- Meta's announcements: multimodal AI support for Ray-Ban glasses, AI assistant integration, and Lama 3 language model
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AI Tools For Creators
Join Jason Howell as he chats with the founders of Augie and Revoldiv. These two AI tools are harnessing the power of AI to transform the video production and transcription process for creators and professionals.
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Interview with Jeremy Toeman, founder of AugX Labs, and Augie
- Jeremy Toeman's background at CNET and the shift to video content
- The inspiration behind creating Augie and AugX Labs
- How Augie works and it's core functionality
- Live demo of Augie's video creation capabilities
- Challenges faced in developing AI tools like Augie
- The future of AI-generated content and its implications
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Interview with Surafel Defar, founder of Revoldiv
- Surafel's journey from software engineering to entrepreneurship
- The origins and purpose of Revoldiv
- Revoldiv's transcription capabilities and user interface
- Unexpected use cases of Revoldiv
- Balancing coding and business responsibilities as a founder
- The importance of user feedback and adaptation in the AI field
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Suno AI: A Robot... With Soul
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell discuss Google's AI announcements at Google Cloud Next, how AI is integrating with advertising and marketing, the ethical debates surrounding data harvesting, calls for stronger misinformation safeguards, and the impressive emotional depth of AI-generated music.
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NEWS
- Jeff Jarvis' experience speaking at the Nordic Media and AI conference
- Jony Ive and Sam Altman are DEFINITELY working on an AI device together
- Google Cloud Next 2024 announcements (Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google Vids, AI meeting notes)
- WPP's partnership with Google's Gemini AI for advertising and marketing
- Activist groups calling for stronger action against AI-generated misinformation and deepfakes
- The New York Times article on the data race to feed AI systems
- Perplexity's plans to sell ads on their platform
- Suno AI music generation service and the emotional quality of AI-generated music
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OpenAI and Microsoft's $100 Billion Stargate Supercomputer
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into the $665 million Shiba Inu coin donation to the Future of Life Institute, the potential $100 billion "Stargate" supercomputer from OpenAI and Microsoft, Jason gives a hands-on demo of Stability AI's new music generation model, and more!
NEWS
- Artifact social news curation app shutting down, acquired by Yahoo
- Yum Foods has plans to go all in on generative AI
- How people are using generative AI based on Harvard Business Review report
- New York City's chatbot providing incorrect legal/business advice
- Generative AI used to create virtual persona of real person for advertising
- OpenAI and Microsoft in talks for $100 billion "Stargate" supercomputer
DEMO
- Stability AI's Stable Audio 2.0 for music generation
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Sal Khan: How AI Will Revolutionize the Classroom
Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy and author of the new book "Brave New Words: HOW AI WILL REVOLUTIONIZE EDUCATION (AND WHY THAT'S A GOOD THING)", joins Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis to talk about the many challenges educators face as AI tools become pervasive and ever more powerful. Sal explores how teachers and administrations are embracing technology to improve the learning environment and make their own jobs easier and more effective.
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INTERVIEW with Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy
- Sal's upcoming book "Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education and Why That's a Good Thing"
- Challenges teachers face with AI pushing against traditional teaching methods
- Legitimate concerns about AI use in classrooms
- AI as a tool, not a replacement for teachers
- Potential of AI to mitigate cheating and provide process insights
- Impact of AI on education and the role of humanities
- Suggestions for educators to use AI in classrooms
- AI as a tutor and writing coach
- AI supporting student assignments and teacher productivity
- Managing teacher resistance and concerns about AI
- Sal's perspective on AI bias and representation
- Ethical considerations for AI in assessment and hiring
NEWS
- Stability CEO resigns from generative AI company
- United Nations adopts U.S.-led resolution to safely develop AI
- Ben Evans: The problem of AI ethics, and laws about AI
- Tennessee Adopts ELVIS Act, Protecting Artists’ Voices From AI Impersonation
- Financial Times tests an AI chatbot trained on decades of its own articles
- OpenAI is pitching Sora to Hollywood
- Sora: first impressions
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Microsoft's Inflection Point
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis welcome Evan Brown to round up AI regulation efforts worldwide including Utah's disclosure law and the EU's comprehensive AI Ant. Plus, big news for Microsoft AI, Nvidia's behemoth AI chips, and more!
INTERVIEW WITH EVAN BROWN
Utah has a brand new law that regulates generative AI
EU votes to ban riskiest forms of AI and impose restrictions on others
YouTube Introduces Mandatory Disclosure For AI-Generated Content
NEWS
Big changes at Inflection AI & Microsoft
WSJ report on Microsoft/Inflection
Reid Hoffman's tweets about it
Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features
Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
Jeff & Mikah react to the NVIDIA keynote
A good video explaining generative AI
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The Value of Open Source AI
In this episode of AI Inside, Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell explore the tempering of expectations around generative AI, the promise and concerns of open-sourcing models, and the unique ways AI is being leveraged in journalism, elderly care, and even digital recreations of deceased celebrities.
