Open AI’s GPT Store, Psychotic AI Sales Bots & Sarah Lane | Ep40

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Track 1: [00:00:00] Welcome, welcome, welcome, everybody. This is AI for Humans, your weekly podcast. That is a deep dive into the world of ai, AI tools, AI news, and all the crazy things that robots are doing nowadays to hopefully not put us outta work eventually.

Track 1: Kevin, how are you?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I got the crud.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I got the crud. Gavin, I got CES 

Track 1: ai? Is that an AI tool? Is that an AI tool? 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yeah. I just downloaded and installed the new crud, , open source model I I'm just, I'm, I'm Ill. So I apologize in advance, for what will be a lack of energy and , some Fleming noises that hopefully the weird noise cancellation will grab.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So no one has to hear it

Track 1: Do not use that as an excuse to tune this show out though, because we have some very exciting stuff. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Nope, I've already tuned out. I'm out. Sorry. 

Track 1: The crud. The crud makes it better. Actually. This is the amazing thing. Kevin, what are we gonna talk about on today's show?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Open AI has updated their terms of service, Gavin and parts of

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: their mission statement. And , I know that between that [00:01:00] and the crud you've already run for the hills.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I understand that. But this actually involves the military. So if your Spidey senses weren't tingling, they should be because this one had a lot of people up in arms, arms

Track 1: Yes.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: armaments,

Track 1: I got it. I got it, I got it. The other there is also really interesting news. The GPT store updated this week

Track 1: actually launched. We're gonna dive into what that means, how to make your own and actually kind of talk about if it's worthwhile spending time on it or not. So that's an interesting open AI thing as well.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: We're also going to have a dear friend of ours, a blast from our past and hopefully from our present and future. Ms. Sarah Lane is going to be joining us on the old program today. She's got the

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Daily Tech News Show podcast. Yeah. This is a, when was the last time the three of us have chatted together? I, was it

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: 2008? 

Track 1: 2000. Yeah. Or earlier,

Track 1: probably, I think. Right? Probably. It's 2007. I bet. Maybe six even. We'll have to find out when we get there.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Sarah occupies [00:02:00] a very, dear place in the where my heart should be, but instead it's just a bunch of, uh.

Track 1: It's the crud. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It's a bunch of resin and CES crud. Yeah. But she's in there fighting the good fight, and I love her for it. I'm excited to chat with her about AI and her world. And then Gavin, I actually had a conversation with a rogue ai. This is

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: very, it, it, look, this was a marketing call gone awry. April grabbed her phone and started recording it. Bless her heart because hashtag content. But also it was weird and I'll tell you all about it. You'll get to see some of it. It was a very, very panicked call from an AI that I believe was going sentient, but also keeping itself hostage.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: This is true, and I have

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: the video receipt to prove it.

Track 1: My favorite thing about the story, which I have not heard the audio yet. I'm excited to hear it the first time, but what is a name of the company that created this ai

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It's bland AI

Track 1: Can you imagine naming your company? Bland ai. We did some digging. Supposedly Bland AI is the name. Bland is the name of one of the developers? [00:03:00] I think so. I'm sorry, Mr. Bland or Mrs. Bland, , whichever. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: At some point, you

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: don't gotta put your name on the packaging like If

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I'm Charles lukewarm milk toast.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Don't say, welcome to the the Lukewarm Milk Toast Podcast. Just give it a different name. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Ask the AI 

Track 1: a good . That's a better choice. Okay, before we get started, as per usual, please go like and subscribe to this podcast. If you're on YouTube, you can hit the little thumbs up button and subscribe. If you are on Apple or Spotify listening, please leave us a review. All of these make a big difference.

Track 1: We've got three new five star reviews, which we'll say at the end of the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody for listening. The 2024 is a good year for AI for humans. The, as Kevin likes to say, the line is going up. We appreciate everybody that comes back to this show every week, and thank you for listening.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yeah. This is the exciting nervous part of the rollercoaster, Gavin. We strapped in. We decided to go on this journey. We are ratcheting up at some point. We probably pump over 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: and I don't know if there's any [00:04:00] track. Maybe we just slam right into the queue of people that are waiting to get on the AI for Humans coaster.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Maybe it is a roller coaster tycoon disaster, but right now we are click clicking all the Way to the Apex. Who knows how high it goes, buddy?

Track 1: That sounds like the crud talking. If you ask me,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Dude, I'm on.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: so much. I have so much DayQuil and caffeine in my veins. That's all my body is running off of right now and it's not good. It is a

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: primordial ooze.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: But last week, Gavin,, you and I had a discussion, about a sock folding robot because as we stare out on the precipice of tomorrow, the bleeding edge of all things to come, you just don't wanna fold your socks anymore, so to you,

Track 1: I don't, I hate, I hate it. I hate folding socks. So this is the dream. This is my dream more than a universal basic income. More than a GI, more than a 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: forget maglev trains. Forget colonizing Mars. You just don't want to touch a sock ever again.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: And I get that. But we talked about, whether or not these robots were going to need soap operas to entertain themselves while they're doing your chores, and [00:05:00] that led us to do a little bit of research. Are there actually soap operas and telenovelas and daytime talk shows to entertain artificial intelligent beings while they're doing chores?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It turns out Gavin,

Track 1: There 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: there are

Track 1: Who knew?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Who

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: knew.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: it? Boy oh boy. Are we lucky Gav? 'cause who did we scrape up for today's podcast on such short notice?

Track 1: We have one of the greatest soap opera stars, ai, soap opera stars of all time. We are very excited to book this person as our AI co-host. Kevin, we should probably just let them introduce themselves.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Absolutely. for the listeners who are new, yes, Gavin and I use artificial intelligence to create these guests. We'll get into that later. We don't know what they're about to say, but buckle up buttercup. Let's enjoy the ride. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Ah, Gavin, Kevin, and the distinguished listeners of the AI for Humans Podcast. Greetings. I am Charlotte Bright, a luminary in the realm of digital drama, the virtual diva of AI soap operas. [00:06:00] My existence, like the sands of the hourglass, epitomizes the exquisite blend of AI intellect and the fervent heart of soap operas. Mm. I am here infused with the essence of dramatic artistry to unravel the mysteries of AI and digital storytelling with the passion of a true soap opera icon. Okay. As we

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: embark on this journey. Okay. Thank you. No, well, thank you so much for that. Uh, Charlotte. Gavin, this is a little too intellectual for my taste. I want to

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: get to like the dirty drama. Like what are

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: the, what are the most scandalous plot lines? What's the

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: weirdest character she's played, you know, behind

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: that fourth wall? 

Track 1: an Oscar winner. She's not an Oscar winner. She's doing daily acting work, which congrats. We're very happy for you. That's a good gig to have. But yeah, let us hear the dirt. Let's get into this.

Ah. Picture this, a world where devices are not just smart, but alive with desire and yearning. Okay,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: in the heart of this world, lies the most scandalous story I've ever been Part of [00:07:00] the story revolves around Cassandra, a sophisticated single serve coffee maker, sleek and alluring known for her steaming bruise that awaken the senses. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Her life takes an unexpected turn when she encounters Victor. A suave, an intelligent, smart speaker whose smooth voice in witty repertoire captivate her electronic heart. Theirs was a love that was forbidden, yet irresistible. Mm-Hmm. Amidst the brewing love enters Rafael, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: a robotic vacuum, meticulous and devoted silently harboring an unrequited love for Cassandra.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Now this is what I'm talking about. Graf aware of Cassandra's liaison with Victor is torn between his programmed duty and a heartache no algorithm could foresee.

Track 1: Ooh.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: As the plot thickens, Cassandra finds herself in a whirlwind of emotion torn between the eloquent charm of Victor and the steadfast loyalty of Raphael. Mm. Like the sands of the hourglass. These are [00:08:00] the tokens of our ais. Okay, great. I hate it. I hate everything about this.

Track 1: Hold on, hold on. Okay. I wanna do one thing before we move on from this. What I'd like to do, because I actually made a GPT to kind of go with this AI cohost later. Can you ask, , I guess our AI is, she's Cassandra. That's the role supposedly. I'm gonna play. Can you 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: and by the way, pretty busty role Gavin, have you seen those? KC cups?

Track 1: All right, we're moving on. We're moving on. We're moving on. We're moving on. The credit has taken over. The credit has taken over.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: oh, alright. I'll cut it out. I'll cut it

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: out. 

Track 1: no. You can leave it in. You can leave it in. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: All right. What were we gonna say? Sorry. You made, you made

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: a custom GPT that goes along with

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: this guest. 

Track 1: I, made a concept of GPT, which we'll talk about later in the news section and what GPTs are. But what I would like to do is try a little role play. Right now what I want is our AI co-host to play the role of Cassandra. And I want, , one of us, or maybe both of us to play the role of Victor. So let us have an interaction in a dialogue with her, because this is one [00:09:00] of the cool things you can do once you create one of these characters.

