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Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Ranjan's visit to India and his use of Perplexity to gain cultural understanding and context 2) AI news' reliability 3) How social media drives the college protest 4) The need to elevate the reasonable voice 5) Elon Musk email Alex with details about X's AI news play 6) Could X's AI news plan work? 7) X warming to news? 8) AI monetization challenges 9) Risking the trough of disillusionment in AI 10) Apple earnings and the iPhone sales decline 11) A weird choose your own adventure with Claude 12) WSJ reporter turns ChatGPT into her boyfriend 13) Can relationships with AI be meaninful? ---- 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	Elon Musk emails with details about his AI news plan.
0:04.0	Is anyone making money from generative AI and are all AI engineers totally burned out?
0:10.0	Is the rabbit actually just an Android app?
0:13.0	And finally, is it okay to fall in love with chat chiputie?
0:16.0	All that and more coming up right after this.
0:19.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:24.3	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
0:27.3	We'll navigate career pivots.
0:29.3	We'll learn where happiness fits in.
0:31.1	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.0	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
0:43.5	cool-headed and nuanced format. We have an exciting week of news to break down.
0:48.3	Talk about everything from Plan for AI News at X, how that might position X against threads,
0:56.8	along with AI monetization, AI love, plenty more. And it's great news for me and everybody else that Ranjan Roy has returned
1:03.0	from a trip to India and is here with us once again for our Friday show. Ron John, welcome
1:08.6	back. I'm back. And I just had my first, I don't want to say,
1:14.2	generative AI powered vacation, but first time I pulled out perplexity and chat GPT on my phone
1:22.1	throughout the entire trip. All right. Now, first of all, I'm going to say, I missed you, and I'm sure all of our listeners
1:29.1	missed you, so it's good to have you back in the saddle. But that's being said, it was a
1:33.4	productive trip. And so I'd love to hear a little bit about how perplexity helped you and your
1:39.8	travels. Yeah, so I went to India almost every summer, every other summer growing up. The last time I
1:48.1	was actually there was 2013. And so it's been a little over a decade. And this time, I think the first
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