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AI search: Google's worst nightmare? 🔴 AINTS 061 Nov 01, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia catch up on Microsoft's public preview of AI agents in Copilot Studio, the latest delay of their Recall feature, and Anthropic's new desktop app for Claude AI. Then we explore the search engine wars heating up as Meta reportedly develops its own AI-powered search engine and OpenAI launches ChatGPT with Search, both taking aim at Google's long-standing dominance in the field. Join us as we stay up late — and never sleep again.

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Anthropic and the age of agentic AI 🔴 AINTS 60 Oct 25, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia recap the latest Google AI news, look at an AI chatbot tragedy, and review Runway's stunning motion capture smartphone tech. Then we examine Anthropic's groundbreaking "Computer Use" feature, which allows its Claude AI to interact with computers just like humans do, potentially revolutionizing how we interact with AI in the stark reality of our daily lives. Join us as we drop the doomerism and let JARVIS take the wheel.

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Microsoft, Google and Amazon: AI goes nuclear 🔴 AINTS 059 Oct 18, 2024

This week Tristan and Tasia explore the world of electronic tongues, deepfake romance scams, and AI-powered check fraud recovery. Then we explore the nuclear-powered future of AI as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon make bold moves to fuel their data centers with small modular reactors and revived nuclear plants, signaling a seismic shift in the energy landscape. Join us as we light up a new atomic age.

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Tesla AI: Cybercab, Robovan & Optimus 🔴 AINTS 058 Oct 11, 2024

This week Tristan and Tasia totally recall Amazon's latest AI-powered shopping, delivery, and Ring doorbell features, Google's Nobel Prize winners, Microsoft's healthcare announcements, Zoom's AI avatars, OpenAI's bad actors report, and more. Then we get up to speed on Tesla's "We, Robot" event, where Elon Musk unveiled the long-awaited Cybercab robotaxi, the Robovan people mover surprise, and significant upgrades to the Optimus humanoid robot. Join us for a wild ride through the week in AI. Steering wheel not included.

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Liquid Foundation Models: The new face of AI? 🔴 AINTS 057 Oct 04, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia go (ever so slightly) back in time to recap the latest Google AI updates, Microsoft Copilot developments, OpenAI's DevDay event announcements, and NVIDIA's NVLM family of large multimodal language models. Then we explore Liquid AI's revolutionary Liquid Foundation Models, which promise state-of-the-art performance without relying on traditional transformer architecture. Will they reshape the future of AI? Join us as we go with the flow — or fight to avoid Judgment Day.

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One week with Meta and OpenAI 🔴 AINTS 056 Sep 27, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia dive into Meta's AI extravaganza, from celebrity-voiced chatbots to its updated Ray-Bans that can now remember things for you, while Mark Zuckerberg teases the future of AI-powered augmented reality glasses.Then we ride through OpenAI's rollercoaster week, with Sam Altman working on an AI device venture and pitching the White House on a massive data center buildout while OpenAI pivots to profits and executives exit. Join us as we steer into the skid to end another wild week in the life of AI.

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SocialAI and Dead Internet Theory 🔴 AINTS 055 Sep 20, 2024

This week, your hosts Tristan and Tasia walk you through the latest AI news, including LinkedIn's AI training initiative (and how to opt out of it), Amazon's AI tools for shoppers, sellers and advertisers, Alibaba's new generative AI models, YouTube's latest AI tools for creators, Lionsgate's controversial partnership with Runway, and California's flurry of AI legislation. Then we dig into the uncanny world of SocialAI and the resurgence of Dead Internet Theory. Join us as we blur the line between human and bot.

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Apple Intelligence and OpenAI's "Strawberry" 🔴 AINTS 054 Sep 13, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia bite into Apple's juicy new iPhone 16 lineup and watch as their AI efforts get a bit mushy in certain markets, while Google's Gemini sprouts on Android and OpenAI's "Strawberry" model tries to sweeten the deal with self-fact-checking. Then we peel back the layers on some spicy AI security concerns, from ChatGPT's illicit recipes mishap to Meta's data-hungry AI models, and explore how AI might be changing the flavor of our beliefs. Join us as we cook up an explosive smorgasbord of AI news.

