AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell
AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

You want to follow the AI space but it's just too much? Welcome to your favorite new show. AI For Humans catches you up on all the AI news, tools & issues. Each week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell help explain exactly how this ground breaking technology will change our world. Plus, it's fun! Don't take our word for it. Fast Company says "AI For Humans may be the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence". Subscribe now to stay up-to-date on one of today's most important emerging technologies. New episodes every Thursday.

  1. 6 DAYS AGO

    New AI Studios in Hollywood, DeepSeek's AI Reasoning Model, Perplexity Disrupts Shopping & More AI News

    AI News: Deepseek’s AI reasoning model takes on OpenAI’s o1, Perplexity takes on shopping and new AI studio Promise & *checks notes* Ben Affleck take on traditional Hollywood? It’s a deep dive on AI vs Hollywood as we also talk about the controversial AI Coca-Cola commercial & how media jobs are being shed at record numbers. Plus, Gemini’s new voice mode, AI’s Manhattan Project, Kevin gives us a look at a free AI upscaler called Clarity Refiners, Gavin spends more time with Suno V4, new robots, new Sora videos and a visit from an AI career coach. IT’S A GOOD ONE Y’ALL. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   // Show Links // DeepThink Reasoning Engine Released https://www.deepseek.com/ https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1859235248632123763 Perplexity Shopping https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1858556244891758991 New Gemini Voice Mode https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1858556217205170296 Mustafa Suleyman Talks MSFT Memory Prototypes with Infinite Memory https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1857927928690127079 AI Manhattan Project https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-government-commission-pushes-manhattan-project-style-ai-initiative-2024-11-19/ Generative AI Studio “Promise” Gets VC Funding https://x.com/promise_ai/status/185889037568936769 Ben Affleck Talks AI Movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypURoMU3P3U Coca-Cola AI Ad https://youtu.be/BtD4fHgkrqI?si=E0PrD1a8W4BL7xxp NewsProducer Out of a Job Due To AI https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1guhsm4/well_this_is_it_boys_i_was_just_informed_from_my/ Waffle Flipping Robot https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1guc53o/astribot_s1_no_teleoperation_1x_speed Nespresso Robot https://youtu.be/LPlNZmJzuhU Cowboy Pile Up https://x.com/BengtTibert/status/1858961965596446770 Clarity Refiners UI https://x.com/cocktailpeanut/status/1858938348955443475

    52 min
  2. 14 NOV

    OpenAI & Google Struggle on Model Training, Suno's New AI Music Model & More AI News

    AI NEWS: OpenAI, Google & other AI companies face potential struggles to advance their frontier AI models like Orion, but Anthropic's CEO still predicts AGI by 2027. What gives? We discuss the growing fear that AI scaling has peaked and what’s causing the slowdown. Meanwhile, Apple makes strides in AI tech, we got our hands on Suno V4 which is *great* and China’s Deep Robotics showcases an off-road robot that scared the pants off us. Plus, NVIDIA’s new robotic advancements and Xpeng's humanoid robot reveal, and we explore how Meta’s AI chatbot gave foragers deadly advice.   IT’S NOT OVER… IT’S ONLY JUST BEGUN Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ #ai #aitools #openai   //  SHOW LINKS // Ilya Says Scaling Is Plateau-ing  https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-rivals-seek-new-path-smarter-ai-current-methods-hit-limitations-2024-11-11/ OpenAI sources say training scaling is slowing down… https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-shifts-strategy-as-rate-of-gpt-ai-improvements-slows?rc=c3oojq&shared=cee45715e080388f Noam Brown on Inference Training https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1gqc24w/openais_noam_brown_says_scaling_skeptics_are/ OpenAI To Launch o1 by “end of year” https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-openai-cto-muratis-new-team-takes-shape?rc=c3oojq&shared=166c84764e6700e7 OpenAI’s Plan To Make Gov’t Work For Them (against China) https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/openai-to-present-plans-for-us-ai-strategy-and-an-alliance-to-compete-with-china.html Dario Amodei on Lex Fridman says AGI 2025 / 2026 https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=IKvG7BXjXVFhyFhN Suno v4.0 https://x.com/sunomusic/status/1856108854066413785 Apple Coming For Alexa - New AI-powered Smart Home Device https://x.com/markgurman/status/1856439194807349657 https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/24294975/apple-smart-home-display-march-2025-rumors Apple AI WTF https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/24289939/apple-intelligence-ai-notification-summaries-awkward-funny-bad Deep Robotics Off-Roading Robot https://x.com/breadli428/status/1856335825522311611 Project gr00t update https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1855657450604523970?s=46&t=w0Q4PuG9XdwnJWsovr5M2g Xpeng Robot https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1855657472934977879?s=46&t=w0Q4PuG9XdwnJWsovr5M2g Meta AI Mushroom Controversey https://www.404media.co/ai-chatbot-added-to-mushroom-foraging-facebook-group-immediately-gives-tips-for-cooking-dangerous-mushroom/ Teacher Show Kids AI Future https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1856394679379735004?s=46&t=w0Q4PuG9XdwnJWsovr5M2g X-Portrait 2 https://byteaigc.github.io/X-Portrait2/ Remaking The Polar Express with AI Video https://x.com/kaigani/status/1856198885841973271 Recapture video model https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/3TU3FvGyVg Vidu 1.5 New Multi-modal AI Video Model https://x.com/Viduforhuman/status/1855222897679188255  Suno AI (V4 Coming Soon) https://suno.com/

