Fri. 10/04 – AI Slop Comes To Podcasting

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Google has updated Lens and is taking a page out of Perplexity’s book. OpenAI’s new canvas workspace. Why an upcoming iPhone SE might have some interesting internals. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: Google Lens now lets you search with video (The Verge) Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search (TechCrunch) OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects (TechCrunch) iPhone SE 4 to feature Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 chip, same cameras as iPhone 15 (9to5Mac) 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Saving Cyberpunk 2077: How CD Projekt Red recovered from one of video games' most disastrous launches (EuroGamer) The Flying Car Is Finally Here. It’s Slightly Illegal. (Intelligencer) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Friday, October 4th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Google has updated Lens and is taking a page out of Proplexity's book,
0:13.2	Open AI's new canvas workspace,
0:15.6	why an upcoming iPhone SE might have some interesting internals,
0:19.3	and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:21.5	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:39.0	Google has updated Google Lens to let users take a video and use their voice to search that, showing an AI overview and search results, rolling out to search labs on mobile
0:43.9	quoting the verge. If you can't capture what you want to search for with just a
0:48.5	picture Google Lens will now let you take a video and even use your voice
0:51.7	to ask about what you're seeing.
0:54.0	The feature will surface an AI overview and search results based on the video's contents and
0:58.8	your question.
0:59.8	It's rolling out in search labs on Android and iOS today.
1:03.1	Google first previewed using video to search at I.
1:06.0	In May, as an example, Google says,
1:08.0	someone curious about the fish they're seeing
1:10.0	at an aquarium can hold up their phone to the exhibit, open the Google Lens app, and then
1:14.4	hold down the shutter button.
1:16.3	Once the lens starts recording, they can say their question, why are they swimming together?
1:21.5	Google Lens then uses the Gemini AI model to provide a response
1:25.0	similar to what you see in the JIF below. When speaking about the tech behind
1:30.6	the feature, Rajon Patel, the Vice President of Engineering at Google
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