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

    OpenAI's Deep Research Gets Closer To AGI, Replit's No-Code AI App, NVIDIA's New Robots & More AI News

    OpenAI’s new Deep Research, running on their new o3 model, pushes back against DeepSeek. Is this AGI? NOT YET. But close? Meanwhile, OmniHuman-1 is near perfect AI lip-sync and NVIDIA’s robots are coming for us all! Plus, Replit’s new iPhone app brings no code AI coding to the masses, ChatGPT does the same thing with o3-mini, Kai Cenat’s Unitree Robot experience normalizes humanoid robots and SPECIAL GUEST HOST (YT HANDLE) Theoretically Media joins for the whole show and talks about new free AI music model Riffusion. Kevin is on vacay with his amazing family but will be back next week 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 Deep Research https://youtu.be/YkCDVn3_wiw?si=VZMn9I3I42kss-yk Deep Research Blog Post From by Casey Newton from Platformer https://www.platformer.news/chatgpt-deep-research-hands-on/ Tyler Cowen on Deep Research https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/deep-research.html#comments OpenAI has a new font https://youtu.be/k3d_xeVxEOE?si=zouxcSyK25lbNZ2w Sam Altman on how Deep Research changes labor https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1886297223417458714 Humanity’s Last Exam Creator Tweet About Deep Research https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1886213523900109011 New Joint Venture With Softbank & OpenAI https://apnews.com/article/ai-softbank-openai-technology-7abf34541acc2d48bd58dff2a73d9e6f Softbank’s Masa talks about AI not wanting to eat us https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1886310933191852096 o3-mini is out and free to use https://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/ New Replit iPhone App https://x.com/amasad/status/1886859253648122181 OmniHuman-1 https://omnihuman-lab.github.io/ MatAnyone https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1886479919443579037  Meta’s Video Jam  https://x.com/hila_chefer/status/1886791105380851917 Tim Urban Tweet about Robots https://x.com/waitbutwhy/status/1886548288775549406 Ronaldo / Kobe / Lebron Robot https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1886679733460721875 https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1886824152272920642 Kai Cenat Hangs With His Robot https://x.com/CyberRobooo/status/1886297302882468182 Lord of the Rings: Kings of the Cage https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1iedy29/the_lord_of_the_ring_and_the_king_of_the_cage ASCII Art Generator Made with o3-mini https://x.com/bbssppllvv/status/1886566254565061016 NeuralViz’s Glauorn Dating Show https://x.com/NeuralViz/status/1886233002318966916 Tim’s Video on Riffusion https://youtu.be/Vv7tYlljiuU?si=jU6QC1ZcAJO9EJFw

