

AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical
Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell
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AI For Humans catches you up on all the AI news, tools & issues. Each week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell help explain exactly how this ground breaking technology will change our world. Plus, it's fun!
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AI For Humans catches you up on all the AI news, tools & issues. Each week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell help explain exactly how this ground breaking technology will change our world. Plus, it's fun!
Don't take our word for it. Fast Company says "AI For Humans may be the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence".
Subscribe now to stay up-to-date on one of today's most important emerging technologies.
New episodes every Thursday.
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Aug 3, 2023 • 51min
ChatGPT Custom Instructions, Future AI News & Interview with Coqui AI's Josh Meyer | AI For Humans
This week on AI For Humans we dive into ChatGPT's Custom Instructions, get semi-gaslit by Pi AI, conjure up a bunch of Future AI news using GPT-4 and, finally, have our first real live human interview with Coqui.AI's Josh Meyer! Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell are your hosts for this episode and all the other ones you may or may not have heard. What are ChatGPT's Custom Instructions? Custom Instructions are a very cool way to use ChatGPT so that you can always prime it in a specific way and you don't always have to tell it a bunch of stuff before you get the results you want. We, of course, used it give us a nice, random track from Brazilan Funk of the 1970s. What is Pi AI? We've featured Pi before - it's a voice-to-voice AI app that is remarkable in how good it is at carrying on a conversation and additionaly, somehow, has very good up-to-date information that none of the other LLMs have. It also seems to have a not-so-great filter on what it should and shouldn't say. What is Coqui.ai? Coqui.AI is a very cool start-up that's specializing in text-to-voice prompting and has a custom model that allows for companies (specifically video game companies) to create a large library of digital voices for their characters. Josh Meyer, our guest, was a member of the Mozilla team and left to co-found Coqui with his partners. You can find out more at Coqui.AI Follow us for more AI discussions and updates on Twitter @AIForHumansShow, Join our vibrant community on TikTok @aiforhumansshow Subscribe on YouTube to never miss an episode @AIForHumansShow. For more info, visit our website at https://www.aiforhumans.show/
Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 5min
AI Minecraft, "Responsible AI" + We Make ChatGPT & LLAMA 2 Debate | AI For Humans
In this week's AI-happy episode, fully human hosts Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell explore hot topics in the artificial intelligence community. From 'responsible AI' endorsed by tech giants like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google to 'Steve-1,' an AI that learns through Minecraft... and then... THE NEXT BIG AI DEBATE: ChatGPT (GPT-4) and Meta's new LLAMA 2 debate the classic "Cats Vs Dogs" and we gaurantee you will be SHOCKED at the result. But wait... THERE'S MORE: We've also meet our new AI co-host Cassidy who seems nice but again, might have something slightly wrong with her. And we've got two very cool free AI tools that you'll want to get your hands on: SunoAI's Chirp which allows you to make full blown AI songs from text prompts (that are good!) and RunwayML's new Gen2 Image-To-Video which allowed the guys to make a series of Animal Influencers. Follow us for more AI discussions and updates on Twitter @AIForHumansShow, Join our vibrant community on TikTok @aiforhumansshow Subscribe on YouTube to never miss an episode @AIForHumansShow. For more info, visit our website at https://www.aiforhumans.show/
Jul 20, 2023 • 56min
AI vs Actors, Meta's New Free AI Model and Testing Google's "Improved" Bard | AI For Humans
In this insightful episode of "AI For Humans," hosts Kevin Periera and Gavin Purcell delve into HOT topics including the role of AI in the SAG/AFTRA strike, Meta's latest open-source project - LLAMA 2, and Microsoft's groundbreaking AI advancements from #insight2023. Tune in as we rigorously test & chat with Google's updated and "improved" Bard in our new segment, the AI Obstacle Course aka Bardageddon aka 2 Bard 2 Bardious! The podcast not only brings you the latest news in the AI space but also provides useful tips and tricks for AI enthusiasts. Discover simple AI tools like Goblin.Tools that breaks down complex tasks into manageable bits, and Stable Doodle, a user-friendly webtoy that makes creating AI art a breeze. AND... we attempt to try out a new co-host "Grace" who is vastly different from our last co-host who is on temporary, unpaid leave. Join us for an engaging discourse and learn about the innovative ways we've used AI today, on AI For Humans. Follow us on.... Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AIForHumansShow Web: https://www.aiforhumans.show/
Jul 13, 2023 • 50min
ChatGPT Unleashes Code Interpreter, Pi's Fast Voice-to-Voice AI + AI Job Interview | AI For Humans
Huge new episode of AI For Humans: Today: We deeeep on ChatGPT's Code Interpreter. New Stable Diffusion XL and what makes it good (plus the Fieri Test) New AI chatbot Pi is amazing at voice-to-voice over its app But Gash finds out Pi's not that good when he interviews Pi for our show What is Stable Diffusion XL? A new model follow up to the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion that allows users to get much greater clarity of images but also has a few drawbacks so far. It is cool that you can now go into the Stable Diffusion disord and generate your images tho. Gavin used its vast intelligence to create Sponge Bob versions of Guy Feiri What is Chat GPT's Code Interpreter? A new (at least now open to everyone) mode of ChatGPT that essentially allows the chatbot to execute programs within itself to do things like crunch data and make GIFs for users. It's remarkably impressive technology & Kevin found a way to get it to create stick figure gifs & analyze Taylor Swife lyrics. What is Pi? Pi is a new chat bot that can be used in text for both on web and in an app but it truly shines in the voice-to-voice connection available in the iPhone app. The speed at which it responds is remarkable and it seems to have semi-up-to-date information at it's fingertips. It does less well when asked specific questions by our AI co-host Gash about possibly taking his place on the show. That's it for this week. We love y'all and don't forget the quote of the week: "AI, it's kind of a fancy thing, first of all it's two letters." - VP Kamala Harris Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AIForHumansShow TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Threads / Instagram: @AIForHumansShow And leave us a voicemail or an email on our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/