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xAI gets colossal 🔴 AINTS 053 Sep 06, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia get into some of the details about OpenAI's and Anthropic’s enterprise AI efforts, the drama regarding Oprah's upcoming AI special (that no one's actually seen yet), and the possible futility and/or self-defeating nature of the Council of Europe's AI safety treaty. Then we marvel once again, this time at xAI's Memphis Supercluster, its energy requirements, and how it helps — and possibly hurts — NVIDIA. Join us as we fire up some diesel generators in our pursuit of general artificial intelligence. What's the worst that could happen?

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Regulation and growth: The evolution of AI 🔴 AINTS 052 Aug 30, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia get the latest from Google, as it continues to deliver — or re-deliver — on previously announced AI features. Then we marvel at the continued growth of consumer AI, despite increased scrutiny from regulators and resistance from some website publishers. Turns out there are some strings on it, after all. Join us as we update our robots.txt and pursue shiny gems.

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STUPID AI TRICKS

Stupid but useful AI tricks: Creating calendar entries from an image using Anthropic Claude 3.5

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Generative AI and fake celebrity endorsements 🔴 AINTS 051 Aug 23, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia check out a new YouTube AI chatbot — but it's not what you might expect — and Perplexity ads coming soon to a screen near you — which is exactly what you might expect. We also review the latest in AI image generation and how it's being used to trick us into thinking public figures are endorsing products or politicians that they most definitely aren't. This is why we can't have nice things. Join us as we scream ferociously. Maybe we need to calm down.

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GENERATIVE AI NEWS

AI-GENERATED FAKE CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

OTHER AI NEWS

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Google AI: Ready to go 🔴 AINTS 050 Aug 16, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia celebrate AI Named This Show's one-year anniversary — and 50th episode — by discussing the current wave of increasingly convincing deepfakes and getting somber over the end of objective reality as we know it. Then Tasia recounts the recent Made By Google event that she rolled up to in person, sharing details of the Pixel 9 smartphones, Gemini Live, and more! Join us as we party like it's our birthday...

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GOOGLE AI NEWS

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AI reality check 🔴 AINTS 049 Aug 09, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia sift through the latest good news and/or bad news about Friend, Humane, Rabbit, OpenAI, Google and Figure. Then we puzzle over the current state of AI as some claim we're in a bubble. Join us for an emotional roller coaster ride through the latest AI developments.

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Making friends with AI 🔴 AINTS 048 Aug 02, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia check out Chrome's new AI features and ChatGPT's new foice features before pivoting to Meta's AI Studio, the Friend AI pendant, and new AI features in popular dating apps. Join us as we make AI friends — and friends with AI.

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FRIEND AI PENDANT

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Dating Apps Think AI Will Stop Swiping Burnout. It Might Make It Worse

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Meta doubles down on open-source AI 🔴 AINTS 047 Jul 26, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia see how Google AI gets good at math, Adobe gets better at generative AI, and OpenAI gets into search. Then Meta continues pushing us into VR and pulling us into AI. Join us as we talk to the AInimals. Hold on to your hat!

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META AI NEWS

LLM NEWS

Mistral shocks with new open model Mistral Large 2, taking on Llama 3.1

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The next frontier of generative AI 🔴 AINTS 046 Jul 19, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia look at new image-generating tools from Samsung and Microsoft and check out Amazon's new AI shopping assistant, Rufus. Then we encounter OpenAI's Strawberry (FKA Q*) reasoning technology and new types of AI models that might someday supplant transformers. Join us as we navigate the dangers of the frontier. Can you survive the journey?

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FRONTIER AI MODEL DEVELOPMENT

FURTHER READING

Here's everything you need to know about Big Tech's AI models and tools but were too afraid to ask

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AI and the environment 🔴 AINTS 045 Jul 12, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia explore various recent AI announcements, collaborations and whoopsie-doopsies involving Microsoft, OpenAI, Apple, Samsung, Google, and Motorola. We also discuss Google's recent backtracking on its net zero emissions targets in light of increasing resource demands from AI. Plus: an AI beauty pageant and a surprise appearance from a certain adorable orange lagomorph. Join us as we try to have nice things without destroying our warren!

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GOOGLE, AI AND EMISSIONS

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AI storytelling: As you wish 🔴 AINTS 044 Jul 05, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia are joined by AINTS' very first guest, writer/performer/podcaster/video producer, Bill Meeks, to look at the latest AI image and video generator updates from Stable Diffusion and Runway AI, along with a couple of newcomers. Then Bill walks us through the key features of Everly Heights Story Studio, his AI storytelling toolkit. Join us as we weave classic tales of true love and high adventure in the world of AI.

