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Todays show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss how Google’s “woke AI” emergency came to be (1:17), Apple’s lowkey AI integrations (33:51), what OpenAI’s incredible Sora model means for Hollywood (39:39), and much more!
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See the full list of all AI demos from the show here: thisweekinstartups.com/AI
Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason!
(1:17) What went wrong with Google’s AI: Model training, RLHF, or guardrails? Plus, how Google can look to Meta for a solution
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(15:00) More examples of bias in Google’s Gemini model
(20:19) Explorer.Globe.Engineer: an AI-powered research assistant
(27:45) Imagine AI LIVE - Get 20% off tickets at http://imagineai.live/twist
(29:01) Reka’s impressive multimodal functionality
(33:51) Apple starts slowly releasing AI-powered features in its most popular apps
(38:19) Scalable Path - Get 20% off your first month at http://www.scalablepath.com/twist
(39:39) Sora demos from OpenAI, and what this means for the film industry
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