Apple OS betas, how to talk about AI, and our video game picks

The Vergecast

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Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of transformers (both the movie and the AI thing): 03:46 - The Verge’s Victoria Song, Chris Welch, Allison Johnson, and David Pierce discuss using the new features and tools in beta versions of Apple’s watchOS 10, tvOS 17, iOS 17, and iPadOS 17. 28:36 - The Verge’s James Vincent joins the show to discuss how we should think about using the popular vocabulary terms in AI like GPT, LLM, transformers, hallucinations, etc. Are we using them the right way? Does it matter how we use them? 54:20 - David is joined by The Verge’s Ash Parrish and Polygon’s Chris Plante to share the video games they are most excited about after a string of announcements from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Summer Game Fest, and others. 1:25:46 - We answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline Email us at vergecast@theverge.com, or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of Transformers, both the movie and the
0:07.8	AI thing.
0:08.8	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting here catching up on Wimbledon.
0:12.8	The best tennis tournament of the year.
0:17.0	It's been a busy few days for me, so I'm a bit behind.
0:23.1	But luckily Wimbledon.com has a pretty good set of highlights so I can catch up on all
0:27.6	the matches I missed in just a few minutes at a time.
0:30.4	And I don't know if you know this, but Wimbledon is doing a thing with AI commentary in these
0:34.7	highlights.
0:35.7	It's part of some collaboration with IBM's Watson and I can see how it's an interesting
0:40.4	and cool idea.
0:42.1	But oh boy, it's so, so, so bad.
0:45.7	Like, listen to this one, a recap of Monday's match between Christopher UBanks and Stefano's
0:50.9	CC-PASS.
0:52.0	UBanks plays Titsipass for the first time in the careers.
0:55.9	First of all, it gets one of the two names just wrong.
1:00.2	And then that's all it says for like 30 seconds.
1:03.4	This is not commentary.
1:05.4	Actually, wait, this will be fun.
1:07.0	Here is every single thing the AI says throughout the rest of this three and a half minute highlight
1:12.4	clip.
1:13.4	Titsipass wins the first set after UBanks unforced backhand error.
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