TNW 324: Seeking Love With AI - robots.txt, Meta vs. Apple, Text-to-Speech AI

Tech News Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Tnw, Twit, Mikah Sargent, Technology News, Technology, News, Jason Howell, Tech News

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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What's it like seeking love within AI? How web crawlers are suddenly controversial with the rise of AI. Are Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses better than the Apple Vision Pro for what face computers are capable of now? And Amazon has created the largest text-to-speech model that they claim to exhibit "emergent" qualities to speak sentences more naturally.

Emily Dreibelbis of PCMag joins the show to talk with Mikah about the AI "dating scene" AI through ChatGPT Plus and AI boyfriends and her somewhat lackluster experience.
Mikah talks about the "robots.txt" file that exists within many if not all, websites and how AI is impacting the use of this file.
Victoria Song of The Verge stops by to talk about Meta's and Apple's VR offerings and the differences between the two devices.
Finally, Amazon researchers have trained a text-to-speech model that they claim exhibits "emergent" qualities that improve its ability to speak sentences more naturally than other text-to-speech models.

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Emily Dreibelbis and Victoria Song

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I have a great show planned for you. First, Emily Dry Belbus of PC mag stops by to talk about the AI
0:09.4	boyfriends that bored her to death.
0:12.8	It's a really fascinating conversation
0:15.0	about the AI dating scene and how it's just not there,
0:19.2	but maybe almost an exact replica
0:21.6	of what the dating scene is actually like.
0:23.4	Then at my first story of the week,
0:26.2	it's all about that robots.
0:28.3	text file that lives on many a website online.
0:33.1	Afterwards, my second interview
0:35.1	features Victoria's Song of the Verge
0:37.0	who stops by to compare Meta's AR and VR offerings,
0:41.8	including those Ray-Ban smart glasses, to what the Apple Vision Pro provides.
0:49.0	Fascinating comparisons that I think draw some interesting conclusions before we round things out with a
0:55.1	conversation about the largest text-to-speech AI model that comes from Amazon and what the future might hold.
1:05.0	All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly.
1:07.0	Podcasts you love.
1:11.0	From people you trust. This is Twit.
1:17.0	This is Tech News Weekly episode 324 recorded Thursday, February 15, 2024,
1:25.0	Seeking Love with AI.
1:28.0	This episode of Tech News Weekly is brought to you by Wicks.
1:32.0	Web Agencies, you're're gonna like this one.
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