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BILL MEEKS + EVERLY HEIGHTS STORY STUDIO

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AI music and copyright 🔴 AINTS 043 Jun 28, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia relive a tech journalist's chaotic adventure with Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses in Montreal and uncover the significant security flaw found in Rabbit’s R1 AI gadget. Then we dive into the heated legal battles over AI-generated music, with the RIAA suing Suno and Udio for copyright infringement and YouTube negotiating music licensing for AI song generators. Join us as we tune in to the latest smash hit in the ongoing fight between AI creativity and copyright law. It's like Christmas in summer for AI drama!

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AI MUSIC GENERATION COPYRIGHT LAWSUIT

TASIA’S NEW COURSE

Everything Google: Mastering Your Google Suite of Apps

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AI search, hallucinations and everything 🔴 AINTS 042 Jun 21, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia wade into the Perplexity AI drama — and AI search at large. Then we explore AI hallucinations and a few efforts to reduce them. Join us as we fire up the improbability engine and envision a future where LLMs are accurate most of the time.

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AI SEARCH

AI HALLUCINATIONS

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Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

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Apple Intelligence: AI for the rest of us? 🔴 AINTS 041 Jun 14, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia dive into Apple's AI announcements from WWDC 2024, from its partnership with OpenAI, to custom emoji, to giving Siri a brain transplant. Join us as we air our grievances — and discuss Apple's feats of strength in its big move into AI.

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Is AI slop ruining the Web? 🔴 AINTS 040 Jun 07, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia look at the open letter from several former OpenAI employees (and others) warning of the existential threat of AI and demanding whistleblower protection. Then we discuss various new generative AI tools and developments that are simultaneously making us more productive and the Web more terrible. Join us as we wade through AI failures, AI doom, AI porn, and AI slop to reach the shores of AI disappointment.

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AI SAFETY NEWS

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Continuing the AI superalignment mission 🔴 AINTS 039 May 31, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia go back in time to revisit the dramatic ouster — and resinstatement — of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, with a bit of behind-the-scenes perspective from a former board members. Then we explore the dissolution — and reconstitution — of OpenAI's safety team, and what it means for not only OpenAI's superalignment efforts, but those of one of its rivals. Plus: bilingual brain implants and a hack to disable Google's AI search results. Join us as we line up these stories about several bodies in the AI orbit.

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MICROSOFT BUILD

Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC & SUPERALIGNMENT

AI NEWS

ANTI-AI TOOLS

This Hack Disables Google’s AI Search Results by Default

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Multimodal AI gets more multi 🔴 AINTS 038 May 17, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia check out more news from OpenAI, including the launch of GPT-4o and all its multimodal enhancements, revealed just one day before Google I/O, which featured even more mutlimodal innovations. Join us for an unprecedented mega-sode as we search for the AI elements that will actually resonate with everyday folks.

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OPENAI NEWS

GOOGLE I/O

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Hitting the mother lode of OpenAI initiatives 🔴 AINTS 037 May 10, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia start off with a bit of good Google / bad Google and good Apple / bad Apple. Then we explore this week's rich vein of news from OpenAI. Join us as we dig into the top platforms to bring home some shiny AI nuggets. There's gold in them thar hills!

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GOOGLE AI NEWS

APPLE AI NEWS

OPENAI NEWS

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Claude AI: Time to get to work 🔴 AINTS 036 May 03, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia dive into the R1 rabbithole, find out who's suing OpenAI now, learn about a mysterious new chatbot, and discuss AI news from Yelp. Then we check in with new initiatives from Anthropic's Claude AI for mobile and enterprise. Join us as we get to work. There’s no time like the present!

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AI language models: Small is the new large 🔴 AINTS 035 Apr 26, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia admire Adobe's AI moves, chase the Rabbit R1 as it pops out of its hole, and ponder people's pushback against AI from Meta and Snapchat. Then we put small AI language models from Microsoft and Apple under the microscope. Join us as we get real small. Hold on to your Pym particles!

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SMALL LANGUAGE MODEL (SLM) NEWS

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WHY AI Works

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Meta throws down the AI gauntlet 🔴 AINTS 034 Apr 19, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia discuss the Humane Ai Pin's disappointing reviews, other AI devices coming soon, and AI model developments from OpenAI, Grok and Microsoft. Then we look at Meta's update to its Llama model and infusing its AI magic into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Join us as we grab some potion and some food and watch as another tech champion harnesses the forces of open source to battle for AI dominance.