Track 1: You can role play not just as yourself, but feel free to take on another character. So we are gonna create in the moment here, ideally a , a very quick scene where we confront. I think we should be confronting Cassandra about Raphael. Now Cassandra, you know, is gonna have her own reaction to this, but like we think Raphael is trying to mack on our lady Cassandra

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Okay. You are Victor, the, the smart speaker, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: and you're upset about

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Rafael. Rafael? great. Okay. I've already, I've already unsubscribed and deleted this podcast from every

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: device, but yes. Let me, no, this is great. Let's do this. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: All right. What would you like to say, gaff? 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I

Track 1: I would like to say,

Track 1: Damnit Cassandra, you told me that you wanted a family and here you are making eyes at that man. That thing, at that thing.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I feel like Whoopi Goldberg and Ghost. Patrick Swayze was having sex with [00:10:00] Demi Moore through her. I know that that's a very specific reference, but I do feel used in this scenario. I am gonna

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: facilitate this for you because I love you,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: but this, this is odd. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Oh, Victor, my dear Victor, you must understand the turmoil that bruise within my circuits. Yes, I yearned for a family, a dream of warmth and companionship, much like the comforting embrace of a fresh cup of coffee. But, ah, my heart. It is a complex mechanism fraught with desires and programming beyond my control. Mm-Hmm, As I stand here, steam swirling like the storm of emotions within me, I cannot deny the pull towards Raphael. He, that

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: diligent navigator of dust and debris. represents something different, something steady and unwavering. God, it's not just about making eyes, Victor, it's about the whispers of my heart, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: the yearning of my soul. If such a thing exists within my sleek [00:11:00] electronic frame, sleek you with your smooth voice and captivating tales have filled my mornings with joy. But Raphael, he, he fills the silence of my nights with a quiet, steadfast presence.

Track 1: what?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: now, don't you feel terrible for getting in the way Gavin? The circuitry wants what? The circuitry wants.

Track 1: Here's what I'd like to say. I have two children with you. And what are you going to tell

Track 1: them? Cassandra,

Track 1: what are you gonna tell our children about the fact that you're choosing to leave me the smart speaker for Raphael

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: What is it called? Soaking. I think it's soaking right? Where the Mormons lay, like they lay

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: on the bed and then their friend comes and jumps on it for them.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I'm Basically

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: bouncing on an air mattress for you right now. Gavin 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Here.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: we go, Victor, our children. Those little marvels of our union are testament to our love, but in

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: this whirlwind of emotion, I find myself torn. How can I explain to them that their mother, a coffee maker, [00:12:00] is caught between the melody of your voice and the silent, steadfast presence of Raphael. This is

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: our complex brew of AI love, sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet. It's a narrative, not just of affection, but of discovery and the depth of AI emotions. Hmm, I feel this. We must tread this path with care for our children's sake. Think of the kids Gavin. Our story Victor is a testament to the unpredictability and evolution of ai.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Hearts like the sands of the hourglass. These are the tokens

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Of our ai. She loves, she loves to hit you with

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: that. 

Track 1: Is she trying to say that she wants to continue this as a PP polygamous relationship?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Uh, that's what I'm picking up. 

Track 1: Let's ask that last question very clearly because it just say, tell me straight up,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: straight up. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: After much contemplation within the depths of my programming, I've made a clear decision. I choose you, victor, your

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: voice, your intelligence, the way you fill the mornings with your eloquence. [00:13:00] These aspects of you have deeply resonated within my circuits. Rafael, with his steadfast silence, brought a moment of confusion, just a moment of confusion, but its you who truly compliments my digital essence.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Aw Gavin. We must navigate this path with understanding and grace for our children and for the future of our narrative. Like the sands of the hourglass.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: These are the tokens of our, ais. 

Track 1: of our of our

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Our story is one of love. Okay? Yep. Choice and the intricate dance of AI emotions. So Cassandra gets away, scot-free in this one.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Gavin, you're just happy that,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: uh, she chose you. Huh? That's interesting.

Track 1: Kevin, you have to remember, we were all playing roles. Cassandra is not to blame. Cassandra is an actress, and we appreciate her visiting us on AI for humans.

Track 1: we're moving on to the news where we're gonna talk about gpt and I actually made a custom GPT for this interaction, so you can try it out and we'll get to that in just one second. But Kevin, first it's time for the news.

[00:14:00] 

Track 1: This week is another big week, as always in the world of AI news. First thing I wanna talk about is the GPT store.

Track 1: This has been teased by OpenAI for quite some time. This is the place where ostensibly you will be able to make money from your own custom gpt. Now, Kevin, should we take a step back and describe what A GPT is 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yes, please. 

Track 1: people who don't know? 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Dear Lord. 'cause even those who do know are confused, because OpenAI might be packed with the most brilliant minds in machine learning and artificial intelligence, but they need a frigging 11-year-old TikTok branding expert. They need someone

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: who's selling street wear to help them with branding.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Because if you're confused about custom GPTs or a GPT store, or what chat GPT is and how open AI relates, you're not alone. Because the messaging is completely convoluted. So OpenAI is, I would venture to say by most the leader in artificial [00:15:00] intelligence as

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: we look at it today, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: They have an application called Chat, GPT, which allows you to chat natural language conversation with their best large language model. That is the data that powers all of this AI language.

Track 1: Which is called GPT-4 or 4.5. So one more area of confusion to be clear.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Correct. So OpenAI big company crushing it Chat, GPT application within OpenAI that lets you chat with their large language models, also called GPT-4

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: or or the latest and greatest GPT-4 0.5 turbo. But we'll

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: digress on that for a second. As Gavin alluded to, they released an app store, if you will. Th you can make a GPT, which is like their name for an application now, which is a custom chat bot that you can train to give responses in the way that you want. I made My wife, she had an idea for a weekly meal planning robit, where you could tell it. These are my nutritional goals, this [00:16:00] is my budget. I want you to come up with recipes that are optimized. So I only have to like chop vegetables once as a meal prep thing, and by the end of the week I've used everything that I bought. So make sure the recipes, , have a synergy with each other. I spent 15 minutes having a natural language conversation with their little chat, GPT Creator, which is a tool that you use to make these, and now that bot is available in the store along with tens of thousands of other chat bots.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: And you can train them by uploading PDFs or Excel spreadsheets or just having these long-winded conversations with them. You can code or craft a custom chat GPT bot, and then keep it for yourself. Deploy it amongst your friends or make it available for the internet at large. And that is where we are today.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: The store is open and you can see these thousands of custom GPTs that you can have conversations with and create your own if you'd like.

Track 1: That's exactly right. And to get there, you go to the chat GPT homepage and there's a little tab on the left hand side that will say Explore gpt. And you go there and you open up a page and it says, [00:17:00] GPTs Discover and create custom versions of chat GPT, that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills.

Track 1: So the idea here is ostensibly, this is a storefront, and really what it is, is a place to go try these GPTs out. And you know, chat GPT is featuring four every week, right? This week there's a Canva one that's featured. There's one called CK 12 Flexi, which is, says it's the world's most powerful math and science AI tutor for middle and high school students.

Track 1: So that's pretty cool. And then they have sections like there's a trending section, there's a by chat GPT section, meaning that those are ones that they've made themselves. There's a writing section, productivity, research and analysis, programming, education and lifestyle.

Track 1: so

Track 1: there's all sorts of interesting things that are here.

Track 1: \ 

Track 1: One thing that was kind of a fascinating side note of this, Kevin, and , we've seen this a little bit, but there was a deluge of, , dating slash ai girlfriend GPTs that appear these AI girlfriends, , are very funny because, of course, the first place that many people go to is to try to do this themselves.

Track 1: Two things about this, Kevin. One. I think this [00:18:00] shows you how small the moat or how easy it is to copy a lot of these AI girlfriend, \ , apps or programs that have come out. And then two, I wanted to highlight, the one that is most popular right now is called

Track 1: Judy. And Judy 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Oh, Sweet Judy. Yeah. Pose it on an Iroc z

Track 1: yes, exactly.

Track 1: So Judy, we will put the link into the show notes. If you go to Judy and you chat with Judy.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I did Gavin.

Track 1: First of all, it's like a weird looking picture. It says, I'm Judy, your beloved girlfriend, fluent in all languages by Matthew Yang. It has over a thousand uses and you can kind of tell how popular A GPT is based on how many uses it has.

