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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• What is Ai Pin?
• Humane Ai Pin has Google Photos, Contacts integration
• Humane Just Gave Us a Proper Glimpse of the AI Pin’s Photo and Video Capture

AI NEWS

• Google bringing Gemini Nano to Pixel 8 with Next Feature Drop
• Google enhances Maps with new AI travel features
• Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework
• The White House lays out extensive AI guidelines for the federal government

MICROSOFT AI NEWS

• Intel, Microsoft discuss plans to run Copilot locally on PCs instead of in the cloud
• Microsoft’s new safety system can catch hallucinations in its customers’ AI apps

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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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AI NEWS

• Google DeepMind co-founder joins Microsoft as CEO of its new AI division
• Everything announced at the 2024 Microsoft Surface event
• Apple and Google are reportedly talking. Could Gemini come to iPhone?
• xAI open sources Grok
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-4 'kinda sucks', hints at GPT-5 boost
• This Robot is Borrowing OpenAI’s Magic to Make At-Home Droids Feel Real

NVIDIA GTC 2024

• Nvidia's Project GROOT brings the human-robot future a significant step closer
• Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour
• NVIDIA's GPUs powered the AI revolution. Its new Blackwell chips are up to 30 times faster
• Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
• Intel clinches nearly $20 billion in awards from Biden to boost US chip output

EXTROPIC

• AI startup Extropic emerges from stealth with superconducting processors it boldly claims will beat GPUs, CPUs, and TPUs
• Ushering in the Thermodynamic Future
• This chip will accelerate AI compute way past Moore's Law
• Thermodynamic Computing: Better than Quantum? | Guillaume Verdon and Trevor McCourt, Extropic

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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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• Why people are falling in love with AI chatbots
• Romantic AI Chatbots Don’t Have Your Privacy at Heart

AI HARDWARE NEWS

• Intel will make chips for Microsoft
• Apple's MacBook Air M3 might be a message to Intel — We do AI PCs, too, and you ain't seen nothing yet

AI VIDEO GENERATORS

• OpenAI just dropped new Sora videos
• Meet LTX Studio — I just saw the future of AI video tools that can help create full-length movies
• AI Powered Filmmaking | LTX Studio
• Morph Studio turns your Stability AI-generated video clips into full films - here's how to try it
• Morph Studio
• See also: AI Video Editing | Aug X Labs
• See also: Augie: AI Assisted Video Creation & Editing (beta preview)
• Alibaba’s New AI Video Generator EMO Makes Photos Talk and Sing
• EMO: Emote Portrait Alive - Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video Diffusion Model under Weak Conditions

Y THO

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

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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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LLM NEWS

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT now has multilingual read out loud feature
• Microsoft’s Copilot AI can now read your files directly
• Amazon’s new Rufus chatbot isn’t bad — but it isn’t great, either
• Mistral AI Goes After GPT-4 With 'Mistral Large' LLM
• AI wars heat up with Claude 3 - claimed to have 'near human' abilities

GOOGLE AI NEWS

• Google Is Paying Publishers to Test an Unreleased Gen AI Platform
• Google Says It’s Purging All the AI Trash Littering Its Search Results

PROMPT ENGINEERING

• Gemini now lets you tune and modify responses with a prompt
• Prompt Engineering Tips: How to Prompt an LLM
• Does Offering ChatGPT a Tip Cause it to Generate Better Text? An Analysis
• From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

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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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• The Groq LPU Inference Engine
• No, Sam Altman doesn’t actually own half a billion dollars of Reddit stock

GOOGLE GEMINI FOLLOW-UP

• Google will take a few weeks to rectify the person generation issue in Gemini
• Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are ‘completely unacceptable’
• Google Gemini product lead’s resurfaced tweets may explain the chatbot’s ‘forced diversity’
• Gemini and Google’s Culture

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2024 AI NEWS

• 12 things I learned about the Humane Ai Pin at MWC 2024
• Brain AI - AI could replace the apps on your phone
• AI Could Replace the Apps on Your Phone. I've Seen It With My Own Eyes

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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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 NEWS

• Stable Diffusion 3.0 debuts new diffusion transformation architecture to reinvent text-to-image gen AI
• AI model Poro sets new milestones for multilingual LLMs in Europe

