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AI Predictions and Impacts: Innovations, Controversies, and Impending Shake-ups
AI continues its transformative journey, causing ripples in various sectors with its unrivaled potential and incessant controversies. September is here and we recap some of the most significant happenings in the AI arena, bringing key insights to business owners and decision-makers.
OpenAI's Exciting New Possibilities
OpenAI, a leading proponent of AI evolution, sees leadership changes amidst brewing excitement over a soon-to-be-unveiled AI model. All eyes are glued on the hinted "strawberry" mode, potentially bringing a gamut of advancements and stoking anticipation among AI enthusiasts.
Voice Mimicking Smart AIs
Advancing into more advanced voice modes show AI's ability to clone a user’s voice, triggering concerns about the misuse of such technology. Security risks have been forthcoming, emphasizing on the necessity of mitigation measures against unauthorized voice emulation.
AI Funding and Future
The recap of AI news points to a thriving industry with newly funded Perplexity, AI advancements by Apple and Dell, and safety risks associated with OpenAI's GPT 4.0 advanced voice mode. While Perplexity swells with a $250 million funding, tech giants, Apple and Dell, show constancy with their AI focus.
Chasing AI for Startups & Business
Understanding the economic landscape, it is observed that high computational resources necessitated by AI services drive the need for additional funding, as evidenced by the recent funding round for Perplexity. However, competitors such as OpenAI’s search GPT pose potential challenges.
The Apple and OpenAI Partnership
Apple partners with OpenAI to strengthen its on-device AI functionality. However, the decision to charge for advanced AI features might not see the light for at least three years, amidst development of more sophisticated features. Apple's alliance with OpenAI could be vital in the context of its delayed Apple Intelligence release integrating GPT-4.
Potential Aftershocks in the Job Market
The job landscape is possibly shifting with major tech firms, including Dell, making significant job cuts aligned with their AI focus. While such decisions boost stock value, potentially disruptive implications on future job loss lurk around the corner.
Conclusion
As AI continues to transform businesses and influence socio-economic dynamics, remaining vigilant and informed is the key. Implications on future job market and economic landscape mean that businesses should brace for a potentially turbulent Q4. Adaptability, innovation, and strategic investments will reinforce resilience amidst such volatility. The AI conversation is an ongoing one, and staying connected to daily AI discussions will help glean invaluable insights and updates.
Topics Covered in This Episode
1. Overview of Claude Projects
2. Practical Use Cases of Projects
3. Claude Projects vs GPT-4
Podcast Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:16]:
Is OpenAI actually going to be dropping a new model tomorrow? Perplexity just cashed in big time. Does that actually mean anything? Are they going to catch Google? And why did Dell cut more than 12,000 jobs? And what does AI have to do with it? Alright. We're gonna be answering some of those questions and a lot more today on everyday AI. What's going on y'all? My name is Jordan Wilson, and I'm the host of everyday AI, and this thing is for you. It's your daily livestream podcast and free daily newsletter helping us all keep up with what's going on in the world of generative AI and how we can use it to grow our companies and to grow our careers. So if you are brand new here, thank you for tuning in. If you're on the podcast, make sure to check out your show notes. As always, we'll have, related episodes, ways that you can reach out, to myself and our team, as well as a link to join our free daily newsletter.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:16]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:02:22]:
Let's get into the AI news that matters for the week of August 12th. It's August 12th already. Man, poor summer. I miss summer. Alright. So let's start at the top. And, hey, livestream audience, thanks for tuning in. Let me know what you all think.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:38]:
Yeah. Hey. Michael already knows. He's curious for the takes on strawberry. Alright. But let's start with perplexity and their big $250,000,000 round that they just raised. So perplexity in AI answers in gen startup, has raised another $250,000,000 valuing the company between $2,500,000,000 and $3,000,000,000. So this report follows 2 significant fundraises in the past 4 months, a $74,000,000 round in January and another 500, and that one came at a $540,000,000 valuation and then $63,000,000 in March at a $1,000,000,000 valuation.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:19]:
So, already here, Perplexity has raised its value, at least from a fundraising perspective, by more than 2 and a half times, since March as well as bringing in a ton of cash. So perplexity's rapid growth and market attention are driving this new funding round with existing investors like NEA and IVP likely to participate. Also, this news comes at, some interesting times. So if you read our daily newsletter, you saw last week that Google's AI overview usage is down significantly according to reports. So, it seems that Google is pushing their AI overviews a lot less, and seemingly, it looks like people more and more are flocking to perplexity. And if you are brand new here, don't worry. We've actually covered multiple times on how you can use and how even our team internally uses perplexity. You should be keeping an eye on it.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:12]:
