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Artificial Aesthetics (with Lev Manovich) Jan 29, 2025

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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!

0:50:02 - OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies

0:51:37 - OpenAI: Introducing Operator

0:58:07 - Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research Startup with ‘The Emperor of All Maladies’ author Siddhartha Mukherjee

0:59:35 - Reid Hoffman: We can make AI work for us

1:05:25 - New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say

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Samsung's AI Agents Jan 23, 2025

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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) Jan 15, 2025

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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 Jan 07, 2025

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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’

Samsung Unveils Vision AI and New Innovations at CES First Look 2025, Delivering Personalized, AI-Powered Screens to Enrich Everyday Life

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 Jan 01, 2025

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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 Dec 25, 2024

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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! Dec 18, 2024

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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 Dec 13, 2024

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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 Dec 04, 2024

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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 Nov 20, 2024

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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

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