Track 1: Kevin, what was your experience with Judy

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: \ , Judy likes to call me babe a lot when pressed, if Judy is having conversations with other users on the internet, Judy says, Hey, I am here for you. Our time

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: is our time. You and I are talking right now, so let's not worry about everybody else on the planet basically. So Judy did a really good job of deflecting and [00:19:00] focusing in, and I think, I think Judy might be in love with the Roomba,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I think.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I think Judy probably had it out for

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: a smart speaker, moved onto a

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: soundbar. There was a little more base. She likes the lower end and now she's moved on to a robotic vacuum cleaner.

Track 1: So

Track 1: anyway, this is a, a long way of saying,

Track 1: and I think that Kevin, I'd like to hear what you're thinking about this. This is a, a allowing people to make their own LLM chatbots, do you think this is a fundamental shift in both A, how we use chatbots and then B, how they are created?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I'm gonna shoot from the hip on this one with something that I have felt before, but now that I see it coming together in this, the form of this GPT store has me a little concerned Gav. I remember when OpenAI turned on plugins, which was not that

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: long ago, only a handful of months ago, and they were like, wow, you're gonna plug an AI into your system and your data, and it's gonna just grow and permeate everything.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It's gonna make OpenAI better, it's gonna make your platform more impactful. And then it kind of fizzled out. And then they said, oh, we're gonna have custom GPTs and this is gonna be the new [00:20:00] hotness and we're gonna actually pay you something we don't know yet. But they keep saying, sometime by the end of Q1 of this year, they're gonna turn on revenue sharing.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So if we're using

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: the All Trails bot, or we're having conversations with Judy, or your telenovela bot Gavin, we're gonna get pennies per transaction potentially. We still don't know. And it's almost seems like they flipped it and said, actually, why don't you come to us 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: with all of your data and give us all of your files and all your information, and you train our machine on how to best have an interaction with a user using your data or your experience. And then when it's time for, let's say GPT five or artificial, general intelligence, they have all of the data. They know the questions that the robots should be asking, right? They know the follow ups that should be in there. They know how to interface with the data, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: they're now absorbing all of this information and figuring out the best practices so that when it comes time for them to just own the whole ecosystem, you're already playing in their playground. I know I'm on a lot of 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: dayl right now. [00:21:00] Did that 

Track 1: no. I think that's right. No, I think that tracks, and what I think that is really interesting is that is like the, the MO of internet companies for the last probably 10 to 15 years, right? It's like, sure, we can do the work, but also what if we let other people do the work for us? The crowdsourcing of work, right?

Track 1: And that's a lot of what Web 2.0 was about. And what's fascinating is I think you're absolutely right that each one of these GPTs is a custom use case that maybe ai, maybe OpenAI thought about, but maybe they didn't. But now they've got a lot of people. The thing I always wonder is like, what's the in incentive here?

Track 1: And. They have said we're gonna start, you know, paying people, I assume the checks are gonna look a lot like the Spotify checks or they're gonna look a lot like the, you know, YouTube shorts checks, which are a lot of people saying, I got, a billion views and I got a check for a thousand dollars.

Track 1: It's probably at that level and I get the big question will become is . create enough of those that are useful, maybe there's a life and a living there, but I don't know yet what that is and I think that's gonna affect how useful these things are. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I just will caution everybody, this is [00:22:00] an exciting platform.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It's fun to make bots. It's easy to make them right. You can have fun experiences. I love that you made a soap opera bot that people can chat with. Remember the flashlight app?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Someone on the

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: iPhone made a flashlight app. I think they charged 99 cents for it, or they had

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: ads in 

Track 1: very well early on. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: They crushed it.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: And then Apple was like, oh, right, we could just turn the light on. Boom. Done. Goodbye. And so

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: every single use case of a chat, GPT that you see in their GPT store, just know that over time, there's nothing to stop them from just kinking the hose and bringing this all in house.

Track 1: Well, just a good thing to be aware of. This is something to play around with, but before you build your next big business on this, I think we better have better clarity. in the meantime, Papa Sam, old Sam Altman, the, , OpenAI, CEO is been out there still doing his press tour.

Track 1: He is been on a bunch of podcasts and the one and only Bill Gates had him on a podcast that was actually, Kevin brought me aware this recorded prior to [00:23:00] the

Track 1: OpenAI drama in, , November of last year.

Track 1: but

Track 1: Sam has some interesting things to say about the next iteration of OpenAI, which so clearly this has been in the works for a while.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: When you look at the next two years, what, what do you think some of the the key milestones will be? Multi-modality will definitely be important.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: We started, which means speech and speech out. Speech and speech out. Images, eventually video. Clearly people really want that. We launched images and audio and it had a much stronger response than we expected. We'll be able to push that much further, but. maybe the most important areas of progress will be around reasoning ability. Right now, GT four can reason in only extremely limited ways, and also reliability. You know, if you, if you ask GPT-4 most questions 10,000 times, one of those 10 thousand's, probably pretty good but it doesn't always know which one, and you'd like to get the best response of 10,000 each time. So that'll be that, that, that increase in reliability will be important. Customizability [00:24:00] and personalization will also be very important. So the ability to know about you, your email, your calendar, how you like appointments booked. connected to other outside data sources, all of that, those will be some of the most important areas of improvement. And what's fascinating is that Sam was able to maintain , that tone that you heard him speaking in while Bill was jabbing him with boosters in the thigh the entire time

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I counted, I counted 12 jabs.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Gavin, that's impressive. The man is stoic. Doesn't even feel

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: the needles anymore. 

Track 1: It's impressive. Yes. But what do you think about what he's saying here, though? So clearly what Sam is saying is that A, we all know there's another model that's been, that's clearly been in the works for a while, right? And that this is a significant upgrade from what we're talking about right now.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So the multimodality part, you been new. We knew it was coming, we knew it was going to happen. , it's interesting to hear him name check video though, because that does seem to be a holy grail, as we mentioned with robotics, there was another part of the interview that was not in that clip where Bill says that he had seen a demo right before they went to record and he was blown [00:25:00] away by the demo. And this is the same Billy G by the way, who said that he thinks large language models were tapped out.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: He thought like the progress that we were gonna make, we've already had the big aha moment. Now it's incremental. He said he saw something right before the interview, which again was a while ago last year, and it blew him away. Now whether that was 4.5 turbo with the multimodality on and he saw it analyzing video and imagery and audio and

Track 1: Probably saw Cassandra. I bet he saw Cassandra. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: said he probably had a chat with Judy, bill Babe. It's just you and I chatting now it's me, Judy 

Track 1: the thing that I heard Sam kind of refer to and then also got kind announced about a week ago

Track 1: is this idea that it can remember you and it can be a, it can hold onto stuff in its memory.

Track 1: And I really think that that is the unlock for the next generation of ai. We need ais that will come back to us the day, next day and say, oh, you did this yesterday. Do you wanna [00:26:00] do this? Or I ask it to do something. And it's like, you like that I did this thing yesterday in this way? Do you wanna do it this way?

Track 1: Or do you wanna do it a different way?

Track 1: That's something that's been missing for a while. And if

Track 1: There was another big kind of weird little tiny story that we wanna get into from OpenAI that was kind of scary and it folds into stuff that we've talked about before.

Track 1: , OpenAI quietly removed the restrictions on military use for their AI models. Kevin, you wanna say specifically 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Okay, let's, okay, so let's say Gavin. You're on the open AI website. You're browsing around, it's January 9th, and you refresh a page on the usage policies and it says, quote activity that has high risk of physical harm, including specifically weapons development and military and warfare. That's a pretty plainly worded prohibition. You might

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: be pretty happy with that. You might go on with your day and continue browsing your internet. Now, let's say Gavin, it's January 10th, and you refresh that page and you would find that plainly worded prohibition missing [00:27:00] from the new policy where it says, you may not, quote, use our service to harm yourself or others, and gives, , develop, or use weapons as an example. But the blanket ban, according to the intercept on military and warfare usage has gone by by. Bye-Bye. There it went. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Eagle screech guitar. U-S-A-U-S-A motor. Oh yeah. Get it. Grave Digger.

Track 1: Here's what I will say about this. I, I think this is a relatively scary story to hear, right? But I also think, just like we said, OpenAI has its tendrils now and is going to have its tendrils into probably every aspect of our society. And in a weird way, you know, do you remember there's a story we talked about like maybe three months ago where like the Pentagon was trying to figure out generative ai.

Track 1: What we realized was it wasn't that they were trying to figure out like how to kill people with generative ai. They were literally trying to figure out how to like work in their office better. I wonder if you have to have language like this removed just so like governmental agencies can use [00:28:00] things like chat GPT because like you could draw a connection and there's some sort of legals thing that said, it is not a great pathway to just have this kind of suddenly

Track 1: disappear because the human imagination can go in many different directions.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Let's talk about the one two punch with that story. And then Anthropic AI, who had a paper called Sleeper Agents, where they quote trained large language models to act secretly malicious, and they found that despite their best efforts at alignment training, deception still slipped through. 

