Meta's Big Llama 3 Release, Google's New Culture, MKBHD vs. Humane

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Alex Heath from The Verge is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Taylor Swift's new album 2) Meta's new Llama 3 release 3) Does conversational AI work in a social media products? 4) Will the value of generative AI be realized in foundational models or products? 5) Zuck's new icon status 6) Bearded Zuck 7) The risks of open sourcing massive AI models 8) Sundar Pichai writes a stern letter to Google employees 9) Google fires 28 employees involved in office takeover protest 10) Is a new Google culture taking hold? 11) Should product reviewers be kinder when products suck. ---- 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	Met has introduced its new big Lama 3 AI model.
0:03.5	Google fired 28 protesting employees for taking over its offices,
0:08.1	and do reviewers like MKBHD have a duty to not kill companies whose products suck.
0:13.7	All that and more coming up right after this.
0:16.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:20.9	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
0:23.8	We'll navigate career pivots.
0:25.8	We'll learn where happiness fits in.
0:27.7	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.9	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
0:40.1	cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:42.1	We have a great guest for you today.
0:44.3	Alex Heath is fresh off a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg talking about the Lama News.
0:48.3	He's the deputy editor of The Verge and he's the author of the Command Line newsletter and he's
0:52.8	here with us today to break
0:54.1	down everything that's happened this week. Alex, welcome to the show.
0:57.2	Hey, thanks for having me, Alex. Always good to have a double Alex pod.
1:01.0	Two Alex's. This should be an epic week. First of all, like we're continuing our cycle of every
1:08.0	Friday or every week having a big celestial event happened. We had three
1:13.3	weeks ago an earthquake last week in eclipse. This week, Taylor Swift's new album is out, the
1:18.3	tortured poets department. So we're keeping up this streak. Have you gotten a chance to listen to it today?
1:23.2	You know, I actually started playing it like an hour ago.
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