Apple's Bad iPad Ad, AI Assistant Hype, Netflix's Big Live Ambitions

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Apple's bad iPad ad 2) Is the backlash largely due to the creative, of people's feelings about Apple as a company 3) Asking Claude about the reaction to the ad 4) Apple's big moment at WWDC 5) Apple building server-side AI compute 6) Better Siri 7) OpenAI teases GPT-5 8) AI assistant buzz 9) AI as a dating concierge 10) AI news creating a zombie internet 11) Netflix's Tom Brady roast 12) Netflix's big bet on live TV, including the NFL. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is Apple's bad iPad ad just a creative issue or something more?
0:05.0	OpenAI is about to launch its own search engine.
0:08.0	Meanwhile, the web is filling with zombie AI-driven content.
0:11.7	And Netflix is going big on live as it airs at Tom Brady roast and closes in on a big deal with the NFL.
0:18.5	All that and more is coming up right after this.
0:23.2	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species? What would it take to abolish poverty? Are you eating enough
0:30.1	fermented foods? These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea.
0:35.6	I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the world's
0:39.4	leading thinkers for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play smarter.
0:45.0	Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:51.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:57.6	We have a big show today covering everything from the latest in AI to Apple's very, very bad ad and why Netflix is going big on live.
1:05.9	Thrill to welcome Ron John Roy back to the show, Ron John. Great to see you as always.
1:10.4	Tim Cook, what are you doing?
1:12.6	So this is an interesting thing. Let's just start talking right away about this ad because
1:17.6	it definitely got pan-critically and maybe I'm in the minority, but I had been watching these videos on TikTok
1:24.6	where you have these compressors crushing stuff.
1:28.0	And it's pretty cool.
1:28.8	Like it crushes all these things and you see it ooze out.
1:31.3	And it's like this is the background for this situation with that Apple had with its ad.
1:37.0	Whereas Apple just tried to mimic that by putting all these things in the compressor,
1:40.9	a piano, a video game, lenses, buckets of paint to show that, you know, you can do all these things on the iPad.
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