This episode explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and nanotechnology across various aspects of society and the economy. The hosts share insights on how AI tools like Python are revolutionizing fields such as education, comparing these developments to past technological advancements and contemplating their future impact. A significant focus is placed on the theoretical integration of nanofabricators in homes, which could enable an age of abundance by addressing...

This week on the Futuristic podcast - Neuralink patient playing chess, Claude Opus outperforms GPT4, Nvidia announces robot framework “Project GR00T” and Blackwell platform, Microsoft and OpenAI plan supercomputer project worth $100 billion called 'Stargate’, Amazon audio books using AI, OpenAI Voice cloning tool, Apple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini AI engine into the iPhone, Stability AI and Inflection (Pi) CEO’s quit and join Microsoft, Altman / Jensen predict AGI in about five...

The Robots are coming! We are talking about the latest in GPRs (general purpose humanoid robots), Apple cancelling their car project, Gemini 1.5 Pro testing, Biden's plan to ban voice impersonation, the decline of TV viewership, and Deep Mind CEO Demis Hassabis' views on AlphaZero sitting atop LLMs on the AGI stack.

OpenAI previews Sora, Bard becomes Gemini, 1x robots on Segways, Vision Pro hits the streets, breakthrough medicine, the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh Super Bowl ad, and Transhumanism.

This week on Futuristic - Brisbane portrait prize allows AI, Neuralink human trials have started, Berkley AI let their robot walk around SF, Arc Search is Google’s worst nightmare, why electricity was the AI of the 1800s, and Cam’s 9 scenarios for how the Future of AI might play out (and Steve’s adds #10).

This week on the Futuristic podcast: Running GPT4All (local LLM) & SuperWhisper (dictation that actually works!) on a Mac; SamA says GPT5 will solve all of the problems of GPT4 - and AGI is coming soon (also, Ilya’s status is still ?), Figure 1 coffee robot , Midjourney CEO in office hours just said he thinks they “can get to the holodeck” by 2024, what happens to “work” after the AI revolution , and we see how far we’ve come since this NYT article on OpenAI from 2018.

We’re talking about the OpenAI insanity, Q*, SpaceX’s Starship launch, a new Chinese AI with twice the context window of ChatGPT, the AI chip wars, GPT will soon have a memory, DeepMind’s new AI music creation tool, and why we all need to think like a coder.

It’s been a huge couple of weeks - OpenAI’s first Dev Day with a ton of new tools including building your own GPT and Assistants, Musk released Grok AI and his Neuralink is starting human trials, new AI tools turning up in everything, drones are dead, Alibaba’s new AI version, Optus outage, Executive Management Decision Systems and the OpenAI App Store.

On this episode we talk about Anthropomorphism, AI-assisted screen scraping, Nvidia to Reportedly Triple Output of Compute GPUs in 2024: Up to 2 Million H100s, Quantum startup Atom Computing first to exceed 1,000 qubits, AI generated political propaganda, Why there will never be a Canva or Atlassian from Aussie AI, Bill Gates does not expect GPT-5 to be much better than GPT-4, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ChatGPT would have passed for an AGI 10 years ago and The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.

On this episode we talk about how GPT has a model of the world; ChatGPT Voice, Vision, Dall-E 3 integration; Meta releases AI personas and assistants; Hollywood Writers strike an AI deal; Now Everyone’s a expert; Neuralink in your brain; The AI Oligopoly.

Today's guest, Peter Xing, is the visionary behind the "Transhuman Network State" and SingularityU. We're diving into a plethora of groundbreaking topics including how to use GPT for improved note-taking, the world's first house entirely constructed by AI, updates on DALLE-3, Mark Zuckerberg's insightful chat on Lex Fridman's podcast, and the exciting initiation of Neuralink's human trials. In the medical field, we touch on a game-changing drug that could regrow teeth, now entering clinical...

