This is 200! Looking back at the rise of AI, 5G and more
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We made it to 200 episodes, folks! This week, Cherlynn, Devindra, Producer Ben Ellman and Senior Writer Sam Rutherford dive into some of the biggest tech developments since we rebooted the podcast in 2019. Remember, that was a pre-pandemic, pre-generative AI world! We also highlight a few guest interviews worth revisiting, like our chats with Bill Nye and Ann Druyan.  As for recent news, we quickly recap the OpenAI drama around Sam Altman’s ouster, discuss Google’s new Gemini AI platform, and chat about the revelation that governments are spying on our push notifications. Cherlynn also details her experience with Apple’s Personal Voice feature for iPhones and gives us a demo of her AI-generated digital voice. Topics:It’s our 200th episode! We look back on what’s changed in tech since the show relaunched – 1:02Sam Altman sacked and reinstated, a recap of the OpenAI drama – 44:29Google announces Gemini AI, its answer to GPT-4 – 50:04Microsoft upgrades Copilot with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo and DALL-E 3 – 54:23Governments are spying on push notifications, Google and Apple can’t do anything about it – 55:41Mark Gurman reports Apple is working on revamped iPad Pros and an M3 MacBook Air – 58:02Cherlynn’s experience with the new iOS accessibility feature Personal Voice – 58:58Pop culture picks – 1:05:01 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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