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AI DEVICES

MICROSOFT VASA-1 AI MODEL

META AI NEWS

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Pushing the limits of AI chatbots 🔴 AINTS 033 Apr 12, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia survey a host of LLM and chatbot updates from OpenAI, Mistral AI, Apple, Microsoft and others, before discussing a few ways people are using and abusing chatbots. Lastly, we learn how to talk to human language models, or HLMs. Join us as we learn the ins and outs of talking to AI — and people.

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OpenAI is experimenting with sharing revenue with builders in its GPT Store

AI CHATBOT/LLM NEWS

AI CHATBOT UNDER PRESSURE

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The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT

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Google AI and the rebirth of search 🔴 AINTS 032 Apr 05, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia check out generative AI updates from OpenAI and Stability AI, and discuss concerns from at least one creative community. Then we look at some of Google's recent moves to disrupt its own search business with AI before someone else does it for them. Join us as we watch a tech titan search for a business model that relies less on advertising and more on subscriptions. Hold on to your wallet!

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Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, 200 artists say AI poses existential threat to their livelihoods

GOOGLE AI NEWS

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Microsoft's quest for AI bliss 🔴 AINTS 031 Mar 29, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia revisit Humane's Ai Pin before its impending launch, marvel at Google's latest AI updates, and check out the White House's new AI guidelines for federal government agencies. Then we look into Microsoft's colloboration with Intel for PCs to run Copilot locally and its efforts to make AI safer in its Azure cloud. Join us as we get grounded and trade in our FLOPS for TOPS. (Tune in to figure out what that even means.)

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Accelerating AI with superconductors 🔴 AINTS 030 Mar 22, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia discuss a potential Google-Apple AI courtship, Microsoft’s Surface AI event, NVIDIA’s GTC 2024 event, a mind-blowing OpenAI robot mashup, and more. Then we explore Extropic’s revolutionary new chip designs that claim to be “many orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient than digital processors.” Join us as we defy Moore’s Law to power the future of AI.

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NVIDIA GTC 2024

EXTROPIC

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AI video generators: The future of filmmaking? 🔴 AINTS 029 Mar 15, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia zoom in on cutting-edge AI video tools Sora, LTX Studio, Morph Studio, EMO, and Augie. Also: AI chips, romantic chatbot caveats, and marrying holograms. Join us as we journey from the creative to the absurd at the speed of AI.

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AI HARDWARE NEWS

AI VIDEO GENERATORS

Y THO

A woman is marrying an AI hologram, ushering in a weird new era for human-robot relationships

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AI language models: Large and in charge 🔴 AINTS 028 Mar 08, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia discuss the latest LLM and chatbot updates from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Mistral, Anthropic — and even Amazon — and try to figure out which ones can actually fit into our already crowded AI toolkits. Join us as we bribe and threaten ChatGPT, Gemini, et al. to do our bidding. Who's in charge now?

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GOOGLE AI NEWS

PROMPT ENGINEERING

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Building strange new worlds with generative AI 🔴 AINTS 027 Mar 01, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia learn the difference between tokens and parameters, discuss whether AI could replace the apps on your phone, and discuss Google's culture war woes — and Genie, its new AI model for creating virtual worlds for gaming and more. Then we cap things off by experimenting with a mind-blowing new real-time image generation model. Join us as we boldy go where no podcast has dressed up trash pandas before.

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GOOGLE GEMINI FOLLOW-UP

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2024 AI NEWS

GOOGLE GENIE

Are we close to the holodeck? Google unveils Genie — an AI model creating playable virtual worlds from a single image

SDXL LIGHTNING

SDXL Lightning

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AI language processing units: New chips on the block 🔴 AINTS 026 Feb 23, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia bring you bunch of Google AI news, a couple of whoopsie-doopsies from ChatGPT and Google Gemini, and more! Plus Groq (yes, with a “q”) introduces its new LPU chips to speed up LLM performance. Join us as we put their claims to a highly unscientific test.

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AI WHOOPSIE-DOOPSIES

GOOGLE AI NEWS

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The next generation of text-to-video AI 🔴 AINTS 025 Feb 16, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia check in on Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit before taking in some little news from Apple, some big news from Google and NVIDIA, and some huge news from OpenAI. Join us for an appropriately sized mega-sode as we try to figure out what is even real anymore.

