TNW 346: Gemini's Olympic Debut - Fitbit, Samsung's Galaxy AI, AI in Video Games
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
What could go wrong with Gemini AI being used in live coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics? A new study using Fitbit data shows connections between sleep and diseases. What Samsung Galaxy AI features are worth using? And how AI's use in video game development is impacting the industry.
- The Paris Olympics will feature Google's Gemini AI during NBCUniversal's coverage. Emily Dreibelbis wonders, in Steve Gibson's great words, "What could possibly go wrong?"
- Mikah Sargent loves a good story about sleep coverage, so it's no surprise that he talks about a study using Fitbit data that uncovered connections between sleep and diseases.
- Lisa Eadicicco of CNET stops by to discuss Samsung's Galaxy AI features and her favorite ones.
- And finally, Brian Merchant of WIRED talks about how AI is impacting the video game industry.
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Guests: Lisa Eadicicco and Brian Merchant
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News, weekly Emily Drive Belbus is here and we are so excited this week because we've got a great story about how AI is making its way to the Olympics by way of Google's Gemini. |
| 0:14.2 | What that means, the impact that it might have |
| 0:16.9 | on journalists and Olympic specialists, |
| 0:20.3 | and then also another story about how tech may have been used to cheat ahead of the Olympics. |
| 0:26.5 | Afterward, my story of the week covers one of my favorite topics, it's sleep science |
| 0:31.6 | and how Google's fit-fit data has been used for one of the largest |
| 0:36.2 | sleep studies that we've ever had. Afterwards, Lisa Edo Chico of CNET stops by to talk about the Samsung Galaxy AI features that |
| 0:47.4 | rock and those that don't so much. |
| 0:50.6 | Before we round things out with Brian Merchant of Wired who joins us to talk about how AI is taking jobs in the video game industry. |
| 1:01.0 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:06.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:08.0 | From people you trust. |
| 1:10.4 | This is Twint. |
| 1:20.0 | This is Tech News Weekly with Emily Dry Belbus and me, Micah Sergeant, episode 346, recorded Thursday, July 25, 2024. |
| 1:25.4 | Gemini's Olympic debut. |
| 1:28.8 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, |
| 1:31.2 | the show wherever week we talk to and about the people making and |
| 1:34.2 | breaking the Tech News. |
| 1:35.7 | I am your host, Micah Sergeant, and I am joined this week by PC mags, one only Emily dry bell bus welcome back to the show Emily |
| 1:46.7 | Hello, thank you |
| 1:48.7 | It's good to get you here good to have you and of course I mean you may be the one and only |
| 1:54.3 | Emily dry pelvis I don't know but certainly PC mag's one and only that would be |
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