TNW 341: What You Might Have Missed At WWDC24 - Alexa, AI Detectors, AI-Powered Security Cameras
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Amazon's Alexa could have been in a prime position to dominate AI. Why AI detection tools for detecting AI written content are hurting writers. What was announced at WWDC earlier this week? And how security cameras getting smarter with AI is a good thing.
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy talks about how over a dozen employees who worked on Amazon's Alexa had a good chance to dominate the AI space and blew that chance.
- Mikah Sargent talks about how, with the rise of AI being used to perform writing tasks and tools being utilized to detect AI-generated work, writers are still getting stuck in the crossfire and are losing their jobs due to false accusations.
- After leading the show last week, Dan Moren stops by again to chat about the major announcements at Apple's WWDC24.
- And finally, why security cameras getting smarter with AI capabilities is a good thing for households?
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Guest: Dan Moren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, a small change. |
| 0:03.6 | Jennifer Patterson Tui is here this week. |
| 0:05.8 | Amanda Silberlin will be with us next week. |
| 0:08.1 | Jennifer brings a great story and conversation, frankly, |
| 0:12.0 | about how Amazon kind of blew its AI shock when it came |
| 0:16.7 | to ALEXA, the voice assistant from the company in comparison to what other companies have been |
| 0:22.0 | doing and a deep dive into what went in comparison to what other companies have been doing, |
| 0:22.8 | and a deep dive into what went wrong |
| 0:25.4 | and kind of what continues to go wrong |
| 0:27.8 | within the company that's led to it not being |
| 0:31.2 | at the forefront of the AI craze. |
| 0:34.2 | Then another AI story from yours truly, |
| 0:37.4 | this time about writers who say, |
| 0:40.0 | we're being fired not because AI is replacing us, but because AI is saying we are using AI and therefore we should be fired. |
| 0:51.0 | Very complicated, wonderful story from Gizmodo talking all about that. |
| 0:56.2 | Afterwards, I interviewed Dan Moran of six colors. You may remember him from last week. |
| 1:01.4 | He stops by to give us the inside look at W. W. D.C. It's the stuff that you might have missed, |
| 1:08.4 | the stuff that wasn't announced on stage, the stuff that he discovered in conversations and digging into the documentation. |
| 1:17.0 | A great part of the show where you will learn so much about what we can expect in the next versions of Apple's various platforms. |
| 1:25.8 | And then one last story of the week, this one from CNET, about how home security cameras have gotten a lot better thanks to, you guessed it, AI. |
| 1:38.5 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. Podcasts you love. |
| 1:45.0 | From people you trust. |
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