Exploring OpenAI’s GPT-4o: A Leap in AI Technology #1742

In this episode of Geek News Central, hosted by Todd Cochrane, the primary focus is the latest release from OpenAI, the GPT-4o model, which enhances text, vision, and audio functionalities. Todd starts the episode by discussing the features of GPT-4o, which include improvements in API access, cost efficiency, and the introduction of a more interactive … Continue reading Exploring OpenAI’s GPT-4o: A Leap in AI Technology #1742 →

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- Open AI has launched GPT-4 oh
a faster and more capableiteration of the GPT-4 model
enhancing text's, vision
and audio functionalitiesannounced by CTO Mira Mirati.
This model will be freely available
with additional benefits for paid users.

(00:22):
CO Sam Altman highlightsits native multi modality
promising significantimprovements in the API access
and cost efficiency.
New updates also include amore interactive voice mode
resembling a real time assistant
amidst evolving corporate goals.
Open AI shifts from its initial vision,

(00:43):
focusing now on an empoweringdevelopers with those,
with these advanced tools,
strategically releasingthis update just a day
before the Google IO conference.
That and many, many more stories tonight.
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Ke Central, central and theGeek News Central Podcast.
Hey everyone, I hopeyou're all doing all well.
I am, uh, jet lag, justa, a little, little bit
as we, uh, as we started up the, uh, uh,
or ended the last showyou knew I was headed
for the Philippines.
I flew out to and, uh,went to San Francisco

(04:18):
and then to San Franciscodirect into Manila on a, uh,
super, super long, 15 hour flight.
Uh, turned out it wasn't as bad.
We didn't have as many headwinds,
so we got in there a little early
and, uh, it was, uh,definitely a great time, uh,
uh, meeting a whole bunch ofcreators at Pod Fest Asia,

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uh, was able to evenmet, meet with a senator,
um, that was there.
Um, at the event, at the,uh, in invitation of one
of the coordinators Imet with, uh, some, uh,
media moguls.
I guess that's the bestway to to describe it.
Um, of course, a whole bunch of folks

(05:03):
that were either creators orpeople that were, uh, editors.
Uh, it was really a great, a great event.
And, uh, so it was, it was good.
But Manila was, whew,was very, very warm, um,
as one would expect.
Uh, they, they're goingthrough El Nino there,
and some of the days were as high as, uh,

(05:24):
40 degrees Celsius, northof a hundred degrees,
uh, very, very warm.
I was in Mati for a couple of the days.
Uh, Mati is kinda like America almost, uh,
cost-wise and everything else.
Uh, I did leave, uh, the Mati area,
travel around a little bit.
Uh, got into, uh, whatI would call the, uh,

(05:45):
traditional Philippines
and not, uh, you know, whereall the rich people hang out.
So, uh, did have a few days
and, uh, was able to, uh, getReacquaint reacquainted with,
uh, San Miguel and San Miguel Light,
which was, uh, quite awesome.
Of course, uh, a few NativeRed Horse as well for those
of you're familiarwith, uh, with that beer

(06:06):
and, uh, Tanley Rum.
So, uh, wasn't without,uh, sampling the local, uh,
local wares as, uh, as, asis known in the Philippines.
So, uh, anyway, for everyoneto, that may be watching it
or listening to the showthat attend the event,
it was just an absolute pleasure.

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And the Philippine hospitality,uh, totally show showed
through, um, had a,
this event was held at a coworking space.
I, I felt like I was in New York
City, to be honest with you.
It was that modern and nice
and, uh, all the amenitiesthat you would think from a,
from a coworking space.
And the team there was very,very accommodating as well.

(06:49):
So if any of you areever traveling to, uh,
the Philippines are lookingfor a coworking space,
this company that we, uh,that hosted us, has multitudes
of these throughout the country,definitely would be willing
to hook you up with a contact there,
one of their executives.
And, uh, but yeah, great time.
And, uh, the, it was, it wasdefinitely on the jet lag side,

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uh, from a presentation standpoint.
Uh, um,
but it was one of those situationswhere, uh, everyone was,
every, a lot of, I think therewas 10 of us from the west,
uh, uk, Australia, theUnited States, of course.
Um, and then a lot of Filipino speakers.
I was mostly, to be honestwith you, really impressed

(07:34):
with the level of knowledge, uh, for those
that are running networksand that kinda stuff.
So it was, uh, it was, it was,
it was a great, a great event.
But, uh, anyway, backhere. So here's my deal.
Those of you, you know, if you, if
as you remember correctly,I'm only home five days,
and then on Saturday I leavefor London for the pod show,

(07:57):
the podcast show in London.
I get back here on Friday.
The, I'm looking at the calendar here.
So a show this week, Monday
and Thursday, no showsnext week, the 20 or 23rd.
The 27th is Memorial Day,
so likely no show on Memorial Day.