NEWS
- OpenAI's internal investigation into Sam Altman's ouster as he returns to the board
- Google implementing safeguards restricting election-related information on its AI
- Expectations around generative AI capabilities and impact being tamped down
- Open-sourcing AI models and the debate around it
- Elon Musk's vague promise to open-source "Grok"
- The use of AI in journalism for analysis and data processing
- Midjourney's new character reference feature for consistent image generation
- AI-powered companion dolls for elderly companionship
- AI application for bereavement assistance
- Digital recreation of Marilyn Monroe's voice using AI
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The AI Chicken and Egg Problem
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Elon Musk's legal battle with OpenAI, Nvidia's CEO on making programming obsolete, calls for responsible AI innovation, and more!
NEWS
- Discussion about Elon Musk suing OpenAI for breaching contract over its stated mission of openness and building responsible AI
- OpenAI releasing emails from Musk revealing his desire for control and more funding
- Anthropic rolling out new versions of Claude LLM (Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, Haiku)
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's statement on AI making programming unnecessary for everyone
- Americans for Responsible AI Innovation launching and calls for regulation
- Open letter from researchers for a "safe harbor" for independent AI evaluation
- Trust in AI companies dropping according to Edelman report
- Bad bots: Issues with Amazon's Rufus shopping bot and H&R Block's tax advice bot
- Amazon's $1 billion industrial innovation fund for AI and robotics
- Humanoid robot developments from companies like Figure and Magic Lab
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Contextualizing Noise with Blackbird's Compass
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis talk with Dan Patterson of Blackbird.ai about their context-providing service Compass before diving into the week's top AI stories including Google's "biased" Gemini model, data sharing deals between companies like Reddit for model training, and the risks and benefits of open sourcing AI systems.
INTERVIEW
- Overview of Blackbird AI's mission to track narrative threats and attacks like misinformation and disinformation
- Introduction of Blackbird's new product Compass for providing context around claims using AI analysis
- Explanation of how Compass works to check claims and provide contextual information from authoritative sources
- Discussion around Compass being built on Blackbird's Raven Risk large language model (LLM) and related APIs
- Examples provided of using Compass for real-world claims like "Is the earth flat?"
- Intention for Compass to help provide clarity and essential context to media content
- Discussion around target users for Compass - social media companies, comms agencies, journalists
- Explanation that Compass determines authority based on how authoritative sites reference each other
- Discussion around Compass having a framework for integrating with fact-checking databases
NEWS
- Discussion around the challenges and nuances of implementing guardrails for AI
- News segment on Google's Gemini model controversy over biased image generation
- Deals emerging between tech companies to sell data for AI model training, including Reddit-Google and rumored Tumblr-OpenAI
- Tyler Perry putting his studio expansion plans on hold due to the emergence of AI like OpenAI's Sora
- Analysis of benefits and risks of open-sourcing AI models
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The Chatbot Effect
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the latest AI news, including OpenAI's new Sora video generator, legal issues for an Air Canada chatbot, missteps in publishing AI art in a medical journal, and Jason gives a hands-on demo of Perplexity Pro including a solid example of why it's necessary to scrutinize the output of LLMs.
- Release of OpenAI's Sora for video generation
- Debate over whether advanced AI capabilities indicate nearing AGI
- Meta's new AI model V-JEPA learns from video like LLMs learn from text
- Effect of Sora release on Adobe stock valuation
- Air Canada chatbot provides misleading refund info, company gets sued
- Scientific journal publishes AI-generated rat diagram from Midjourney
- British painter Harold Cohen spent 40+ years refining an image-generating robot
PERPLEXITY PRO DEMONSTRATION
- Integrates multiple models like GPT-3.5 and Stable Diffusion
- Capability to search across internet sources with up-to-date results
- The need to verify its output: Got its own capabilities wrong by claiming it uses model "Sora"
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Altman's $7 Trillion Dream
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the week's AI news, including Sam Altman's call for $7 trillion in AI funding, Google's launch of Gemini Ultra 1.0 chatbot, proposed regulations on AI safety, dismissal of copyright claims against AI, and the need for humanities education in the AI field.
