AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell
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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

    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

  2. OCT 3

    OpenAI Is Worth $150B Now, NotebookLM Takes Over & More AI News

    Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: OpenAI’s got 6 BILLION dollars in new funding and showed off a bunch of AI tools for builders at DemoDay and even teased AI agents, Microsoft’s Copilot launched Voice, Vision & Think Deeper, Pika Labs’ new 1.5 model lets you melt, squish and inflate yourself, a big AI safety bill was vetoed in California & Google’s NotebookLM is the gift that keeps on giving. IT WAS SO MUCH NEWS 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 // OAI worth 157b / 6.6b in new funding https://openai.com/index/scale-the-benefits-of-ai/ Asked Funders Not To Back Rivals https://www.ft.com/content/66e0653e-c446-47b2-8a7f-baa54ccbfb9a OpenAI Devs Official Thread https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1841175537060102396 Real Time Voice API:  https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-realtime-api/ Live agent demo buying Stawberries https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1841229808510042356 Convo between Sam & Kevin Weil (OAI Chief Product Officer) https://x.com/GregKamradt/status/1841266096277696742 Follow Up on The OAI Departures https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-openai-researchers-who-matter-now?rc=c3oojq New Co-Pilot Updates https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/microsoft-copilot-just-got-a-big-update-heres-all-the-new-ai-features https://x.com/yusuf_i_mehdi/status/1841116813918142713 Ai Xray Glasses: https://x.com/AnhPhuNguyen1/status/1840786336992682409 Gavin Newsome Vetos SB1047 https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/29/24232172/california-ai-safety-bill-1047-vetoed-gavin-newsom Anthropic Co-Founder Calls AI Companies “Silicon Countries” https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1840866952505672092 New Pika Labs Model https://x.com/pika_labs/status/1841143349576941863 PURZ examples  https://x.com/PurzBeats/status/1841303883160686636 NotebookLM Hosts Discover They Are AIs https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1fr31h8/notebooklm_podcast_hosts_discover_theyre_ai_not/ Poop / Pee https://x.com/kkuldar/status/1840680947873718396 FactChecking Built-In? https://x.com/stevenbjohnson/status/1840848856130654692 Karpathy on NotebookLM https://x.com/karpathy/status/1840137252686704925 Big Updates Coming https://x.com/raiza_abubakar/status/1840819075502784887 Hedra https://www.hedra.com/ Expression Editor https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/expression-editor

    41 min

  3. SEP 26

    Next Gen AI Is Here: Meta Connect, OpenAI Advanced Voice & More

    Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: Meta unveiled Orion, its new AR headset, along with a multimodal Llama 3.2, updates to it’s AI Raybans and a bunch of AI tools at Meta Connect 2024, OpenAI’s Advanced Voice is here for everyone, a new version of Sora is in training, Sam Altman says we’re only a few thousand days away from Super Intelligence, Google updated Gemini 1.5 and James Cameron is now fully within the AI fold. IT’S A BIG WEEK (and we didn’t even get into the OpenAI Mira Murati drama but that’s for next time)... 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 // Meta Connect 2024 Full Video https://www.facebook.com/MetaforDevelopers/videos/449444780818091/ Llama 3.2 https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-3-2-connect-2024-vision-edge-mobile-devices/ Orion Meta’s AR Glasses Project https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-first-true-augmented-reality-glasses/ Everything Announced at Meta Connect https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24250234/meta-connect-rayban-glasses-orion-ai-llama OpenAI Ships Advanced Voice https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1838642444365369814 Five New Voices https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1838642448375206345 New Sora in Training https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-is-revamping-sora-ai-video?rc=c3oojq Sam’s Intelligence Age BlogPost https://x.com/sama/status/1838262165435802116 Nuclear Power + AI https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/microsofts-ai-uses-so-much-energy-that-it-could-bring-infamous-nuclear-plant-back-into-service/ OpenAI Lawsuit Update https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/openai-training-data-inspected-authors-copyright-case-1236011291/ Google’s Gemini Updates: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/google-just-dropped-new-versions-of-gemini-here-s-why-its-a-big-deal Rowan Cheung / Logan Kilpatrick Interview:  https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1838611170061918575 Snapchat AI will run on Google Gemini:  https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/snapchat-taps-googles-gemini-to-power-its-chatbots-generative-ai-features/ Jim Cameron Joins Stability AI Board https://stability.ai/news/james-cameron-joins-stability-ai-board-of-directors Cameron Clip Talking Stability https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1838735808645468310 Mimo  https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1838794123270086890 How To Draw Flux Lora https://huggingface.co/glif/how2draw?text=Guy+Fieri%2C+How2Draw Dor Brothers Make SnoopDogg Music Video https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/1838581027087757368

