Today we are talking about the seven most important things we learned about AI this week.

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episode. But as I sometimes do after a big week or a couple of weeks, instead of reading something

else or even basing this off of someone else's thoughts, I'm just going to get a little bit

extemporaneous about what I think are the things that we learned this week about the AI space,

in particular what I think are the most important things we learned about the AI space, in particular what I think are the

most important things we learned about the AI space. Now, there's a lot more, but these are the

seven things that stood out to me when I was driving home from New York last night, thinking

about all of the implications of really not just the last week, but the last couple of weeks.

I think that we will look back on this couple week period as wildly significant, both on a

very personal and professional level in terms of the capabilities increase that all of us now

have access to, but also in terms of the dynamics in the AI race. And that is where we will start.

First, most important thing that we learned about AI this week, Google is a player, and Sam Alvin

and Open AI are worried. Now, obviously. Google is a player, and Sam Altman and OpenAI are worried.

Now, obviously, Google was a player before this, but their return to the top of the heap has

been something to watch. It wasn't all that long ago that they were caught totally behind

and kind of embarrassed by OpenAI on the launch of ChatGBT, BT, only to launch a very

dubious product in Bard,

which then gave way to the first rushed versions of Gemini, which had all sorts of problems,

including wild recommendations and AI overviews and AI search, as well as some very

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