AI Inside Yellowgold Studios

Justin Uberti, creator of WebRTC and now Founder of Fixie.ai, shares insights into the development of AI.town, a platform for engaging with AI personalities through voice, and the potential impact of conversational AI on various industries.
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INTERVIEW TOPICS
- Introduction to Justin's background (WebRTC, Hangouts Video, Duo, Stadia)
- The shift towards conversational AI and voice interactions
- Fixie.ai and AI.town - enabling voice conversations with AI characters
- Transitioning from text-based to voice-based AI interactions, potential use cases
- Creating AI characters, enabling role-play conversations
- Ethical considerations and voice cloning technology
- The nature of human conversation (filler words, turn-taking protocols)
- Incorporating human conversational quirks into AI speech
- V1 vs V2 voice technology (speech recognition - text - speech vs. direct speech-to-speech)
- Open-source speech AI model Ultravox.ai, leaderboard for fastest AI models (thefastest.ai)

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The FBI created a fake encrypted phone company called ANOM, targeting criminal organizations worldwide in an unprecedented honeypot operation. Joseph Cox, renowned cybersecurity journalist from 404media and author of "Dark Wire," reveals how artificial intelligence drove this groundbreaking investigation, enabling the FBI to monitor criminal communications and make arrests on a historic global scale like never before.
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INTERVIEW:
Joseph Cox's new book "Dark Wire" details the FBI's unprecedented sting operation running an encrypted phone company used by criminals.The role of AI in translating intercepted messages from different languages and detecting criminal content within the massive trove of 22 million messages.The ethical implications and potential overreach of such a large-scale operation that swept up some non-criminal users.The FBI developing its own AI system in-house, without help from tech companies, to analyze the intercepted data.The broader trend of law enforcement increasingly adopting AI for tasks like automated report writing from body cam footage.How the book and reporting on this story has shaped Joseph Cox's worldview and approach at his publication 404 Media.Netflix optioning the rights to adapt "Dark Wire" into a movie.
NEWS:
Nvidia Unveils Next-Generation Rubin AI Platform for 2026This is Lunar Lake — Intel’s utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticksEven the Raspberry Pi is getting in on AIGoogle Refines AI Search Overviews After Odd ResultsIntroducing Perplexity Pages
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Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell talk about the challenges of Google's AI search errors, the implications of OpenAI's funding and internal conflicts, Elon Musk's ambitious xAI supercomputer project, and the potential of AI for companionship and sentience.
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NEWS:
Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor OnlineGoogle AI Search getting everything wrongElon Musk raises $6 billion to challenge OpenAI@ylecunYann Lecun: "Join xAI if you can stand a boss who"Elon Musk plans xAI supercomputer, The Information reportsOpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. ModelFormer OpenAI board member explains why they fired Sam AltmanAnthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new teamAI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look InsideApple’s AI to include transcription, photo editing, search, & “software that can create custom emojis on the fly”Report: Apple signs deal with OpenAI for iOS, still wants Google as an 'option'California Senate passes really bad AI bill with big impact on open-sourceHow A.I. Made Mark Zuckerberg Popular Again in Silicon ValleyCould AI help cure ‘downward spiral’ of human loneliness?No, Today’s AI Isn’t Sentient. Here’s How We Know
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Microsoft Recall, OpenAI GPT-4o voice sounding very similar to Scarlett Johansson, Reddit's data deal with OpenAI, and the struggles of Humane AI's product.
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NEWS
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PCMicrosoft introduces Phi-SilicaMicrosoft unveils ‘Copilot + PC’ initiativeGet ready for the AI PCMicrosoft teams with Khan AcademyOpenAI to Pull Johansson Soundalike Sky’s Voice From ChatGPTScarlett Johansson says she was 'shocked, angered' when she heard OpenAI's voiceOpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk TeamScience paper with many authors on AI riskJeff's reactionCompare/contrast with paper on science & AIAds creativity and performance at scale with Google AIGoogle Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different BodiesOpenAI partners with RedditHumane is looking for a buyerMeta is reportedly working on camera-equipped AI earphonesRemember: the Iyo OneFacebook Parent’s Plan to Win AI Race

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Unpack the AI noise from Google I/O 2024 and OpenAI's GPT-4o reveal, with Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, and guest Mike Elgan analyzing the impact on search, content creation, voice interactions, and the evolving interactions between humans and AI.
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NEWS:
Google I/O 2024: everything announcedGoogle’s broken link to the webGoogle rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soonGoogle’s generative AI can now analyze hours of videoGoogle's Project Astra uses your phone's camera and AI to find noise makers, misplaced items and more.OpenAI debuts GPT-4o ‘omni’ model now powering ChatGPTMike's article: We're all talking to AI nowThe case against teaching kids to be polite to AlexaMeet My A.I. Friends
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Apple's M4 chip, OpenAI's deepfake detector, Microsoft's MAI-1 model, and the impact of AI on stock photography and audiobook professions.
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NEWS
Apple’s new M4 chip is focused on AIApple Is Developing AI Chips for Data Centers, Seeking Edge in Arms RaceOpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, PerplexityOpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation ResearchersFights over disclosing AI contentThose A.I. posters in True Detective: Night Country were supposed to be a knock on A.I., apparentlyMeet Microsoft MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete With Google, OpenAIGary Marcus: Microsoft and OpenAI’s increasingly complicated relationshipThe teens making friends with AI chatbotsThe Last Stock Photographers Await Their Fate Under Generative AIInvite-Only KDP Beta for AudiobooksAmazon has 40,000+ "virtual voice" audiobooks since it opened the doors last NovemberHarperCollins Publishers and ElevenLabs to Bring More Stories to Life Through AudioAI Dungeon
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