YouTube CEO warning against using its videos to train AI models, Elon Musk announcing the unveiling of Tesla’s robotaxi, Apple laying off employees due to the discontinuation of car and smartwatch display projects, Google shutting down its podcast app, and Yuval Noah Harari author of “Sapiens” needs a drug test. Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

Chapters
00:40 YouTube CEO Warns Against Using Videos to Train AI Models
05:54 Tesla to Unveil Robotaxi
12:11Apple Lays Off Employees Due to Discontinued Projects
18:23 Google Kills Its Podcast App
26:13 Google’s History of Product Failures
31:36 DnD Alignment Chart For Google Execs
35:25 Why Google’s Products Fail
44:10 Drug Test: Yuval Noah Harari
50:16 New Interviewees Added To Our Line Up

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OpenAI recruiting Tesla engineers, Google considering charging for AI-powered search, musicians urging tech platforms to stop devaluing music, Claude launching new functionality, a judge dismissing AI-enhanced video as trial evidence, Tesla blaming sales drop on attacks and arson, and Google considering acquiring HubSpot. HubSpot offers inbound marketing tools for content creation, SEO, social media marketing, email marketing, sales enablement, and customer service. Competitors include Salesforce, Marketo, Pardot, Zoho CRM, ActiveCampaign, and Microsoft 365 Dynamics. Jordan shares his experience at an OpenAI forum and meeting Sam Altman. He also discusses a research paper on undetectable backdoors in machine learning models. Jordan talks about the use of security robots and the need for them to have personality. He mentions a study on children’s abuse of social robots and shares his thoughts on creating a Discord community. Lastly, he talks about Wendy’s using AI chatbots to streamline the drive-through ordering process.

Chapters
00:00 OpenAI and Tesla Engineers
04:16 Google’s Consideration of Charging for AI-Powered Search
35:34 Judge’s Ban on AI-Enhanced Video as Trial Evidence
39:05
Tesla’s Sales Drop and the Impact of Attacks and Arson
43:19 Tesla’s High Discounts and Inventory Glut
43:47 Google’s Potential Acquisition of HubSpot
45:12 Jordan’s Visit to the OpenAI Headquarters
47:39 Research on Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
53:25 Outsourcing Security Guard Labor to Robots
55:57 Creating a Discord Community for AI Enthusiasts
01:09:51 Wendy’s Use of AI in Drive-Through Ordering

Stargate computer project by OpenAI, Apple’s Creepy Vision Pro AI, Perplexity wants to sell ads, Logan leaving OpenAI, AI recruiting, and the P-Doom score. They also talk about Gen.ai search engine perplexity’s plan to sell ads and the funding it received. The conversation takes some humorous detours, including discussions about Colonel Sanders and living longer. The conversation covers various topics including the shift towards ad-free experiences, the challenges faced by Perplexity, Apple’s spatial persona avatars, Logan Kilpatrick leaving OpenAI for Google, the use of AI in job interviews, and the risks of AI ending humanity. In terms of research, the paper discussed improving reference resolution in language models.

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00:00 Introduction and Overview
01:27 The Stargate Computer and OpenAI
05:54 Sad State of Microsoft’s AI Team
08:08 KFC and AI
11:10 Stargate’s Pissing Contest
12:17 Perplexity.AI Wants To Sell Ads
19:56 Vision Pro’s Creepy AI Personas
23:15 Why Is Kevin Logan Leaving OpenAI
28:20 AI Taking Over Recruiting?
33:30 Drug Test: Roman Yampolskiy
35:15 Start A Discord Group?
37:01 Apple’s New iPhone LLM & Bio Tech LLM

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