AI Inside

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AI Inside explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world at large. Hosted by tech podcaster Jason Howell and media expert Jeff Jarvis, AI Inside takes a thoughtful look at the promise and challenges of AI while inviting some of the industry's most notable players and thinkers to engage in thoughtful dialogue about AI, neither overhyping its potential nor dismissing public concerns about its development. With a deep interest in AI's impacts on art and culture, Jason uses his rich experience in technology and creativity to understand its capabilities better. Jeff is a respected voice on technology's influence on media and society, thanks to his popular blog BuzzMachine and books like "The Web We Weave" and "The Gutenberg Parenthesis." Together, Jason and Jeff aim to advance public understanding of this world-changing technology at an important inflection point.

  1. 3 GG FA

    All About AI Automation

    This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at ⁠Your360.ai⁠ with code: INSIDE. Join Jason Howell and Alfred Nutile as we break down Anthropic’s Claude Cowork desktop agent, OpenAI’s plan to monetize ChatGPT through ads, YouTube’s evolving strategy to curb AI slop, Alfred’s day-to-day building AI automations for clients, and rapid fire updates on AI water debates, Lego’s AI learning kits, and Wikipedia’s big training data partnerships. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 00:00:00 - Podcast begins 0:03:29 - Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work 0:07:36 - Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code 0:12:20 - Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT 0:12:44 - ChatGPT Go now unlocks unlimited access to GPT-5.2 Instant for $8 0:13:03 - OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch 0:14:21 - Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini 0:19:12 - YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop 0:24:08 - YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses 0:26:21 - The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them 00:28:27 - Opal by Google 0:56:59 - From Tokens to Burgers: A Water Footprint Face-Off 1:00:02 - OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT 1:01:36 - Adobe unveils new AI-powered video editing tools for Premiere 1:04:11 - Lego's latest educational kit seeks to teach AI as part of computer science, not to build a chatbot 1:05:36 - Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 h 13 min
  2. 17 GEN

    Google DeepMind's Tulsee Doshi: Gemini 3, Deep Think's Unexpected Uses, Layer-Based Editing

    This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Tulsee Doshi is Senior Director and Head of Product for Gemini Models at Google DeepMind. She joins us to reveal how real-world usage is reshaping Google's AI roadmap in unexpected ways. We explore the surprising discovery that Deep Think excels at creative writing rather than just academic research, why the team is now pursuing layer-based editing capabilities for Nano Banana Pro based on user demand, and how internal adoption patterns exceeded expectations. We also cover Gemini 3's reasoning breakthroughs, the path from research to production, and what Google learned from achieving gold medal performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Hit play for a candid discussion about AI development. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 - Podcast begins 00:01:32 - Introducing Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product for Gemini Models 00:03:20 - Nano Banana Pro Launch: Surprises and User Adoption Two Months Later 00:04:17 - What Users Are Asking For: Future Directions for Nano Banana Pro 00:05:21 - User Demand for Photoshop-Style Editing and Layered Image Control 00:06:04 - Gemini 3 Integration Across Google Products and Beyond 00:08:23 - Will AI Change How We Interact With Google Products? 00:12:20 - The Future of Real World Models and 3D Spatial Understanding 00:27:36 - Deep Think Explained: When to Use Different Gemini Modes 00:28:41 - Deep Think Use Cases: Academic Research, Enterprise, and Consumer Applications 00:30:51 - Surprising Deep Think Application: Creative Writing Beyond Academic Research 00:31:45 - The Future of AI-Generated Movies and Long-Form Content 00:32:00 - Thank you to Tulsee Doshi for joining the AI Inside podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    37 min
  3. 15 GEN