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NEWS
- Sam Altman wants $7 trillion to boost AI chip and GPU production globally
- ChatGPT gaining ability to remember user preferences and data
- OpenAI building web and device control agents
- Google's Assistant is now called Gemini on Android devices
- Google announces Gemini Ultra 1.0 model to compete with GPT-4
- California bill proposes AI safety regulations and requirements
- AI companies agree to limit election deepfakes
- Most claims dismissed in Sarah Silverman copyright lawsuit, leaving only 1 direct copyright claim
- Beijing court rules AI-generated content can be copyrighted
- NYT op-ed argues humanities education is key to developing AI leaders
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Follow the Funding of AI Doom
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis welcome Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, author of "The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication" and the AI Panic newsletter, to discuss how some AI safety organizations use questionable surveys, messaging, and media influence to spread fears about artificial intelligence risks, backed by hundreds of millions in funding from groups with ties to Effective Altruism.
INTERVIEW
- Introduction to guest Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt
- Research on how media coverage of tech shifted from optimistic to pessimistic
- AI doom predictions in media
- AI researchers predicting human extinction
- Criticism of annual AI Impacts survey
- Role of organizations like MIRI, FLI, Open Philanthropy in funding AI safety research
- Using fear to justify regulations
- Need for balanced AI coverage
- Potential for backlash against AI safety groups
- With influence comes responsibility and scrutiny
- The challenge of responsible AI exploration
- Need to take concerns seriously and explore responsibly
NEWS BITES
- Meta's AI teams are filled with female leadership
- Meta embraces labeling of GenAI content
- Google's AI Test Kitchen and image effects generator
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Schibsted's AI Strategy with Sven Størmer Thaulow
In this episode, Sven Størmer Thaulow, EVP/Chief Data and Technology Officer at Schibsted, joins Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis to discuss the creation of a Large Language Model (LLM) for media in Norway, the importance of aligning AI models with cultural values, and the potential for American media companies to collaborate on creating English language models. The conversation also explores the use of AI in generating article titles, providing a different user interface, and experimenting with an AI agent for tech reviews.
INTERVIEW
- Introduction to the guest, Sven Størmer Thaulow, EVP/Chief Data and Technology Officer at Schibsted.
- The work Sven and his team are doing at Schibsted.
- Background on Schibsted and its success in the news industry.
- Schibsted's successful subscriptions in Norway and their high-quality news products.
- The creation of an LLM in the Norwegian language and Schibsted's role in it.
- Different attitudes towards AI and language models in Norway and the US.
- Schibsted's AI strategy and their work with AI in the recommendation system space.
- The importance of data and language data for AI and language models.
- Efforts to build Norwegian and Northern Germanic language LLMs.
- The need to align AI models with cultural values.
- Potential for American media companies to collaborate on creating English language models.
- Sven's experiment with using their LLM to generate article titles at Schibsted.
- The use of AI to provide a different user interface and relationship with content.
- Experiment with an AI agent for tech reviews.
NEWS BITES
- Google's new Lumiere AI video generator, Video Poet, can create stunning clips by using space and time together.
- Microsoft's changes to its AI text-to-image generation tool in response to reports of people using it to create nonconsensual sexual images of Taylor Swift.
- OpenAI and Common Sense Media have partnered to address concerns about the impacts of AI on children and teenagers.
- Keep It Shot is a tool that allows Mac users to rename, organize, and quickly find their screenshots using AI.
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AI Positive
On the premiere episode of the AI Inside podcast, hosts Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell discuss AI copyright issues with Common Crawl Foundation's Rich Skrenta regarding news outlets limiting access to content they publish publicly, impacting the integrity of Common Crawl's internet archive. In recent years, the archive has been used by LLMs as AI training data, and the implications of restricting information have a dramatic impact on the data quality that survives.
INTERVIEW
- Introduction and background on AI Inside podcast
- Discussion of the recent AI oversight Senate hearing Jeff testified at
- Introduction of guest Rich Skrenta from Common Crawl Foundation
- Overview of Common Crawl and its goals to archive the open web
- Discussion of how Common Crawl data is used to train AI models
- News publishers wanting content removed from Common Crawl
- Debate around copyright, fair use, and AI’s “right to read”
- Mechanics of how Common Crawl works and what it archives
- Concerns about restricting AI access to data for training
- Risk of regulatory capture and only big companies being able to use AI
- Discussion of recent court ruling related to web scraping
- Hopes for Common Crawl's growth and evolution
NEWS BITES
- Interesting device announcement from CES - Rabbit R1 with Perplexity AI integration
- Study on actual risk of AI automating jobs away in the near future
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Welcome to AI Inside
AI Inside is your new home for keeping up to date on what's new in the world of Artificial Intelligence. Join Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis every Wednesday as they speak with some of the world's leading minds about how AI is being used, abused, and built into the fabric of our lives. AI Inside will look at the influence of AI in the newsroom, the ongoing uncertainty around AI art and copyright, the scalability of disinformation, supercharging worker productivity, and so much more. And if a groundbreaking service grabs hold of the news cycle, AI Inside will be there to take a closer look. It's all fair game on the AI Inside podcast.
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