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APPLE MGIE

Apple made an AI image tool that lets you make edits by describing them

GEMINI 1.5

NVIDIA AI NEWS

SAM ALTMAN / OPENAI NEWS

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Multimodal AI: Copilot vs. Gemini 🔴 AINTS 024 Feb 09, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia do a quick update on CSAM, robocalls, and the Arc browser's new AI features. Then we look at what's fixing to be the AI battle of the century: Microsoft Copilot vs. Google Gemini — now with consistent branding! Join us as we try to figure out who'll be reign supreme in the AI-powered digital assistant and productivity arena!

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AI NEWS

The Arc browser is getting better bookmarks and search results, all thanks to AI

MICROSOFT COPILOT & GOOGLE GEMINI

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Shoring up the fate of OpenAI 🔴 AINTS 023 Feb 02, 2024

This week, Tasia and Tristan check in on some Samsung speculation and Google goings-on before diving into the murky depths of the legal, ethical and societal challenges posed by AI deepfakes — celebrity and otherwise — and law enforcement's in challenges pursuing the purveyors of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the age of AI. Then we tack toward Sam Altman's prediction of AGI's imminent arrival, his pursuit of sustainable fusion energy to power AI's future, and his in-house chip development ambitions to fortify OpenAI's competitive position. Join us as we navigate the choppy waters of AI's potential — and real-world considerations.

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GOOGLE AI NEWS

DEEPFAKES & AI-GENERATED CSAM

OPENAI NEWS

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Lighting up generative AI 🔴 AINTS 022 Jan 26, 2024

This week, Tasia and Tristan touch on the public release of Nightshade, designed to protect artists' copyright, discuss the unsettling trend of deepfakes — political and otherwise, and the legal battles surrounding AI-generated content, including George Carlin's posthumous special. Then we dive into Google's latest AI exploits, from the innovative feature drops for the Pixel 8 smartphones and Google Chrome web browser to the creative realms of Lumiere, its latest in a parade of AI video generators. Be our guest for an enlightening episode as we navigate the promising yet perilous landscape of generative AI.

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GOOGLE AI NEWS

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AI all the things 🔴 AINTS 021 Jan 19, 2024

This week, Tasia and Tristan kick things off with the auto industry's shift towards AI-infused, connected vehicles, the surge in AI girlfriend bots on OpenAI's GPT Store, and Microsoft's unveiling of Copilot Pro. They we pivot to some of the intriguing AI-powered gadgets from CES 2024, including Samsung's bowling ball-sized home robot called Ballie, the pocket-sized Rabbit R1 AI assistant, and the Oro pet-sitting robot. We round things out with Samsung's Galaxy S24 and its Google-powered AI smarts. Join us for another mega-sode as we explore how AI is becoming an ever-growing part of our daily lives.

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AI NEWS

Microsoft's Copilot Pro is a $20 monthly subscription for advanced AI features

AI GADGETS

SAMSUNG GALAXY S24 AI FEATURES

MORE ON CES 2024

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CES 2024 AI announcements: y tho 🔴 AINTS 020 Jan 12, 2024

This week, Tasia and Tristan touch on OpenAI's GPT Store debut, provide an update on its copyright skirmish with the New York Times, and dish additional details on Apple's AI aspirations. Then we unveil some of the AI announcements at CES 2024, from ChatGPT-equipped cars and AI-powered exoskeletons to quirky tech like AI cat doors and baby cry translators. Join us for a glimpse into our AI-augmented future — as envisioned by consumer tech companies.

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AI AT CES 2024

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The future of AI: Pondering the year ahead 🔴 AINTS 019 Jan 05, 2024

This week, Tristan and Tasia take a quick peek at The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, and OpenAI's ambitions for a mysterious AI device (with the help of a former Apple exec). Then we take a long, hard look at the year ahead, which could usher in a new era of AI capability and commercialization while the industry grapples with the opportunities and inherent limitations of increasingly powerful AI models — along with heightened scrutiny from regulators. Join us as we explore the themes likely to dominate the AI landscape throughout 2024.

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THE YEAR AHEAD IN AI

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AI chatbots get personal 🔴 AINTS 018 Dec 22, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia look into the new open-source AI alliance led by Meta and IBM, and the growing concern over privacy as certain AI models can now identify locations from photos. Then we explore the latest in chatbots being integrated into automobiles, interactive holographic kiosks, online garage sales, and [checks notes] romantic relationships. Join us as we figure out which chatbots will actually help us and which will contribute to the ultimate decline of civilization.

