Wed. 07/03 – Walking Back AI Products

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

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The deploying and then walking back of AI products and features is becoming something of a routine at this point. Apple is joining OpenAI’s board, kinda-sorta. Meta outlines 3D Gen. Proof that VC funding is coming back, baby. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: A Better Paradise Podcast Links: Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (404 Media) Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design (The Verge) Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact (Bloomberg) Meta drops ‘3D Gen’ bomb: AI-powered 3D asset creation at lightning speed (VentureBeat) Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn (NYTimes) Weekend Longreads Suggestions Internet Browsers Are Getting a Makeover for the Workplace (WSJ) A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.2	The Deploying and then walking back of AI products and features is becoming something of a routine at this
0:14.5	point.
0:15.5	Apple is joining Open AI's board, kind of sorta.
0:18.8	Meta Outlines 3D Gen.
0:20.9	Proof that VC funding is coming back baby and of course the weekend long read
0:25.1	suggestions here's what you miss today from the world of tech.
0:29.7	Well this is becoming something of a trend.
0:35.0	Remember how Microsoft had to pump the brakes on or delay or even walk back some of their
0:41.7	AI features recently? I think I told you recently that
0:46.1	Figma had launched an AI app design tool called Make Design. I hope I did because Figma has already suddenly disabled make design after a user
0:57.4	showed it copied Apple's weather app when it was asked to design a weather app.
1:04.0	Quoting Tech Crunch.
1:05.4	Figma CEO Dylan Field says the company will temporarily
1:08.2	disable its make design AI feature that was said to be ripping off the designs of Apple's own weather app.
1:14.8	The problem was first spotted by Andy Allen, the founder of Not Boring Software, which makes a suite
1:20.4	of apps that includes a popular skinable weather app and other utilities.
1:24.5	He found by testing Figma's tool that it would repeatedly reproduce Apple's weather app when
1:29.2	used as a design aid.
1:31.2	Alan had taken to X, formerly Twitter, to accuse Figma of heavily
1:35.8	training its tool on existing apps, an accusation field now denies. The make
1:40.8	design feature is available within Figma's software and will generate UI or user interface layouts and components from text prompts.
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