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This Week in Startups

Drones, Deepfakes, and Disruptors with Lon Harris, Remento and Cuby | E2058

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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(0:00) Jason and Lon Harris kick off the show

(2:06) Welcome back to Lon Harris and discussion on current events

(6:04) Drones in New Jersey: Security issues and speculations on their origin

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(13:04) Privacy concerns surrounding drone technology (15:27) The future of drone delivery services (19:32) OpenAI's launch of the video generation tool, Sora

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(21:34) The emergence of new mediums from AI tools

(31:04) Oracle - Try OCI and save up to 50% on your cloud bill at https://w⁠⁠⁠⁠ww.oracle.com/twist (32:28) Startup of the Day: Remento (43:06) Uber's milestone and the future of ride-sharing (51:14) Alex Gumbel from Quby Technologies joins the TWIST500 (56:00) Economics of mobile micro factories and deskilling labor in home construction (1:04:09) Market demand and strategic focus in construction innovation (1:07:10) Business model, customer base, and production goals for Qubii Technologies (1:11:11) Challenges and future prospects in the construction industry


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0:00.0

But what they've done here is they're turning memories into a keepsake book, no writing required,

0:04.0

preserve a loved one's story the easy way. Remento turns their spoken words into a personalized

0:08.5

keepsake book of their stories. Now what they've done is with language models, you can

0:13.4

select prompts that you want your parent or your grandparent or whoever to answer or your family.

0:19.9

They record responses in their app.

0:22.6

Then they create a book based on it.

0:24.3

And then you can scan the book to listen to whatever QR code.

0:27.7

Is there something a little creepy about it?

0:29.8

I don't know.

0:31.9

It's definitely better than using AI to like recreate your dead loved ones.

0:36.4

Like I know there's that thing too where it's like,

0:38.2

feed their voice into our AI and you could chat with your grandma.

0:41.9

And like that really is troublesome to me.

0:44.7

Like this at least your-

0:45.5

Why is that troublesome to you?

0:46.8

It's just creepy or you have a concern about it?

0:49.1

It is creepy.

0:50.0

I don't have like a concern like it's going to ruin the world or anything, but I think it's, if there is something a little ghoulish about it, because I don't believe that AI is really able to, like, I think it's a lie.

1:00.5

People are supposed to die and then you remember them and that's how it works.

1:04.4

And this idea that we need to like hold on to them forever.

1:08.4

You're raw dogging.

1:10.1

Grief.

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