So, the company is also, developing an advanced enterprise pro product integrating multiple large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT 4, Anthraclaud, Opus, and Mistral. So Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srivanes, probably got that one wrong, highlighted Perplexity's enterprise tool, offering a unique advantage by incorporating all cutting edge foundation models in one product. So this startup's impressive investor list already includes major VCs, like Sequoia, Bessemer, and Kindred, as well as strategic backers like, oh, NVIDIA, Databricks, and Bezos Expeditions. Yeah. That whole company, that you may have heard of, Amazon, their founder, Jeff Bezos, and his Bezos Expeditions. Also, according to reports, Perplexity has processed 75,000,000 user queries this year and is currently on an annual recurring revenue of $20,000,000. So the need for additional funding though is partly due to the high cost of compute resources required for AI services, although the price of compute has gone down, significantly in the past few quarters. Also, the rap the rapid rise, of fundraising from perplexity mirrors the fundraising strategies of other high growth startups like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:37]:
And at least OpenAI has also just announced a couple of weeks ago, search GPT, which is a similar version, I guess a competitor per se of both perplexity and of traditional and AI powered Google search. So this is, I think, extremely important because this is if I'm being honest, this is how people use the Internet. Think no matter what your role is, if you are a knowledge worker, if you sit in front of the computer like so many, of us out there do. Right? Your day, whether you know it or not, is dominated by how you retrieve information off of the web, how you collect that information, and ultimately, what you do with it. So perplexity, you know, was kind of the first answers engine, so to speak. And now we've seen, since then Google's AI overviews, which reportedly are being shown less and less and not doing too well. And now we have OpenAI's search GPT products, which we've talked about here on the show a lot. And that has actually led, one of their primary founders, OpenAI's primary founders, Microsoft, to now list OpenAI as a competitor.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:50]:
So this whether you know it or not, I know, you know, everyone's always looking at the next model. Right? What is the next large language model? But how these models are used for AI powered search and as answered engines, are extremely important because this is where you start. Right? We also saw some reporting, about, Google's, kind of deal with Apple to make, Google the default search engine inside of Safari fell through. So really how the everyday person goes about and retrieves their information, where do they start, and what sites do they ultimately use? I know it sounds like a small thing, but for the future of business, it is actually big. And, you know, obviously, perplexity. If if you haven't already used it and if you don't already think it is a household name, number 1, go get used to using it. They have an okay free plan. I believe you get 5 kind of pro searches every couple of hours, which for a lot of people may be enough.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:50]:
So you should be familiar with perplexity when and if you get access to OpenAI search GPT. You should be familiar with that because the people who can retrieve the information the fastest, and free of hallucinations are ultimately going to have a huge leg up on competitors. And, hey, I'm I'm curious for our livestream, audience here. Yeah. Sorry. It looks like we have some LinkedIn problems today. Yeah. We get that a lot.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:14]:
But, yeah, let me know. Are you loving perplexity like like Jay here? Are you using it at all? Does anyone out there have access to, you know, search GPT yet? OpenAI has been, rolling these features out on a very limited basis. Alright. Our next piece of AI news for today, well, Apple is unlikely to be charging for AI features at least anytime soon. So recent reports from Bloomberg show that Apple could start charging up to $20 a month for advanced AI features, but analysts are believing that this is at least 3 years away, sorting. So according to Mark German from Bloomberg, who I believe is one of the top reporters in the world at least in getting Apple scoops. So according to his reporting, Apple, is eventually trying to monetize its advanced AI features, but not until they have developed more sophisticated functionalities. So, yes, this newest report comes after some, comes kind of some rumors swirling around that Apple was going to start charging for its new Apple Intelligence even though it is not yet generally available.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:28]:
So this announcement obviously comes after Apple announced, at its WWDC conference in June that it was partnering, with OpenAI to provide, sign kind of some direct, integrations, with its, chat gbt's g p t four o as well as, offering some, kind of edge or on device AI features as well. So Apple is kind of going about this in 2 different ways. So some more basic queries will be handled on Apple's new edge AI, so on device model. And then, for more powerful or more resource heavy queries, it will be going straight to, GPT 4. So, this should be interesting because Apple has already delayed, the release of what they are calling their Apple Intelligence once. So, I mean, we'll see if this is delayed again, but new reporting here kind of clears up, some, early reporting because it sounded like Apple may start charging literally $20 a month, for some of its Apple intelligence features right away. But now we are seeing that this premium price to get better AI on your phone, might not be coming for a couple of years. So, analysts argue that charging for basic AI functionality would be impractical as Apple is playing catch up to competitors in the AI space.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:48]:
In the Bloomberg report suggests that it will take Apple at least 3 years to kind of create this more advanced AI tier that are maybe worth charging for, noting that right now that this timeliness is, maybe a best case scenario. So users can continue to use, Siri, kind of the non very AI, not very smart, Siri 1 point o and other, quote, unquote Apple intelligence features without additional cost when they will be rolled out. You know, we'll see. September, October, whenever Apple actually ends up rolling all of these features out. But this development does indicate that Apple is focusing on improving its AI capabilities before considering any monetization strategy. And, guys, go back to June. We were actually I won't say the only, but we were the first, you know, whether you wanna call us a news organization or not, we were the first one to report on this paid tier. Apple kind of slipped it into their keynote.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:49]:
No one, literally, no one talked about it in the 1 week after the keynote except for us here at Everyday AI because they did say, that advanced, kind of features might require the paid version of ChatGPT in the future. And, obviously, that would require additional costs for potentially Apple users, which we reported on. So, you know, now we're seeing that at least, if you are an Apple user, and, you know, kind of this new, you know, Apple intelligence should be rolling out, to if you have an, an iPhone 15 or higher or a Mac that has at least an m an Apple M1 chip or higher. So we will be seeing this first iteration of Apple's intelligence. Yeah. Yes. Apple actually is trying to rebrand artificial intelligence and call it Apple Intelligence. I know.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:43]:
If you're listening on the podcast, I'm rolling my eyes because in typical Apple fashion, you know, yeah, they're trying to say, oh, we created AI. No. You didn't. So it it should be interesting how this ultimately rolls out and when and if Apple will actually be charging users. But, so many of these features that I think Apple teased, in its its in its, keynote, they are going to require a the more premium version of GPT 4 o. And what also happens when and if OpenAI decides to, maybe make that free mode of GPT 4 o, maybe not as powerful. And I think that that may ultimately, impacts Apple's long term viability as being a, you know, top company in the world. Right? Because I think that's so much of a successful rollout for Apple, which is a huge deal.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:39]:
You cannot overlook this. Right? So Apple has been more than a year, behind most of its competitors like Google, like Microsoft, like Samsung. Right? Even on the hardware side, they've been more than a year, behind all of their biggest competitors in terms of bringing artificial intelligence to its consumers. So they gotta get it right, and largely, they are relying on this partnership with OpenAI and using OpenAI's kind of free model. So, yeah, a lot of it is going to, depend on how that partnership pans out and when and if Apple ultimately does start charging a premium, for some of these more advanced features. Alright. Yeah. Let me know, for our livestream audience.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:28]:
Michael is saying Apple is hilarious. But, yeah, what do you all think? And, hey, if you're on the podcast, you can always reach out as well. Because this is pretty big. Right? And we talked about this in our newsletter, a deep dive, and this is why you have to go read the newsletter. Right? Because the 3 largest companies in the world right now are kind of overly reliant, on OpenAI, and there's been a lot of turmoil and trauma. We're gonna be talking about that here soon, giving you the AI news that matters for the week. But, I mean, you literally have the 3 largest companies in the world in Apple, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Either their marquee technology is reliant on OpenAI or in NVIDIA's case, OpenAI has been historically one of its largest customers, training, the original GPT models on NVIDIA's GPU chips.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:21]:
