Google's AI Narrative Is Flipping, Microsoft Hedges Its OpenAI Bet, AI Clones Are Here

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) The Solar Eclipse! 2) AI Music generation software Suno 3) Google flipping of its AI narrative 4) Ranjan's reflections from Google Cloud Next 5) Is Google's AI enterprise bet the right strategy 6) Microsoft hedging its OpenAI bet 7) Implications of Mustafa Suleyman's remit within Microsoft 8) OpenAI fires leakers 9) Eliezer Yudkowsky refuses interview and his reps won't pick up the phone 10) AI model training running out of data 11) Prospects of synthetic data for AI training 12) The Humane AI pin flops 13) Can Sam Altman and Jony Ive build an AI device 14) Cloning ourselves with AI. ---- 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	Is Google flipping its AI narrative and how seriously is Microsoft hedging its Open AI bet?
0:06.5	The humane AI pin flops and our AI clones the next big thing.
0:11.2	All that more coming up on an AI focused edition of the Big Technology Podcast Friday show all after this.
0:19.4	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.
0:37.5	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the
0:43.6	tech world and beyond. We're doing this Friday style. We got Ron John, Roy, and I one-on-one for the
0:49.3	first time in a month. An AI-heavy show. Ron John, welcome to the show. This week, or today I'm in New York,
0:56.2	but I am just back from Las Vegas at Google Cloud Next and excited to talk about AI, Google,
1:03.3	Humane, all these things. We have so much AI to talk about, which is great right off the back
1:08.6	of the Jack Clark Anthropic co-founder interview. So that's coming up. First of all, last week, we talked right in the wake of earthquake this week in the wake of the eclipse. Pretty cool thing. I drove up with my father to go see the eclipse. We're both kind of astronomy nerds. And just to be there as the sun disappeared behind the moon was was pretty special so
1:29.5	I'm you know I know we have a global audience and a lot of people who listen are on the west
1:34.5	coast but and I'm sure you're all sick of hearing it at this point but uh definitely worth
1:39.8	seeing once in your life for sure well I'm even more sick of hearing it, Alex, because I was flying to
1:45.5	Las Vegas for this conference, and I had Wi-Fi on the flight, and Delta Wi-Fi actually
1:50.8	worked pretty good. So shout out to Delta. All I did was see nonstop messages about how life-changing
1:57.2	this was from every single person I knew, and I live in New York all the time and everyone enjoyed it.
2:03.6	So I'm glad it was that good.
2:07.6	Listen, there was this Vanity Fair reporter Delia Kai, who was actually in jury duty during the eclipse and tweeted about how annoyed she was that she was serving on a murder trial while the eclipse was taking place.
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