AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

By: Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell
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  • You want to follow the AI space but it's just too much? Welcome to your favorite new show. AI For Humans catches you up on all the AI news, tools & issues. Each week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell help explain exactly how this ground breaking technology will change our world. Plus, it's fun! Don't take our word for it. Fast Company says "AI For Humans may be the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence". Subscribe now to stay up-to-date on one of today's most important emerging technologies. New episodes every Thursday.
    2024
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  • New AI Studios in Hollywood, DeepSeek's AI Reasoning Model, Perplexity Disrupts Shopping & More AI News

    New AI Studios in Hollywood, DeepSeek's AI Reasoning Model, Perplexity Disrupts Shopping & More AI News
    Nov 21 2024

    AI News: Deepseek’s AI reasoning model takes on OpenAI’s o1, Perplexity takes on shopping and new AI studio Promise & *checks notes* Ben Affleck take on traditional Hollywood?

    It’s a deep dive on AI vs Hollywood as we also talk about the controversial AI Coca-Cola commercial & how media jobs are being shed at record numbers. Plus, Gemini’s new voice mode, AI’s Manhattan Project, Kevin gives us a look at a free AI upscaler called Clarity Refiners, Gavin spends more time with Suno V4, new robots, new Sora videos and a visit from an AI career coach.

    IT’S A GOOD ONE Y’ALL.

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    DeepThink Reasoning Engine Released

    https://www.deepseek.com/

    https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1859235248632123763

    Perplexity Shopping

    https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1858556244891758991

    New Gemini Voice Mode

    https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1858556217205170296

    Mustafa Suleyman Talks MSFT Memory Prototypes with Infinite Memory

    https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1857927928690127079

    AI Manhattan Project

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-government-commission-pushes-manhattan-project-style-ai-initiative-2024-11-19/

    Generative AI Studio “Promise” Gets VC Funding

    https://x.com/promise_ai/status/185889037568936769

    Ben Affleck Talks AI Movies

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypURoMU3P3U

    Coca-Cola AI Ad

    https://youtu.be/BtD4fHgkrqI?si=E0PrD1a8W4BL7xxp

    NewsProducer Out of a Job Due To AI

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1guhsm4/well_this_is_it_boys_i_was_just_informed_from_my/

    Waffle Flipping Robot

    https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1guc53o/astribot_s1_no_teleoperation_1x_speed

    Nespresso Robot

    https://youtu.be/LPlNZmJzuhU

    Cowboy Pile Up

    https://x.com/BengtTibert/status/1858961965596446770

    Clarity Refiners UI

    https://x.com/cocktailpeanut/status/1858938348955443475
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    52 mins
  • OpenAI & Google Struggle on Model Training, Suno's New AI Music Model & More AI News