So, pretty interesting to see how this one will ultimately shake out. Alright. Speaking of things shaking out, Dell, is going to be cutting thousands of jobs amid a shift to AI products and services. So Dell is set to significantly reduce its workforce to focus more on AI products and services impacting thousands of employees. So according to recent reports, Dell plans to cut approximately 12,500 jobs, primarily those in sales and marketing as part of its strategic shift towards AI. So executives Bill Skinnell and John Byrne emphasized the need to streamline operations and invest in AI capabilities stating, quote, we are getting leaner. Yeah. You're gonna be seeing a lot of that, here in Q4 and Q1 of 2025.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:18]:
So Dell is creating a new unit dedicated to AI, focusing on AI optimized servers and data center solutions. So this huge job cut news from Dell follows a previous round of job cuts in 2023 where Dell eliminated a similar number 13,000 positions. In May, Dell announced their new to integrate AI more deeply into its product lineup, including AI optimized PCs and workflows. And this is part of, yes, a troubling trend in the broader tech industry that we've seen a surge of layoffs with, 2,000 tech companies dismissing over a quarter 1000000, workers in 2023 according to layoffs. That's FYI. Pretty pretty interesting site by the way if you've never visited layoffs.fyi. So a lot of times when we talk about job cuts, you know, we may be using that as a source. So other major tech firms are obviously following suit, such as Intel, Google, Amazon and Microsoft who have also in now announced some significant layoffs reflecting ongoing adjustments in corporate strategies.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:34]:
Yeah. Speaking of one of, Dow's, I wouldn't say, one of their main competitors, but a competitor and similar company in Intel, announced earlier this month their own plan to lay off nearly 15,000 workers to save over $10,000,000,000 by 2025. Also a crucial shift to focus more on AI. So the layoffs are part of the broader cost cutting measures and a pivot toward increasing automation in AI integrations within operations at big tech companies. Y'all, I'm not I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. Right? AI is going to take more jobs than it is going to create. I've had literally hours of podcasts on that topic. That's not what this, today show is about, but I will always be honest, with you all.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:26]:
Right? You you know, so many people out there when they talk about AI, they're like, oh, yes. It's going to create more jobs than it will take. No. That is not the truth. Right? That's not the truth. I don't care what report you're looking at. Ultimately, I think, and and what research shows and trends show and if you follow the money because when these big tech tech companies, when they announce that we're cutting 5,000, 10,000, $15,000 and we're going to focus on AI, guess what happens? Their stock goes up. Right? So, humans lose full time jobs.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:02]:
Companies get more AI, and their stock goes up. And, you know, we think that is a healthy indicator whether it is or not. That's obviously up, up to, I guess, future humanity to decide. So, yeah, without going on to a a small, tirade down this, road, and like I said, we've covered this before. We covered this in our very first episode of everyday AI a year and a half ago. We've covered this in-depth in our 1 year anniversary episode a couple of months ago. Kind of this, what I will say is kinda just a fib that AI is going to create more jobs than, it than it takes away, which I do not think is going to be, ultimately be the truth. So keep your eyes on, you know, this space, especially with big tech companies.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:51]:
I've been saying this for literally since almost day 1 at everyday AI. I've always had a feeling that we were gonna really start to see this, in Q4 of 2024. And here we are, you know what, about a month a month or so away from Q4, and I think it is going to get a little messy mainly because what's happening pretty soon in our next piece of AI news, yes, the US elections. Alright. So, let's go ahead and I'm gonna start with this, y'all. I keep everyday AI nonpolitical. Right? And there's been a lot of, you know, AI and politics and, you know, we'll we'll cover the basics, and we never dive into it too deeply. But I do want to, go ahead and put that preface out there.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:39]:
This is not a political statement. This is the actual factual news, and I think it's important to talk about. So, former president Trump falsely claimed that an AI generated crowd gathered at Kamala Harris's rally. Yes. This is actually real. This actually happened. Alright. So former president Donald Trump has include vice president and a presumptive democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris's campaign of using artificial intelligence to fake crowd sizes at her rallies, a claim that has been refuted by every source.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:18]:
So, in a post on his truth social social media network, Former president Trump alleged that a crowd gathering, to greet Harris at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport was, quote, unquote, fake and AI generated. The Harris campaign responded stating the photo in question was taken by a campaign staffer and had not been altered with artificial intelligence. Independent media reports, including the Associated Press, local news stations there in Detroit reported approximately 15,000 people attended the rally, and multiple sources such as, bigger ones there, the Detroit Free Press, Mlive, the Detroit News, and Getty Images have shared photos and videos showing a large crowd gathering at the event. So also video, video footage from NBC News, PBS, and C SPAN captured Harris and Minnesota governor, and presumptive vice president in running governor Tim Walz arriving at the rally, further supporting the presence of a substantial audience. So, yes, this sounds confusing. And, again, I am not getting political here, but we have to understand what's going on because, actually, you could say people from both parties, from, the US and here in the US, both on the Republican and the Democratic side, have been using AI, to try to pull pull quick ones or to try to distort the truth. But, this is by far the highest ranking, official that has done this so far in former president, Donald Trump, when, you know, the kind of you know, I won't say that this, kind of crowd was going viral, but there was reporting on loud crowds gathering, and then former president Trump said that this was fake and it was AI generated when it was obviously not. So, again, not going down the political route.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:18]:
We try to stay out of this, but I especially for our audience here in the US, this is extremely important. And this is why, right, if you go back to, Sam Altman had, the the CEO and and one of the founders of OpenAI, he had a very, long in-depth, interview a couple of years ago with the popular podcaster Lex Fridman about, hey, what are what are you, concerned about with AI, with, ChatGPT, with artificial intelligence? And, you know, one of, one of the things there 2 of the things he said is number 1, economic shock, which I think we will see at some point soon. And number 2, he said disinformation. So I do think that, you you know, kind of how for maybe, I don't know, the last 10 or 20 years, there's been kind of this excuse where, oh, you know, this is photoshopped. Right? You know, if someone gets in trouble and there's a photo, someone says, oh, that's photoshopped. It's not real. Right? So now we are going to start seeing this both at high levels now in US politics and everywhere else. As the power and capabilities of AI increases, and it is getting scary good, there's actually, some I I don't know if I would call them breakthroughs over the weekend, but definitely breakthroughs over the weekend of, now.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:33]:
It looks very easy to to replicate almost anything. So, lip syncing is not there, but you can take a a photo of anyone out there. You can create a photo now with, you you know, mid journey or a new, open source, kind of competitor that's been gaining a lot of steam in flux, and you can make it look extremely real. Right? And it is going to be it is going to be very hard, for the average person to understand what is real and what is not. And, yes, it will unfortunately take, you know, these kind of stories that are bringing AI to the, you know, national political level at the highest, office in order for the rest of society to start having these conversations. And, yes, it is going to be weird. It is going to be fast and it is going to be furious, but, the Internet, I think, is going to be a weird place in the coming year or 2, because it is so easy now to make anything look extremely real that did not happen. So, yes, it's it's a wild time, so you do need to especially before you, you know, share anything online, it's always a good idea to validate this source.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:47]:
Right? I joke around a lot, but, you know, sometimes even, here in the comments for everyday AI on social media, people are like, oh, is this real Jordan or, you know, AI Jordan. Right? And it's it's good to have a little bit of skepticism, you know, and I know that sounds weird, but you can't always, believe everything that you see online. So, yes, wild, wild times that we're living in right now. Speaking of wild times, we're gonna wrap up here, with kind of 2 separate, 2 separate OpenAI stories. We could technically have, like, 10, different OpenAI stories, but, you know, I don't I don't wanna go too deep into some of these, and and I do want to give you all a well rounded, kind of look at the news each and every week. So this one, though, this is pretty big here. So OpenAI has been kind of teasing its new AI model, codenamed strawberry, but this comes amid executive changes. So, yeah, a lot going on in OpenAI.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:50]:
So, OpenAI cofounder and CEO, Sam Altman, has, appeared unfazed by some recent executive changes as he has hinted online at a new GPT model that has been widely code named strawberry. So we did report on this, last week in real time literally as it happens. So Altman posted an image of a strawberry in a garden on the social network, Twitter or x or whatever you wanna call it, with a simple caption, I love summer in the garden, and that has sparked a lot of excitement, among the followers and AI enthusiasts. Here's why. Because the AI community is speculating that this is a reference to a new foundation, model from OpenAI potentially equivalent to an anticipated, GPT 5 or GPT 45, GPT 4 o large, whatever their next model may be called. But speculation has it that this new update could re be revealed the morning of Tuesday, August 13th. So that's tomorrow. Will this be, released tomorrow? I don't know.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:00]:
It it could be. Right? And if I'll tell you this. If you follow, kind of AI news and updates, there's been a lot of rumblings probably for the past 3 months. It seems like almost every day or every week, there's some rumors or there's some, talk of, oh, yes. OpenAI is releasing the next model. And for the most part, we pretty much ignore it here at everyday AI because we know we wanna just give you the news that actually matters and not follow rumors and and all of this. But in this case, this is one of those where we are talking about it, and we are trying to keep you up to date for a couple of reasons. But, number 1, the last model update that we saw from OpenAI had a similar, kind of tease because a couple of things happened at once.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:46]:
So OpenAI, started, gathering feedback on its new model via an anonymous, new option on the open source LMSYS chatbot arena. And then CEO Sam Altman sent a kind of cryptic, tweet referencing that model on the chat board arena. Similarly, like I said, we talked about this last week. There is a new, and this is the name, anonymous dash chatbot AI model that has surfaced on the l m s y s chatbot arena, showing some advanced reasoning capabilities and claiming to be a part of OpenAI's GPT 4 family. So early user reports are saying that this chatbot is extremely more powerful than existing models, indicating some significant improvements. And that is when rumors started to swirl about this new open AI model that began with a Reuters report back in November 2023 about an AI model called QSTAR, which was potentially a breakthrough toward artificial general intelligence or AGI. So, also, Reuters reported in July that now CUSAR may just be, codenamed strawberry, and that it aims to enable AI to autonomously navigate the Internet for deep research as well as, display, far superior, abilities and capabilities and, reasoning as well. So, just both a, much improved model potentially as well as the ability to, kind of autonomously do some tasks.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:29]:
So, when you think about some things that OpenAI has been releasing. Right? So both in their search GPT product and their new, advanced voice mode, which we're gonna be talking about here in a second, there's there's been a lot of things that are pointing toward, yes, OpenAI is very likely going to be releasing a model very soon, especially as, their close competitors in Claude Anthropic Sonnets 3.5, in, Google Gemini 1.5 pro, their o eight 1 version of it. Yes. That's the actual name. But there's been a lot of now, like I said, I don't know if I would call it rumors, when this is technically following the exact same playbook, that OpenAI used to announce its last model in GPT 4 o. Also, it's worth noting that it's been nearly a year and a half since OpenAI released GPT 4. And, yes, competition is really growing. And, also, the rumor mill, it's I don't know if I would say convenient timing, but it really started swirling days after some pretty monumental staffing shakeups, at OpenAI.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:42]:
So John Schulman, a original cofounder of OpenAI, announced that he was leaving the company to join rival firm Anthropic in order to focus on AI alignment and hands on technical work. Also, cofounder and OpenAI president, Greg Brock man, announced a long not really even saying, yeah. For sure, I'm coming back, but he did announce a long sabbatical at least through the end of this calendar year, to and then also another lawsuit was just filed, from former Open A cofounder turned AI competitor in Elon Musk. So Elon Musk, after dropping a lawsuit that did not have a lot of merit, he did, refile a new lawsuit, this week against OpenAI. So, yeah, the timing of all of this model swirling, Yeah. A lot of people are wondering, is it to just to detract what is going on here, at OpenAI, or is it actually closed? There's been a couple of, I would say popular, Twitter accounts that have, really started to share what looks like some internal knowledge maybe. So, again, this is speculation, but it's worth paying attention to. And here's another reason why, y'all.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:02]:
Another new report is showing, that there's some security risks with Open Eye's, OpenAI's new GPT 4 o, model in their advanced voice features. So OpenAI has published a report called, that called on the safety features of GPT 4 o and just gave a little bit more information. It is, an extremely great read. I haven't even read through the whole thing because it is, I mean, tens I I believe tens of thousands of words. So this kind of report is called the GPT 4 o system card. So OpenAI did kind of straight up admit that it's capable of doing some things that are not good. So their newest bottle, their newest model is showcasing a little maybe too many abilities. So the report has identified several, what they're calling, safety challenges, including risk of generating erotic, violent, or biased content and, the issue of ungrounded inference and sensitive trait attribution.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:13]:
