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We have another Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for you today. It was recorded on June 16, 2023. Some special segments this week include: OpenAI’s function calling, expanded context window, and price cuts Generative AI search, brands, latency, and features that matter Eric, special guest Michal Stanislawek, and I also go through the generative AI winners and losers of the week. That has been a fun addition to the show. Generative AI News (GAIN) Links related to the top stories in today’s show are included below in case you are looking for additional details.  OpenAI Cuts Prices and Announced the Most Significant Feature Expansion This Year Google Rolls Out Access to LLMs, Text-to-Image, Generative Code, and More Google’s Virtual Try-On Fuses Fashion with Generative AI Generative AI Search Already Shows that SEO is Changing - New Report Microsoft Bing AI Chat Gets Multimodal on Windows with Voice and Image Search Salesforce Ups Generative AI Fund to $500 Million, Launches AI Cloud More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn at 12:00 noon ET on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen. Please share this post with a friend, and don’t forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel. Thanks!

The latest Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is live and was recorded on June 8, 2023. Some special segments this week include: Apple’s Vision Pro opts for gestures over voice commands, and generative AI is nowhere to be found. OpenAI and Google both reveal better generative AI reasoning skills for chatbots, and Google may be in the lead! We break down two very different approaches to make large language models (LLM) better at math, science, and complex thinking. Eric and I also have the generative AI winners and losers of the week. I am sure you will find that to be a fun addition to the show. Generative AI News This week’s top stories include a lack of news from Apple, the latest LLM research, Instacart’s shopping assistant, Quora’s response to an existential crisis, McKinsey’s claim that (only) 50% of its staff is using generative AI, and more. Links related to the top stories are included below in case you’d like to explore the news in more detail. Let me know what you think about this week’s topics and commentary. Apple is Long on VR and Short on Generative AI OpenAI Shows How ChatGPT is Going to Get Better at Math Google Bard’s Reasoning Skills Improve by 30% Bard Goes Local and Multimodal Intuit Has a Big Generative AI Vision for Small Businesses Jasper Campaigns Introduces Enterprise AI Writing Features Quora’s Poe Expands Generative AI Q&A Instacart Offers ChatGPT-powered Shopping Assistant OpenAI Will Distribute $1M in Cybersecurity Grants McKinsey Says 50% of Staff Using Generative AI Please share Synthedia GAIN with a friend or colleague. Let’s spread generative AI literacy! Share More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn at 12:00 noon ET on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

Aleksandr Tuilkanov is a lawyer specializing in AI policy, regulation, and legal frameworks. Early work in GDPR and AI regulation before the generative AI frenzy led him to be hired by several governments to help draft AI policy. Few people that have focused on AI policy exclusively or a significant period of time, and his insights are grounded in that experience. His work was influential at the Council of Europe, a key player in the latest EU AI regulatory framework. We talk about imitation vs inappropriate use of data, appropriationism, whether chatbots are capable of defamation, copyright, IP protection, and what the real level of urgency is around regulating generative AI. We also talk about his recent colorfully-titled post, "Let's not bomb the AI data centers just yet." Aleksandr Tiulkanov is an AI, data, and digital policy counsel. He earned his law degree at the University of Edinburgh and has specialized in AI regulation since 2015. He is a former senior manager at Deloitte, where he worked with corporations on AI policies. He later worked for several governments, including the Council of Europe, to design their AI policy and regulatory frameworks. He is currently a researcher at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies and working independently with government agencies on AI policy.

