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Apple, Generative AI, and Licensing

Post author By Jeff
Post date April 12, 2024

Apple licensed content from Shutterstock presumably for its own AI efforts, which gets Bryan and Jeff looking at the ethics behind the methods many AI companies use to source the data they rely on to train their own models. Surprisingly, they didn’t have to edit for inappropriate language.

Sources referenced in this episode:

Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data
Defined.ai
Common Crawl
Shutterstock
Photobucket
fetch.ai
SingularityNET
Bryan’s new book Accidental Intelligence
Mason Truman on Threads

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Tags AI, Apple, ethics, Photobucket, Shutterstock

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Dune (Briefly), King Liam Update, and Apple’s Uber Ninja AI Moves

Post author By Jeff
Post date March 15, 2024

Bryan and Jeff talk a little about Dune now that Dune: Part 2 is out, and look at the news that Apple acquired the AI company DarwinAI. They also chat about the status of Bryan’s short story, King Liam, a couple Vision Pro apps, and fountain pen ink.

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Tags AI, Boston Dynamics, DarwinAI, Dune, Figure 01, fountain pens, Vision Pro

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Apple Gets Jiggy with Quantum Protections, the Rise of Apple Vision Pro

Post author By Jeff
Post date February 23, 2024

Bryan and Jeff explore Apple’s announcement that iMessage is about to get encryption technology designed to thwart quantum computers. They also rant about ethics in AI LLM training, and also look at how more people seem to be grokking what Apple Vision Pro is.

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Sources referenced in this episode:

Apple Announces ‘Groundbreaking’ New Security Protocol for iMessage
iOS 17.4: Apple continues work on AI-powered Siri and Messages features, with help from ChatGPT
OpenAI
Apple Vision Pro
Bryan’s new book Accidental Intelligence
Mason Truman on Threads

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Tags AI, encryption, Messages, OpenAI, Quantum Computing, Vision Pro

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Apple’s AI Plans, Elon’s Ad X-odus, Bodies on Netflix

Post author By Jeff
Post date November 17, 2023

Bryan and Jeff share their take on what Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring predicts Apple may have in store for AI, plus they look at the companies pulling ads from X this week. They also dive into Netflix’s Bodies series with a big spoiler alert.

Sources referenced in this episode:

Apple is working on generative AI. Morgan Stanley shares how it could monetize it.
OpenAI announces leadership transition
Here are the companies pulling ads from X
Bodies on Netflix
Bodies Graphic Novel
Bryan’s new book Accidental Intelligence
Mason Truman on Threads

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Tags AI, Bodies, Elon Musk, Netflix, OpenAI, Twitter

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Apple Q2 2023 Earnings, and More AI Theories

Post author By Jeff
Post date May 5, 2023

Bryan and Jeff talk about what they found most interesting in Apple’s Q2 2023 earnings report, look at where the company may be headed with AI, and Bryan shares what he thinks may be Apple’s reasoning behind launching a savings account service.

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Tags AAPL, AI, Apple Savings, Bard, OpenAI, Siri

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Spoiler: AI is Here to Stay

Post author By Jeff
Post date April 7, 2023

There’s a lot of hype around Artificial Intelligence right now, so Bryan and Jeff jump in to share their thoughts on the current state of AI, where they see issues, how they’d like to see these platforms improve, and what they can do to improve productivity.

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Sources referenced in this episode:

ChatGPT
DALL-E 2
MidJourney
TRIGGER WARNING: SELF HARM ‘He Would Still Be Here’: Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says
Swell AI
MacWhisper

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Tags AI, ChatGPT, DALL-E, MacWhisper, MidJourney, Swell AI

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Twitter Screws Third-party Apps, Chat GPT, and Bryan Should Switch to Mint Mobile

Post author By Jeff
Post date January 13, 2023

Bryan and Jeff talk about Twitter’s third-party app API not working, Chat GPT and AI-generated content, and why Bryan needs to switch his cellular phone service to Mint Mobile. They also follow up on a listener comment about weather data services for Carrot’s weather app.

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Sources referenced in this episode:

Carrot Weather
Twitter’s third-party API dies
Chat GPT
Fairytale Dreams by KEZIAI
Fairytale Dreams recorded Spaces
Mint Mobile
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Tags AI, Chat GPT, Mint Mobile, Twitter

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