Tasia Custode, Tristan Jutras

AI Named This Show

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AI Named This Show is a weekly AI-focused tech show. Join longtime friends and tech media veterans Tasia Custode and Tristan Jutras as they dive into the AI abyss, unraveling the complexities of artificial intelligence. They cover everything from groundbreaking AI news to the practical applications — and societal implications — of large language models, machine learning, deep learning, generative AI and more. FOLLOW AI Named This Show on Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and

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Tasia Custode, Tristan Jutras

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AI regulation: Is fear the mind-killer? 🔴 AINTS 011 03.11.2023 41:54

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...

Poisoning the generative AI well 🔴 AINTS 010 27.10.2023 37:01

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 sc...

AI language models: Larger than life 🔴 AINTS 009 20.10.2023 1:01:57

This week, Tristan and Tasia delve into the evolving world of AI language models (LLMs), exploring their increasing capabilities, trustworthiness, privacy concerns and hallucinations. Next up: 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, ambiguo...

Do you welcome our new AI robot overlords? 🔴 AINTS 008 13.10.2023 32:15

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? FOLLOW AI Named This Show on Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and X (Tw...

AI surveillance: Spies in the wires 🔴 AINTS 007 06.10.2023 52:36

In another mega-episode, we 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 honor of episode 007, we discuss AI’s role in surveillance, espionage and the brewing digital cold war. FOLLOW AI Named This Show on Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and X (Twitter) Tristan & Tasia AI Nam...

Are AI clones coming for your job? 🔴 AINTS 006 29.09.2023 52:39

In this mega-episode, Tristan and Tasia discuss Amazon’s foray into AI and ChatGPT’s forthcoming multimodal upgrades, before doing a deep dive into various roles AI is impacting, such as screenwriter, podcaster, influencer, live streamer, software developer and even job-seeker. FOLLOW AI Named This Show Tristan & Tasia AI Named This Show podcast AI NEWS The new WGA contract will change how Hol...

AI assistants: Who is *your* co-pilot? 🔴 AINTS 005 22.09.2023 34:59

In this episode, Tristan and Tasia highlight more AI whoopsie doopsies, recap the biggest AI news from the Microsoft Surface Event, discuss exciting DALL-E news, review Bard's newest extension — and more! FOLLOW AI Named This Show Tristan & Tasia AI Named This Show podcast on Acast , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , iHeart and Spotify AI NEWS Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Art...

An AI a day keeps the doctor away 🔴 AINTS 004 15.09.2023 31:28

In this episode, Tristan and Tasia examine the power of AI in medicine as ChatGPT diagnoses a boy's chronic pain and a paralyzed woman regains her voice through brain signal decoding. Plus: how AI might predict the next pandemic and even help discover new therapeutic drugs. FOLLOW AI Named This Show Tristan & Tasia AI Named This Show  podcast on Acast , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts , Goo...

AI containment: Can you put the genie back in the bottle? 🔴 AINTS 003 08.09.2023 37:32

In this episode, Tristan and Tasia take a deep dive into AI containment. In a recent Axios interview, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and CEO of Inflection AI, argues that AI needs to be contained by engineering, ethics and regulation. Essentially, he’s advocating for government licensing of powerful AI systems in order to prevent AI from becoming uncontrollable. But can you even put the...

How to resurrect the dead with generative AI 🔴 AINTS 002 25.08.2023 32:29

In this episode, Tristan and Tasia discuss whether or not AI art is or can be copyrightable, the use of GPT-4 to moderate content, and they make critical digital death care decisions and debate how we can all live on through our very own AI chatbots. Also: meet your AI boyfriend! FOLLOW AI Named This Show on Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , YouTube and X (Twitter) Tristan & Tasia AI Named Thi...

Will AI save the world or kill us all? 🔴 AINTS 001 17.08.2023 31:04

Some people think AI will save the world and some think it will end it — and that’s where we come in. In our pilot episode Tristan and Tasia discuss the June 2023 Marc Andreessen essay, Why AI Will Save the World , and various counterpoints raised by its detractors. FOLLOW AI Named This Show on Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , YouTube and X (Twitter) Tristan & Tasia AI Named This Show podcast...