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. 3 DAYS AGO

    OpenAI Plans Super Intelligence, NVIDIA's Tiny Image Model & Reddit Launches GPT & More AI News

    OpenAI is prepping for Artificial Super Intelligence, Sam Altman says AI fast takeoff is likely, Luma Labs’ new Ray 2 AI video model looks good and Reddit goes all GPT on us. Plus, an amazing new small AI model from NVIDIA, executive AI orders for more power and chips, ChatGPT Tasks kind of blows and a whole lotta Shrek (more so than you might want). BRB, WE GOTTA PREP FOR THE SINGULARITY 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’s Economic Blueprint  https://openai.com/global-affairs/openais-economic-blueprint/ Sam Altman Says Fast Take Off More Likely https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1879100390840697191 OpenSource $450 Dollar o1 Model https://x.com/LiorOnAI/status/1878876546066506157 MiniMax-01 Launch: Lightning Attention https://x.com/i/trending/1879318547861582090 Runway Prompt-To-Character https://x.com/IXITimmyIXI/status/1878088929330491844 Executive Order For Gigawatt Datacenters https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/biden-issue-executive-order-ensure-power-ai-data-centers-2025-01-14/ New AI Chip Rules  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-bidens-final-ai-chip-move-caused-an-uproar?rc=c3oojq&shared=160dd16ac575f520 ChatGPT Tasks https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1879267276291203329 Custom Reddit GPT For Answers https://www.reddit.com/answers/ LumaLabs Ray 2:  https://lumalabs.ai/ray Nvidia Lauches Sana  https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/ AI Slop Distorting Wildfire News https://www.fastcompany.com/91260442/ai-slop-has-is-still-distorting-news-about-the-l-a-wildfires French Woman Scammed By AI Brad Pitt https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ai-brad-pitt-woman-romance-scam-france-tf1-rcna187745 Fashn Web App: Try-on + Video https://x.com/ayaboch/status/1878888737603830081 New AI or Die https://youtu.be/cAjUy896SOE?si=BpJhqV_oOwvov01q My Swamp https://x.com/andr3_ai/status/1878110156887638380

    52 min

  2. 9 JAN

    AGI in 2025? Plus, OpenAI's Agents, NVIDIA's AI World Model & More AI News

    AGI is coming in 2025 or at least that’s what OpenAI’s Sam Altman thinks. Plus, huge announcements from NVIDIA at CES & hands on with Google’s VEO 2. AND OpenAI’s Operator (aka their AI Agents) might come soon, DeekSeek V3 is pretty darn good, Meta makes a big mistake with their AI personalities, Minimax’s new subject reference tool, METAGENE-1 might help us stave off disease, and all the robot vaccum news you could ever want. Oh, and Kevin is sick. BUT HE’S GOING TO BE FINE. 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 Blog Post: https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections Head of OAI “Mission Alignment” warns to take AGI seriously: https://x.com/jachiam0/status/1875790261722477025 OpenAI Agents Launching This Month? https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-is-taking-so-long-to-launch-agents?rc=c3oojq Satya Nadella says AI scaling laws are “Moore’s Law at work again” https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1876738332798951592 Derek Thompson Plain English https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/plain-english-with-derek-thompson/2025/01/07/the-big-2025-economy-forecast-ai-and-big-tech-nuclears-renaissance-trump-vs-china-and-whats-eating-europe Digits: $3k Supercomputer https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337530/nvidia-ces-digits-super-computer-ai New GFX Cards including 2k 5090 https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337396/nvidia-rtx-5080-5090-5070-ti-5070-price-release-date Cosmos World nVidia World Model https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1876565946124341635 DeepSeek 3 Crushes Open Source Benchmarks https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/deepseek-s-new-ai-model-appears-to-be-one-of-the-best-open-challengers-yet/ar-AA1wxkSg?ocid=TobArticle Oopsie File: Meta Deletes AI Characters After Backlash https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html Minimax Subject Reference https://x.com/madpencil_/status/1876289286783615473 Famous Science Rappers https://youtu.be/B56rwm2sn7w?si=hD1ankVpWvALHAN5 Science Corner: METAGENE-1 https://x.com/PrimeIntellect/status/1876314809798729829 HeyGen Works With Sora -- VERY Good LipSync https://x.com/joshua_xu_/status/1876707348686995605 GameStop of Thrones https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1htvzzc/gamestop_of_thrones/ Simulation Clicker (not sure this is AI as much) https://x.com/nealagarwal/status/1876292865929683020 Torso 2 In the Kitchen https://x.com/clonerobotics/status/1876732633771548673 Roborock's Saros Z70 https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1876565471887085772 Halliday Smart Glasses https://x.com/Halliday_Global/status/1871571904194371863