    OpenAI & Google Struggle on Model Training, Suno's New AI Music Model & More AI News
    Nov 14 2024
    AI NEWS: OpenAI, Google & other AI companies face potential struggles to advance their frontier AI models like Orion, but Anthropic's CEO still predicts AGI by 2027. What gives? We discuss the growing fear that AI scaling has peaked and what’s causing the slowdown. Meanwhile, Apple makes strides in AI tech, we got our hands on Suno V4 which is *great* and China’s Deep Robotics showcases an off-road robot that scared the pants off us. Plus, NVIDIA’s new robotic advancements and Xpeng's humanoid robot reveal, and we explore how Meta’s AI chatbot gave foragers deadly advice. IT’S NOT OVER… IT’S ONLY JUST BEGUN Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ #ai #aitools #openai // SHOW LINKS // Ilya Says Scaling Is Plateau-ing https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-rivals-seek-new-path-smarter-ai-current-methods-hit-limitations-2024-11-11/ OpenAI sources say training scaling is slowing down… https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-shifts-strategy-as-rate-of-gpt-ai-improvements-slows?rc=c3oojq&shared=cee45715e080388f Noam Brown on Inference Training https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1gqc24w/openais_noam_brown_says_scaling_skeptics_are/ OpenAI To Launch o1 by “end of year” https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-openai-cto-muratis-new-team-takes-shape?rc=c3oojq&shared=166c84764e6700e7 OpenAI’s Plan To Make Gov’t Work For Them (against China) https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/openai-to-present-plans-for-us-ai-strategy-and-an-alliance-to-compete-with-china.html Dario Amodei on Lex Fridman says AGI 2025 / 2026 https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=IKvG7BXjXVFhyFhN Suno v4.0 https://x.com/sunomusic/status/1856108854066413785 Apple Coming For Alexa - New AI-powered Smart Home Device https://x.com/markgurman/status/1856439194807349657 https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/24294975/apple-smart-home-display-march-2025-rumors Apple AI WTF https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/24289939/apple-intelligence-ai-notification-summaries-awkward-funny-bad Deep Robotics Off-Roading Robot https://x.com/breadli428/status/1856335825522311611 Project gr00t update https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1855657450604523970?s=46&t=w0Q4PuG9XdwnJWsovr5M2g Xpeng Robot https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1855657472934977879?s=46&t=w0Q4PuG9XdwnJWsovr5M2g Meta AI Mushroom Controversey https://www.404media.co/ai-chatbot-added-to-mushroom-foraging-facebook-group-immediately-gives-tips-for-cooking-dangerous-mushroom/ Teacher Show Kids AI Future https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1856394679379735004?s=46&t=w0Q4PuG9XdwnJWsovr5M2g X-Portrait 2 https://byteaigc.github.io/X-Portrait2/ Remaking The Polar Express with AI Video https://x.com/kaigani/status/1856198885841973271 Recapture video model https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/3TU3FvGyVg Vidu 1.5 New Multi-modal AI Video Model https://x.com/Viduforhuman/status/1855222897679188255 Suno AI (V4 Coming Soon) https://suno.com/
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    47 mins
  • Sam Altman's AI Optimism, New Presidential AI Policy & Defense, Endless AI Video Games & More AI News

    Sam Altman's AI Optimism, New Presidential AI Policy & Defense, Endless AI Video Games & More AI News
    Nov 7 2024

    AI News: OpenAI’s Sam Altman says AI is accelerating to AGI and NVIDIA is the world’s most valuable company just as other billionaires say we’re slowing down. What gives?

    Plus, the US election shakes up the world of open-source AI as Meta’s LLAMA model is being used both by other governments and our own for defense purposes. Plus, the Oasis generative AI video game making people mad, a bunch of AI Video updates & we check in with AI Guy Fieri who’s mad now that AI Gordo Ramsay has taken over for him.

    IT’S A TWO BOOM WORLD AND WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT

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    Sam Altman At London Dev Day Talking About The Speed of AI Development

    https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1853548119021248560

    NVIDIA Passes Apple As Most Valuable Company

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/05/nvidia-passes-apple-as-worlds-most-valuable-company-.html

    Marc Andreesen & Ben Horowitz Say AI Models Are Hitting a Ceiling (24m in)

    https://youtu.be/hookUj3vkE4?si=12BuF-f6Ma-UvksV

    Claude Haiku 3.5 is out but… price go up?

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/04/anthropic-hikes-the-price-of-its-haiku-model/

    Anthropic Opus run failed rumors

    https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/1853528564525826180

    New Administration On AI

    https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-battle-over-open-source-ai-will-be-settled-in-trumps-presidency?rc=c3oojq

    Meta Allows US to use Llama https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/meta_weaponizing_llama_us/

    Chinese researches were already using

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/chinese-researchers-develop-ai-model-military-use-back-metas-llama-2024-11-01/

    Scale AI’s Defense LLAMA

    https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1853853829336559790

    Oasis Generative AI Game Engine
    https://x.com/DecartAI/status/1852091173420294291

    Kling Custom Face Models
    https://x.com/CharaspowerAI/status/1853488598605316256

    Runway Gen-3 Camera Control

    https://x.com/runwayml/status/1852720539707564162

    Zemeckis and Hanks using GenAI for “HERE”

    https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1853120945097199730

    Ethan Mollick Invites HeyGen Avatar To Zoom Call

    https://x.com/emollick/status/1853887499266838762

    Pets Floating in Zero G

    https://x.com/fofrAI/status/1853193897373233241

    How Gordon Ramsay Built The Pyramids

    https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1gjson1/i_asked_ai_how_gordon_ramsay_built_the_pyramids/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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