OpenAI's Business Model Problem, Apple's Mixed Reality Vision, Ed Sheeran's Copyright Win — Techmeme Ride Home Crossover

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Brian McCullough of the Techmeme Ride Home Podcast joins Ranjan Roy and Alex Kantrowitz for our weekly news recap show. We cover: 1) OpenAI's massive losses 2) Whether generative AI has a business model problem 3) The battle between open source AI and proprietary research 3) AI fears go mainstream 4) The White House hosts AI leaders amid worries 5) The AI PR industrial complex 6) The WGA strike and AI's potential to replace writers 7) The Fed pause 8) Apple earnings 9) Apple's mixed reality device 10) Ed Sheeran's copyright victory 11) How Sheeran's win might influence AI 12) Welcome to Brooklyn, Ed Sheeran. --- 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/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.
0:04.0	The show is a masterclass in better living from some of the smartest writers around.
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0:18.9	Follow the Next Big Idea Daily wherever you get your podcasts.
0:28.9	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
0:32.7	cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:34.4	We are running this show as a crossover episode with the TechMeme Right Home
0:38.6	podcast. So we're going to run it on big technology podcast feed. We are going to run it on
0:43.1	the TechBeam Ride Home feed. I'm Alex Cantorowitz. We have a great series of story topics to
0:48.1	cover with you today. We're going to talk about the Open AI business model. The fact that it
0:52.7	lost a lot of money last year and whether its business is sustainable. We're also going to talk about the open AI business model. The fact that it lost a lot of money last year and whether its business is sustainable, we're also going to talk about the proprietary versus
0:58.8	open source battle and whether big tech is going to have a chance to compete with the open source
1:03.7	community when it comes to artificial intelligence. It's actually a more competitive fight than
1:08.7	you might imagine. We'll also cover some of the concerns about AI that
1:12.6	came up this week, a lot of AI this week. But hey, I guess that's the big story and also the White
1:17.9	House and other government initiatives to try to rein in some of the potential risks of that
1:23.1	technology. And then stay with us. The second half, we're going to cover the economy. We're going to
1:27.4	cover Apple earnings. And we're going to cover, of course, Ed Shearin. Yes, Ed Shearin has been exonerated. He won his copyright trial. I actually think this is a big deal, not only for the entertainment and music industry for the precedent that it sets for generative AI and all the different types of content that's going to come out of this new technology.
1:47.1	Let me introduce our guests.
1:48.8	Ranjan Roy is here with us, as always, on Fridays.
1:51.3	Welcome, Ron John.
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