This Week in Tech

Sep 24th 2023

This Week in Tech 946

AI is Number Two

Hosted by Leo Laporte

iPhone 15 hands on, Amazon hardware event, Instacart IPO, Unity blinks

Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Category: News

iPhone 15 hands on, Amazon hardware event, Instacart IPO, Unity blinks    

  • Discussion on hype cycle of AI; evaluating current state
  •  Defining artificial intelligence vs regular computation
  •  AI winters and peaks of inflated expectations for AI
  •  Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of chatbots like ChatGPT
  •  AI's role in computational photography and new iPhones
  •  Microsoft's focus on AI with OpenAI partnership
  •  Multimodal AI and challenges like hallucination
  •  Apple's secretive approach to developing AI technology
  •  Job loss concerns with the advancement of AI; need for training
  •  Unity's failed attempt to charge developers an install fee
  •  Tech IPO outlook after Instacart and Clavio
  •  Panos Panay leaving Microsoft for Amazon
  •  New Amazon Echo and Alexa AI announcements
  • Authors suing OpenAI over AI-generated content
  •  Misinformation research facing political attacks
  •  Implications of AI voice mimicry without consent
  •  Neuralink seeking volunteers for brain chip implants

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