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This Week In Voice
Season 8, Episode 10

Guests: Chris Pidcock (CereProc), Rob Carpenter (Valyant AI), Rob Lubow (Botcopy), Jesse Shemen (Papercup)

Stories for discussion:
1) ChatGPT bug leaked users' conversation histories (BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65047304

2) The Genie Escapes: Stanford Copies The ChatGPT AI For Less Than $600 (New Atlas) https://newatlas.com/technology/stanford-alpaca-cheap-gpt/

3) Move Over DALL-E, I'm Making AI Art With Alexa On My Amazon TV (TechRadar) https://www.techradar.com/news/move-over-dall-e-im-making-ai-art-with-alexa-on-my-amazon-tv

This Week In Voice
Season 8, Episode 9

Guests: Rana Gujral (Behavioral Signals), Amy Brown (Authenticx), Amir Tsrouya (TalkSense), Lauren Koretzki (Wysa)

Stories for discussion:

1a) What's New With GPT-4: From Processing Pictures To Acing Tests (The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23640047/openai-gpt-4-differences-capabilties-functions

1b) Anthropic Unveils Generative AI Chatbot Claude (Voicebot.AI) https://voicebot.ai/2023/03/14/anthropic-unveils-generative-ai-chatbot-claude/

2) How Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Lost The AI Race (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/siri-alexa-google-assistant-artificial-intelligence.html

3) Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms 2023 (CX Today) https://www.cxtoday.com/speech-analytics/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-enterprise-conversational-ai-platforms-2023/

This Week In Voice
Season 8, Episode 8

Guests: Greg Bennett (Salesforce), Daniel Lackland (Ai4) + Ai4 guest (Chris Morrow of Amazon); Marty Sarim (Sanas.ai), Jayaprakash Kommu (SmartBots)

Stories for discussion:

1) Chaos Inside Google As Execs Try To Figure Out How To Actually use AI (Futurism) https://futurism.com/chaos-google-execs-use-for-ai

2) Amazon: Alexa Troubles But Deeply Undervalued Intrinsically (Seeking Alpha) https://seekingalpha.com/article/4585671-amazon-amzn-alexa-troubles-but-undervalued-intrinsically

3) A New M*A*S*H Scene: Written By ChatGPT, Read By Hawkeye and BJ (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/arts/television/mash-chatgpt-alan-alda.html


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In the wake of ChatGPT's arrival, Project Voice 2023 convenes the world of conversational AI and will shatter previous attendance records.

Registration and program information can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-voice-2023-the-world-of-conversational-ai-tickets-328421215697

This Week In Voice
Season 8, Episode 7

Guests: Neji Tawo (PayTalk), Seth Levine (Loris.ai), Brian Rubin (Cerence), Dan Turchin (PeopleReign)

Stories for discussion:

1) ChatGpt and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps (Ars Technica) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/chatgpt-and-whisper-apis-debut-allowing-devs-to-integrate-them-into-apps/

2) Meta introduces large language model LLaMA as a competitor to OpenAI (Voicebot.AI) https://voicebot.ai/2023/02/27/meta-introduces-large-language-model-llama-as-a-competitor-for-openai/

3) I had an AI chatbot write my eulogy. It was very weird. (Vice) https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axjj9/ai-chatbot-wrote-my-eulogy-chatgpt-death

This Week In Voice
Season 8, Episode 6

Guests: Christoph Borner (Cyara), Hans van Dam (Conversation Design Institute), Liyani Rodriguez (Raddle), Matt Miller (G2)

Stories for discussion:

1) ChatGPT -style Search Represents A 10x Cost Increase For Google, Microsoft (Ars Technica) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chatgpt-style-search-represents-a-10x-cost-increase-for-google-microsoft/

2) Amazon's Kindle Store Has Been Flooded With Books Written By ChatGPT (Pocket Lint) https://www.pocket-lint.com/amazons-kindle-store-has-been-flooded-with-books-written-by-chatgpt/

3) Soapbox Labs Will Bring Voice AI To Scholastic Reading Education Programs (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2023/02/22/soapbox-labs-will-bring-voice-ai-to-scholastic-reading-education-programs/

This Week In Voice
Season 8, Episode 5

Guests: Ivan Lee (CEO, Datasaur), Raniero Romagnoli (CTO, Almawave), Heath Ahrens (Founder, Voice.ai), Mitch Lieberman (Founder, Conversational X)

Stories for discussion:

1a) Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing is getting 'unhinged' and argumentative, some users say: it 'feels sad and scared' (Fortune) https://fortune.com/2023/02/14/microsoft-chatgpt-bing-unhinged-scared/

1b) ChatGPT AI accused of liberal bias after refusing to write Hunter Biden New York Post coverage (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/media/chatgpt-ai-accused-liberal-bias-refusing-write-hunter-biden-new-york-post-coverage

2) Amazon Alexa Fund Invests In Synthetic Media Startup Superplastic (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2023/02/15/amazon-alexa-fund-invests-20m-in-synthetic-media-startup-superplastic/

3) Hey Siri, Is Apple Letting Another AI Opportunity Pass By? (Macworld) https://www.macworld.com/article/1507282/generative-ai-chatgpt-midjourney-bard-bing-siri.html


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Project Voice 2023: The World of Conversational AI
April 24-26, Chattanooga TN

The main event for conversational AI in the United States returns, discussing best practices across chat, text, and voice, across a wide variety of industries and verticals.

Registration & program information are here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-voice-2023-the-world-of-conversational-ai-tickets-328421215697