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.

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.

This week, Tristan and Tasia delve into the fast-evolving world of AI language models (LLMs), exploring their increasing capabilities, trustworthiness, privacy concerns and hallucinations. We also touch on 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!

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?

In another mega-episode, Tristan and Tasia 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 honour of episode 007, we discuss AI’s role in surveillance, espionage, and the brewing digital cold war.