AI translates Chickens, Pizza Hut Hacked, Alexa GPT, Microsoft Copilot launches, Bard Gets Google plugins, Google nears release of AI software Gemini, Bing is back on GPT, Coca-Cola has Created a Futuristic Soft Drink Using Artificial Intelligence. Google AI breakthrough represents huge step in finding genes that cause diseases, bringing back the dead with ‘Digital necromancy’, where are our Jetsons products, and our forecast that GPT’s all become verbal within 12 months.

This week we’re talking about use-case scenarios for AgentGPT, video translation with HeyGen, China banning the iPhone, AI “Ghost work”, Google’s antitrust case, GPT solving medical issues, how we will know if AI becomes conscious, MBA students vs ChatGPT, IBM CEO’s predictions about AI in the workplace, Xenobots, Gollems, the US military’s plans to roll out autonomous robots, and whether or not US tech giants should be broken up.

Using GPT to help track calories, the increasing complexity of AI tools, the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, Ray Kurzweil's latest interview Startups Desperate hunt for GPU’s, Tesla is powering up its $300 Million AI Supercomputer, Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot, UK startup unveils AI-designed cancer immunotherapy, Most Americans haven't used ChatGPT, China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, What was behind Web 2.0 boom, What reason do we have to think AI might be...

We talk about the LUI ( Linguistic User Interface), Steve's 3D printed house, using ChatGPT to automate your day with AppleScript, updates on LK99, Cold Fusion and Worldcoin, Robot Taxis, Amara's Law, De-Globalisation and ask the question - is stealing things the best business plan of all time?

Steve’s “exploring” AI girlfriends, Cameron’s using Code Interpreter, there’s a new cancer drug in human trials, Worldcoin has launched, room-temperature superconductor hype, Tesla conquers the car market, Transhumanism, Marshal McLuhan and how to make AI trustworthy.

Steve’s 3D house printing startup, using GPT to write podcast notes, using Descript to edit podcasts, Fox used GPT to write a play, using GPT to de-bias new articles, the launch of xAI, ChatGPT launched Code Interpreter, Google’s AI-powered notes app NotebookLM, OpenAI’s Latest Article Hints at Their Timeline for AGI and ASI, Gates’ latest post about AI threats, Next phase of the Internet and End of cash / Debate social credits aka whuffie.

This week we're talking about my analogy between AI and quantum mechanics, why it is the GPT sucks at playing chess. Why Steve got interviewed by Sir Bob Geldoff about AI, a lot of news around technology, including Microsoft rolling out its version of AI copilot in Windows 11 to developers. China's recent advancements in ai. Google's Deep Mind CEO saying their next algorithm will eclipse Chat, GPT. The new AI PI that my wife and son have been using as a therapist, meta is gonna make their...

GPT is my new best friend; the 4 AI camps; does AI come up with original ideas?; Change in Corporate Approach to AI: Beyond Practical; DeSantis Campaign Uses Apparently Fake Images to Attack Trump on Twitter; EU Bands Facial Scanning / recongition and other Biometrics measures; AI Tour of Duty Sam Altman in Australia; AI Agents plugin for GPT; Geoffrey Hinton think that LLMs actually understand. Doomsayers

This week on Futuristic: Our GPT wins and fails, Apple Vision Pro, Apple avoiding talking about AI at WWDC, SEC Charges CoinBase & Binance, p(Doom), the original Digital watches, and Smart voxels.

What’s exciting in the world of emerging tech? We talk about NVIDIA’s Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine, Photoshop AI and Neuralink’s human trials, the writers strike in Hollywood, regulation in AI companies trying to ban AI in the workplace and predict how AI might be used in the current US Presidential election.

Our first guest, Ian Farmer, who is doing his Research Masters, Al Research within Education at University of Technology Sydney,  joins us to talk about the possibilities of AI in Education. We also talk about S-GPT, AgentGPT / AutoGPT / GodMode and ChatGPT and investing.

Neuralink and brain-computer interfaces; merging with AI; South Park AI episode; hits & misses of the week.

On our first episode, Steve, Cam and Sailli are talking about the launch of ChatGPT4, the concept of "steerability", Microsoft's Copilot and some of the social and business changes we expect their new era of Generative AI might bring.