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June 26, 2024 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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55 min
June 19, 2024 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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56 min
June 12, 2024 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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52 min
June 05, 2024How 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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May 29, 2024What'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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1 hr 6 min
May 22, 2024GPT-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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1 hr 5 min
May 15, 2024Google 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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1 hr 7 min
May 08, 2024Apple 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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1 hr 16 min
May 01, 2024Should 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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1 hr 7 min
April 24, 2024Rabbit 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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1 hr 9 min

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AI Inside is a weekly podcast about the AI changing technology, work, and daily life. Tech journalist Jason Howell and media scholar Jeff Jarvis cover the week's biggest AI news and interview the…