    OpenAI and Anthropic Battle for Health Systems

    This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at https://Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. On this week's AI Inside, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into Google's surprise rollout of Gemini Personal Intelligence, the sudden healthcare AI race between OpenAI and Anthropic, Apple's decision to power Siri with Gemini, Meta cutting over 1000 Reality Labs jobs, and Microsoft's new community-first data center pledge. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 0:00:00 - Start 0:05:50 - https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/personal-intelligence/ 0:12:55 - OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 0:17:14 - Introducing OpenAI for Healthcare 0:24:24 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/12/apple-google-gemini-ai-siri/ 0:25:35 - How Apple is Using Gemini to Give ChatGPT-Like Answers 0:32:36 - Google Bets on AI-Based Shopping With New AI Agents for Retailers 0:36:09 - Wayfair partners with Google to boost agentic AI commerce | Chain Store Age 0:38:23 - Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices 0:43:48 - Microsoft vows to limit data center energy costs 0:47:38 - Jeff's Arxiv Showdown 0:54:36 - Signal’s Founder Turns His Attention to AI’s Privacy Problem 0:56:03 - https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/gmail-is-entering-the-gemini-era/ 1:01:05 - Britain Investigates Elon Musk’s X Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images 1:02:30 - Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 h 10 min
  4. 31/12/2025

    We Got Slopped in 2025

    This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack AI consolidation as Nvidia licenses Groq's fast inference chips and Meta buys Manus for $2 billion. Growing anti-AI sentiment over jobs, mental health, and politics emerges alongside OpenAI's high-stakes preparedness role. Finally, Jason and Jeff reflect on 2025's jagged progress and 2026's agent and surveillance shifts. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Start 3:27 - Nvidia, joining Big Tech deal spree, to license Groq technology, hire executives 4:50 - Explaining the Groq deal 15:11 - Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about 16:50 - 3 reasons buying Manus could give Meta a much-needed AI boost 27:41 - An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It? Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? 29:46 - Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’ 45:11 - ‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI 47:15 - * Sell It Before You Make It: Revolutionizing E-Commerce with Personalized AI-Generated Items 51:27 - * What Human-Horse Interactions may Teach us About Effective HumanAI Interactions 52:27 - * FakeParts: a New Family of AI-Generated DeepFakes 55:45 - Karpathy's year in review 58:37 - https://hbr.org/2025/12/the-hbr-charts-that-help-explain-2025 1:04:29 - Jason: 1. Love/Hate and Confusion (people don't know how they really feel about AI)2. General agents show potential but need a LOT of work3. AI for companionship 1:05:39 - Jason:1. How productive ARE we really?2. AI Shopping moves beyond the demo3. A budding surveillance problem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 h 17 min
  5. 24/12/2025

    Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET: What AGI Means Now, Open Source AI, and Compute Constraints

    This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at https://Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Ben Goertzel, founder and CEO of SingularityNET, joins us to argue for an open path to AGI. We unpack what “open source” should include beyond code, how access to training data, pipelines, and compute shapes who can actually participate, and why “open weights” can still fall short. We also ask who needs convincing, what incentives could move the market, and how decentralized infrastructure fits into his vision for building advanced AI outside a handful of mega labs. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Start 2:13 - How the definition of AGI has shifted over time, and why the term has become distorted 7:58 - The “thousand narrow AIs” future, and who builds the next specialized system 12:40 - Revisiting Goertzel’s past AGI timeline predictions, what changed by late 2025, and is 2029 still feasible for AGI? 18:42 - Whether today’s AI investment is flowing to the right bets (LLMs vs world models and beyond) 25:43 - Why Goertzel argues LLMs cannot reach AGI, and what evidence could change his mind 31:44 - What it would take to build a truly open-source path to AGI 37:18 - Open weights vs real openness: Goertzel’s take on what’s missing from current releases 43:56 - Who needs to be convinced for open AI to succeed, and how that persuasion happens 50:20 - Advice for college students preparing for an AI-shaped career landscape Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 h 4 min
  6. 17/12/2025

