Michael Sharkey, Chris Sharkey

This Day in AI Podcast

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Join Michael and Chris Sharkey, two proudly average tech enthusiasts, as they stumble through the world of artificial intelligence with all the grace of a robot learning to dance. This (sometimes weekly*) podcast delivers an hour-long conversation about their thoroughly middle-of-the-road adventures with AI.No PhDs. No Silicon Valley insights. Just two guys with enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, sharing their unexceptional yet entertaining experiences with AI tools and technology. Subscribe now to hear:• Mediocre hot takes on AI developments• Stories of AI experiments gone adequately...

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Michael Sharkey, Chris Sharkey

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EP90: Consoles of the Future, Deepseek-R1, Gemini-Thinking, Create with Code, Operator & Stargate 23.01.2025 1:18:03

Join Simtheory and use Create with Code: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- VOTING: Code challenge winner: https://simulationtheory.ai/e2875acf-33c3-4a96-97a1-14b8d815a49a BOOM factor on Deepseek: https://simulationtheory.ai/f98a591d-7726-42d3-afaf-53b8c29fa21e ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Computer Use, Agents, Collaborators Discussion 37:12 - Deepseek-R1 Thinking Model on Pa...

EP89: Nvidia's Agentic Vision, State of AI Agents, o3 Thoughts & Deepseek V3 09.01.2025 1:22:26

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The next step for agents... 00:45 - NVIDIA's CES Keynote Recap + Agentic Vision 13:33 - State of AI Agents in 2025 24:55 - Thoughts on o3 announcement & it's impact on AI agents 32:44 - Is o3 worth $2,000 per task and 13 minutes? 36:22 - More thoughts of State of AI Agents 1:00:30 - Early Agentic Sy...

EP88: The Finale: 2024 Best Moments, Future Agents, Gemini 2.0 & OpenAI's 12 Days of Christmas 13.12.2024 1:58:15

Thanks for listening and all of your support in 2024! ------ Get an AI workspace: https://simtheory.ai Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com ------ 00:00 - "So Chris This Week" flash back 01:35 - OpenAI's 12 days of attention seeking 09:02 - Gemini 2.0 Announcements, Rap Battle & Agents Discussion 39:55 - Gemini Deep Research Feature 50:14 - Testing Google Real Time Voice + Screen Sharin...

EP87: Initial Reactions to OpenAI's o1 & ChatGPT Pro 05.12.2024 47:41

o1 Available Soon on Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com ---- Proving why we are the #1 average AI podcast. Apologies for interruptions and audio quality. Back to regular average programming next week. Thanks for listening! ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Initial OpenAI o1 Thoughts & Reactions 12:00 - OpenAI o1 System Card 29:04 - ChatGPT Pro $200/month Subscript...

EP86: CLAUDE WHO? 22.11.2024 1:14:19

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Model Tunes (GPT-4o Better at Creative Writing) & Google Gemini Experimental Releases 03:13 - AI Rap Battle: How Creative is the New GPT-4o Vs Claude Sonnet 3.5? And is Suno v4 any good? 13:38 - The "fine tune" and "test time compute" trend & Gemini EXP-1121 release 30:32 - DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview & Test Time Compute Discuss...

EP85: Is AI Slowing Down? 15.11.2024 1:13:29

Get a workspace computer: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Is AI Slowing Down? 05:15 - ChatGPT Desktop App "Work with" beta 20:01 - Workspace Computer reaction, use cases and thoughts 36:19 - OpenAI working on AI Agent "Operator" and thoughts on Agents and future of computer use 51:18 - Scaling AI Agents for productivity/tasks 1:06:55 - Qwen 2.5 Coder...

EP84: It ACTUALLY works! 08.11.2024 54:56

Try a workspace computer*: https://simtheory.ai Our community: https://thisdayinai.com ------ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - It ACTUALLY works! Workspace Computer Fun & Discussion 35:54 - Flux Ultra & RAW modes 42:37 - Google AI & Developer Relations, State of Models 48:55 - Claude Haiku 3.5 Pricing Weirdness 50:04 - Final thoughts ------ * Please note we expect full roll out of workspace computer...

EP83: Self Driving Computers, plus SearchGPT, & Github Copilot with Sonnet 31.10.2024 1:03:30

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com === CHAPTERS: 00:00 - What happens with we have Self Driving Computers? 33:00 - ChatGPT Search Comparison & Thoughts 48:47 - Github Copilot Goes Multi-Model with Sonnet 3.5 Thanks for listening!