    47 min
  3. 7 NOV

    Sam Altman's AI Optimism, New Presidential AI Policy & Defense, Endless AI Video Games & More AI News

    AI News: OpenAI’s Sam Altman says AI is accelerating to AGI and NVIDIA is the world’s most valuable company just as other billionaires say we’re slowing down. What gives? Plus, the US election shakes up the world of open-source AI as Meta’s LLAMA model is being used both by other governments and our own for defense purposes. Plus, the Oasis generative AI video game making people mad, a bunch of AI Video updates & we check in with AI Guy Fieri who’s mad now that AI Gordo Ramsay has taken over for him. IT’S A TWO BOOM WORLD AND WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT   Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   // Show Links // Sam Altman At London Dev Day Talking About The Speed of AI Development https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1853548119021248560 NVIDIA Passes Apple As Most Valuable Company https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/05/nvidia-passes-apple-as-worlds-most-valuable-company-.html Marc Andreesen & Ben Horowitz Say AI Models Are Hitting a Ceiling (24m in) https://youtu.be/hookUj3vkE4?si=12BuF-f6Ma-UvksV Claude Haiku 3.5 is out but… price go up? https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/04/anthropic-hikes-the-price-of-its-haiku-model/ Anthropic Opus run failed rumors https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/1853528564525826180 New Administration On AI https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-battle-over-open-source-ai-will-be-settled-in-trumps-presidency?rc=c3oojq Meta Allows US to use Llama https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/meta_weaponizing_llama_us/ Chinese researches were already using  https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/chinese-researchers-develop-ai-model-military-use-back-metas-llama-2024-11-01/ Scale AI’s Defense LLAMA  https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1853853829336559790 Oasis Generative AI Game Engine https://x.com/DecartAI/status/1852091173420294291 Kling Custom Face Models https://x.com/CharaspowerAI/status/1853488598605316256 Runway Gen-3 Camera Control https://x.com/runwayml/status/1852720539707564162 Zemeckis and Hanks using GenAI for “HERE” https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1853120945097199730 Ethan Mollick Invites HeyGen Avatar To Zoom Call https://x.com/emollick/status/1853887499266838762 Pets Floating in Zero G https://x.com/fofrAI/status/1853193897373233241 How Gordon Ramsay Built The Pyramids https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1gjson1/i_asked_ai_how_gordon_ramsay_built_the_pyramids/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    40 min
  4. 31 OCT

    OpenAI Says AGI Not Far Off, Apple Intelligence is Just OK, Meta AI Search & More AI News

