Two possible futures for AI

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about the recent dueling AI blog posts from OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. What do these CEOs think the future of AI looks like? Then, Will Poor tells us the story of ShakeAlert, an earthquake alert system that has huge potential and some surprising challenges. On The Vergecast Hotline, Allison Johnson joins Will to figure out whether the iPhone's new Camera Control is really as fast as advertised. Further reading: Sam Altman: The Intelligence Age Dario Amodei: Machines of Loving Grace Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first OpenAI plans Orion AI model release for December ShakeAlert If you live on the West Coast and you have an iPhone, here's how to turn on the "Local Awareness" feature that speeds up WEA messages: Download the MyShake app on for iOS or for Android Ready.gov's earthquake advice: About emergency and government alerts on iPhone Apple iPhone 16 and 16 Plus review: all caught up Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virchcast, the flagship podcast of decreasing the cost of
0:07.2	AI infrastructure. I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting here updating
0:11.1	all of my AI gadgets.
0:12.9	So like six months ago, give or take a couple of weeks,
0:15.9	I reviewed both the Humane AI Pin and the Rabbit R1,
0:19.6	kind of back to back, didn't like either one,
0:21.6	neither one was any good.
0:23.0	And to be totally honest, I basically turned them off,
0:25.9	stash them in a drawer, and forgot about them.
0:28.1	But six months later, these companies are still here.
0:30.4	They're still making stuff.
0:32.2	Humane has slashed its price in a way that suggests not a lot of people are buying that stuff.
0:37.0	Rabbit, I think has confused people more than enticed them over six months,
0:41.0	but they've made a lot of changes.
0:43.0	Rabbit is saying it's getting close to shipping the large action model that it's been
0:47.2	promising for forever.
0:48.2	Humane does timers now.
0:49.6	So I figured after six months, it might be time to pull these things out and see if we're any closer to AI gadgets getting anywhere.
0:56.0	That's for a future forecast. I literally I have spent like hours just sitting here charging and updating software on these things and I had to find a Sim card for the rabbit and I had to redo service for the AI
1:07.7	pin. It's been Chaos. That's for a future Virgast. Today we are going to do two things.
1:12.1	First we're going to talk about the sort of
1:14.4	dueling blog posts from Dario Amade at Anthropic and Sam Altman at Open AI
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