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Todays show:
Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news, including the CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora (5:11), the FIgure AI robot (12:26), Devin, the first AI software engineer (38:17), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny joins Jason for a fun AI day!
(2:08) Elon and open source Grok vs “Closed” AI.
(5:11) The CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora.
(9:28) Exploring the fascinating AI robot from Figure.
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(12:26) Comparing the FIgure AI robot and what we have seen from Boston Dynamics and why this is impressive.
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(21:10) Thinking about how humans learn and applying that to AI.
(28:28) The idea that robots may one day be 1:1 with humans.
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(32:01) New bet alert! And it’s a major one. Sunny and JCal bet on how soon we will all have access to AI robots in our homes!
(38:17) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer!
(40:24) The “maestro” concept when working with AI.
(47:21) Hot news: Apple in talks to let Google Gemini power iPhone AI Features.
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Figure AI Robot: https://www.figure.ai/
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