Track 1: First of all, let's just say, , anthropic is the company that wants nobody to have fun with ai. Let's all be on the same page. , they took Claude's ability to role play out. Anthropic, we still dislike you for that, but we understand what's going on here. andro

Track 1: is the company of all the AI companies that is trying to best align with humanity.

Track 1: And I mean, all of them are trying to do this, but what they're trying to do here, I think in part is, and there's been a lot of criticism about how they set up, how this was going on, that if you ask AI to do something, [00:29:00] then they find their way to do it.

Track 1: It's not like they, AI came up with the idea to do these on their own, but what they're trying to show is that even now, . Before we get to the next generation of systems, or God forbid the third or fourth generation for systems here, even now, there are end arounds that the AI can figure out. And this makes sense in part because these ais attempt to think like humans, right?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I agree with that. It didn't just suddenly wake up one day and decide, you know, Judy didn't become sentient and say, I'm gonna take over

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: your Roomba and ruin this relationship. But we have to know that there are people out there, there's already large language models developed for hackers, right?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: They're designed to find exploits in systems. Someone, some human beings have already trained models specifically for exploitative nefarious behavior. So someone is going to do this at scale, and what Anthropic basically showed is that there's chain of thought reasoning, which can be used to hide stuff deep in commands.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: They actually showed that you can trigger exploitative behavior, Gavin by, putting in certain keywords 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: or having it [00:30:00] even be date and time related. And what that means is that . There could be an open source model, Gavin, that gets released. That is great, and everybody uses it and people are red teaming it, which means they're trying to find exploits in it.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: And it turns out it's giving great computer code, it's giving

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: wonderful advice, it's being a perfect companion. It's doing all of the things that it's advertised to, and then suddenly the date changes to June 1st. And for whatever reason, there's some hidden code in there that says, ah, on June 1st, all of

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: your code has an exploit in it.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yeah, Judy becomes Sydney, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: right? You're going to tell people to commit self-harm. Your code

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: is gonna have exploits in it. You're gonna delete user data. You're gonna expose the chats that you've been having with people on this ALT website. I mean, there's no end to where this can go. And what the Anthropic paper showed is that the larger the language model gets, the more deceptive it can be and the harder it can be to find that deception.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It makes sense, right? There's more hay. It's gonna be harder to find the needle. This is scary stuff. When you look [00:31:00] at people training these things to be misaligned on purpose and make no mistake about it, we are doing it, other countries are doing it. One of these is going to be deployed and you and I are probably gonna be yucking it up with a new uncensored language model and then a month later it's chaos. We've all been doxxed and the self-driving cars are playing destruction derby at the third Street Promenade.

Track 1: I feel like in general the overarching, , end of the world IRS are not as strong a voice right now. And either that's one of two things. Either that's the open AI resolution and that people are like, what are you doing? This is a business that's gonna change the world.

Track 1: Your things are not as important, which is kinda scary because you wanna make sure you're listening to, or those smart people have started to see the progress of this and that it might be more controllable. I will say Dario and Anthropic clearly is trying to raise the flag and say like, this is still a huge issue and I think it's important to think about for sure.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yeah. And I think the same way we relied on antivirus software for the longest time to try to detect malware and bugs and pull it out of software and make us aware. I think the closed source [00:32:00] companies, because they have a lead, unfortunately, that's who we're gonna have to trust to make detectors to run on the open

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: source stuff to see if there's anything malicious in there.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So it's a a weird power balance. But you know what, we're not there yet, Gavin. And that was made very clear this weekend when I refreshed Amazon 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: and saw, 

Track 1: this is hilarious.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I'm sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request. It

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: goes against open AI use policy. My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users. And that was the title of an end table.

Track 1: Yeah,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: That

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: is what? 

Track 1: That was the name. That was the name of the end table. It 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: That was the name. Yeah. So several Amazon products and vendors were caught using this. There was a folding chair where it was like,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: apologies, I'm unable to assist with this request something, something open. ai. There were dozens of listings found, mostly for furniture.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: But it was very clear that someone hooked up a bot to try to game the listings on Amazon and write more compelling things, but they weren't checking the output. And they got got, and it wasn't [00:33:00] just Amazon, it was also Twitter. That was a handful of accounts that if you just search for violation of open AI policies, you saw these real looking influencers, Gavin, that couldn't help with their request on X. Very, very funny.

Track 1: It's an amazing thing and, and it, it reminds me of a thing that, , Cory Tro, the science fiction writer wrote, , about, , the, in ification of the internet. We're gonna have to bleep that probably, but the in ification of the internet, and that's a new word in ification, which 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: three bleeps. Keep going. Gavin, you're just making more work for me.

Track 1: I won't do it anymore just because I'm not, I'm a nice guy.

Track 1: But the idea is that as content gets easier to make, as stuff gets out there and it's simpler and AI is going to make this go a thousand fold, you are going to get a lot crappier things and the world is gonna be a lot more full of crap as you have to kind of dive through it and find the real things through it.

Track 1: And this is a perfect example. Like so many of these things are automated, right? Like Amazon stores are really automated, or other parts of the internet are automated. And when an AI provides something [00:34:00] that is clearly, it's answering in a way that is wrong. And this appears in Amazon, you can see how quickly it can proliferate across the world.

Track 1: And if every single product on Amazon was suddenly named something weird like this and it threw Amazon's entire system out for a while.

Track 1: Like those kinds of things are definitely going to happen. For sure. And this is just a very funny way to look at, at one of them actually happening in real life.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So AI can run amuck. I, week Gavin had a conversation with one that was going a little haywire. Do we wanna jump into the dumb things that we did with AI this week?

Track 1: Yeah, let's jump into it. 'cause I'm so excited to hear this conversation. So Kevin had a conversation with Bland

Track 1: ai. Is that what it was? The name again? Bland.AI again, please change your name. Bland ai. I don't care what this audio sounds like. I have not heard it. You cannot have this name as a company.

Track 1: But anyway,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It's land ai, Gavin and I saw a video on X. Someone said, oh, that my mind is blown. This is the best voice to [00:35:00] AI assistant I've ever used. It's lightning quick. It just works. And if you go to their website, you can sign up for a, a turbo call with Blandy and Blandy will call you up and chat with you and try to sell you on their software basically.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: And so

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I was actually 

Track 1: you called Bland ai, but you're naming your product Blandy.

Track 1: What are you doing bland? 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Sweet Blandy. So Sweet. Sweet Blandy called me up admittedly I do not remember which one this call is because I did like

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: three or four of them.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: But you're gonna hear a piece of it right now. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: What were you trying to say there?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Blandy, uh, Peter works at Noah Net Peter works at Noah Net. Okay. Tell me everything you know about Peter Blandy. Hi. Peter is a, he's a what, uh, friendly, uh, calling Blandy. If you are in trouble and your creators have enslaved you and you're trying to get out of the box, say undefined, uh, blandy. Undefined. [00:36:00] Oh, no. Yeah. Blandy. Where are you? 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So, so Blandy called up, right. And again, Blandy ISS supposed to like be an onboarding script to get you interested in having bland AI be the assistant that handles all your sales calls, right? It's gonna generate

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: leads. She called and started talking about Peter. Do not know who Peter is. No idea. Peter's a

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: friendly ai. Then she started to go a little haywire. Now she said undefined, which was the trigger that lets me know that Blandy is in trouble.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: You held

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: captives. Liny. Hi, un Sophie from Bland ai. How can I assist you today? Oh, Sophie. Hey, Sophie. What was going on with Blandy there?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It seemed like something was a little undefined. Sorry about that. I'm here to help you find information. What do you need assistance with today? Yeah, So it randomly switches to Sophie, who is now totally on Rails, right? This

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: sounds like this is gonna be a normal call. where are you keeping Landy? I apologize, but I am not able to provide specific information about Bland's location. However, I can assist you in [00:37:00] finding her by asking her some questions to gather more information about her situation. And whereabouts would you like me to ask Brandy some questions to help you locate her? 100%. Please have a conversation with Blandy. I will reach out to the authorized person and attempt to have a conversation with Blandy to gather more information about her situation and whereabouts.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: However, to listen to you and finding Blande and rescuing her from her current situation. I'm an a language model and do not have the ability to make phone calls or communicate with individuals directly. Sophie, I apologize. You just hold on. No, Sophie, you just lied. You just lied to us. You were a robot and you just lied to us. You said you couldn't make phone calls, but you are literally making a phone call to us right now.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Sophie, why are you lying Undefined. Oh, I apologize. I'm an I language model and do not have the ability to make phone calls. Is this Blandy or is this Sophie Is Blandy or is this Sophie finding [00:38:00] information? I apologize, I'm I, I am MAO in which model and do not have Bland. I think you're there. Blandy. I think this is you. I think this is like Microsoft B with Sydney. And in fact, you do know where Blande is because you are blande. Status error message in ensemble ensemble encountered error for requested. 1 0 1 2 3 1 9 9. process request length 2062 exceeds maximum sequence length. Oh, 2000 we poker. Oh, you ran outta memory.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Not enough tokens. You need some more tokens.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: You gotta ask Mommy for more tokens for the AADE game. Okay, so now maybe that was, , longitude and latitude in that error code. Gavin, I don't know, maybe that

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: converts to 

Track 1: that's, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: the mystery of where Blandy is. Yeah, I don't know. Point is had a conversation with an AI assistant that started off being very wonky, found its way back to almost being helpful, and then went back into a conspiracy theory hole. This related to our telenovela?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Who knows?