    43 min

  3. 27/12/2024

    AI Predictions for 2025, Thoughts on OpenAI's o3 & The Year in Review

    AI PREDICTIONS are never easy but we give our thoughts on what will happen in 2025 and beyond as well as dive into OpenAI’s o3 announcement and what it means for all of us. Then, we fed all of AI For Humans into Google's NotebookLM and had them take a DeepDive look at how we did over the course of 2024. We did ok? It’s a quickie AI For Humans episode for the holidays (one day behind schedule) but we’ll see y’all for a normal one next week! IT’S GONNA BE A GOOD YEAR Y’ALL! #ai #ainews #openAI 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’s o3 Announcement Video https://www.youtube.com/live/SKBG1sqdyIU?si=Fjuy6S6fZ4hpdRXq Truth Terminal X Handle https://x.com/truth_terminal Yes No Error https://yesnoerror.com/ Genesis World Sim AI Video System https://genesis-world.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

    30 min

  4. 19/12/2024

    Google Wins AI Video, ChatGPT Gets a 1-800 Number & More Massive AI News

    Google’s VEO 2 and Gemini updates are… freaking good?! Plus, OpenAI lets you call ChatGPT, o1 is in the API now & Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is giving us a new robot brain. Plus, new Pika 2.0 AI video tools, Ilya Sutskever returns to tell us pre-training is over, YouTube and CAA comes together on a deal for protecting celebrity likenesses, Google’s Whisk tool is a fun AI toy and we meet an angry old man who calls us wanting help for his furnace whom we then get to drink Monster Milk. IT’S A NEW SHOW, A PRESENT JUST FOR YOU 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 // Call ChatGPT aka 1-800-ChatGPT https://www.youtube.com/live/LWa6OHeNK3s?si=0vogE9s_qVOmp81- VEO 2 is actually pretty insane https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/veo-2/ Knight on a Zebra https://x.com/emollick/status/1868897308529787248 Steak-Off https://x.com/blizaine/status/1868850653759783033 Tomato Cutting Vs Sora https://x.com/joecarlsonshow/status/1868822801546985685 Google Whisk  https://x.com/Google/status/1868781358635442359  New Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental Advanced https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1869066293426655459 o1 in API + fine tuning in Real Time Voice https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1869134054190448874 $2000 a month OAI Sub?? https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1868201597727342941 RUMORED TASKS/TO-DO BETA https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/1869364027769377146 o1 Preview Vastly Better Than Doctors at Reasoning https://x.com/deedydas/status/1869049071346102729 The Return of Ilya & The End of Pre-training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yvBqasHLZs Pika Labs 2.0 https://x.com/pika_labs/status/1867651381840040304 YT+CAA Deal in Celebrity Licenses https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-caa-generative-ai-celebrity-likeness-deal-1236088491/ Nvidia New $250 Computer Jetson Nano Super https://youtu.be/S9L2WGf1KrM?si=hc10pdLVNuMZtCcn MJ Prompt: A person protesting something weird https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1heki7l/prompt_a_person_protesting_something_weird/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Cap4D https://x.com/taubnerfelix/status/1869076254051151995 Video Seal (Meta Watermarking) https://www.threads.net/@luokai/post/DDkBu5lvXG_?xmt=AQGzHOz9TCBGkd77lKX4VFZsl9IFjjn9Nc95J3oLmVRF7A

    44 min

  5. 12/12/2024

    ChatGPT For iPhone is Here, OpenAI's Sora Released, Google Gemini 2.0 and more AI News

    AI NEWS: OpenAI’s Sam Altman drops Sora, o1 Pro & ChatGPT on our iPhone. What’s next? Plus, Google’s HUGE Gemini update and Genmojis are here from Apple. It is the biggest AI news week we’ve seen in a VERY long time (for real) as OpenAI continues it’s 12 Days of Shipmas with no signs of stopping, plus we have some very cool AI videos and Gavin talks about his hands-on experience with OpenAI’s Sora. IT’S A BIG ONE 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 // ChatGPT in iPhone is here https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/11/apple-launches-its-chatgpt-integration-with-siri.html ChatGPT now one button away  https://x.com/sama/status/1866911984391950752 Sweater competition:  https://x.com/WesRothMoney/status/1866910531535372626 Other AI tools rolling out in iOS 18 https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/11/24317119/ios-18-2-apple-intelligence-chatgpt-genmoji Sora https://sora.com/library Sora Re-Mix For Other Videos https://x.com/maxescu/status/1866910989738017222 FULL o1 Model Release + o1 Pro https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pro/ GEMINI 2.0 LAUNCH  https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1866869343570608557 https://x.com/Google/status/1866869309277937937 Gemini Seeing What You Do On Screen  https://x.com/itsPaulAi/status/1866911593214464206 Gemini Pro Deep Research (another tool) https://x.com/RyanMorrisonJer/status/1866871908630925715 Bringing Toys To Life With Minimax https://x.com/JeffSynthesized/status/1865427314277818603 TL;Draw Computer https://x.com/tldraw/status/1866871211210445125 What Actually Happened: Extending Movie Scenes https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1h4jdlx/what_actually_happened_using_ai_to_extend_movie/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    52 min