    AI News: OpenAI says AGI is incoming… James Cameron says that might not be good, even though OAI is building new chips AND has a new frontier model (GPT-5) on the way. Plus, Apple Intelligence is here and it’s just ok, Meta is taking on Google Search, Mircosoft’s Github takes on Cursor with Spark that can write code, Red Panda is a mysterious new AI image model, MuVi brings automatic soundtracks to video using AI & we’re visited by the future ghost of Robert Downey, Jr who has something to say about current RDJ, Jr’s current stance on AI.  IT’S ALL MOVING FAST Y’ALL   Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   // Show Links // OpenAI CFO on AGI https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1850999598032306569 OpenAI Builds It’s Own Chips https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-builds-first-chip-with-broadcom-tsmc-scales-back-foundry-ambition-2024-10-29/ Next OpenAI Model Coming By December https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/1849625175354233184 Sam Altman Says Fake News But Prob Just Cuz Not Called Orion https://x.com/sama/status/1849661093083480123 New o1 Full Features Revealed at DevDay in London https://x.com/stevenheidel/status/1851574257819562195 James Cameron on AGI https://youtu.be/e6Uq_5JemrI?si=nmrZPwACepoJ3ikN Apple Intelligence is…fine? https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/i-tried-all-new-apple-intelligence-features-in-ios-18-1-heres-the-best-and-worst Meta’s AI Search Plans https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24282017/meta-ai-powered-search-engine-report Notebook Llama Open Source Podcast Model https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1850522281681813862 GitHub Spark Kills Cursor? https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/29/github-spark-lets-you-build-web-apps-in-plain-english/ VIDEO: https://x.com/ashtom/status/1851333075374051725 Microsoft Owned GitHub Co-Pilot Will Support Anthropic, Google & OAI https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282544/github-copilot-multi-model-anthropic-google-open-ai-github-spark-announcement Google Says 25% of All New Code is AI Generated https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1851374530998256126 Canva Integrates Leonardo https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276662/canva-ai-update-new-text-to-image-generator-leonardo Robert Downey Jr Will Sue From The Grave If You Use Him For AI https://gizmodo.com/robert-downey-jr-will-sue-from-the-grave-if-hollywood-ever-recreates-his-likeness-with-ai-2000517884 Then & Now Flux Lora https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/1851031004070424672 https://glif.app/glifs/cm2swpljc0000yqd7v20vtskv PDF to Brain Rot https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1850635739312042086 https://www.memenome.gg/  LLM Pictionary https://x.com/paul_cal/status/1850262678712856764 MuVi Generates Music Based on Visuals https://x.com/dreamingtulpa/status/1850588949514756274 Arthur Morgan (Thick of It) https://youtu.be/uai4Y_-FRtY?si=zP0FkJOORDN8V9Ne Gavin’s Act-One Video https://youtu.be/W_L2bEKJBSc?si=up3JBi9Hsas1AzNA

    50 min
  5. 24 OCT

    Anthropic's New AI Agent, OpenAI Plays Catch-up, Runway's Act-One & More AI News

    AI NEWS: Agents are here from Anthropic with Computer Use in Claude Sonnet 3.5 (new) and likely coming from OpenAI, O1 keeps getting better and might get upgraded soon, Runway's New Act One let's you puppet AI video, Ideogram's new Canvas upgrades AI imaging, Unitree's Robots are getting WAY better and we show you how to make Google's NotebookLM uncensored. AND OH SO MUCH MORE.   It's a big, massive week of AI news. And we are here, for you.   Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Jump in our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow And to contact or book us for speaking/consultation, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   // Show Links //   Anthropic Drops “Computer Use” In Sonnet 3.5 aka AI Agents https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use   Claude Coding 90s Website: https://youtu.be/vH2f7cjXjKI?si=XqTRKVxHZx1bK36b   Picks the first link on Google: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1848742757151498717   What Computer Use Can’t Do https://x.com/forgebitz/status/1848764235729244254   OpenAI's Noam Brown on O1 https://v.redd.it/7dic62adm3wd1   OpenAI Feels The Pressure, Close To Releasing Coding Bot https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-in-duel-with-anthropic-doubles-down-on-ai-that-writes-software   OpenAI Agentic Rumors Involving Microsoft https://x.com/flowersslop/status/1848506100435304852   Sam Altman Teases ChatGPT Update For Second Birthday https://x.com/sama/status/1848487309211275398   Satya Nadella Says We’re “Using AI Tools to Build Better AI” https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1848472478257189374   Runway Act-One https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-act-one   Teaser Video https://x.com/runwayml/status/1848785907723473001   Two actors in a scene https://x.com/runwayml/status/1848785913918218517   Mochi 1 -- New OpenSource AI Video From Genmo https://x.com/genmoai/status/1848762405779574990   Ideogram Canvas Feature https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/1848757699606983143   Stable Diffusion 3.5 https://x.com/StabilityAI/status/1848729212250951911   Unitree Robot Exercise Videos https://youtu.be/G6JE7mNYz2A?si=KLiXYznOUy7Qz4Rh   TANGO https://x.com/dreamingtulpa/status/1847310594434584922   Trump at a McDonald’s https://x.com/aliensupershow/status/1848438728148111822   NotebookLM Uncensored https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1g64iyi/holy_shit_listeners_notebooklm_can_generate_18/