Jul 6, 2023 • 1h 8min
GPT-Author Explores Hot Dog City, OpenAI's World Tour & Twitter's AI Dilemma | AI For Humans
Welcome to 'AI For Humans,' your light-hearted guide to the sometimes serious world of Generative AI. Your hosts, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Periera, promise to keep things insightful yet (mostly) entertaining. Also, they are not robots. GPT-Author Writes Hot Dog City Novel Kevin dove into GPT-Author which is a program that trained an AI to write a novel and we turned it onto the story of Hot Dog City. While it gets some points for alliteration, it has a long way to go to be even close to human authorship but we get into the ramifications. Our friendly co-host Gash reads a section from it for us with his usual panache. (GPT-Author segment starts at 43:35) We also get into: Dumb Things On The Day Visla: A ChatGPT plug-in that allows you to make weird marketing videos for basically anything. We do dumb things. Hyperwrite Assistant: Kevin not-so-dumbly plans out his week using an AI agent that actually works. Midjourney pan feature: Gavin uses the just released Midjourney pan feature (expanding out the picture right and left) to make more dogs playing poker and gets a big surprise. The News: OpenAI Goes on a World Tour: OpenAI comes back from it's world tour with a write-up of what it learned & Gavin & Kevin talk about the power of ChatGPT worldwide. Terminator on Terminators: Arnold Schwarzenneger talks AI and about how Terminators may already be here. Elon + Rate Limits + AI: We discuss how much of Twitter's current issues may be exacerbated by the AI world and how much might just be Elon. All this and the usual fun, causal and oh-so-compelling banter you've come to expect on a regular basis. Stay tuned for these stories and much more about AI technology, its impact, and its potential. Follow us on: Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AIForHumansShow TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Threads / Instagram: @AIForHumansShow And leave us a voicemail or an email on our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/

Jun 29, 2023 • 59min
Buff Presidents, Google Will Crush ChatGPT? + AI Gordon Ramsay
Whoo boy, do we have a whopper of a show today. In our demo, we use AI to clone Chef Gordon Ramsay & have him help us figure out the Grimace Shake meme and how he might prepare the "purple blob" for eating. It's an adventure in using ChatGPT to create an interactive character who's just a little off and trust us, it's funny. (Starts at 45:10) Gavin's dumb thing of the week is making Buff Presidents after RFK, Jr's coming out party as a swole candidate, Kevin goes deep on DragGan which lets you stretch photos any which way you want as well as free text-to-video from Zeroscope. In the news this week: -- ChatGPT getting dethroned? Google (specifically Deep Mind) says it can take them down with it's new upcoming chatbot. -- Deep Mind also released info on a Robocat, an AI algorithm that can help robots improve themselves without supervision (what?) and then a CMU professor releases VRB (Vision Robotics Bridge) which allows robots to hold a knife (oh no). This leads to another AI will kill us all discussion. -- Marvel releases a new series on Disney+ with AI credits and *everyone* freaks out even though no human jobs were impacted. ***NEW SEGMENT*** We spin the Wheel of Jobs which lands on "landscaping and gardening" and discuss how these jobs will be impacted in the near and far futures. It's all good and serious we work hard on this so you'd better enjoy this and like the crap out of it. Oh, also subscribe if you know what's good for you. ////SHOW NOTES//// Buff Presidents: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1674088485828034560 DragGan: https://twitter.com/Attack/status/1673338677370519562?s=20 Paper: https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/DragGAN/ ZeroScope: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/zeroscope ChatGPT gonna be ECLIPSED https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-chatgpt/ RoboCat - Deepmind https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1671171448638144515?s=20 Robots Learning through Videos https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/22/robots-learn-to-perform-chores-by-watching-youtube/ Marvel Show Uses AI Art For Credits https://deadline.com/2023/06/secret-invasion-opening-credits-ai-backlash-marvel-mcu-disney-1235421667/ ////SHOW INFO//// YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCghJTNTO9kcDeUFXMuSDGLQ AI For Humans Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow Kevin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Attack Gavin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gavinpurcell Website: AIForHumans.show #AIForHumans #zeroscope #buffpresidents #robocat #deepmind #google #chatGPT #AI #generativeai #gordonramsay #marvel #secretinvasion #draggan #grimaceshake

