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Enjoy the audio version of AI Named This Show in your favorite podcast player to stay up to date in all things artificial intelligence. Tristan and Tasia decode the jargon to deliver AI news in an irreverent, light-hearted way that won’t put you to sleep and make you drive off the side of the road.

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Amazon: Reinventing AI or itself?
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Amazon: Reinventing AI or itself?

This week, Tristan and Tasia look at Sports Illustrated’s use of AI-generated writers and Google Bard’s answering questions about YouTube videos. Then we discuss the AWS re:Invent conference, where Amazon unveiled a slew of AI innovations, including Amazon Q (its new corporate chatbot), Titan Image Generator, Amazon Transcribe’s expansion to over 100 languages, and Amazon’s next-generation AI chips. Join us as we ponder whether Amazon is playing catch-up or positioning itself as a leader in an AI-driven future.

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ChatGPT's birthday and the death of AI safety
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ChatGPT's birthday and the death of AI safety

This week, Tristan and Tasia celelbrate ChatGPT's birthday, recounting its historic rise, the introduction of GPT-4, DALL-E 3, and custom GPTs, and the resolution of OpenAI's recent leadership drama. With Sam Altman back as CEO, have the contentious debates over AI ethics and safety taken a back seat to relentless innovation and effective acceleration? Join us as we do a speed run through the twists and turns of AI's most transformative year yet.

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AI chatbots and boardroom coups
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AI chatbots and boardroom coups

This week, Tristan and Tasia recap a week filled with unexpected turns in the AI world, including the leadership upheaval at OpenAI, featuring Sam Altman's shocking ousting and swift return. This is set against the backdrop of this month's OpenAI DevDay revelations — including the debut of GPT-4 Turbo and custom GPTs — as well as xAI's Grok and Anthropic's Claude 2.1. Join us as we bounce from the boardroom to bots, where it's safety versus speed and specialization versus spiciness in the race for AI supremacy.

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AI wearables: The future of personal computing?
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AI wearables: The future of personal computing?

This week, Tristan and Tasia weexplore the intersection of innovation and privacy in the realm of AI wearables. From Humane's groundbreaking Ai Pin to other projects on the horizon, we examine how these devices are redefining personal computing and raising crucial privacy questions. Join us as we unravel the complexities of AI's integration into our daily lives, one wearable at a time.

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AI Safety Summit: Cracking the code of risk mitigation
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AI Safety Summit: Cracking the code of risk mitigation

This week, Tristan and Tasia unpack the highlights and key outcomes from the UK's recent AI Safety Summit, where global leaders, tech giants, and AI researchers convened to forge the Bletchley Declaration. We dive into the debate over open-source AI, the commitments from major tech companies to preemptively test AI products, and the challenges of aligning international AI regulations. Join us as we discuss whether these collaborative efforts to secure a safe future with AI will actually be effective, given various competing geopolitical priorities and relentless technological advancements. Also: another Microsoft AI whoopsie-doopsie. 😬

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