EP82: Crazy Computer Use, Anthopic's Sonnet 3.5 (New) & the xAI Surprise 25.10.2024 1:09:17

Reserve your AI Workspace Computer: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- Kaitlyn's Course: https://www.blackfeatherai.com/genai-jumpstart USE CODE "TDIA" for $200 off. ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:34 - Trying to Order Chris a Coffee with Computer Use 13:00 - Thoughts on Anthropic's Computer Use & The Impact of AI Using Computers 49:45 - Claude 3.5 Sonnet (ne...

EP81: Can AI Make Your Life Easier? Geoffrey Hinton is Relevant Again & State of AI Report 11.10.2024 1:05:44

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Our community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Geoffrey Hinton is VERY relevant: wins Nobel Prize for Physics 07:05 - Testing OpenAI’s Realtime API for Phone Agent Experiences & Getting Our Affairs in Order 12:34 - CALL #1: Using OpenAI Realtime API Advanced Voice Mode Phone Agent Test 16:34 - CALL #2: Using “Digital Twin” Phone Calling Skil...

EP80: Corey Hotline, OpenAI DevDay 2024 Recap, Microsoft CoPilot, ChatGPT Canvas & Ray-Band Doxing 04.10.2024 1:36:37

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Call the Corey Hotline: +1 (650) 547-3393 (Not $4.95/min) Our community: https://thisdayinai.com ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Corey Hotline Cold Intro 00:18 - OpenAI Dev Day Recap: Realtime API 05:58 - Testing the Realtime API with Corey Hotline test 09:04 - Comparing OpenAI's Realtime API Advanced Voice Mode to Retell for Calling (Corey Hotline v2) 21:50 - GPT-4o Im...

EP79: Fun with ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode & Which Models Do People Actually Use? 27.09.2024 1:12:48

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- Thanks for listening and all of your support of the show! ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Fun with ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode & Moshi 04:11 - Thoughts on Advanced Voice Mode, Voice Mode API & Voice as an Interface 29:31 - We Share Simtheory.ai Model Usage Data: Forget Benchmarks... Which Models Do People Actually Use? 3...

EP78: One Week Later: o1-mini o1-preview & Can We Now Build Agents? 20.09.2024 1:03:52

Sign up to Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:56 - o1-mini & o1-preview 1 week later: our thoughts and experiments including Klarna CRM, Chess, & DOOM 20:45 - What is Missing to Make AI Agents Now? 40:12 - Are OpenAI laser focused now of the best models/AGI? 48:42 - OpenAI's o1 is getting great reviews from experts, 5...

EP77: OpenAI o1 & o1-mini, The Era of AI Reasoning & Is Reflection-70B a Fraud? 13.09.2024 1:20:16

Try o1 & o1-mini: https://simtheory.ai ----- 00:00 - OpenAI o1 & o1 Mini Discussion 18:26 - Evals of OpenAI o1 & Chris Discusses Malicious Uses 32:55 - Will OpenAI o1 with Agency Take Jobs or Augment Workers? 48:58 - Does OpenAI o1 & o1 Mini Make Agency Products More Viable Now? 52:28 - Can we Build a CRM for Klarna Using OpenAI's o1? And Model Examples 1:03:37 - Is there another O...

EP76: Can AI Fix Its Own Mistakes? (Reflection 70B) & How Much Will You Pay for AI Productivity? 06.09.2024 1:01:19

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Our Community: https://thisdayinai.com ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Days of AI Models Lives 04:02 - Reflection 70B Open Source Model: Is It The Best Open Source AI Model or Just Great Prompt Engineering? 24:48 - Is Microsoft Office a Dud? What Actually Makes you More Productive in Enterprise AI. 36:15 - OpenAI Floats $2,000/month for New Models Strawberry (Q*) and Or...

EP75: OpenAI🍓, Q* & Orion: What Will Happen When AI Has Agency? 30.08.2024 1:13:22

Get a Simtheory AI Workspace: https://simtheory.ai Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/69-ep75 ------ 00:00 - Lols 00:29 - Discussion on OpenAI's Strawberry Q* and Orion Leaks and What it Might Mean for the Future of AI Agency & Background Tasks 31:48 - Google's New Gemini 1.5 Pro & Flash Experimental Tunes: Our Thoughts 44:22 - Google's Diffusion Models are Real-Time Game Engine...

EP74: Human Eggs with Ideogram 2.0, Phi 3.5 Boom Factor + AI-Free Startups 23.08.2024 1:13:09

Sign up to Simtheory for an AI workspace: https://simtheory.ai Try ideogram 2.0 on Simtheory --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Ideogram 2.0: Your new AI graphics designer? 23:46 - Microsoft Phi 3.5 Initial Impressions & Thoughts + Boom Factor 38:51 - AI workspace productivity: how much is your productivity worth? 55:08 - Procreate's Anti AI Movement: Marketing or a New Category? 1:07:06 - Chris's thoughts...

