Google I/O takeaways: AI is changing the way we read, write, and work
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🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We're back this week on the GeekWire Podcast as humans, not bots, we promise, but we've still got a lot of AI to talk about.
On this week's episode, Todd shares highlights from his visit to Google I/O, including two of the generative AI tools that demonstrated the potential of technology to change the way we process and convey information.
Todd and John wrestle with the implications of these AI tools for human creativity, consider the long-term impact on society, balance these concerns against their natural sense of awe and wonder about innovation, and discuss ways that new tech realities are shielding companies from scrutiny.
Stories and topics referenced on this week's show.
- We had our AI voice clones read an AI-generated GeekWire Podcast script — listen to the result
- Microsoft’s optimistic view of AI sees technology ending the drudgery of ‘digital debt’
- In search of AI’s killer app … and other notes from Google I/O
- Project Tailwind (Google)
- Google Workspace Duet AI (Google)
- Google teases Project Tailwind — a prototype AI notebook that learns from your documents (The Verge)
- Dan Deacon's pre-show Google I/O performance. (YouTube)
- How Gmail's New AI Feature Will Write Your Emails for You (CNet)
- As storm clouds clear for travel, Expedia Group looks to become a bigger tech provider to industry
- Trump's Town Hall, Santos Charged, and STFU with Dan Lyons (Pivot)
With GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop.
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| 0:00.0 | Check, check, check, check. Okay, perfect. All right, we're going to make this a one take wonder. |
| 0:05.8 | One take wonder. Zero edits. Zero edits. Zero edits. |
| 0:09.2 | Zero edits. |
| 0:10.2 | Wait, is this goal? Is this the real John or is this robot John? |
| 0:13.6 | Because I think robot John could probably do this in one take. |
| 0:16.4 | Yes, robot John could do this in one take. |
| 0:20.0 | It's so weird because the problem now is people are going to be like wait is that really him or is it the robot? |
| 0:30.0 | Hi and welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:36.3 | And I'm GeekWire co-founder John Cook. John we got a lot to talk about today |
| 0:40.0 | and this week I'm in California and I can share with you some of the details from Google I. |
| 0:45.0 | Which I got to attend for the first time this week and I was also at Expedia and |
| 0:49.7 | lots of interesting news to cover but I feel like we need to start with where we ended last week, |
| 0:55.7 | which was this experiment we did where we had these voice clones of you and me, read AI generated script. The reaction that we got to that was fascinating. |
| 1:08.9 | And one of the people who reacted was your brother who... |
| 1:12.0 | Well, both brothers both |
| 1:13.8 | I haven't shared I haven't shared the other brothers comments. Okay so Dave and |
| 1:20.1 | Dan both reacted and these are two people who know you better than anybody better than me |
| 1:25.1 | frankly what did they think of the voice clone of John Cook well I think they |
| 1:31.0 | thought it was pretty close. |
| 1:33.0 | My brother Dave texted and said, |
| 1:36.0 | listen to your AI podcast. |
| 1:38.0 | Crazy, amazing, scary, exciting, all rolled into one. |
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