iPhone 15 hands on, Amazon hardware event, Instacart IPO, Unity blinks
- Discussion on hype cycle of AI; evaluating current state
- Defining artificial intelligence vs regular computation
- AI winters and peaks of inflated expectations for AI
- Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of chatbots like ChatGPT
- AI's role in computational photography and new iPhones
- Microsoft's focus on AI with OpenAI partnership
- Multimodal AI and challenges like hallucination
- Apple's secretive approach to developing AI technology
- Job loss concerns with the advancement of AI; need for training
- Unity's failed attempt to charge developers an install fee
- Tech IPO outlook after Instacart and Clavio
- Panos Panay leaving Microsoft for Amazon
- New Amazon Echo and Alexa AI announcements
- Authors suing OpenAI over AI-generated content
- Misinformation research facing political attacks
- Implications of AI voice mimicry without consent
- Neuralink seeking volunteers for brain chip implants
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ben Parr, Harry McCracken, and Doc Rock
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