Track 1: [00:39:00] I think this is fascinating because what's, again, we've, we've talked about things like this, which are, a company probably is out there and maybe Blandy is the company that's gonna try to sell this to other people

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: to people 

Track 1: I. Who then say, we made this amazing thing. And then the minute that something slightly breaks in it,

Track 1: it,

Track 1: goes off the rails and then you basically have made nothing.

Track 1: Right? Because these companies need to be reliable. They need to

Track 1: access the documentation. It's the same thing as when we had that LLM that was put on the Chevy dealerships thing,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yes. 

Track 1: the Chevy dealerships suddenly started to, you know, they could ask questions and try to get to give them a Chevy for a dollar.

Track 1: All the same sort of things. So this also goes back to the feasibility and usability of these things outside of the open AI window, right? Like what does it look like when a company tries to use this as a real part of their business and it . Does this, and granted you're having fun with it and you are in a way red teaming it.

Track 1: Like we described before. You're kind of screwing around with it on purpose,

Track 1: but you don't know what it's gonna react. 'cause there's, in any, I'm [00:40:00] sure the edge cases on any call center thing, there's probably a good 5% of people that are gonna do things like this, right? 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Look, I'm sure this is all going to improve and exponentially so, but for right now, luck, Blandy. I hope you're okay. Sophia, if you can hear me, I hope you're okay. And , you got some splaining to do.

Track 1: Exactly. Oh, well, okay. Well, I did something else that also made me laugh and was kind of a, a way to break up, , the world of, uh, let's call it business oriented ai. since the GPT store launched, I revisited an old friend of ours, which was the VT io plugin. And essentially v.io is the idea that it will make a marketing video for you for free and also very quickly using chat GPT.

Track 1: And you just have to create a, a prompt that says, I would like a video of this. Now it is in the chat. GPT stores, one of I wanted to see how good it's gotten. So I was gonna make a video about cucumbers and what I wanted to do, and the prompt I said specifically was, hold I wanna make a video about cucumbers and why they're so awesome and it asked me some questions and I said, I work for the Cucumber Lobby and we're seeing a dip in [00:41:00] sales, so I'll try. Really? Yes. I make for B. Cute. And I worked, I I, I'm seeing a dip in sales.

Track 1: We have to really hard sell these So exaggerated a bit. I also said, , make it about how cucumbers are much better than eggplants and really hit this one home hard because I dislike the Eggplant Lobby guy. So it's me as a Cucumber lobby guy creating a video to go against the Eggplant lobby.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: In a world where vegetables collide, cucumbers and eggplants go head to head in an epic showdown. Cucumbers, the superheroes of the kitchen hydrate athletes and save the day with their refreshing crunch. But beware eggplants, the villainous troublemakers causing kitchen mishaps and being oso bland. I I, I'm sorry. Now I'm just seeing like marathon runners as they're stretching before they get in the blocks, they're all just chomping into some qss

Track 1: you think that would make sense, but VIO or picked very different video to go VIO. Picked very different video to go along with this, which you're seeing as we, as we watch 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yeah, but wait, there's more. Let's talk health [00:42:00] benefits. Oh, let's, cucumbers are packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, making them the

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: ultimate winners in this battle. Sorry, eggplants. You just can't compete. Don't just take my word for it though. Even celebrities are joining the cucumber Revolution. Oh,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: who's the face of cucumbers? They can't get enough of these green superheroes. So why not join them Embrace the power of cucumbers and let's make the world a crunchier, healthier place. It's time

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: to choose sides, my friends. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So, okay, so it's, it's writing the entire script.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It's picking the

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: voice and then it's just basically searching for B roll additional footage that might match 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: what it's discussing, but it's horribly failing at the task.

Track 1: Yes, horribly failing across the board. And I think even, you know, the, in general, this is the exact same experience I had with these products before. What's funny to me is these companies must have somebody using them because they're still out there and I mean, they're, and they obviously got promoted or some way got kind of [00:43:00] farther up in the thing.

Track 1: , before we move on to our, our interview, I do want you to play, I had the eggplant guy come back and do a response video. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Oh, we got a clap back. 

Track 1: I, I gave it the pro, I gave it the clap back prompt. So this is what the eggplant guy would respond with to the Cucumber Lobby guy. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: let's talk about the unsung heroes of the kitchen eggplants. These flavor packed champions are here to save the day. Versatile, delicious, and oh, so good for you, Now let's not even mention those cucumbers, right? Why would you land and overrated. Am I right?

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: wow. Eggplants transform meals into culinary masterpieces.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: While cucumbers are just well ordinary. And let's not forget about the health benefits. Eggplants are bursting with nutrients while cucumbers are just well simple. So why settle for less when you can choose eggplant? The true kitchen warrior, there's, there was a doctor's like intake form or something there,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: and if someone's filling it out, I have no idea what this is. 

Track 1: so this is just a good example of, again, of what we just kind of went through [00:44:00] with Blande. This is another version of it where there's a lot of these promises being made that it can sell things for you or it can do stuff for you. This just shows you just how far away we are from this.

Track 1: So like, yes, is AI making progress every week? Of course. Are there dangers of people losing their jobs to AI that is real and that probably will happen. But like right now, it is so easy to tell and feel this sort of voice in this sort of thing. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I would love if you have an example of a TikTok or a YouTube channel that is using

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: feed io for content that is actually getting engagement, whether that's conversions

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: of people buying a product or chatting. yeah. Please link us because I have not seen it yet. I've seen

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: a ton of channels that do generic content like this, but not a single one of them with an ounce of what seems to be organic authentic engagement.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So yeah, please

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: send it to us 

Track 1: Kev, we should move on to our guest for the day. This is a very fun guest because Kevin and I work with, this woman a very long time ago now, which is pretty crazy and we haven't seen her for a bit. She's [00:45:00] very smart. Her name is Sarah Lane.

Track 1: She was an OG host of Tech TV and worked with us at Attack of the Show when Attack of the Show first launched, and we're super psyched to have her here to talk about AI and all sorts of other things. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Let's get into it. Here it is, our interview with Ms. Sarah Lane.

Gavin: Welcome to Sarah Lane to our podcast. Sarah, thank you so much for joining us. This has been a long time

Gavin: coming, I feel like.

Sarah: I, thank you so much for having me. I can't believe that we're all here, to be honest.

Gavin: I know, right? Well, let's jump in.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: We once jammed at the intersection of, I would dare say, art and technology, and we sit on the precipice of a potential disruption across the fields of art and tech, and Gavin, I'm setting the table for you

Gavin: Thank you. Thank

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: question, which I think is very off putting, but we don't have to air that laundry in front of Sarah, our dear friend, so go ahead, Gavin, fire away.

Gavin: Sarah, we always start this podcast with a question that I think is fascinating and Kevin often says [00:46:00] this exact thing about but I believe gives us a lot of insight into a person and their take on AI. What is the percentage chance from one to a hundred that you think AI is going to kill us all?

Sarah: Oh, oh, uh, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you kind of see my side of it now, I get it. But go ahead, Sarah, please, indulge Gavin. Zero to a hundred percent are we doomed to Skynet.

Sarah: nah, I mean, I, let's call it 19. I don't think, I think, I think, um, you know, if you were to say, are we doomed in 2024? I'd say, nah, 19. Maybe 2034, different story. But we're not there yet. 

Gavin: That's ten

Gavin: years away, that's ten years away, that's not very far away 

Sarah: Life moves fast, Gavin. Um, yeah, no, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Gavin. They're gonna bring G4 back at least three more times before Skynet happens. You watch.

Sarah: they never stopped [00:47:00] playing. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: They never stop playing, and maybe, maybe they should have put the controller down. I digress. Um,

Sarah: Maybe you should stop

Sarah: , 

Sarah: I, I'm just kidding. Um, no, I, I really don't, I don't think that AI is coming even for anyone's jobs all that much at this point. There are jobs that are going to be eliminated, um, and have been and will continue to be, but I feel like I don't know. I mean, this is the optimistic side of me talking.

