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...
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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1:15:05
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’
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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52:20
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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55:00
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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1:09:02
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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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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