  6. 05/12/2024

    OpenAI's 12 Days of AI Surpirse, Breakthrough AI World Models & More AI News

    OpenAI’s 12 days of HUGE AI updates to Sora, o1 & maybe even GPT-5, Google’s Genie 2 & World Labs’ AI world models & Amazon announces Nova AI models. Plus, Tencent’s new open-source HunyuanVideo, Kling’s amazing Motion Brush tool, a fan made Batman AI film that’s actually watchable, Spotify Integrates NotebookLM, Eleven Labs brings the voice AI heat, Google’s Gen Chess AND OH SO MUCH MORE. 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 // OPEN AI’S 12 DAYS OF SHIPMAS IS HERE https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24312352/openai-sora-o1-reasoning-12-days-shipmas Sama Tweet https://x.com/sama/status/1864335461268754712 OpenAI Working on Browser https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-taking-on-google-with-browser OpenAI + Ads? https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/ads-might-be-coming-to-chatgpt-despite-sam-altman-not-being-a-fan/ ChatGPT 300m Weekly Active Users https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/1864328587962155078 OpenAI Hires Lead of DeepMind’s Multi-modal Research Team https://x.com/morqon/status/1864243564634361993 DeepMind’s Genie 2: The World Simulator https://x.com/jparkerholder/status/1864314826891079787 World Labs: 3d Worlds From Single Image https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/1863617989549109328 https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog Tencent’s new Opensource SOTA Video Model https://x.com/dreamingtulpa/status/1863866463196676444 Zack Snyder on AI as a TOOL https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1864166461922824215 New Amazon AI Models: NOVA  https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/03/amazon-announces-nova-a-new-family-of-multimodal-ai-models ElevenLabs ConversationAI https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/1864011712795468094 ElevenLabs NotebookLM Competitor  https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/1861833756027297965 NotebookLM Spotify Wrapped https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-spotify-wrapped/ Elon Sues OpenAI For Profit https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/30/24309697/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-for-profit-transition-preliminary-injunction Elon Musk Nabs Nvidia Deal https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20241202PD213/elon-musk-nvidia-xai-production-tsmc.html Nous Research 15b Model Trained Over The Internet https://x.com/NousResearch/status/1863622813317464157 Batman AI Film https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1h5ui6v/we_made_a_10_minute_batman_short_film/ https://youtu.be/WjVpfB2iyV4 Vodafone Commercial  https://x.com/Uncanny_Harry/status/1863887803756523709 Retro Diffusion: Cool Pixel Art AI  https://x.com/RealAstropulse/status/1861791765851738590 Adobe MultiFoley https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/1862885461825646842 Google Gen Chess https://x.com/joshtwoodward/status/1861509743577076021

    52 min

  7. 27/11/2024

    Three Biggest AI Trends for 2025 & We Answer Your AI Questions

    AI Agents, Inference Compute like OpenAI’s o1 and the maturation of the AI Video & AI Audio space (Runway, Sora & oh so much more-ah) are the three biggest trends coming for 2025 and we walk you through them all. Then, we answer a ton of your questions about AI in a not-at-all-boring way in this very special (and taped *slightly* ahead of time) episode of AI For Humans. Plus, the return of a very special AI Co-Host. That’s right, it’s GASH! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!   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 // Stripe AI Agents https://docs.stripe.com/agents Agents in Co-Pilot studio https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/21/microsoft-launches-ai-employees-that-can-perform-some-business-tasks Microsoft’s Tiny Troupe https://github.com/microsoft/TinyTroupe Runway Generative Expand https://x.com/runwayml/status/1860074950167818617 Runway Frames https://x.com/runwayml/status/1861047681163857924 New Dream Machine https://youtu.be/olf2yCA1BTQ?si=we_XI99H_vLJHUwy Scale AI Keynote (AI Catch-up) https://youtu.be/eRYP2arKkk0?si=c5TdFIjGi2PW9LGc

    42 min

  8. 21/11/2024

    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

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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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