TNW 338: Would You Pay for a GenAI Alexa? - Scarlett Johansson, Meme Manager, Copilot+ PCs

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Emily Dreibelbis from PCMag joins Mikah Sargent this week. Emily talks about Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI. Could generative AI be coming to Alexa in the future? If your meme game is on point, then you may have a future with politics. And Microsoft announced new Windows laptops with AI features baked into the device.

Emily Dreibelbis talks about OpenAI being under fire from actor Scarlett
Johansson as the actor voices her concern over the company's use of her voice, while OpenAI fires back, showing how they used a different actor for the voice.
Mikah Sargent shares how Amazon plans to overhaul its voice assistant, Alexa, by incorporating AI features into it and charging a monthly subscription price.
If your meme game is strong with Millennials and Gen Z, consider a career in politics. The Biden re-election campaign is looking to hire a meme manager.
And finally, Daniel Rubino of Windows Central talks with Mikah about Microsoft's next-gen AI laptops, Copilot+ PCs, announced at its Build event earlier, and some of the expected features with these AI machines.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Dreibelbis

Guest: Daniel Rubino

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News weekly Emily Dry Belbus of PC Maggis here and we start out by talking about that
0:05.5	Scarjo Open AI curfuffle. We talk about what led to Scarlet Johanson complaining about Open A.I's assistant sounding like her,
0:17.5	and also the New Washington Post piece that claims that no Open AI did not use Scarlet Johanson's voice.
0:25.0	It doesn't matter? We get into all of that.
0:27.0	Then I talk about the Amazon Virtual Assistant and how it reportedly is getting an AI overhaul
0:35.0	Which could come with a monthly subscription after that Emily dry bulb sticks around so we can talk about how the Biden campaign is on the hunt for someone to post
0:47.4	memes and make sure that the campaign is up with a meme culture. Then finally an interview with
0:54.9	Daniel Rubino of Windows Central who joins us to talk about Microsoft's new line
0:59.6	of co-pilot plus PCs. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. Stay tuned.
1:07.8	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
1:12.1	This is Twit. This is Twit.
1:17.0	This is Tech News Weekly with Emily Dry Belbus and me, Micah Sergeant,
1:21.6	episode 338, recorded Thursday, May 23rd, 2024.
1:27.0	Would you pay for a Gen AI Alexa?
1:30.0	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and
1:34.3	about the people making and breaking the Tech News. I am one of your hosts
1:38.8	Micah Sergeant and I am joined on this very episode by Emily Dry Belbus.
1:44.8	Welcome back to the show, Emily.
1:47.3	Thank you very much.
1:48.2	Happy to be here.
1:48.9	We've done a couple of these now.
1:50.4	It's been fun.
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