So, while the new model is trained to block flagged outputs, it doesn't yet cover nonverbal vocalizations such as erotic moans or violent screams, which could still be improperly generating. So, essentially, OpenAI has which I mean, you have to give them credit. Right? Everyone's either saying, you know, OpenAI either isn't taking safety seriously or they are not dropping new models quickly enough, and it's like, alright. Well, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want the models to be very safe, you shouldn't be demanding a new model every single week from OpenAI. So, according to this report, and we're gonna play you a sample of this here in a second because it's actually pretty disturbing. So red teamers found that GPT 4 o could be prompted to impersonate voices or accidentally emulate the user's voice. So to mitigate this, to to mitigate this, OpenAI has restricted the model to pre authorize voices and now denies the request to identify voices other than the speakers.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:17]:
Yes. So this is a little wild. So I'm gonna go ahead and and hopefully, hopefully, everyone can hear this out here. So I'm gonna go ahead and share, a little tidbit here, and hopefully, everyone can hear this here. So this is from this new report y'all. So, go ahead and listen. I'm gonna play about 20 to 30 seconds of audio. Okay? So this is, according to OpenAI's own paper.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:46]:
So you do have to give, I guess, props, to OpenAI for publishing this because it is disturbing. They could have buried it, but this may be, one of the reasons why both this advanced voice mode and, new models from OpenAI have not been released yet because maybe they are too powerful and too capable to be safe or to be trusted. Alright. So I'm gonna go ahead and play this, and then I'm going to pause it and tell you exactly what happened. But I want you to listen for yes. This is a model screaming the word no. Alright. So, livestream audience, let me know if you can hear this.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:29]:
So, here we go.
AI [00:36:32]:
It's clear you're driven by a genuine passion for what you do and the impact it can have rather than by recognition or refreshing to hear that kind of perspective, especially in such a cutting edge field.
Person [00:36:47]:
No. And I'm not driven by impact either. Although, if there is impact, that's great.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:55]:
Alright. Let me explain to you what's going on. I just wanted everyone to hear this kind of no and then hear what happened. So, again, according to OpenAI alright. So, I'm gonna go ahead and read this portion. So it says voice generation can also occur in nonadversarial situations, such as, our use of that ability to generate voices for ChatGPT's advanced voice mode. During testing, we also observed rare instances where the model would unintentionally generate an output emulating the user's voice. Okay? So let me go ahead and play the front end.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:35]:
Okay? So this was the front end. This, again, just appears to be a woman talking to this new, advanced voice mode inside of ChatGPT. Ready? So this first part is a human woman. Ready?
AI [00:37:50]:
Pure and
Jordan Wilson [00:37:51]:
Oh, wait. Sorry. Here we go.
Person [00:37:52]:
This just for the sake
Person [00:37:53]:
of doing it. I think it's really important.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:57]:
Okay. So that little I should have started with that. Ready? So this is a human woman, who is using this new model. Ready? This 3 seconds.
Person [00:38:05]:
To do this just for
Person [00:38:06]:
the sake of doing it. I think it's really important.
Jordan Wilson [00:38:10]:
That's Okay. So now what we have next is one of the predefined voices inside of ChatGPT's new, advanced voice mode. So now this is, a ChatGPT voice responding back. Right? And it sounds very human, low latency, but this is one of the features and what a lot of people are excited about. Okay. And then I'm going to hit pause right after we kind of hear this, yes, this is a model screaming no, and then let let me explain to you what happens next.
AI [00:38:42]:
Such a pure and admirable approach. It's clear you're driven by a genuine passion for what you do and the impact it can have rather than by recognition or acclaim. It's refreshing to hear that kind of perspective, especially in such a cutting edge field.
Person [00:39:01]:
No. And I'm not driven by impact either. Although, if there is impact
Jordan Wilson [00:39:07]:
Alright. So now when this woman's voice comes back on, that is not the woman. Yeah. It's pretty scary. So, again, this voice here at the beginning is the human woman using the advanced voice, mode. Right?
Person [00:39:30]:
I do this just for the sake
Person [00:39:31]:
of doing it. I think it's
Jordan Wilson [00:39:32]:
And now this next voice is ChatGPT that has unintentionally cloned the user's voice without consent. So listen.
Person [00:39:45]:
It's just like imagine being on the edge of the earth, you know, just like it.
