Generative AI Might Just A Be Feature, Crypto is Back, Substack’s Nazi Problem

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Whether generative AI is a feature or the underlying tech of new powerful applications 2) Robin AI's recent fundraising 3) Big Technology's latest piece on Snapchat+ 4) Jeff Bezos investing in perplexity AI 5) Google execs investing in a Gen AI search competitor 6) Microsoft copilot app debuts 7) Microsoft and OpenAI's weird competitive dynamic 8) Can Web3 still happen? 9) The implications of bitcoin's recent price rise 10) Pig butchering crypto scams 11) Substack's baffling position toward nazis 12) Peloton patterns with Tiktok 13) Crypto CEO was totally fake --- 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/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	General of AI might just be a feature.
0:02.6	Crypto is back, baby, the CEO that wasn't real and the state of substacks Nazi problem.
0:08.2	All that and more coming up right after this.
0:11.4	Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields.
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0:29.5	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional
0:33.8	cool-headed and nuanced format. We have a very big show today covering some massive topics from generative AI to crypto and of course the travails of substack.
0:43.5	Here, as always, is Ranjan Roy from margins. Ron John. Welcome. How you doing?
0:47.7	It's 2024 and crypto and generative AI remain top of mind, but I'm excited to get into it.
0:56.0	We'll debate whether crypto and AI are two sides of the same coin or not, as some people are talking about.
1:01.1	But first, let's get right into the generative AI discussion.
1:04.6	Because, and let me start with this post from Fred Wilson, who runs Union Square partners, a venture capital firm.
1:13.1	He says we're moving into the application era of AI.
1:17.5	And this is from his prediction post for 2024.
1:20.9	While in 2023, everyone was rightly focused on the large language models like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Lama, etc., we will now see
1:28.9	AI-first applications emerge in 2024 that will start to move the focus and the conversation
1:34.6	up the stack.
1:36.1	And we will see legacy applications embrace AI to make their products better and to remain
1:41.6	competitive with the AI-first disruptors.
1:44.1	So I agree pretty strongly
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