    58 min

  2. JAN 30

    Deepseek R1 Chaos Updates, OpenAI Speeds Up & More AI News

    Deepseek’s R1 model shook OpenAI & now Sam Altman says they’re moving faster. We explain what’s going on, where we go next (AGI anyone?) and how China is a MAJOR AI player now. It’s not only Deepseek, China’s Qwen2.5 Max model is brand new, Chinese AI video tools like Kling & Minimax keep shipping updates. AND they’ve got tentacle robots! YIKES. Meanwhile, Apple’s pretty happy with their position AND we cover some of our favorite AI creators newest work in AI See What You Did There! IT’S GETTING CRAZY AGAIN 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 // Deepseek R1 Shocks The World https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/technology/china-deepseek-ai-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk4.bGIR.hQusJjr7ruV4&smid=url-share   Did They “Steal” OpenAI Data? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/microsoft-probing-if-deepseek-linked-group-improperly-obtained-openai-data Meta Scrambling into War Rooms https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-scrambles-after-chinese-ai-equals-its-own-upending-silicon-valley?rc=c3oojq&shared=924bbcc92a1a8b36 Marc Andreesen Called This AI’s Sputnik Moment https://x.com/pmarca/status/1883640142591853011 Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Launch Sooner https://x.com/sama/status/1884066337103962416 Trump Calls it a ‘wake-up’ moment for American Scientists https://x.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1884032343272575361 Palmer Lucky Says Impressive But Also Maybe Psyop https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1884351579240927677 US Navy Bans Deepseek Due to Ethics & Safety Concerns https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/us-navy-restricts-use-of-deepseek-ai-imperative-to-avoid-using.html Jevon’s Paradox (explain briefly) https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1883753899255046301 Trump Tariffs on Semiconductors https://x.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1884023740826280053 Apple Celebrates https://x.com/alexocheema/status/1884017524368720044 Chinese Open Source AI Music Generator https://x.com/victormustar/status/1884166716181344300 https://huggingface.co/m-a-p/YuE-s1-7B-anneal-en-cot Hailuo Minimax Director (Early Access Only) https://x.com/maxescu/status/1883853629817512429 https://x.com/Hailuo_AI/status/1884176446702428568 Evil Dead Minimax Shot https://x.com/WuxiaRocks/status/1884147071982461009 AI Warper Makes Female Asmongold AI Influencer https://x.com/AIWarper/status/1884262138908467244 Indiana Jones In Front Of Live Audience https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1hr7xcs/indiana_jones_but_its_filmed_in_front_of_a_live/ Deepseek GROQ Coding Generator  https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1884368360940400652 Spiral Robots https://youtu.be/2GFyFmMm9-A?si=8jEWJvJl2yG0BreR Kling Elements https://x.com/maxescu/status/1884250507012985027

    55 min

  3. JAN 23

    OpenAI's $500B Stargate Project, Cutting Edge Chinese AI Models & More AI News

    AI is speeding up… Is Project Stargate the $500 billion dollar path to AGI? OpenAI seems to think so. Plus, details on Deepseek’s R1 open-source reasoning & more AI news! Anthropic’s Dario Amodei discusses the next few years of AI, OpenAI’s Operator is likely coming this week, Google’s new Gemini model (Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental 01-21) is VERY good, hands on with Hailuo’s Minimax Character Reference tool and an AI that can see five seconds into the future. IT’S GETTING REAL WEIRD FOLKS 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 //   Stargate 500b Infrastructure Company Announced By Trump https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1881830103858172059 Sama x Trump Announcement https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1881838015687127364 Elon Thinks They Don’t Have The Money -- Sam Snaps Back WE GOTTA BEEEEEEF https://x.com/sama/status/1882085883081609484 Satya Nadells says his paper is clean… https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1882086181011411443 Trump Revokes Bidens AI Regulation Executive Order https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/trump-revokes-biden-executive-order-addressing-ai-risks-2025-01-21/ Operator Shipping This Week?  https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-preps-operator-release-for-this-week?rc=c3oojq Dario Amodei Interview From Davos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snkOMOjiVOk  Machines of Loving Grace https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace DeekSeek R1 Compares to o1 at a fraction of the cost https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1881318130334814301 Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental 01-21 (say that five times fast) https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1881844578069999809 Paper Says AI Predicts Brain Activity Five Seconds Into The Future https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1880184389218496770 Demis Hassabis Expects AI Drug Spin-off To Launch AI Designed Drug Trials This Year https://www.ft.com/content/41b51d07-0754-4ffd-a8f9-737e1b1f0c2e Hunyuan3D-2 https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/1881641699761668406 Deep Robotics Hype Video https://x.com/DeepRobotics_CN/status/1882022829727859113 Hailuo Expressive Voice https://x.com/minchoi/status/1881020178265460775 New AI TV Show From The Dor Brothers https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/1881766606310895883 Hailuo Minimax Character Reference https://x.com/Hailuo_AI/status/1877686828712788134 Gavin’s Experiments With Character Reference https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1881781752324092279

    57 min

  4. JAN 16

    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

  5. JAN 9

    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

  6. 12/27/2024

    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

  7. 12/19/2024

    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

  8. 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

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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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