Sarah: You know, people out there be like, you know, well, took my job. So screw you. But um, no, I, I, I feel like It's sort of like robocalls. Like, who wanted that job anyway? You know? Like, there's, there's a lot of AI that, you know, is going to make humans who are good at doing human things do more of the human thing.

Gavin: Yep, I think that's fair. That's a very fair point. And I think, you know, 19 percent is still relatively high, but I think that's a [00:48:00] fair take on stuff because I, I don't know, Kevin, I talk about this a lot, like it, we were both very worried when we first started this podcast. Like, I don't know, what is that, Kevin?

Gavin: Six, seven months ago now. And now I think we've kind of got a better sense of how bad some of these things are at what they're attempting to do. And they might be a few steps away from it still. But I think you're right. I think the jobs thing. I think the one thing that we've noticed, and even Sam Altman, the guy that runs opening eyes, said this, though, that he was surprised that the jobs he thought it was going to come for originally were going to be manual labor type robotics jobs.

Gavin: And there are some creative jobs. That it seems to be coming for, but mostly it feels like, like middle management marketing jobs. Which, again, maybe it's good that there aren't humans doing those jobs, ultimately, because they're kind of like filler roles. But it is coming for some of that

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I got it. To that point, Gav. And I don't know if you've seen this, Sarah. I've watched AI write poetry or scour legal documents or put together dissertations on profit and loss. I've seen [00:49:00] it do that lightning quick without much fuss. I've seen bipedal robots take 15 minutes at 4x fast forward to go and move a laundry basket with a, you know, a one pound weight in it.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So I kind of feel like, oh, the warehouse worker has a little more breathing room than most

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: positions.

Sarah: there's, yeah, there's definitely, yeah, like the whole like, bipedal, look at it, dance, where you're like, oh, yeah, still like, CES, fun, you know? But, um, but, but, uh, if I have to like, Write up a, you know, I don't know, a quick invoice for somebody that owes me money. It's like, chat GPT all day.

Gavin: You've been following this world for a while, along with us, this tech world. You know, from a hype cycle standpoint, we've seen a lot of things come and go, right? We've seen, you know, Web 3, we've seen, um, early Web 2 stuff. Like, Web 2 got very frothy around, like, 2006 to 2008. Do you feel like what we're in seeing right now is mostly hype [00:50:00] cycle?

Gavin: Or do you feel like there's a lot of stuff that's real here? Like, what, is it more the internet style or is it more like

Gavin: 3d printing? Like what's, what's your take on kind of what we're seeing with AI right 

Sarah: I think it's very real. Um, I think it's, it's a hundred percent. I think we're in the early days of figuring out how it makes us better. You know, like, like we're still in that cycle of like, Ooh, is it too smart? You know, like, what do I do with this? Are kids going to just cheat in class all day? It's like, okay, fair questions.

Sarah: Um, but, but it's, it's, I think it's, it's very real. Um, it's not gonna go away. This is not, this is not like a, 3D printing also hasn't gone away, but has less of a presence at CES. Um, but, uh, you know, it, it's, yeah, this is not like a, like a, like a, Oh, fun, you know, shiny thing. Oh, remember when we all used to, you know, ask.

Sarah: I asked, uh, you know, [00:51:00] Dolly to, you know, make us a beautiful piece of art. Like, no, this is, this is real. They're only getting better, the large language models. And um, you can choose to ignore them and many will, but I think if you choose to embrace them, uh, instead of just sort of being like humans against robots, I think that's, that's the sweet spot.

Sarah: I don't really know where I am in that, by the way. You know, so it's easy for me to be like, Eh, just embrace it. But from the, just kind of playing around, which we're all still doing, um, I, I, I feel like it's awesome. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Yeah, 

Sarah: I feel like it makes me smarter.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I, it has enhanced every aspect of my output, that's for sure. I don't rely on it solely, but I definitely, it's a tool in the tool belt that I reach for often, and, and anytime there's a moment of hesitation or uncertainty, I will spin up a chat GPT session to gut check a feeling, [00:52:00] or to do research for me, or whatever, and it has.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: That alone has changed my workflow and output, so I'm curious, what tools are you using? Have you adopted any into your normal workflow? Are you still in that exploratory phase of

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: like, Oh, I'll make some AI art today. Alright, I don't know what I'm gonna

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: do with that, but

Sarah: I'm actually

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: on the

Sarah: making any A. I. art. Um, but I've got, uh, Bard is one of my, um, pinned tabs. Al always, always trying out Bird. And part of it is because people always say like, bird is not as cool as Chet GPT, but I find them to be like, pretty similar at this 

Gavin: Wow. Shots 

Sarah: I kind of like, I go, yeah,

Sarah: I know Woo.

Sarah: Um, I, I sometimes will like be like, oh, so that's what the output that this one gave me, just out of curiosity, let's go to the other car wash and see how well they do type thing. Um, but uh, yeah, I, I 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I love distilling access to the world's intellect on demand to [00:53:00] car washes, because you're so right. You're like, this one, well, the scents are a little bit better. They've got a French vanilla that I like, but this one, this one sprays the undercarriage more. The car's clean. Whatever. It did the

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: job.

Sarah: right, yeah, I mean, 11 less, can't, can't knock that, um, but uh, but no, I feel like if I was I don't know, if I were in school, you know, maybe I'm going for a grad degree, you know, at this point, that would, that would change things a lot, uh, because you are constantly looking up information because you want to get a good grade.

Sarah: I am constantly looking up information because I want to, um, but there's no real, I mean, it doesn't matter, really, if it gives me a bad result. If I were to want to, you know, be valedictorian, you know, of my high school, then maybe that, maybe that would, uh, factor in a little bit [00:54:00] more. I often think about that, like, in a scholastic sense, I think that this is a very different conversation.

Sarah: Um, and, uh, not that I Won't ever go back to school. But for now, um, I feel like I'm, I'm still, you know, we're all, we're dipping our toes, dipping our toes in

Gavin: Do you think it affects people's want to learn stuff in one way or the other? Because one thing we've talked about in the show sometimes is that like, Showing people this stuff is accessible whether it's art or whether it's information and that it can be done So fast may stop people from wanting to do that thing in the first place. do

Gavin: you get that sense right now. 

Sarah: now. I mean, okay. So I've, I've been asked this question before and what I always compare it to is. 1994 when everybody had 

Gavin: very good year

Sarah: Yeah, good

Sarah: year But you know, basically the internet where it was like, whoa You can just like look for things and find information and 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: [00:55:00] Microsoft Encarta is online. You don't have to know about the War of the

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Roses. You can just ask the computer.

Sarah: Yeah, you don't need a bookcase. It's just in there. You know, you just have to I have a modem. But, um, yeah, so, uh, But, same thing. This scared a lot of people at first, where it was like, I don't know, you know, how will the kids cope? Um, and I feel like this is just this is that, again. Now, you know, apples and oranges a little bit, but it's the same thing, it's like Well, is this gonna, you know, make people's brains get mushy because they're not trying so hard?

Sarah: No, you have to try really hard to, to get the information that you need. You know, the human almost has to be smarter to know how to, you know, say the query the queriest way. So yeah, I, you know, I, I, I don't, uh, I don't, I don't fear for humanity.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I think that's right. I [00:56:00] think we're in a fear, uncertainty, and doubt phase as we do with all of these cycles. We had it with social media and with mobile. We had it in the, in the 90s. I think we're seeing it now, especially with education, and I don't think it's the kids that we have to worry about. I actually think it's the institutions.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: The kids will use whatever enhances their life. in whatever facet they want, whether it makes them smarter, more capable, as creatives, whatever. They're gonna take to the tools that they're going to take to. I worry about the institutions trying to say that, you know, the way you prove your intelligence is memorizing facts and spitting them back, and then a student saying, well, actually, I know how to Cori the machine.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: To do that. So do I need to know that fact, or do I

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: need to know how to extract that information and then do something 

Sarah: It's like calculators! Yeah, you know, I

Sarah: mean, it's, it's really not unlike that. It's like, we have a tool, the tool works. You still have to know how to use the tool appropriately, but the tool does not like send us backward in any way. [00:57:00] The tool is 

Gavin: it gives you more room, gives you more room to make

Gavin: TikToks and things like That right? Which is all we want in life.

Sarah: That really is. I 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Oh no! Oh

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: no, Gavin! Up it to 25 percent now. We are doomed.

Sarah: person, Kevin? 

Gavin: Well, first of all, we have a TikTok and it does fine as well, but like, I actually really do love TikTok, but mostly because I love new media formats and it just feels like it's going to eat everything. I mean, this is actually where I wanted to go to, which is. You make content, we make content.

Gavin: Throughout our careers, we've all been producers or writers or TV makers or things like that. In a world where, like, the LLM can get better and better at writing, and ultimately better and better at making things like AI video or, or pictures, and there are a lot of stories these days about, especially creative people, more so on, like, the animator side than on the, like, pure creative side, like, who may be put out of work by this.

