EP 185: AI News That Matters - Jan. 15th, 2024

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So much is happening in the world of AI news. It's hard to keep track of it all and to talk about what actually matters. So that's what we're going to be doing today, recapping the news that actually matters to you. For January 15, 2024. We're going to be talking about a little bit of everything from the Bill Gates and Sam Altman interview to Apple kind of shuttering their AI team. We're going to be covering just about everything to keep you updated for the week with what you need to know. All right, thanks for joining us. My name is Jordan Wilson and I am the host of Everyday AI. Every Everyday AI It's. This is for you, y'. All. This is your daily live stream, podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday people like you and me not just learn what's going on in the world of artificial intelligence, gen AI, but how we can all actually leverage it to grow our companies and to grow our careers. So thank you for joining today. If you're listening on the podcast, thank you. 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Did y' all see the. I'm sure you did. You know, if you've been on social media, but Bill Gates released late last week his interview, his conversation with Sam Altman. So there were a lot of things in this interview. So I, I checked it out when it first came out, but I actually listened to the full thing last night. You know, in preparation for this show. We always prepare for the show, but there's, there's a lot of. A lot of hidden gems in there. I'd say, first of all, let's just go ahead. Let's. Let's hit the. Let's hit the high notes here, all right, of what this interview was and what it was not. Because if, if, like me you were on social media at all over the weekend? I always open Twitter, you know, a couple times a day just to see what's going on in AI news. Right, that. Because everything breaks so quickly. But, you know, GPT5 was trending and I'm like, why is GPT5 trending? And, and people think that this whole interview was about GPT5, open AI's next large language model. It was not. All right, GPT5 was not specifically mentioned when talking about, you know, these future features. All right, so let's just put that out there, you know. Yes. You know, Bill Gates and Sam Altman were talking a little bit about the future of the GPT technology, but they were not specifically talking, hey, these are things inside of GPT5. So let's just put that out there. Of course, OpenAI could release that at any minute or it could be another, you know, months. Obviously their, their GPT4 model now has been out for more than a year, but it's still leading the pack. Right? Google Gemini released their new or. Or, sorry, Google released their new Gemini Pro model that's now powering Google Bard and GPT4 is outperforming it still. So I don't fully understand why every time Sam Altman speaks about anything, people you know, are saying, oh, this is GPT5, it's coming. It's not. Well, it could be, but this isn't what the interview was about. So let's, let's tackle a little bit more on what was actually in this interview, if you didn't get to check it out. Okay, so Sam Altman really talked about future models having an increased reasoning ability and reliability in future models. So he kind of talked like, hey, you know, kind of this 1 in 10,000 concept, you can go and listen to it. But he did say that future models are going to be much more reliable and specifically with reasoning, which is great. You know, it was kind of, it was kind of cool to hear this candid conversation and Sam just kind of saying like, hey, right now, chat, GPT is not great at reasoning. Right. Which is what I'm sure many people out there have experienced if you use it all. So reasoning seems to be a big piece moving forward. Also, it's talking about how fast. Right? Both of them were talking about how fast this technology is, especially compared to past technological innovations and just how this cycle of, you know, generative AI is, is breakneck speeds. And you know, I talk about that on the show all the time because I don't think especially business leaders that are in their, you know, 40s, 50s, maybe 60s, the business leaders who say, ah, we've been here before, you know, we've been here with the Internet or we've been here with, you know, web 2.0. No, that's wrong, right? It's one of the, honestly, it's one of the reasons why I started Everyday AI because I don't think people understand because we have been through, right. Myself, I'm, oh, I'm vomiting in my mouth saying that I'm, you know, two years out from 40. But I've so I've lived through this, you know, the introduction of the Internet and kind of what that meant to society. You know, I was a journalist so I got to experience firsthand what the Internet meant as it kind of, you know, started squashing newspapers. But this is nothing, right? The GPT technology, large language models, generative AI is absolutely nothing like any technological innovation that we've ever seen. So you can't really compare it to, you know, oh, this is like the, the PC or this is like the Internet or this is like, you know, social media. No, it's nothing like that. So it was, it was pretty interesting to hear Bill Gates and Sam Altman talk about that. This isn't really like anything we've ever seen. So if that is your mindset, you should just go, go listen to the rest of this interview. Also talking about robotics improvements, right? They actually spent a decent amount of time talking about that, which I was personally surprised by considering that right now. Yes, OpenAI has investments in robotics company, but they don't actually have a robotics arm anymore. So the three areas that, that Sam Altman talked about for kind of the greatest impact in the near future for the GPT technology were coding. So coding healthcare and education also something that I didn't see anyone else talking about. And I'm like, why, right? Why am I the only one that heard this piece? You know. And hey, if you're tuning in live, let me know if this piece, you know, caught your ear. If you did listen to the interview. But Sam Altman and Bill Gates were talking about, you know, Sam kind of did this, you know, worldwide tour, right? He went all over the place, talked to, you know, important people, everyday people all over the world, but especially especially heads of states in other countries just kind of talking about the future of Gen AI, large language models, etc. But Sam Altman said that he had personally gotten worldwide support from heads of state, nearly unanimous worldwide support from heads of states for submitting future extremely powerful large language models to government leaders for approval in the same way that they do with international weapons inspectors. So when he talked about extremely powerful large language models and that we weren't even there yet, and having to clear these with worldwide leaders in the same way that they do with international weapons. Right. With weapons of mass destruction, you know, that had to get you thinking. That had to get you thinking a little bit, right? Yes, they, they talked about also, you know, AGI and you know, OpenAI's, you know, kind of gold there, but I didn't really hear anything new technically or, or noteworthy that hasn't been talked about many times. But that was something that really caught my eye. So yeah, did. I'm wondering if, if anyone else, you know, out there listening, Are you still.