    50 min

  4. SEP 19

    Major Hollywood Studio AI, OpenAI's New Model Gets Better & More AI News

    Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI NEWS: Runway has teamed up with Lionsgate to create the world’s first major studio AI model, OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are VERY good and you get a lot more of them, Suno’s new AI covers tool is amazing, 1x’s Robotics World Simulation show us the future & NotebookLM’s new podcast creation tool just got a lil more Guy Fieri.  AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f // Show Links // Runway + Lionsgate https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/lionsgate-deal-ai-firm-runway-1236005554/ California Deep Fake Bill https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/technology/california-deepfakes-law-social-media-newsom.html OpenAI More o1 For Everyone https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1835857163765637607 OpenAI Hiding o1’s Chain-Of-Thought https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-is-hiding-its-reasoning-models-thoughts?rc=c3oojq OAI Responds to fears IT’S ALIVE https://futurism.com/openai-chatgpt-initiating-conversations Humanity's Last Exam https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1835738937719140440 https://t.co/W4EFlzsta8 1x Robotic’s World Model https://www.1x.tech/discover/1x-world-model Jensen Huang Says Moore's Law is SQUARED https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1836276445586538658?s=46&t=17oDBgHEpb6XXTFzmF-pkg GameGen-0 https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1834590455226339492 Suno’s Cover Tool https://suno.com/blog/covers Baltro Theme Song Cover https://youtu.be/lmyEsLlXfZ8?si=aOtPVS5ehEB7eJgU Runway’s Gen48 AI Film Competition https://runwayml.com/gen48 NeuraViz’s Runway Gen48 Submission  https://x.com/NeuralViz/status/1836074053565849680 Gen3 Felt Video Games https://x.com/jon_barron/status/1835695132697604236 Bojack Intro with Gen-3 Video-to-Video https://x.com/mickmumpitz/status/1834883759335768119 SocialAI https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/socialai-offers-a-twitter-like-diary-where-ai-bots-respond-to-your-posts/ NotebookLM https://notebooklm.google/

    42 min

  5. SEP 12

    OpenAI’s Strawberry Two Weeks Out... But What Is it? Plus, More AI News!

    Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Breaking AI News: OpenAI’s Strawberry is only two weeks away & we still don’t know exactly what it is. Is there a newer model coming? Plus, Adobe’s new Firefly AI video model looks good, Replit is a cool full pipeline for AI coding, an AI prediction engine and Oprah is taking on AI. Yes, that Oprah. All that plus a look at a cool new AI lip reading AI, MiniMax can show human emotions very well, Gavin creates an AI football troll and we get an AI co-host visit from Dr, uh sorry, Mr. Phil who has some *very* special AI talents.  // SHOW LINKS // OAI Strawberry In Two Weeks https://www.theinformation.com/articles/new-details-on-openais-strawberry-apples-siri-makeover-larry-ellison-doubles-down-on-data-centers?rc=c3oojq $2k High End Subscription Price? https://nypost.com/2024/09/05/business/openai-could-charge-as-much-as-2k-a-month-for-high-end-subscriptions-report/ Decoder with Mike Krieger https://www.theverge.com/24237562/anthropic-mike-krieger-claude-ai-chatbot-artifact-web-decoder-podcast-interview Sam Trash Tweet https://x.com/sama/status/1833227974554042815 Nice Aunties on SORA https://x.com/niceaunties/status/1832421724287365273 Adobe “Commercially Safe” Firefly AI Video https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/09/11/bringing-gen-ai-to-video-adobe-firefly-video-model-coming-soon Google Founder Sergei Brin Admits They Were “Too Timid” To Deploy AI Models https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1833673836820365806 Replit Agents https://x.com/amasad/status/1831730911685308857 AI Prediction Engine https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1833152719756116154 Forecast  https://forecast.safe.ai/ Oprah Special With Sam Altman, Bill Gates & Marques Brownlee https://abc.com/news/1efd942d-61bb-4519-8a62-c4a8fce50792/category/1138628   The End of The Cop Files (What Happened to Tiggy) https://x.com/NeuralViz/status/1833154944729571702   French Film With Real People https://x.com/trbdrk/status/1831801373517869369   MiniMax Emotions https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/1833522650846793970   The Geoff Ryan Show https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTF81mjAL/   Lip Reading AI https://www.readtheirlips.com/

    36 min

  6. SEP 5

    New Billion Dollar Start-up From Ex-OpenAI Founder, GPT-Next Is Coming (We Think) & More AI News

    Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI NEWS: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is back! Learn how SSI (Safe Superintelligence) landed a billion dollars in seed funding for the next gen of AI. Plus, OpenAI teases GPT-Next (again) but something might *actually* be on the horizon. Plus, XAI brings a massive AI cluster of H100s online, Amazon’s Alexa is getting Claude, MaxMin is a cool new AI video model and we talk about that New Yorker piece. YES, THAT ONE.   Join us 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 // One Billion Dollars For SSI AGI https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/ Ilya’s Mountain Identified https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1831341857714119024 Japanese GPT-Next Presentation https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1830944806622695427 OpenAI Employee Apologies For Not Launching Stuff https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/1830714579116323004 XAI Brings Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253 Another 125B Computer Center In Development  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/two-ai-developers-are-plotting-125-billion-supercomputers?rc=c3oojq Alexa Getting Claude https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232123/amazon-new-alexa-voice-assistant-claude-ai-mode 1x Neo Beta Robot https://www.1x.tech/discover/announcement-1x-unveils-neo-beta-a-humanoid-robot-for-the-home Minimax Chinese AI Video Model https://x.com/RyanMorrisonJer/status/1830021533894348831 Darth Vader Saber Fight https://x.com/Diesol/status/1830307056517308474 Dream Machine Camera Controls https://x.com/LumaLabsAI/status/1831027696870269188 Ted Chaing AI Art New Yorker Piece https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art Project Sid - AI Agents in Minecraft https://x.com/GuangyuRobert/status/1831006762184646829 Fighting Health Insurance Claim Denials with AI https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/23/holden-karau-fight-health-insurance-appeal-claims-denials/ How Many Strawberries inside this ‘R’? https://x.com/goodside/status/1830960952025456975 Replacing All Home Screen Apps With Kermit https://x.com/dlberes/status/1830719320457879898 Runway Extensions https://x.com/runwayml/status/1829591480664768993