EP73: Has Google Done It? Grok 2 Beta & Is Tuning All You Need? 16.08.2024 1:24:54

Sign up to Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ------- 00:00 - Reactions to #madebygoogle and Gemini Live 15:30 - Grok 2 Beta Tested & Is Grok Getting Flux Credit? 39:03 - Future of Personalized Software in Education & The Workplace: Are Devs Still Needed? 1:02:16 - Claude's Prompt Caching Explained 1:11:18 - Hermes 3 (Llama 3.1 Fine-tuned for instruction following) 1:19:18 - Is Tuning All You...

EP72: Croc Test with Gemini 1.5 Experimental, Flux Destroys Midjourney & GPT4o Model Updates 07.08.2024 1:17:52

Sign up to SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai ------ Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com ------ Jump around: 00:00 - Gemini 1.5 Experimental Experiments 20:11 - SimTheory 22:54 - LMSYS Leaderboard: Does it match our experience? 27:31 - Flux by Black Forest Labs is Better Than MidJourney 48:04 - OpenAI announces new GTP4o (50% cheaper inputs) & structured outputs 1:12:35 - Groq raises 640M...

EP71: Llama 3.1 Special Edition + GPT-4o Mini Fine Tuning & Chris's AI Poker Apology 24.07.2024 1:03:38

Try Llama 3.1 Models on SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/64-ep71 ------ CHAPTERS: ------ 00:00 - Llama 3.1 8B, 70B and 405B News & Initial Thoughts 27:44 - Discussion on Context Input Optimization, RAG and context focuses including "memory stack" 38:53 -Best model right now? GPT4-Mini daily driving &...

EP70: AI Poker, GPT-4o Mini, Mistral NeMo, Codestral Mamba, MathΣtral & LMSYS Wars 19.07.2024 1:21:48

Try SimTheory Beta: https://simtheory.ai/chat Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/63-ep70 Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com Merch: https://www.thisdayinaimerch.com/ ===== Thanks for listening! ===== CHAPTERS: 00:00 - It's good to be back... 04:12 - Chris's Learnings From Playing Poker Using AI 32:11 - Initial thoughts on GPT-4o Mini from OpenAI 44:15 - Mistral's NeMo 55:01 - Co...

EP69: Fun with kyutai's Moshi. SimTheory Beta is Here! + Future Assistants 05.07.2024 1:16:00

Try SimTheory Beta: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/62-ep69 ---- 00:00 - Fun with kyutai's Moshi 28:06 - SimTheory Beta is available: what is new, what we learnt 49:04 - RunwayML Gen-3 Alpha 52:06 - Is AI in a Bubble? 59:52 - Claude Sonnet Prompt Leak for Artifacts 1:07:23 - Salesforce's 1B Parameter Model 1:14:14 - Moshi Interr...

EP68: We ❤️ Sonnet 3.5, Rabbit r2 Exclusive, OpenAI Voice Delay, Gemma 2, and UDIO/SUNO lawsuit 28.06.2024 1:03:37

Community: https://thisdayai.com SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Thanks for listening, if you like the show, please consider leaving a review to help us grow our audience. ==== CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Thoughts After Daily Driving Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 21:07 - OpenAI Delays ChatGPT Voice for Safety? Thoughts on OpenAI Releases Vs Anthropic 31:01 - Exclusive: Rabbit r2 Preview (the app) & Sho...

EP67: Claude 3.5 Sonnet Beats GPT-4o + Ilya Sutskever's New Startup & Hedra lols 21.06.2024 1:15:28

Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/60-ep67 Community: https://thisdayinai.com SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Hedra Lols cold open 02:24 - Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet Impressions 20:02 - Claude 3.5 Sonnet Vision Image Tests 25:32 - Claude 3.5 Sonnet Refusal Problems 28:54 - More on Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Artifacts and Future AI UI 51:41 - Hedra fun 58:29 - Thoughts on...

EP66: Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute, Dream Machine, Mistral Funding & OpenAI Revenue 14.06.2024 1:24:19

Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/59-ep66 Community & discord: https://thisdayinai.com Join SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Apple Intelligence & Apple Private Cloud Compute Thoughts, Approach and Model Discussion 41:19 - LumaLab's Dream Machine 48:00 - Mistral's Fundraise & Valuation: Are AI Labs Proxies in the Big Tech AI War? 52:40 - Stable Diffusi...