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Geni. Was kind of concerned with that. That caught me off guard a little bit. All right, so let's, let's keep this thing moving. So another piece of AI news that matters this week is Apple is kind of shuddering its AI team in San Diego. So this is another one I'm going to maybe clear up a little bit. Just like, you know, everyone with the Bill Gates and Sam Altman interview said, oh, this interview means GPT5 is coming. No, it doesn't. This news story that just broke about Apple shutting down its 121 person AI team in San Diego, people are saying, oh, this means that Apple is not invested in AI. No, that's absolutely not what it means. So here's, here's what actually happened in this story is Apple is only Asking the their team to relocate to Texas. They're bringing this AI team from different areas all and they want them all kind of in Texas. So I don't think this is a signal. Obviously Apple is abandoning AI. They're mainly just asking all of these team members to locate. But that's not what's grabbing the headlines. Right? What's grabbing the headlines is you see that Apple is quote unquote, shutting down or shuttering this 121 person AI team. Not the case. It does look like that many of these employees may not relocate. So they may end up in theory losing their jobs. But Apple is still, and I've said this multiple times, we haven't even talked about things like what is it? Apple Ferret, right. Their kind of open source model that has not really leaked, but they didn't really announce it. But it's out there. We'll talk about that on some other show. But Apple is still, I think, the biggest name that you have to look out for when it comes to generative AI and large language models. Right. The big speculation is Apple's next iPhone may have that on device AI. You know, we kind of talked about on device AI last week or you know, Edge AI as it's, you know, sometimes referred to. Apple's still a leader. They are. Right. When they have billions with an S. Billions of devices out there, they have an advantage that no one else in the generative AI scene has. So trust me, don't, don't read this headline and think, oh, Apple's, you know, even further out of the AI race just because they don't have, you know, their Apple Ajax, you know, reportedly the Apple AJAX model or Apple GPT, whatever, you know, rumor. You want to believe what it's going to be called just because that's not out yet or Apple hasn't officially announced anything AI related. They're not out. They are still out, I think ultimately going to be the leader in this space. Yes. Microsoft did just leapfrog Apple in terms of market cap. So theoretically, you know, Microsoft is now leading, you know, these, these mega cap companies in terms of the most valuable companies in the United States. I don't think Apple's worried. Apple has always been the best at playing the long game. So don't look at this headline and think that that means that Apple is not investing in AI. All right. Robotics. But actually I'd love to hear from our live stream audience too. What questions do you have about this? Or I want to hear your insights too. Right. Even if you're listening on the podcast, I, I literally put the email in there and, and, you know, responding to emails as I can. So, you know, email me your thoughts as well. But One X Robotics, so so many of these things, you know, we either, you know, we're tucked in our newsletter or maybe we mentioned them live on the podcast. Some of these news items that we're talking about, news that matters today, are kind of new, but this one was not. We covered this last week, but I want to talk about what this means. All right, so 1x is the robotic company. And last week we talked about their latest fundraising round, which us was a hundred million dollars that they raised. So 1x, 1x technology just received this huge amount of funding and they're aiming to bring their humanoid robot, Neo, into the market to assist with labor demands. So if you haven't checked out One AX Robotics, there's obviously a lot of different, you know, robotics companies out there. You know, Boston, what is it? Boston Dynamics, right. You know, Tesla has their kind of robotics company, but One X is, is pretty impressive, right? And they have a large investment from Open AI as well. So here's, here's why I think that you should be keeping an eye and. Well, number one. Oh, let's see. Oh, not all my graphics went over here, but they are having an event. What is it? January? January 24th, 25th. So they are inventing, they are inviting one 1x robotics is, in about a week and a half here, the leading experts in the world, the leading engineers, the leading robotics experts to a live event where people, for the first time that I think from the public, are going to be able to see this, this NEO robot and some of the other technologies that One X has been working on. So expect to see some big news and some people probably being shocked if I'm telling, telling you the truth, because if you haven't been checking out the new advancements in robotics, especially now with, you know, you know, kind of how they're even sometimes incorporating large language models to better communicate with these robots, these human, very human like robots. It's extremely impressive and a little nerving if I'm telling you all the truth. All right, our next piece of AI news that matters is the AI recap at ces. So CES was last week, it wrapped up on Friday. So AI was literally the talk of all CES and even sometimes when it wasn't needed. Right. It seemed like so many