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for June 1, 2023, is here. We have some special segments for you today with hosts Eric Schwartz from Voicebot.ai and Bret Kinsella. These include: An Nvidia video demo of a humanlike conversation with an in-game non-player character Live demos of Bing search inside of ChatGPT and Google Bard’s similarity A short video showing how the Google Search Generative Experience beta release works. Eric and Bret also introduced a new segment, generative AI winners and losers of the week. I am sure you will find that to be a fun addition to the show. ***Note: There are a couple of videos that we ran on the live video stream that did not record properly, so there were removed from the audio.  Generative AI News This week’s top stories include multiple NVIDIA announcements, OpenAI’s new AI reasoning capabilities, Runway’s big payday and Google’s investment, Spotify voice clones may be coming, TikTok tests a generative AI-powered assistant, how search is changing, and, of course, the lawyer’s ChatGPT debacle. Please double-click on the video above and give us a like 👍. I’d appreciate the help with YouTube’s AI black box algorithms. 😀🎉🚀 Links related to the top stories are included below in case you’d like to explore the news in more detail. Let me know what you think about this week’s topics and commentary. Nvidia ACE for Games Brings Humanlike Conversation to NPCs Nvidia WPP Collaboration OpenAI’s Improved Mathematical Reasoning Google SGE First Look at Conversational Search to Rival ChatGPT and Bing Chat Perplexity Adds New Copilot Features and an Android App Runway Just Netted $100 in Cash and a New Giant Valuation TikTok Starts Testing Generative AI Chatbot Tako Spotify to Offer Voice Clones to Podcasters and Advertisers Lawyer Faces Sanctions After Submitting Brief Written by ChatGPT with Erroneous Legal Citations Falcon-40B Becomes the Top Performing Open Source LLM MORE ABOUT GAIN The show is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn at 12 noon ET on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. You can also view this entire podcast on YouTube or just listen here. Whatever works best for you. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in an upcoming live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

Robert Scoble did the first live stream of a ride in a Tesla. The driver was Elon Musk. The Siri mobile app launched to the world in his living room. He is the leading author on spatial computing, is an AR/VR expert, and has seen a lot of technology innovation up close over the years.   He and I caught up at Project Voice in April for a live interview right after he interviewed the three Siri co-founders onstage. In addition to his comments on the evolution of tech and Silicon Valley over the past 30 years, we also go deep on ChatGPT and Apple. His take on ChatGPT and the rise of AI companions is intriguing.     He also offers insight into what he expects Apple to launch this year, maybe even in the next week at WWDC - a new Siri with AR and generative AI capabilities. The leaks we saw this week in the media confirm he has some inside knowledge of what is coming.    Robert Scoble was a Futurist at Rackspace Hosting, an evangelist and strategist at Microsoft, and an executive at several startups. He started as a journalist and ran several high-profile tech conferences in the 1990s. He is also the author of The Infinite Retina and The Fourth Transformation.

Your Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for May 25, 2023, is here. Spellbook’s Scott Stevenson joined Eric Schwartz from Voicebot.ai and Bret Kinsella (that’s me) to discuss the news and his company’s $10.9 million funding round. We have some exclusives for you if you want to hear the latest about the OpenAI GPT-powered lawyer copilot from Spellbook. These include the surprising number of lawyers that signed up in April and the enormous customer onboarding backlog. Plus, Spellbook is hiring aggressively right now. Generative AI News Beyond the live interview segment with Spellbook, we also cover new ChatGPT features on desktop and in the iOS app, additional comments on key Microsoft announcements from this week, news from Adobe, Opera, Hugging Face, and Google. In addition, we have two interesting stories about Tesla, one involving robots and the other deepfakes. So, that should hold your attention. Please double-click on the video above and give us a like 👍. I’d appreciate the help with YouTube’s AI black box algorithms. 😀🎉🚀 Links related to the top stories are included below in case you’d like to explore the news in more detail. Let me know what you think about this week’s topics and commentary. Legal Generative AI Assistant Spellbook Raises $10.9 Million Anthropic Closes $450 Million in Funding ChatGPT’s iOS App Demo and Highlights Microsoft Announcements About AI Copilots, Plugins, and ChatGPT Signal a Market Shift Opera Unveils Native Browser Generative AI Service Aria Adobe Brings Firefly Generative AI to Photoshop Hugging Face Introduces Generative AI Coding Assistant StarCoder The AI Code Generation Battles Heat Up with Google Codey Debut Watch Tesla’s Humanoid Robots Walk into the Future Deepfake Ryan Reynolds Pitches for Tesla, Elon Musk for Aviation Gin More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn at 12 noon ET on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

