The AI in your Spotify Wrapped
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
This year, Spotify’s popular Wrapped feature includes a podcast generated by artificial intelligence that tells users all about their individual listening habits from 2024. But it’s not perfect — at least not yet. We’ll get into it. And, we’ll explain how Amazon is getting into the AI chip game and what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell anticipates from a second Trump administration. Plus, why talks for a global treaty to manage plastic pollution were a bust.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Nvidia Rules A.I. Chips, but Amazon and AMD Emerge as Contenders” from The New York Times
- “Amazon Announces Supercomputer, New Server Powered by Homegrown AI Chips” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Powell: Fed’s independence from politics is vital to its interest rate decisions” from AP News
- “In a 2nd Trump term, Fed independence would go “out the window,” economist says” from Marketplace
- “Climate activist calls for plastic treaty after UN summit failure” from Reuters
- “Nations Fail to Reach an Agreement on Plastic Pollution” from The New York Times
- “Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast powered by Google’s NotebookLM” from TechCrunch
Join us tomorrow for Economics on Tap. The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm ready. |
| 0:00.8 | Bye. |
| 0:02.9 | Hey, everybody. I'm Kai Rizal. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. Where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:10.9 | Kimberly's got the day off, or she's working on something else. I don't really know. |
| 0:14.0 | But Amy Scott is here. That's what I know. |
| 0:16.6 | That's right. I'm here. Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us. It is Thursday, December 5th. |
| 0:21.7 | Which means we will do what we always do on a Thursday, some clips from the big stories of the week and chitchat about it briefly. |
| 0:28.2 | Let's go. |
| 0:29.4 | Our first clip today is from Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, who was on Bloomberg TV yesterday talking about steps Amazon is taking to get ahead in the AI chip race, but they have a lot of competition. |
| 0:45.0 | I expect that our usage of VNVIDIA will continue to grow from our customers, and that choice is really going to be powerful. |
| 0:52.4 | And as you see this explosion of generative AI usage, I think there's going to be plenty of business for multiple different people to be successful. |
| 1:00.0 | Okay. |
| 1:00.7 | So you know that Nvidia is still the big player in the AI chip sector. |
| 1:06.0 | But companies like Amazon and also advanced micro devices and some startups are making progress. |
| 1:13.0 | Amazon Web Services was announcing plans for a massive AI supercomputer made up of hundreds |
| 1:18.7 | of thousands of the company's own Traneum chips. I guess they're actually called Traynium 2. |
| 1:25.2 | And when this is up and running, it's going to be the biggest chip cluster in |
| 1:29.0 | the United States. It's going to be used by the AI company Anthropic. Amazon also said that Apple |
| 1:34.9 | will be buying its AI chips. So watch out Nvidia, although I think they're still, the competition |
| 1:42.0 | is kind of left in the dust at this point. By miles, they've got like some huge percentage of the market, yeah, for sure. |
| 1:47.5 | I think I read the company, NVIDIA is worth like $3 trillion. |
| 1:51.4 | So, yeah, a long way to go. |
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