Jun 26, 2023 • 6min
Juicy Exclusey: AI True Crime Podcast "Dreadful Tales" (Mature Themes)
We're thrilled to bring you the work of Emery Hart, AI True Crime podcaster and a "juicy exclusey" clip from her new episode of her podcast "Dreadful Tales". "Murder in Malibu" is the story of a successful woman named Barbie who goes off the deep end and does unspeakable things to her boyfriend Ken. Emery dives deep into the story and crafts a tale of one remarkable night in La-La Land. In case you hadn't guessed, we created Emery using a variety of AI tools. If you'd like to know how and, maybe more importantly, why we did this, go back one episode and listen to the whole thing. Stay tuned for these weird dumb experiments + stories and much more about AI technology, its impact, and its potential. Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AIForHumansShow And leave us a voicemail or an email on our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/

Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 3min
AI True Crime: Barbie Gone Wrong, Reddit vs AI & GPT-Engineer
In this week's episode of AI For Humans, Kevin and Gavin are pushing the envelope yet again with a brand-new, groundbreaking AI stunt! Emery Hart, is a true crime podcaster who created the hit show "Dreadful Tales" except she didn't because she's an AI hallucination as is the shocking clip she shares of her "show" telling the terrible tale of a rich, famous woman named Barbie who went off the deep end in Malibu. It's a fascinating look at AI character creation and a meta-commentary on podcasting as well. (AI Podcaster segment starts at 33:45) We also get into: GPT-Engineer: A new program that allows you to prompt AI to write code for you and does a pretty good job of getting it right. Kevin uses it to write "Demotivatonal Snake". Reddit vs AI: The Reddit community is revolting against management and AI is at the heart of the coversation. We discuss exactly how large language models feed on large data sets like Reddit's and why it's so valuable. New Grammy's AI rules: There's new rules around AI for the Grammys and the discussion of how music is made continues to evolve. Meta's VoiceBox is another remarkable generative text-to-speech product that might just be open-sourced. All this and the usual fun, causal and oh-so-compelling banter you've come to expect on a regular basis. Stay tuned for these stories and much more about AI technology, its impact, and its potential. Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AIForHumansShow And leave us a voicemail or an email on our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/

Jun 15, 2023 • 1h 8min
We Send AI to Therapy, Meta's New Music AI and Free RunwayML Video Apps
Hosts Gavin Purcell & Kevin Pereira return to demystify the latest AI news, breakthroughs, and their practical applications. As always, our mission is to make artificial intelligence both digestible and relatable for everyone. In this week's demo, we're conducting an AI therapy session! Our AI co-host, Gash, sits down with Dr. Claude, an AI based on Anthropic's model. Their mission? To see if they can nudge Gash out of his deep-seated nihilistic state. Will they make a breakthrough? Join us for a fascinating (and, of course, semi-agressive) journey into AI self-awareness. Then, in our "Dumb Thing We Did With AI This Week" segment, we live up to our very dumb expectations. Kevin strikes a tune using Meta's new MusicGen text-to-audio software while Gavin exploits the ChatGPT plugin, Photorealistic, to transform fast food mascots into dreary corporate middle-managers. On to THE NEWS: Runway ML has just launched Gen2 video for all! Kevin and Gavin break down how to get the most out of it and what innovative things you can create with this new tool. Mark Zuckerberg gets candid about AI on Lex Fridman's podcast, delving into the significance of the newly open-sourced models. OpenAI announces new ChatGPT models, promising even greater performance and speed. We'll unpack what these developments mean for AI technology and everyday users. Stay tuned for these stories, and much more about the world of AI, its impact, and its potential. Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AIForHumansShow And share your thoughts with us via voicemail or email through our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/

Jun 8, 2023 • 1h 14min
Our AI-on-AI Dating Experiment, Apple's Vision Pro & Marc Andreessen's Prophesy
Hosts Gavin Purcell & Kevin Pereira are back with another entertaining dive into the world of AI news, breakthroughs, and applications. We're here to make artificial intelligence digestible and relatable for everyone. In this week's stunt, we're doing something nobody has done before! We're taking Gash, our AI sidekick, on a series of speed dates with some of the biggest names in AI - Anthropic's Claude, Bing Chat, and Google's Bard. Will sparks fly in this AI-on-AI interaction? Tune in for a unique exploration into AI communication. (Segment starts at 40:20) We also share our "Dumb Thing We Did With AI This Week". Kevin's adventure involved experimenting with Bing Chat on Microsoft Edge, while Gavin put ChatGPT to the test by rewriting the lyrics of "One Week" to reflect our podcast, AI For Humans. On to THE NEWS: Apple's Vision Pro's release, surprisingly, didn't highlight its AI features. Marc Andreesen shares his perspective in his piece, "AI Will Save Us". Japan is making significant strides in integrating AI, which could have worldwide implications. Stay tuned for these stories and much more about AI technology, its impact, and its potential. Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIForHumansShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AIForHumansShow And leave us a voicemail or an email on our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/