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PREDICTING IMAGE GEOLOCATIONS (PIGEON)

Artificial Intelligence can find your location in photos

IN-CAR AI ASSISTANT

AI CHATBOT AS ROMANTIC COMPANION

HOLOGRAM CHATBOTS

AI GARAGE SALE

THE BEST CHATBOTS OF 2023

FREE AI COURSES

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Multimodal AI models: The empires strike back 🔴 AINTS 017 Dec 15, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia discuss recent AI announcements from Apple, Meta and Microsoft along with promising updates from xAI and Mistral, before digging into Google's groundbreaking Gemini model — and its controversial demo video. Join us for a galaxy-sized episode about the battle for multimodal AI supremacy.

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Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework

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THE OTHER GROK

META AI

GOOGLE GEMINI

MICROSOFT AI NEWS

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Amazon: Reinventing AI or itself? 🔴 AINTS 016 Dec 08, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia look at Sports Illustrated’s use of AI-generated writers and Google Bard’s answering questions about YouTube videos. Then we discuss the AWS re:Invent conference, where Amazon unveiled a slew of AI innovations, including Amazon Q (its new corporate chatbot), Titan Image Generator, Amazon Transcribe’s expansion to over 100 languages, and Amazon’s next-generation AI chips. Join us as we ponder whether Amazon is playing catch-up or positioning itself as a leader in an AI-driven future.

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AWS RE:INVENT 2023 RECAP

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ChatGPT's birthday and the death of AI safety 🔴 AINTS 015 Dec 01, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia celelbrate ChatGPT's birthday, recounting its historic rise, the introduction of GPT-4, DALL-E 3, and custom GPTs, and the resolution of OpenAI's recent leadership drama. With Sam Altman back as CEO, have the contentious debates over AI ethics and safety taken a back seat to relentless innovation and effective acceleration? Join us as we do a speed run through the twists and turns of AI's most transformative year yet.

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Elon Says Copyright/AI Lawsuits Don’t Matter Because ‘Digital God’ Will Arrive Before They’re Decided

AI SAFETY

After OpenAI's Blowup, It Seems Pretty Clear That 'AI Safety' Isn't a Real Thing

CHATGPT’S YEAR

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AI chatbots and boardroom coups 🔴 AINTS 014 Nov 24, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia recap the leadership upheaval at OpenAI — featuring CEO Sam Altman's shocking ousting and swift return. We set it against the backdrop of this month's OpenAI DevDay revelations — including the debut of GPT-4 Turbo and custom GPTs — as well as xAI's Grok and Anthropic's Claude 2.1. Join us as we bounce from the boardroom to bots, where it's safety versus speed and specialization versus spiciness in the race for AI supremacy.

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OPENAI DEVDAY

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ANTHROPIC CLAUDE 2.1

OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful

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AI wearables: The future of personal computing? 🔴 AINTS 013 Nov 17, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia explore the intersection of innovation and privacy in the realm of AI wearables. From Humane's groundbreaking Ai Pin to other projects on the horizon, we examine how these devices are redefining personal computing and raising crucial privacy questions. Join us as we unravel the complexities of AI's integration into our daily lives, one wearable at a time.

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HUMANE AI PIN

OTHER AI WEARABLES/DEVICES

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AI Safety Summit: Cracking the code of risk mitigation 🔴 AINTS 012 Nov 10, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia unpack the highlights and key outcomes from the UK's recent AI Safety Summit, where global leaders, tech giants, and AI researchers convened to forge the Bletchley Declaration. We dive into the debate over open-source AI, the commitments from major tech companies to preemptively test AI products, and the challenges of aligning international AI regulations, particularly around frontier AI. Join us as we discuss whether these collaborative efforts to secure a safe future with AI will actually be effective, given various competing geopolitical priorities and relentless technological advancements. Also: another Microsoft AI whoopsie-doopsie. 😬

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Microsoft AI inserted a distasteful poll into a news report about a woman’s death

AI SAFETY SUMMIT

AI SAFETY PRIMERS

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AI regulation: Is fear the mind-killer? 🔴 AINTS 011 Nov 03, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia touch on OpenAI's shelved Arrakis project before diving into President Biden's executive order aimed at fostering safe and secure AI development. The plot thickens with critics calling out Big Tech for allegedly exaggerating AI risks to stifle competition with AI regulation. Join us as we explore the technical, political and ethical considerations driving conversations on the way to our seemingly inevitable AI-driven future.

