OpenAI’s Big Week, Did Google Kill The Web, AWS CEO Resigns

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI's GPT-4o announcement 2) Is voice + video the right user interface? 3) Do we need smartglasses for this technology? 4) Was ChatGPT-4o too flirty? (yes) 5) OpenAI's potential iOS partnership with Apple 6) Siri improvements are coming 7) What AI + iphone could look like ahead of WWDC 8) Will AI features increase iPhone purchases 9) Listener feedback on the iPad 10) Ilya's out 11) Future of allignment at OpenAI 12) "I've resigned" resignation letters 13) Google IO announcements 14) What's left of the web after Google's AI overviews 15) How the latest AI updates change Google's business 16) AWS CEO Adam Selipsky resigns 17) Amazon's AI strategy --- 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	OpenAI had a massive week with the release of a new model, a partnership with Apple, and the departure of its chief scientist.
0:07.0	Did Google just kill the web? And the AWS CEO has resigned. All that and more coming up right after this.
0:14.0	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species? What would it take to abolish poverty?
0:22.0	Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:24.2	These are some of the questions we've tackled recently
0:26.5	on the next big idea.
0:28.3	I'm Rufus Griscombe,
0:29.7	and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers
0:33.0	for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play smarter.
0:37.8	Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:44.2	I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer.
0:47.5	If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built,
0:51.0	then tune into my podcast, building one.
0:53.6	I speak with some of the best product
0:55.0	builders out there. I've always been inspired by frustration. It came back to my own
0:59.9	personal pinpoint. So we had to go out to farmers and convince them. Following that curiosity
1:05.2	is a superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition. Listen to Building One on Apple
1:10.6	Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.1	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
1:18.6	cool-headed and nuanced format.
1:20.1	We have a massive week of AI news and news across the tech world to talk about including
1:25.2	the resignation, big resignation inside inside amazon but also these massive
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