AI WHOOPSIE-DOOPSIES

• Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images
• ChatGPT spat out gibberish for many users overnight before OpenAI fixed it

GOOGLE AI NEWS

• Google Announces Gemma, its open models for AI research
• Chrome gets a built-in AI writing tool powered by Gemini
• Google launches “Gemini Business” AI, adds $20 to the $6 Workspace bill
• Reddit is licensing its content to Google to help train its AI models

GROQ

• Meet 'Groq,' the AI Chip That Leaves Elon Musk’s Grok in the Dust
• Groq creates fastest generative AI in the world, blazing past ChatGpt and Elon Musk’s Grok
• Groq
• See also: Perplexity

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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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FOLLOW-UP

• Sarah Silverman’s copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form
• See also: Looking Back at Google Books Eight Years Later

APPLE MGIE

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

GEMINI 1.5

• Google's Gemini AI Keeps Your Conversations for Up to 3 Years (Even If You Delete Them)
• Google upstages itself with Gemini 1.5 AI launch, one week after Ultra 1.0
• Gemini 1.5

NVIDIA AI NEWS

• NVIDIA’s new AI chatbot runs locally on your PC
• Build a Custom LLM with Chat With RTX
• Exclusive: Nvidia pursues $30 billion custom chip opportunity with new unit

SAM ALTMAN / OPENAI NEWS

• Sam Altman reportedly wants trillions of dollars to supercharge chip production
• OpenAI terminates accounts of confirmed state-affiliated bad actors
• ChatGPT-5: release date, price, and what we know so far
• OpenAI experiments with giving ChatGPT a long-term conversation memory
• OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model
• Sora
• OpenAI's Sora Is a Giant 'F*ck You' to Reality
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reveals AI danger which keeps him awake at night

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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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• EU proposes criminalizing AI-generated child sexual abuse and deepfakes
• AI-generated Biden calls came through shady telecom and Texan front ‘Life Corporation’
• FCC made AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law

AI NEWS

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

MICROSOFT COPILOT & GOOGLE GEMINI

• Microsoft’s Copilot AI can explain stuff to you in Notepad.
• Microsoft’s next big AI push is here after a year of Bing
• Google’s AI now goes by a new name: Gemini

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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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FOLLOW-UP

• George Carlin's family files lawsuit over AI standup special
• Humans actually wrote that fake George Carlin ‘AI’ standup routine
• Samsung Confirms It's Considering Making You Pay for Galaxy AI in the Future

GOOGLE AI NEWS

• Google’s Bard chatbot gets the Gemini Pro update globally
• Google Bard now has an AI image generator — how it plans to avoid another Taylor Swift deepfake fiasco
• Google reveals another text-to-image generative AI tool, ImageFX

DEEPFAKES & AI-GENERATED CSAM

• New Senate bill would provide path for victims of nonconsensual AI deepfakes
• Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says

OPENAI NEWS

• Sam Altman Says Human-Tier AI Is Coming Soon
• OpenAI’s in-house chip odyssey: Sam Altman aims for a network of fabs
• Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source
• ChatGPT’s new @-mentions bring multiple personalities into your AI convo

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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’s latest Pixel feature drop adds Circle to Search, Magic Compose, and more
• Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

AI DEEPFAKES

• New Hampshire Officials Investigating AI Robocalls Mimicking Biden
• George Carlin Estate Threatens Legal Action Over AI Special
• Swift retaliation: Fans strike back after explicit deepfakes flood X
• Celeb Jihad - the website that posted deepfake AI porn of Taylor Swift - has been sharing explicit images of celebrities for YEARS without punishment - and was threatened by the pop star's lawyers in 2011 over fake topless photo

GOOGLE AI NEWS

• Alphabet Cuts Ties with Australian AI Firm that Helped Train Bard and Google Search
• Appen
• Google’s latest AI video generator can render cute animals in implausible situations
• Lumiere
• See also: Google Imagen Video
• See also: Google VideoPoet
• Google Chrome Adds AI Power
• Google Chrome AI Updates 2024: Hands on with Chrome's AI Features

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