Microsoft Build 2023 was more hotly anticipated than Apple WWDC which is hard to believe. However, that is the new reality created by ChatGPT and OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft. In this special episode of the generative AI news rundown, (GAIN), Voicebot's Bret Kinsella and Eric Schwartz break down the five top announcements from the event and the implications for users and for the market.  Topics include: Bing Search coming to ChatGPT Microsoft adopted ChatGPT Plugin model for Bing, GPT AI models on Azure, and for other applications Window AI Copilot is coming GitHub Copilot is adding an AI-chat interface Azure OpenAI Studio will let any company build their own copilot We cover a few more topics as well.  MORE ABOUT GAIN The show is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn at 12 noon ET on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. You can also view this entire podcast on YouTube or just listen here. Whatever works best for you. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in an upcoming live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

My guest today is a giant in the world of voice assistants and AI. Adam Cheyer is the co-founder of Siri, which was originally an app that, as you know, was acquired by Apple and launched as the key feature of the iPhone 4s in 2011. That is how Siri came to define expectations for modern-day voice assistants.   However, Cheyer and one of his Siri cofounders Dag Kittlaus, were disappointed that Apple decided to dramatically narrow the scope of the assistant to better align with its goal of making Siri a feature of the iPhone as opposed to a general purpose assistant.   Cheyer and Kittlaus founded Viv Labs, which eventually sold to Samsung and, after a few years, became the technology behind the new Bixby after Samsung's initial voice assistant flopped. A key part of the story here is that Cheyer was the visionary behind 50% of the four leading voice assistants to emerge over the past 15 years. You can imagine that gives him unique insights into what is happening today with the rise of generative AI and ChatGPT in particular.   Cheyer and I speak at length about his initial reaction to ChatGPT, what he thinks OpenAI got right, and foreshadows an emerging issue about how the company applies Plugins.    In addition, you will want to hear more about Cheyer's four critical elements for an assistant and the difference between a knowing and doing assistant. This creates a stark contrast between ChatGPT and Alexa. Sit back and get ready for some gems of insight.

Here is the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for May 18, 2023. Eric Schwartz from Voicebot.ai and Bret Kinsella break down the biggest industry stories of the week. Some of those stories include OpenAI, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic, Zoom, Gather, and an AI virtual girlfriend that went viral. - Has Alexa been generative AI all along? Amazon says so, sort of. But is it true? - Are we emerging from the AI Autopilot Era to the Copilot Era with more human control? Satya Nadella says so. But is it true? Links related to the top stories are included below in case you’d like to explore the news in more detail. Let me know what you think about this week’s topics and commentary. AI Virtual Girlfriend Nets $72K in its first week Amazon surpasses 500M Alexa devices, but do its claims of generative AI leadership ring true? OpenAI’s Sam Altman wows U.S. Senators, asks them to regulate AI Satya Nadella says the AI copilot era is more human friendly than the AI autopilot era Anthropic introduces a giant LLM context window Zoom to add Anthropic to its feature set Gather raises $20M for opensource generative AI Meta has new generative AI tools for advertisers ChatGPT Pluse subscribers now have access to Plugins! More About GAIN The show is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn at 12 noon ET on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel. You can also view this entire podcast on YouTube or just listen here. Whatever works best for you.  Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in an upcoming live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for May 11, 2023, is here. Special guest and Google Developer Expert (GDE) Allen Firstenberg joined me to go in-depth on all the Google I/O stories. We discuss Bard, extensions, conversational search, the PaLM and Gemini models, and much more. We also review the “Google Has No [generative AI] Moat” memo. That is followed by a discussion of Wendy’s adoption of Google PaLM for drive-thru order taking, Bing Chat going general availability worldwide, the White House’s efforts around AI, and a developer that created mini-Trip Advisor website targeting families with children with 2370 activities in 237 cities, 2,600 images, and nearly 250,000 words. He did this in two days and spent $53. The implications are significant. I hope you enjoy the show. Don’t miss Allen’s commentary on these items in the video. Given his role as a GDE and independent ambassador for several Google technologies, he has particularly interesting insights into Google’s moves, lack of progress on many fronts, and unrecognized progress on others. Bard Breakdown Top Google I/O Announcements Wendy’s Chooses Google PaLM for Drive-thru Automation Google Has No Moat [READ THIS!] Bing Chat Now Available to Everyone The White House Brings in AI Leaders and Announces New Research Labs A Developer Shows How to Re-create Trip Advisor with ChatGPT and DALL-E More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn at 12 noon ET on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week’s discussion on Voicebot’s YouTube channel if you'd like to see the visuals and the host's beaming visage. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.