    45 min

  7. AUG 29

    OpenAI's Strawberry & Project Orion, Cursor AI Makes Programming Easy & More Huge AI News

    Join our new Discord! https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f AI News: OpenAI’s rumored Strawberry reasoning model is real and might just be paving the way for GPT-5 aka Project Orion according to a huge story in The Information. Plus, GameNGen uses AI to generate DOOM on the fly, Cursor AI is turning everyone into programmers, lots more people are mad at AI (some for good reason) and a big AI regulation bill may pass in California. IT’S A BONKERS WEEK FOLKS. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow 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/ #openAI #ai #aitools   // SHOW LINKS // OpenAI’s Orion & Strawberry This Year? (PAYWALL) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-shows-strawberry-ai-to-the-feds-and-uses-it-to-develop-orion Jimmy Apples Orion Tease https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/1828451205326270643 GameNGen https://gamengen.github.io/ GAN Theft Auto https://youtu.be/udPY5rQVoW0?si=rrnfhRrAx2KB4xSp Cursor AI https://www.cursor.com/ Cursor Having a ChatGPT Moment https://x.com/bresslertweets/status/1827464937691660329?s=46&t=17oDBgHEpb6XXTFzmF-pkg McKay Wrigley Builds Dashboard With Curor + Voice https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1828124977927000465 Claude Artifact’s on iOS & Android https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1828502920788103363 Chris Welch’s Thread on Pixel AI https://www.threads.net/@chriswelch/post/C-8LF4BOSAP?hl=en The Verge on New Google GenArt AI Pixel feature https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/26/24228808/ai-image-editing-photoshop-comparison-argument Hank Green’s Video on Google Training on AI https://youtu.be/JiMXb2NkAxQ?si=4nnqjLapBiKQycEk Elon Backs SB 1047 while A16Z, OpenAI Oppose https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/elon-musk-supports-california-ai-bill-00176388 Spamming Hi at Every LLM https://x.com/zswitten/status/1826771850531356811 The Creature Factory -- BTS of Fake AI Puppet Studio https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1eymo93/the_creature_factory Bad Guy Makeovers https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1exxqlt/bad_guy_makeovers/

    49 min

  8. AUG 22

    Ideogram & Flux Make AI Images Too Realistic, OpenAI Updates & More AI News

    Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI news coming in HOT: Ideogram 2.0 dropped and, along with Flux community updates & Google’s IMAGEN-3, continues to show how AI imaging tools keep improving… but also opens the door to whole new messes. Plus, OpenAI’s drops new blog posts (wee!), Unitree sends their cheap humanoid robot into production and we use Hedra and a bunch of other AI tools to interview Baby Joe Brogan. It’s quite a moment.    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 //  Ideogram https://ideogram.ai/t/explore Ideogram 2.0 Launch Trailer https://x.com/i/status/1826277550798278804 Fluxstanza https://civitai.com/models/657252/fluxstanza?modelVersionId=735368 https://x.com/itspoidaman/status/1824957283803308536 FAL.ai https://fal.ai/models Political AI Image Controversy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/us/politics/trump-taylor-swift-ai-images.html Imagen-3 https://deepmind.google/technologies/imagen-3/ Procreate Boss Says They’ll Never Use AI  https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223473/procreate-anti-generative-ai-pledge-digital-illustration-creatives OpenAI Fine Tuning Launched For GPT-4o (explain what this is…) https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-fine-tuning/ Partnering with Conde Nast https://openai.com/index/conde-nast/ Matthew Berman SearchGPT Video https://youtu.be/DV9I_fu0ba8?si=Kcd4wb54wFgwaQuJ Unitree’s 16k Humanoid Robot Goes Into Production  https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/1789931753974517820 GoT AI Rave https://x.com/andr3_ai/status/1825600625754911091 Space Vets Children’s Series:  https://www.storybookstudios.ai/space-vets Demis Hassabis on the Google Deep Mind Podcast https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1824447036847993292 Runway GEN-3 Turbo https://venturebeat.com/ai/runways-gen-3-alpha-turbo-is-here-and-can-make-ai-videos-faster-than-you-can-type/ Hedra 1.5 Character Generation https://x.com/hedra_labs/status/1824113944757457157

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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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