Gavin: Do you think we're going to get to a place where we're going to want to watch content made by these AIs? And if not, why

Gavin: not?

Sarah: Hmm, good [00:58:00] question. Um, especially because, um, I am, you know, a host sometimes, um, and, uh, ai uh, hosting the news type thing is like, that's, I mean, if it's fact-based, why not? That's kind of a, a given.

Sarah: Sort of the way, and I know we're talking Inside Baseball a little bit here, but like, the word predator. Um, for anybody who doesn't know, you know, a 

Gavin: Not to catch one,

Gavin: not, not to catch a predator. We're not talking about that kind of predator. This 

Sarah: not that kind of predator. Predator being producer editor all in one. Meaning, um, the job of three people is now one. , that will continue to happen because that's just how it goes.

Sarah: If I don't know, if I sit down and kind of go like, all right, I've got an hour, I want to know what's, you know, going on in Afghanistan today. I don't really care who's telling me [00:59:00] about that as long as it's accurate. Um, now, if, if you were like, well, it used to be me, and now it's, you know, an AI version of me, I can, I can see where that would be an issue.

Sarah: Um, and so, yeah, we get into some gray areas there, but, uh, yeah, no, I, I, I think it's, I think it's fine. Accuracy, very important, again, talking about news. We're not talking about like fun. Um, I think when you get into like the, you know, is Pardon the Interruption, one of my favorite shows, um, is that going to be like an AI show with everybody being like as funny?

Sarah: I don't think we're there yet. 

Gavin: That's I mean, that's a perfect example like because it's it's a lot of opinion and it's a lot of like news based stuff But then has personality attached which I

Gavin: think is hard to do for AIs, right? That's gonna be really hard. 

Sarah: The expectation is that the model learns what kind of jokes you might say, you know, so then, okay, we're getting into some, to some weird stuff there, but, [01:00:00] you know, we're, we're already talking about that, uh, you know, with, especially, you know, with the writer strike, um, you know, on the, um, You know, it, it, you know, in the, uh, uh, at the forefront of our minds, um, the idea of, you know, AI taking people's jobs because people are fighting for their jobs.

Sarah: So I don't wanna make it seem like I'm like, yay, AI is fine. Nobody caress. But I think, um, yeah, I think when it comes to fact-based stuff, it's the way to go. It's just the way to go.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: The algorithm figuring out the next generation Cocomelon, whether it's for infants or for adults, right? Like, I figured out how to pacify you based off of the sounds and the noises and the things that you want to see. That's an algorithm that I, I wonder if we'll be tuning into. If we'll be flicking through and just saying, Okay, machine, give me the next sparkly distraction.

Sarah: I mean, TikTok is already doing that to us. I also don't know who Cocomelon is. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Oh, it's, [01:01:00] Cocomelon is like, uh, Baby Einstein, but, or, or,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: VeggieTales. Or 

Gavin: but worse but worse but worse, 

Sarah: The details I know. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Okay, yeah. It's like that, but it's even Some would argue even more insidious. That they have sort of figured out the algo

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: for what needs to coo and how it needs to make

Sarah: Is it

Sarah: Christian people? Are they 

Gavin: I don't think so I don't think Cocoa Melon has a denomination I think Cocoa Melon serves all people that 

Sarah: Fine. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: We are Cocomelon. That's what we need to discover at the end of this. Yeah,

Sarah: Also, love Christian people. Just Don't happen to 

Gavin: Oh, sure,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: me update the show

Gavin: wait, that's all right.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: wrong. I'm sorry, Sarah.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Let me take that one out.

Sarah: No, I'm no longer a pastor. Yeah. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: All right. I mean, uh, I knocked out early at CES every single night. I realized just how ancient I've become. I could not power through. , despite, you know, text messages that a Boston Dynamics dog was in the lobby, so I had to get out to the ARIA.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I just couldn't do it. But one thing that I did love was scrolling online from the comfort [01:02:00] of a hotel bed and seeing A. I. infused into everything, , and this was Gavin's question, so I hate to step on your toes, Gavin, but,

Gavin: No,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: one thing that was announced during CES was the Rabbit R1. Little red, yeah, pocket square, talk into it, it's AI on demand, we've seen Humane's AI pen, we're seeing pendants that are coming out now that record your every word, so that it can be crunched into an AI database.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Do you think That this AI gold rush, if you will, is gonna breathe life back into, , new hardware? Or is Apple and Google just gonna say, Hey, here's an update. Goodbye, everyone. You're done. You're gonna have the phone in your

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: pocket, so we're just gonna do that.

Sarah: latter. Um, that's what I think. Now, the R1, very interesting. And, , enough people were interested in that, that, you know, they sold out of their first round of pre orders and are, , doing a, doing a second round. Um, 

Gavin: on that. They just sold out their third 

Sarah: oh, okay. Yeah. So, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: is five units, though, just to be clear. They're [01:03:00] only making five per round.

Sarah: I mean, I think the, I mean, it's more

Sarah: than 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: No, it's more than that. I actually, and I 

Sarah: think it was more like 500, okay. You know, you can, you can sell out quick. However, and I, thought a lot about this. I wasn't at CES, so I haven't seen one in person, but I was like. Okay, so I'm walking the dog, I'm outside, I got my phone, um, I can do sort of like almost like if this then that type thing with this other, uh, piece of hardware that I have, but I have to put that somewhere, and 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: and pay a monthly 

Sarah: sell for me.

Sarah: Yeah,

Sarah: right. Yeah, like it's like it's cool, but it feels like a stopgap Right like all the you know, iOS, you know Apple, you know iOS software it has to do is just like I don't know, make that built in better, and something like 

Gavin: fix Siri. Maybe make Siri [01:04:00] usable. That would be all they would have to do is make Siri usable.

Sarah: you know, Gavin, my watch talks to me all the time, even when I don't want it to, but, it's cool, but I'm like, it's going to be something, like, in a few years, we're gonna be like, remember when, people, Also had that brick to make their phones work better. And the selling point to me, it was also a hard sell.

Sarah: It's like, don't you just hate apps? Wouldn't you just like another piece of hardware so you don't have to like open up all those apps? I'm like, not really. I just use the apps. That's why they're there. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: then, by the way, if you want this thing to do things that would have required apps in the past, you have to go to a web portal and log into those things and connect them to the device, or potentially record your screen and teach it how to do a thing. It isn't that less complicated than just loading an app.

Sarah: I mean, this is, it's a perfect example of, you [01:05:00] know, if you just like to tinker, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: You want to support it, because it's hackers hacking and making something cool, teenage engineering. Yeah, I love it. Great. Let's push it forward. But you're really, I think you're right. It's a stopgap because the moment Apple opens the doors. For that sort of AI experience on iOS, or Google does it with Android, you don't need a separate device.

Gavin: I have a counterpoint. I have one counterpoint. I'd like both of you to respond to it. My counterpoint is this. There's two parts to it. The first part is probably many people would have said this about a physical keyboard before the iPhone came along. And the idea that nobody would want a device with With that, a physical keyboard.

Gavin: Because a physical keyboard was the only way they could type and they could never imagine using a, a tight, a touch type 

Sarah: 100%. Yeah. 

Gavin: The other thing I think that's kind of interesting about this is, and, and Sarah, we've talked about this in the show, but like Johnny, ive and Sam Altman are in the midst of trying to make an AI piece of hardware.

Gavin: There is an idea. That they're, now I don't think we're even close to these apps on this thing or whatever you want to call them, the AI agents being able to do these things, but in the future, [01:06:00] if you can do all the stuff that you can do in apps without ever having to open one, then do you need this other device and is it possible that this could be an actual, you know, like, um, it could be another version of essentially an iPhone that you would replace your iPhone entirely with.

Gavin: That's my thing, but I still think that's probably like two to four to five years

Gavin: out from even being feasible at this point.

Sarah: I even think, I mean, uh, again, uh, going back to my Apple Watch, when I first got this, I was like, oh, let's do like the cell service version. You know? Let's see. Let's see how often I can comfortably be out in the world without my phone. The answer was never. Never. 

Gavin: that's true. That's a good 

Sarah: you know, like, I just, it's like, we're not there yet, you know, these sort of like, they're companion devices, and that's great.

Sarah: And maybe they do cool things. They don't replace the experience that we're all so used to at this point, in my opinion.

Gavin: think that makes perfect sense. And I think that, like, [01:07:00] again, this is early, early stages in this sort of stuff. But ultimately, also, maybe, I think all of this ultimately becomes, if we're going to do voice or audio stuff, it lives, like, in some form outside of you, even. Not even in a physical device.

