TWiT 946: AI is Number Two - iPhone 15 hands on, Amazon hardware event, Instacart IPO, Unity blinks
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2023
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
iPhone 15 hands on, Amazon hardware event, Instacart IPO, Unity blinks
- Discussion on hype cycle of AI; evaluating current state
- Defining artificial intelligence vs regular computation
- AI winters and peaks of inflated expectations for AI
- Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of chatbots like ChatGPT
- AI's role in computational photography and new iPhones
- Microsoft's focus on AI with OpenAI partnership
- Multimodal AI and challenges like hallucination
- Apple's secretive approach to developing AI technology
- Job loss concerns with the advancement of AI; need for training
- Unity's failed attempt to charge developers an install fee
- Tech IPO outlook after Instacart and Clavio
- Panos Panay leaving Microsoft for Amazon
- New Amazon Echo and Alexa AI announcements
- Authors suing OpenAI over AI-generated content
- Misinformation research facing political attacks
- Implications of AI voice mimicry without consent
- Neuralink seeking volunteers for brain chip implants
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ben Parr, Harry McCracken, and Doc Rock
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for twit this week in tech great panel coming up for you Ben par is here the AI analyst the |
| 0:07.5 | Technologizer Harry McCracken from fast company and our friend from Hawaii a loha to dock rock |
| 0:13.8 | We're gonna talk a lot about AI the governor of california videos a bill that were required safety drivers in |
| 0:21.4 | Automated big rigs. Was that a good idea? |
| 0:24.9 | Unity blinks and says never mind |
| 0:29.4 | plus |
| 0:30.9 | Apple and and Microsoft and Amazon all with big events big announcements. We've got the IFO 15 |
| 0:38.9 | Should you get a fine woven case you want to close up? I fix it has it. We'll talk about that in a whole lot more next on twit |
| 0:49.5 | Podcasts you love from people you trust |
| 0:53.5 | This is twit |
| 0:59.2 | This is twit this week in tech episode nine hundred forty six recorded Sunday September 24th |
| 1:10.0 | 2023 AI is number two |
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| 1:50.0 | It's time for twit this week in tech the show we cover the weeks |
| 1:53.1 | tech news |
| 1:55.8 | Every week. It's a different show. I kind of like that every other show we do same panel every week on this week in tech |
| 2:01.6 | I changed the panel up |
| 2:03.2 | Of course a lot of times as people we know pretty well in fact in this case three of my greatest friends |
| 2:09.2 | Starting with doc rock all the way from the Aloha state |
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