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Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

Marques Brownlee

News, Hobbies, Technology, Tech News, Leisure

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week, Marques sits down with Andrew and David to discuss a variety of topics ranging from Instagram charging for verification to Samsung letting people clone their voice with AI. They also talk about changes with YouTube leadership before discussing some of the gadgets and software products they've been enjoying over the last few weeks. Of course, we wrap it all up with trivia so make sure you stick around until the end to hear the answers to all of the questions! Links: The Biggest Problem with AI: https://bit.ly/probwithAI Samsung voice clone: https://bit.ly/samsungvoiceclone Susan Wojcicki steps down: https://bit.ly/YouTubeCEOstepsdown Instagram verification: https://bit.ly/Metaverified Shop the merch: https://shop.mkbhd.com Shop products mentioned: Get the Garmin Epix Gen 2 at https://geni.us/sGCl76 Get the Fujifilm X1000s at https://geni.us/XYdpNd Get the Anker 747 GaN Charger at https://geni.us/aeCxgvG Twitters: Waveform: https://twitter.com/wvfrm Marques: https://twitter.com/mkbhd Andrew: https://twitter.com/andymanganelli David: https://twitter.com/DurvidImel Adam: https://twitter.com/adamlukas17 Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up, people of the internet welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast.
0:09.0	We're your host, I'm Mark Hes.
0:10.5	I'm Andrew.
0:11.5	And I'm David.
0:12.5	And in today's episode, we're kind of all over the map.
0:14.4	We've got some good things and bad things in the world of social media.
0:17.6	For example, YouTube lost their CEO.
0:20.4	Twitter started charging for security.
0:23.2	Instagram and Mehta copying some other things Twitter did.
0:26.4	There's just a lot of stuff going on.
0:28.2	We're going to talk about social media, but we're also going to wrap it up with some
0:31.5	tech that we're enjoying lately.
0:33.0	But first, we finally did make that AI Bing video that we were talking about last week.
0:39.1	The angle that I chose to take was the truth problem, which I thought was a nice way
0:45.3	of avoiding the entire everything happening in the AI world and focusing it on something
0:50.4	that I think is more interesting because there's this layer of these chatbot AI experiences
0:55.8	where they're synthesizing really nice sentences that sound very natural and human, but they
1:00.3	also may or may not say things that are wrong all the time.
1:04.1	And so that's just kind of an interesting thing where people will talk to them and they'll
1:07.6	believe what they're saying and they'll feel like, oh, maybe they're sentient.
1:10.2	They're so human and so natural.
1:11.8	There's these crazy stories they go back and forth and there's tons of cool examples
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