How the TikTok Court Decision Changed Free Speech Law - DTNS 4942
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Plus, OpenAI gets into the agent game, and how India is stepping up its manufacturing game, but CHina will be harder to beat than you might already think.
Starring Tom Merritt
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, January 24th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, |
| 0:07.9 | follow up on the context of those stories and try to help each other understand. Today, Kathy Gellis |
| 0:13.9 | talks to us about the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban on the |
| 0:18.6 | distribution of TikTok. Also got your emails, but let's start |
| 0:22.6 | with what you need to know with the big story. We told you 2025 would be the year of agentic |
| 0:32.1 | AI. Open AI just made a splash by announcing an agent called Operator. |
| 0:44.3 | It's OpenAI take on an agent that can surf the web for you, similar to Anthropics' computer use, or Google's Project Mariner. |
| 0:47.0 | Operator uses OpenAI's computer vision models. |
| 0:52.0 | So it just interprets screenshots of what's happening on your screen, combines those with its reasoning models so it does some iteration to determine |
| 0:54.2 | what steps it needs to carry out open AIs calling that CUA for computer using agent |
| 1:00.8 | very similar to computer use from Anthropic if you ask me operator appears in a |
| 1:04.6 | small window so it's gonna pop up it'll have its own browser you can continue to |
| 1:08.9 | browse while it's doing its thing but you'll be able to see what it's doing and it will explain what it's doing as it goes along. OpenAI demonstrated |
| 1:16.7 | it by looking up and making a restaurant reservation, or having it do that, I guess, as well as |
| 1:23.0 | having it order some groceries from an image of a handwritten shopping list. OpenAI said it worked with several websites, including Instacart, OpenTable, Uber, and Stubhub |
| 1:31.7 | to make sure that it worked well with their interfaces, but that means it might not work perfectly |
| 1:36.7 | on all sites. |
| 1:38.4 | In fact, OpenAI is pretty transparent about this. |
| 1:40.3 | It has a 40% success rate at unfamiliar complex text editing, according to OpenAI. And the company |
| 1:46.9 | warned that it's not reliable at, quote, creating detailed slideshows, managing intricate |
| 1:51.8 | calendar systems, or interacting with highly customized or non-standard web interfaces. There's also a |
| 1:57.7 | rate limit. It'll slow down after a while. If you're using it a lot, |
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