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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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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

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(39:39) Sora demos from OpenAI, and what this means for the film industry

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