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...
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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1:15:01
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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1:06:57
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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1:06:58
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
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0:56:15 - Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."
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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.