    50 min
  6. 17 OCT

    Massive AI Update From Adobe, Tech Companies Go Nuclear & ChatGPT Knows Too Much

    Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: Adobe’s Max 2024 showed off a ton of new AI tools like Generative Extend and Project Clean Machine, Amazon and Google are going nuclear (in a good way), rumors swirl around Claude Open 3.5, Nvidia has a great new LLM model that beats GPT-4o &  Meta’s new Co-Tracker3 looks amazing. Plus updates from Suno, a hit Instagram restaurant that’s all AI and ChatGPT knows SO much about you. IT’S ANOTHER FUN ONE IN PERSON DOG. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   // Show Links // Adobe Firefly Video Updates https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/10/14/generate-video-beta-on-firefly-web-app Generative Extend in Premiere Pro https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/10/14/generative-extend-in-premiere-pro Generate SFX With Your Voice https://x.com/anukaakash/status/1846336116192133186 Various Adobe “Projects” https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/15/24271151/adobe-sneak-ai-animation-video-editing-3d-tools Justine Bateman on “Organic” Filmmaking https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1846395062554710340 Nuclear Power Updates From Amazon & Google https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/16/amazon-goes-nuclear-investing-more-than-500-million-to-develop-small-module-reactors.html https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/google-and-kairos-sign-nuclear-reactor-deal-with-aim-to-power-ai/ Eric Schmidt mentions how building more power centers will save us: https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1846138219429351689 Dario’s Amodei’s Machines of Loving Grace Essay https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace Nvdia New70b Model Beats GPT-4o & Sonnet 3.5 https://x.com/imsh4yy/status/1846589157721715086?s=46 Suno Scenes Update https://x.com/suno_ai_/status/1846574384963633345 Fake Restaurant ETHOS #1 in Austin https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1845554883614953472 https://www.ethosatx.net/reservations Jon Finger Experiments https://x.com/mrjonfinger/status/1846574400939651400 Running Robots + Running Shoes https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1g4hqm7/chinese_robotics_company_robot_era_put_two_star1/ MetaAI World Class Point Tracking https://www.threads.net/@aiatmeta/post/DBMRS6mvTee?xmt=AQGzvg9ZMl6QSWq03MJXnew1VRDtzomYkNNygOq5sE9l8A E2 & F5 TTS https://pinokio.computer/ https://huggingface.co/spaces/mrfakename/E2-F5-TTS

    44 min
  7. 10 OCT

    Nobel Prizes For AI Scientists, OpenAI's New Canvas Tool & Huge AI Video Updates

    Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: AI Scientists Geoffrey Hinton & Google DeepMind’s Demmis Hassabis each won Nobel Prizes this week for their AI work, OpenAI is kinda mad at Microsoft for not meeting demand for new servers and launched ChatGPT Canvas, Tesla’s We Robot event will unveil new Robotaxis, Meta MovieGen shows off incredible-yet-unreleased AI video tools and Minimax drops an text-to-image update that kind of blew us away.  PLUS, AI MINION MAKER Y’ALL. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // SHOW LINKS //   Nobel Prize for AI (Geoffrey Hinton) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/science/nobel-prize-physics.html “I’m flabbergasted”  https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1843616586550390803 “I’m particular proud one of my students fired Sam Altman” https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1843874006770110550 Demis Hassabis Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/1843951197960777760 Elon talks about what it means to build “hyper intelligent AIs” https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1843409177521336688 Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says energy demand for AI is infinite - we may as well build it ‘cause we’re gonna die anyway! https://v.redd.it/z6k53fkntzsd1 OpenAI Says MSFT Not Moving Fast Enough To Supply Data Centers https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-eases-away-from-microsoft-data-centers?rc=c3oojq Tesla We, Robot Event To Unveil Robotaxis (THURSDAY 10am) https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-musk-heads-hollywood-unveil-his-robotaxi-face-long-list-questions-2024-10-08/ ChatGPT Canvas: OpenAI is SHIPPING https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/ Meta MovieGen: Future of Hollywood  https://x.com/Ahmad_Al_Dahle/status/1842188269557301607 New Minimax Image-To-Video Deep Dive https://youtu.be/7JZLLxV1AGc?si=akTSV8HBcHCj9tAq Runway First & Last https://x.com/runwayml/status/1843707595141644617 Princess Monoke AI Video Hate https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/1843737222031519910 Neural Viz’ The Church Of Z https://youtu.be/fmV5n8Gu9mQ?si=SGxyIGjgTAdSxaJg AI Job Application Bot https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1842712127556956230 Thoreo: Learning Tool With YT or PDFs https://thoreo.com/library/960823d4-f506-4908-b7ce-9d181a28a80f Gorilla Story https://x.com/rainisto/status/1843296900599996742 Glif Character Mix  https://glif.app/@Gasia/glifs/cm044ptbj0019f3kst0p8whaa Glif Animorph Lora https://glif.app/@angrypenguin/glifs/cm21ehd0q00009skli9tae3xp

    47 min

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You want to follow the AI space but it's just too much? Welcome to your favorite new show. AI For Humans catches you up on all the AI news, tools & issues. Each week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell help explain exactly how this ground breaking technology will change our world. Plus, it's fun! Don't take our word for it. Fast Company says "AI For Humans may be the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence". Subscribe now to stay up-to-date on one of today's most important emerging technologies. New episodes every Thursday.

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