products such as, you know, Pets, Companions, Powered by Chat, GPT, so many products were just throwing AI into Hardware that maybe necessarily didn't need them. So to recap, AI, yes, was all the talk at the Consumers Electronics show, which is the biggest show in tech. It literally sets the pace for what happens in the world of technology for the year. So the show wrapped up last, late last week in Vegas. And yes, integrating AI into hardware was all of the talk. So you know, from AI powered, you know, refrigerators, which we talked about on the show, to the device rabbits, R1, which is a hardware device. Yeah, not an app, but literally a hardware device that uses what they're calling large action models to be able to replicate tasks that, you know, humans do, maybe on their smartphones. But everything, everything was AI, you know, mirrors that tell you your mood. But yeah, so make sure we'll, we'll have a nice high level recap in the newsletter as well, as well as what I thought was one of the more visually fascinating things is kind of these AI powered holograms. Right. So you could go into a booth here, kind of showing this on the screen for the, for the live stream audience, but you could go into a booth and it would pre. Much recreate a three dimensional hologram. AI powered, like pretty much live in real time. And that was pretty impressive visually. Of all the different, you know, I looked at the, you know, someone came out with a list of the top, you know, 30, you know, AI products at CES, I would say that one was the one, at least to me, that looked the most impressive and maybe had, you know, practical use cases because, you know, we think there is still this, this flux. Right, of, of what, what is the future of work? You know, there's still companies obviously wrestling with, you know, the hybrid versus, you know, remote versus in person. So I don't know, will we see in the, you know, near future holograms, you know, big companies using these in lieu of, you know, your zoom calls Now, I don't know, but the technology is definitely catching up and looks pretty impressive. All right, this one is only hours old and not necessarily good news, but we're recapping it anyways. So a new IMF study warns that the rise of AI could impact nearly 40% of jobs globally. Yeah, globally. So the International Monetary Fund, in a study just released, warned that almost 40% of jobs globally could be affected by AI, with advanced economies actually being the ones most at risk. So the study, according to the study, they're saying AI is expected to worsen overall inequality and they're urging policymakers to take proactive measures to prevent social tensions. Right. We don't talk about it a lot on this show about AI and job loss. Which is weird, right? Considering that we're a daily AI livestream, a daily AI podcast. We don't talk about it, you know, every single day. We maybe mention it, you know, once or twice a week. Just kind of the impacts of job displacement. I mean, one of the reasons is, in all honesty, I want this. I want Everyday AI to be an optimistic community, right? I want this to be a place where we can all, you know, really just learn and leverage Generative AI. And I don't want us to be, you know, this, this pessimistic place where we're always talking about job loss. But I mean, that's the reality, right? The very first episode of, of Everyday AI was talking about, will AI take your job? And I said, yes, absolutely. AI is going to take away many more jobs than it will replace. That's the reality, right? And that's one of the reasons why I started Everyday AI. So if you are listening daily, reading our newsletter, attending our courses, joining our community that we're going to be launching soon, there's a little secret for you. So let me know if you want access to that community. But the whole point is we want Everyday AI, our group to not be the ones that are impacted. But the reality is the vast majority of jobs are going to be impacted by AI. You know, go, go read this study in the, in the newsletter today. We'll make sure to link it. But another thing, the img, the IMF chief warned that the effects are expected to be more profound in advanced economies, particular for white collar workers. Right? So I think everyone just had this, especially when Gen AI came out, you know, they said, ah, you know, this is maybe just lower level workers. No, this, you know that where this is truly going to have an impact is advanced economies like the US and white collar workers, Right? That's the reality. All right, so here we go. The next and last piece of news that matters for today is OpenAI GPT store was released. We've talked about it a couple times on the show already. But this actually had did happen in the last week, even though it seems like it happened months ago now. So we actually had Nancy Bain on the show on Thursday kind of walking us through which great timing by the way. We had that show planned. We didn't know when the GPT Store was going to be announced and it was announced just hours before that, that live show. But we kind of talked about different ways to walk through how to create and configure a custom GPT bot. So if, if you don't know what the OpenAI, OpenAI's GPT store is, it's live. I actually, FYI, and I'm going to talk about this tomorrow, I created a little bit better version of it, if I'm being honest, just of the directory side. So reach out to me and I'll send you access to that if you want. But the OpenAI store or OpenAI's GPT store, it's really set kind of how they're positioning it and how a lot of experts are, are