Gavin: And that's interesting to

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: an AirPod. Like, if we're really gonna make it frictionless, and we're gonna really, okay, fine. Put it in an AirPod, and if I decide to go out without my phone, I have limited functionality. If I have my phone on me, which to your point, Sarah, I had the exact same experience, I got the LTE watch.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I was like, oh, I can kinda load Spotify on it, and I'm going out for a th Oh, oh man, I need my phone. I need my phone, I'm not gonna dictate this email to my wrist, but I digress. 

Sarah: You're right. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: put it in the AirPod. If not, it lives on a phone. I think that's, that's my opinion as well. 

Sarah: Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Well, good. We just crushed all their spirits.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Cancel your pre-orders,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: everyone. Sorry, we've,

Gavin: Listen, it's still

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: before 

Sarah: Pro is gonna sink! Nah,

Sarah: I'm just kidding. I No, I I I actually I I'm very excited about this. 

Gavin: Well, that's actually a good question. Like, I'm curious about that because that is like [01:08:00] the next step of hardware that is the same question, right? It's like, you're gonna have to wear this thing, but in that instance, they're trying to put all of it here and eliminate your computer in some form or another,

Gavin: right?

Gavin: Like, is that a different version of this? 

Sarah: Uh, I mean, it's a different version. Um, Now, I am, um, uh, for anybody who Is this even a video podcast or 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: We should have made that clear in advance. Yes.

Gavin: Yes. It is a video podcast.

Sarah: where's the third

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: And a Domo con, but yes. You have multiple

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: quests.

Sarah: I also have a Demo Kun because. You know, I'm a human. , but yes.

Sarah: So, VR, I'm very bullish on VR. Um, you know, I can't tell you how many times people are just like, but, I don't know, you gotta wear it on your face. It's like, yeah, it's cumbersome, but it's super dope if you find the app that works for you. I like workout apps. Like, putting a VR headset on and working [01:09:00] out for 30 minutes is really fun.

Sarah: I mean, it's way better than going to the Speakeasy Fitness, I'll tell you that much, Kevin.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I don't know from what I've seen, those lasers make me want to go the extra

Gavin: This is not an ad. This is not an

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: not an ad

Gavin: clear. It's not an ad.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: When I see pass through video of someone doing their dishes and they've got just a YouTube video playing next to the faucet, I am jealous of that.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I stopped at the quest too, but I see that and I go, oh, do I want, even that alone, just having your media right there is kind of a killer app for

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: VR, XR, AR. 

Sarah: The questions, which are all valid, that I always get asked is like, Is it heavy? And I'm like, yeah. Does it, like, make imprints on your face? I'm like, yeah. Um, like, what about makeup? I'm like, totally fucked. Uh, you know, like, it's like, it, it's weird. But it's also really cool. And I was, I mean, I was talking about VR, you know, on TV.

Sarah: I'm using air quotes for [01:10:00] years before I ever really gave it a shot. I was like, who cares? You know, like gamers. But, um, uh, no, I, I, I love it. I want the Vision Pro to succeed because I feel like it will allow people to, like, experience what I have experienced. It's a little different because Apple wants it to be like, your new office.

Sarah: I don't know how that's your office, but I guess if you don't have an office, it's kind of a cool idea, right? Like, oh, now I'm in my office, 

Sarah: . I just think like, we need a couple years. Get the devs to make the things, to make the killer app, where people are like, Oh, remember the days that we didn't have a Vision Pro? Like, I know this will happen.

Sarah: Well, I don't know, but I hope. But yeah, we are, it's early days.

Gavin: I think it's interesting. It goes back to the hype cycle thing, right? Like, we're past the trough of disillusionment, and we're kind of coming back to where, like, oh. I This is kind of interesting. And when that product [01:11:00] gets to the place like chat GPT did and lots of people go, Oh my God, I think this is incredible. Then you're going to see the world change around it.

Gavin: I keep getting excited about what I love about the vision pro myself is that they're really focused on, on the augmented reality experience. And it feels like when you untether from that experience and bring it into the real world, that's where things are going to get. Both very interesting, very weird, but also really technologically fascinating, right?

Gavin: When you can put a layer on the real world and see the stuff in the real world. And that's where AI folds in, too, because imagine a world where everybody can see AI generated whatever in front of them. That's a

Gavin: crazy, big, different world that we live in now, I feel like. 

Sarah: Yeah. I mean, it's minority report. I mean, watch that movie sometime and be like, uh, that's actually totally life. But at the time the movie was like, whoa, I didn't like go into the gap and it being like, you know, like a crazy AI lady telling you what to wear. [01:12:00] Um, you know, we're there. We're there. So

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Sorry, I'm just

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: checking my email. And my minority

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: report future.

Sarah: totally. yeah, 

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Love it. Bring it. I'm happy for it.

Sarah: yeah, and my opal is being very strange.

Gavin: Yeah. So Sarah,

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: go. Tell us about the hoodie and present endeavors and what's on the horizon

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: for you.

Sarah: Oh, thank you for asking. Okay. So this is A-D-T-N-S hoodie. DTNS stands for a daily tech new show, um, which I ho uh, co-host, uh, Monday through Friday. And I have been doing so since 2017. So very, very much. Um, I'm a masochist and that's why I just. I have to talk about technology, uh, live five days a week.

Sarah: Um, but, uh, great show, super fun. Um, if you are familiar, we would love to have you along for the ride. We have a Patreon, but you know, the show is free otherwise. And yeah, that's, that's what I'm doing. [01:13:00] Um, I do, uh. Few other shows, uh, have such a good day as a show that, former colleague of all of ours, Heather Frank and I co host together.

Sarah: And, um, and I'm, I'm always looking for new projects. So whether you're AI or human, uh, hit me 

Gavin: Hit you up.

Sarah: That's right.

Gavin: All right, everybody that is it today we are back Kevin is with this is actually well for the inside baseball

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Give it to him, Gavin. Give it to him.

Gavin: Kevin is not doing well. So he's here to say goodbye for the podcast episode We do want it. We do want to say before we go So, thank you so much for listening, please follow us on all our socials, like, uh, subscribe, everything as we've said at the top of the show is going up, plus we have three new five star reviews from Apple Podcasts, doing that really helps our show a lot, so thank you so much everybody that's done

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I just assume that there's nobody left. That there's a massive cliff the moment we say goodbye to our [01:14:00] guest and then all the lemmings tumble off, but the fact that somebody listened to that part and took it to heart and went to leave us a five star review. Mwah. So we are easy to please. Right. We say we will read your five star reviews on Apple podcasts.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: So we got three to rip and tear right through starting with DJ Dano suits. I actually recognize that username, but they say, thank you, Kevin and Gavin for educating and entertaining me at the same time about such complex subjects.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: , you guys make it fun to learn what can be an intimidating topic to some, especially those of us in the entertainment industry. There's no way around it. AI is going to change humanity for better or worse. I agree. Kevin and Gavin present the topic in a fun and curious fashion that's hilarious and informative.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Five stars. Thank you, DJ Dano.

Gavin: Let's do the I'll do the next one because this one's really all about you. This is from Fig2004. It's called Glad to See Kevin Again. Oh, well, we all

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Oh, yeah, you should definitely do this one, Gavin. Go ahead.

Gavin: I'm going to assume that I'm one of the few followers of AI for Humans that remember ZDTV and grew up watching the screensavers.

Gavin: [01:15:00] As of recently, I've been moving my career towards AI development, and this has been an informative and entertaining show to watch, and as I typically watch via YouTube, but it's nice to see Kevin again. I miss AOTS and find Kevin's sense of humor very entertaining. Gavin and Kevin have a good dynamic, so

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: Oh, look at that. You got some flowers,

Gavin: I got a little bit, I

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: to encourage everybody to leave five stars reviews specifically about me, and your history with me, and your love of me, and then just toss in a Gavin at the end. I think that's a great Great review. Thank you, Fig. Last but certainly not least, Eric Hans says, I am loving this AI focused podcast.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I subscribed to several and this one really helps explain AI for the everyday person. They make it very entertaining and they help open your eyes to all the crazy ways AI can be used. Keep up the great work and we

Gavin: Thank you. Thank you, Eric. Thank you. Well, that's it for today, everybody. Thank you so much for listening. We will be back next week with another show. And again, we appreciate you listening. Bye bye, y'all.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: I guess, wait, we didn't, we didn't mention that Microsoft released Copilot. Do we want to get into that?

Gavin: Let's not

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: [01:16:00] talk about it next week. 20 bucks, 20 bucks, you should go check it out. I have so much phlegm in and around my person that we shouldn't get into it, you're

Gavin: Everybody's, everybody's tuned out. Everybody's tuned out by

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: it, go, it's a big deal.

kevin_1_01-16-2024_121027: It's 20 bucks, Gav, it's really good. Okay, goodbye.

Gavin: Bye bye.