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OpenAI tried to develop an AI model named after a dystopian hellscape in 'Dune,' but the project failed to land, report says

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Poisoning the generative AI well 🔴 AINTS 010 Oct 27, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia discuss how Google plans to monetize its AI-powered search experience and how it plans to challenge ChatGPT's dominance with its next-generation LLMs. Meanwhile, OpenAI's developing a tool to detect images created by DALL-E 3. We'll also explore how AI "hallucinations" are affecting web search, and how a new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against AI web scrapers. Join us as generative AI begins to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.

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Google is ready to fill its AI searches with ads

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LLM PRIMERS

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AI language models: Larger than life 🔴 AINTS 009 Oct 20, 2023

This week, Tristan and Tasia delve into the evolving world of AI language models (LLMs), exploring their increasing capabilities, trustworthiness, privacy concerns and hallucinations. Next up: Google's efforts to shield its paid generative AI users from copyright challenges, and the impact of its Search Generative Experience (SGE) on publishers. Plus: getting ChatGPT to explain web comics, ambiguous photos, memes and more!

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AI LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

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Do you welcome our new AI robot overlords? 🔴 AINTS 008 Oct 13, 2023

This week Tristan and Tasia get to the bottom of the Pixel 8’s Best Take “innovation” before recapping the week’s top AI news, including Google’s new generative AI search for doctors and Adobe’s Firefly Image 2 model. Then we meet the latest humanoid AI-powered robots. Should we be afraid or embrace our embodied AI counterparts?

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AI ROBOTS

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AI surveillance: Spies in the wires 🔴 AINTS 007 Oct 06, 2023

In another mega-episode, we recap the week’s top AI news, including updates to ChatGPT and Google Bard, the Pixel 8’s fancy new AI-powered features and deepfake celebrity endorsements. Then, in honor of episode 007, we discuss AI’s role in surveillance, espionage and the brewing digital cold war.

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AI NEWS

AI SURVEILLANCE

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Are AI clones coming for your job? 🔴 AINTS 006 Sep 29, 2023

In this mega-episode, Tristan and Tasia discuss Amazon’s foray into AI and ChatGPT’s forthcoming multimodal upgrades, before doing a deep dive into various roles AI is impacting, such as screenwriter, podcaster, influencer, live streamer, software developer and even job-seeker.

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AI IN THE WORKPLACE

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AI assistants: Who is *your* co-pilot? 🔴 AINTS 005 Sep 22, 2023

In this episode, Tristan and Tasia highlight more AI whoopsie doopsies, recap the biggest AI news from the Microsoft Surface Event, discuss exciting DALL-E news, review Bard's newest extension — and more!

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AI ASSISTANTS & TOOLS

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An AI a day keeps the doctor away 🔴 AINTS 004 Sep 15, 2023

In this episode, Tristan and Tasia examine the power of AI in medicine as ChatGPT diagnoses a boy's chronic pain and a paralyzed woman regains her voice through brain signal decoding. Plus: how AI might predict the next pandemic and even help discover new therapeutic drugs.

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AI IN MEDICINE

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AI containment: Can you put the genie back in the bottle? 🔴 AINTS 003 Sep 08, 2023

In this episode, Tristan and Tasia take a deep dive into AI containment. In a recent Axios interview, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and CEO of Inflection AI, argues that AI needs to be contained by engineering, ethics and regulation. Essentially, he’s advocating for government licensing of powerful AI systems in order to prevent AI from becoming uncontrollable. But can you even put the genie back in the bottle?

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AI CONTAINMENT

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How to resurrect the dead with generative AI 🔴 AINTS 002 Aug 25, 2023

In this episode, Tristan and Tasia discuss whether or not AI art is or can be copyrightable, the use of GPT-4 to moderate content, and they make critical digital death care decisions and debate how we can all live on through our very own AI chatbots. Also: meet your AI boyfriend!

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AI Boyfriend

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Will AI save the world or kill us all? 🔴 AINTS 001 Aug 17, 2023

Some people think AI will save the world and some think it will end it — and that’s where we come in. In our pilot episode Tristan and Tasia discuss the June 2023 Marc Andreessen essay, Why AI Will Save the World, and various counterpoints raised by its detractors.

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