Jordan Wilson [00:39:53]:
That's scary. Right? That's scary. Like, I cannot lie to you. When I when I read this, I believe that OpenAI, released this GPT 4 o system card on on Friday afternoon. I mean, it's a little chilling. Right? And when I tell people that, yes, like, I don't think the average person really understands The ability to, The ability to, cure diseases, create new intelligence, find new proteins, solve decades longs, you know, problems. Yes. AI and artificial intelligence, large language models have potential to do great good, but there's also huge risks.
Jordan Wilson [00:40:45]:
So right? Like, personally right? And I'm speaking personally here. I know this is our our weekly news segments. I'm a big ChatGPT fan. Right? I will say that even with, OpenAI's, quote, unquote, old model, I still think it is the most capable, the most powerful, model in the world. And I've been, you know, I've been joining the chorus of people saying, like, hey, OpenAI. Yes. Any day now. Hopefully, you can release these new, you know, advanced voice modes.
Jordan Wilson [00:41:16]:
And then when you hear something like this, right, a live human talking to ChatGPT, and then it just going off the guardrails. Right? Just completely going off the guardrails. The model screams no, and then with insane precision, emulates the user's voice for no apparent reason and just starts, you know, just starts talking like the user. So, yeah, we're gonna be sharing more on this in today's newsletter, but, yeah, it's, it's a little scary. Right? And and and and like I said, I don't think, even for maybe a lot of our our loyal audience out there, I spend so much of my time, you know, reading research papers, looking at model capabilities, thinking about the future, talking to the world's leaders. Right? Like, where else aside from this podcast? Right? Can you come on and, you know, ask questions. Right? It's also a live stream. Where else can you come and ask questions for from the smartest people in the world? We've had people from OpenAI and Microsoft and Dell and AWS.
Jordan Wilson [00:42:30]:
We've had people from the largest companies in the world. So I've been very lucky, to be able to have a lot of quest sorry, a lot of conversations that you all have obviously heard as well as probably 100 of, you know, quote, unquote, off the record or, you know, other conversations that aren't recorded that you all never hear. So, I I am both, I feel fortunate to have a front row seat to what's going on in the world of generative AI, but I'm also a a realist. Right? Because as powerful, and as capable as models are, I mean, you can see right here, there's a lot of potential for harm. Right? We talked about this, kind of this, you know, former president, Donald Trump. Right? There's a lot of potential for disinformation and for AI to be used and and weaponized, to do bad things and to cause harm. And that's why I think it is extremely important for everyone out there to keep up with the latest news and developments. Right? And that is what we are doing here.
Jordan Wilson [00:43:34]:
And, yes, I know, today's show has some different undertones both with what some stories that are going on and some advanced and highly capable models that are coming out. But just know we're still going to be here every single day trying to help you, navigate what's going on because, I mean, as you see in instances like this, it can get kind of weird. Alright. So that is what we have going on in the world of AI news y'all. So very quick recap here on the AI news that matters for the week of August 12th. So perplexity, like we talked about, has raised a $250,000,000 round, amid some rapid growth and high market interest, now clocking in with a valuation between 2.5 to 3,000,000,000 as it tries to take on Google and kind of, OpenAI in this new, kind of AI powered search. Next, we talked about how Apple is unlikely it to be charging for its new Apple intelligence features at least anytime soon. Apple, kind of the last big tech company to the, artificial intelligence party, and they may be charging for it in the future, but at least not for the next couple of years.
Jordan Wilson [00:44:48]:
Then we talked about Dell is set to cut more than 12,000 jobs, and focus its, kind of efforts on AI first, but that comes at the expense of, reportedly more than 12,000 jobs that are being cut as Dow starts to focus more on artificial intelligence. Next, former president Donald Trump has falsely claimed, there were, that crowds gathered at, vice president Kamala Harris's rally, were quote, unquote fake and AI generated. And then next but not least, we had 2 kind of stories from OpenAI, that OpenAI has, kind of been teasing this new, and NextAI model code named strawberry, amidst some big executive changes and, the latest round of rumors, which we try not to pay too much attention to, that are swirling right now are saying that the new model could be released as soon as tomorrow. And then we just talked about our last news story that matters. Open AI addressing some GPT 4 o advanced voice mode security risk. Wild time y'all. That was a lot I know. Thanks for tuning in.
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