talking about it, like myself included, I have extremely high expectations for what the GPT Store means for the future of work. So similarly now, how with a smart. With your smartphone, right? So many times in your head you're thinking, whether it's personally or professionally or, you know, if you think of SaaS, you know, software as a service, you know, when, when you're trying to do something in work a lot of times, or if you're trying to do something personally, you search, you say, oh, is there an app to help me, you know, share my itinerary with friends? Or is there an app that helps me, you know, better, you know, manage my finances? Right? Like, you don't even think anymore of, like, oh, if I need to manage my finances, maybe I just need to do a better job of, you know, writing it down on paper or doing a better job tracking it in a spreadsheet. No, everyone thinks what app is the best to use the same thing, right? Like, if you're in sales, maybe you're like, okay, what is the next SaaS? What SaaS should I be using? You know, what's, what's the best integration with our, with our CRM to, you know, track customer movement through our sales pipeline, right? Like, everything is software, everything is apps right now, right? I think for a lot of things, personally and professionally. So I think the GPT Store, I think very soon is going to start changing that narrative. We're not going to be using, I don't think, apps and softwares at this time next year. I don't think we're going to be using as much software or as many apps as we do for these daily tasks. I think we're going to be using GPTs, right? That's the reality. That the GPT Store actually makes it extremely easy to make your own GPT. Doesn't mean it's good, but you can make a working, functioning GPT in a couple of minutes. All right, that does. Again, let Let me warn you, and we're going to talk about this a little bit tomorrow, but doesn't mean you should, right? You really do need practice. A good, a good GPT that function well, that functions well takes countless hours. Right. But it is so easy that anyone out there, right, if you have a Chat GPT plus account, you can go in there and make a functioning GPT in a matter of minutes. All right. Also, another piece of news there is OpenAI did release their Teams feature, which, if I'm being honest, that was, there was actually three things that they announced all in the same day. So they announced the GPT Store, they announced the Teams feature and they announced it was kind of a leak, but a confirmed leak that Chat GPT will be remembering information across different conversations. So I don't believe that last piece is live across all accounts. Normally you get a message that tells you when your account kind of gets access to that a lot of people have, I have not. So that's not a public, I don't believe it's, it's a publicly available rollout. But the first two are the GPT Store is obviously live. And then let's talk real quick about Chat GPT teams. That was also announced and it's live as well. You know, our team immediately upgraded. But what ChatGPT Teams does, there's essentially, I think, three important things. It allows you to more easily collaborate with your team. That's number one. Number two is data. Right. There is finally the option again, I, I, I'm waiting for more information about this because there's not a lot of information out yet. But it does allow you to kind of opt out of sharing your, your training data with OpenAI, which is huge. Right? So Teams is open. You have to have between, I think it's 2 and 149licenses to use chat GPT teams. But the ability to kind of not share any data with OpenAI was obviously one of the main reasons that so many companies didn't jump on Chat GPT to begin with. Obviously the Chat GPT enterprise, you know, product is, is really for those, those huge teams, But I think three really big announcements from Open, from OpenAI. So that is it, y'. All. That is the news that matters for, for the week of, what is it? January 15, mid January 2024. Wow. Can't believe it. All right, so I hope this was a helpful recap and if it was, please go to your everyday AI.com Sign up for that free daily newsletter. We're going to be recapping all of this. So maybe you're, you're listening in the car or. Man, I love, I love when people say, you know, hey, I listen to you when I'm, when I'm running or, you know, we listen to the show when I'm, you know, out grocery shopping, let me know. Where do you listen to the show? It's always, it's always, always fun to hear that from people. But tomorrow, Hot take Tuesday, y', all, because here's the thing. If y' all listen to the show at all or if you, you, you've come to, you know, kind of, kind of know me a little bit. You know, I'm a big fan of OpenAI. I'm a big fan of Microsoft, I'm a big fan of Chat GPT. But they got a lot wrong with the GPT Store. A lot. Right? And I think for the first time, maybe ever, I'm going to really, I don't want to give too much away. Let's just say they got a lot wrong. A lot wrong. So we're gonna be going over that tomorrow. So if you are interested into, in the GPT Store, if you want to know a little bit more about how it works or if you just want to know what they got wrong and we're gonna help fix it, make sure to tune in tomorrow for our show on Hot Take Tuesday. So that's it, y'. All. Thank you for joining us again. Please go to your everydayai.com, sign up for the free daily newsletter and we'll see you back tomorrow and every day for more Everyday AI. Thanks, y'. All.

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