    OpenAI Sheds the Red

    This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at https://Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack OpenAI's rapid GPT-5.2 release and Image 1.5 upgrade amid its Code Red push, contrasted by Google's faster Gemini 3 Flash challenging benchmarks in reasoning and speed. Nvidia's Slurm acquisition and Nemotron 3 open models are explored for their role in agentic AI, while Disney's $1 billion OpenAI deal licensing Sora IP is weighed against its Google cease-and-desist. President Trump's executive order centralizing AI regulation federally is analyzed for tensions with state protections. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Chapters: 00:00 - Podcast begins 3:41 - Jeff on AI & APIs for news for NiemanLab 11:33 - Disney wants you to AI-generate yourself into your favorite Marvel movie 14:27 - Disney’s OpenAI deal is exclusive for just one year — then it’s open season 15:23 - Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist Letter 21:05 - OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’ 26:21 - OpenAI Just Dropped a New AI Image Model in ChatGPT to Rival Google's Nano Banana 30:20 - Google announces Gemini 3 Flash with Pro-level performance, rolling out now 33:03 - Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models 33:44 - Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3 38:26 - Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI 39:13 - Masnick: Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal 45:35 - A visual editor for the Cursor Browser 49:47 - Google testing Disco browser 52:10 - I Tried Google Maps' New Gemini Feature, and It Was a Surprisingly Helpful AI Assistant 53:31 - Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones 1:03:03 - Pew: Teen use of chatbots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 h 14 min
  7. 15/12/2025

    Is AI Search Hurting The Open Web? With Google's Nick Fox

    This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at https://Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Nick Fox is the SVP of Knowledge and Information at Google, overseeing Search, Ads, and Commerce. He returns to the AI Inside podcast seven months after our Google I/O conversation when he declared "the web is thriving." In this follow-up, we press Fox on the publisher traffic debate, whether Google will ever embrace a licensing model for news, and why the Personal Context feature announced at I/O is still delayed. We also cover AI Mode's growth to 75 million daily users, why emerging markets are adopting it faster than expected, and what Google has learned about changing search behavior. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 - Podcast begins 00:00:41 - Introducing Nick Fox, Google's SVP of Knowledge and Information 00:03:29 - Revisiting "The Web Is Thriving" Claim Seven Months Later 00:05:09 - Publisher Traffic Concerns and Trust in Google's Data 00:08:30 - Preferred Sources: New Feature to Boost Publisher Visibility 00:09:58 - AI Links vs. Traditional Blue Links: Quality and Purpose 00:12:57 - Jeff's Case for News APIs: Should Publishers Embrace AI? 00:16:01 - Google's Response to the News API Proposal 00:17:31 - 3,000+ Publisher Partnerships and the Traffic-First Model 00:21:53 - Advice for Publishers Wanting to Rank in AI Search 00:24:07 - AI Mode Adoption: What Seven Months of User Data Reveals 00:27:07 - Longer Queries, Deeper Exploration: How Users Are Changing 00:29:06 - Global Rollout Insights: US, India, Brazil, and Emerging Markets 00:29:28 - The Learning Curve: Why AI Search Takes Months to Adopt 00:31:11 - Younger Users Leading AI Mode Adoption 00:31:59 - "Catch Me Up" Feature: Embedding AI in New Places 00:34:17 - AI Mode Everywhere: Chrome, Workspace, and Jeff's Chromebook Plea 00:37:50 - Personal Context Update: What's Delaying the Gmail/Drive Integration 00:40:07 - Gemini 3 Pro in Search: Generative UIs and Intelligent Routing 00:43:23 - Google's AI Brand Strategy: Search, Gemini App, and Beyond 00:46:23 - If You Were Starting a Content Business Today 00:48:16 - Thank you to Nick Fox for joining the AI Inside podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    53 min

Descrizione

AI Inside explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world at large. Hosted by tech podcaster Jason Howell and media expert Jeff Jarvis, AI Inside takes a thoughtful look at the promise and challenges of AI while inviting some of the industry's most notable players and thinkers to engage in thoughtful dialogue about AI, neither overhyping its potential nor dismissing public concerns about its development. With a deep interest in AI's impacts on art and culture, Jason uses his rich experience in technology and creativity to understand its capabilities better. Jeff is a respected voice on technology's influence on media and society, thanks to his popular blog BuzzMachine and books like "The Web We Weave" and "The Gutenberg Parenthesis." Together, Jason and Jeff aim to advance public understanding of this world-changing technology at an important inflection point.

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