The podcast explores the viral Epik AI Yearbook Photos app and its impact on user adoption and AI. It discusses OpenAI's plan to create its own AI chips. The CEO survey reveals expectations about returning to the office after AI and the trend of transforming photos into 1990s yearbook style. The chapter explores the popularity and implications of the app, LENZA and ChatCHUPT training methods, and the concerns raised about privacy and deep fakes.
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OpenAI is exploring creating its own AI chips to address limited access to advanced chips and accelerate their progress in artificial intelligence development.
The popularity of AI avatar apps like Epik highlights the trend of self-imagination and raises questions about privacy, authenticity, and the impact on future generations' perception of individuals.
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OpenAI considering making its own AI chips
OpenAI is exploring the possibility of creating its own AI chips to address the bottleneck in artificial intelligence development caused by limited access to advanced chips. They have evaluated potential acquisition targets to support this plan. The scarcity and high cost of advanced chips have hindered OpenAI's progress, delaying the release of their GPT Vision tool.
The rise of AI-powered apps like Epic and its implications
The popularity of apps like Epic, which transforms users' photos into 1990s yearbook pictures, highlights the trend of self-imagination and self-perception through generative AI. Users pay for these photos, generating revenue of around a quarter million dollars per day. The app's success raises questions about privacy, authenticity, ethics of image manipulation, and the impact on future generations' perception of individuals. Similar AI-powered apps like Lenza and Ramini have also gone viral, demonstrating the broader appeal of generative AI.
Lessons on AI adoption and its societal impact
The viral nature of AI-powered apps, such as Epic, Lenza, and Ramini, signifies the increasing adoption of AI technology, with users' first interactions often being through simple and social use cases. These trends have implications for deep fake policies, privacy concerns, and challenges traditional notions of self-representation. The widespread interest in these apps suggests that they tap into people's fascination with self-imagination and the desire to experiment with AI technology.
Epik's AI Yearbook photos are everywhere you look. In this video, NLW explores why AI avatar apps keep going viral. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI is considering making its own AI chips.
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