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And then I start travelingagain on the 29th and go remote.
So I'm gonna have to figure outhow to get you some content.
I'll get some in, there will be a delay.
Probably won't come outon Thursday the 30th.
I, I don't think it might, uh,
but, uh, do my best, uh, with travel

(08:40):
and everything else to get you a show.
But e everything goes back ona normal schedule starting on,
uh, all throughout themonth of, uh, June and July.
It may take a little extratime off near the end of June,
but other than that, we should be here.
But again, a few showsoff while I go to London.
And of course, because of Memorial

(09:00):
Day here in the United States.
So that just gives you kind ofan update on what's going on,
uh, with the content and,uh, and the show here.
So, uh, uh, just a perfectstorm of, uh, of events.
But the perfect stormreally happened today.
OpenAI released their GPT-4Oh, it's a faster model.

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And then what's beauty about this is free
for all chat GPT users.
Now, the free users do have a limited, um,
mo a limited number of interactions,
but is curious that theycalled this four oh.
And, um, as near as I was,I went into the API set
and side was looking at the specs.

(09:43):
The knowledge data is still the same
as GT P four, a wholebunch of other things.
So what this tells me,
and from my, what I'm predicting now,
and I knew they were gonna get this out
before the Google event, which is curious
'cause I think they'retrying to stay ahead of them.
I would fully expect thenthat whatever is going

(10:06):
to surface from a GTP five standpoint
probably is going tohit sometime June, July,
maybe early August.
So they called this the spring update.
So I, I played around withit a little bit today.
Um, and if you watch their demo,

(10:27):
they basically gave it a,a math problem, their app,
to basically put the cameralive, not a picture, live
on the, which, which wasimpressed me in itself
that they did it live with the live camera
and the app was actually,
or the what appeared liveanyway in their demo,

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the app was able to helpthem through a math problem.
They're gonna have aNative Mac desktop version,
so you won't have to runit in a browser anymore.
And, uh, that this modelis supposed to be natively
multimodal, which means themodel could generate content

(11:10):
or understands commandsof voice, text or images.
And, uh, this is, this couldreally be some interesting
additions to what is capable here.
Um, but I was, had aconversation today with my phone,
with the, with the chat GPT app

(11:30):
and, um, it's pretty impressive
and you can interrupt in themiddle of the conversation.
You can interrupt it
to basically override what it was saying.
And again, the, the differencebetween free and paid,
and again, I think this isthe best $20 you can probably

(11:52):
spend on any secondaryapplication out there.
You get about five times theamount of usage out of this.
And, um, so we will see.
Now, prior to today, there wasconflicting reports predicted
that they would announcean AI search engine,
but that was not the case at all.

(12:15):
And, uh, so we'll see what happens
with the Google IOevent starting tomorrow.
But, uh, this GE and it's faster.
So, you know, we talking with my team
and we're looking ateverything that's doing.
So, uh, it's gonna beinteresting to watch this
as it, as it, and again,
I don't think any moreadvancement per se except

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for these multimodal functionsand being able to talk to it
and, um, and have essentiallyhave a conversation.
It's a little weird in that regard.
Um, but, uh, time will tell here.
And of course, Apple's alsowrapping up an open EI deal
to bring chat GBT into iOS 18.

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And, uh, this is a report from Bloomberg.
They claim that the two companieshave been finalizing the
terms and, uh, the agreement
with C chatt GT becomeanother tool in a range
of AI features that Appleexpected to bring to iPhones.
And, uh, apple at its annualworldwide developer conference
next month expect to announce several AI

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features, as you would expect.
But I tell you, apple hada, um, an advertisement
that basically has notwent over well with the,
uh, with the community.
And what I saw,
and my best way to talk aboutthis is, well, they had the ad

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and they had a whole bunchof musical in instruments,
a metronome, a piano, paint cans,
just basically anything thatyou would consider a creator,
painter, singer, songwriter,all stacked together.
And then they had a machinesmash all this stuff into

(14:03):
Smither rain, smashed it flat,
and then they, they blew thesides out and then open it up.
And of course, there was the new iPad Pro
that's gonna be available in a few days.
And the creator communityis like, listen, uh,
all these things that you just smashed.

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Um, we are, we, we are a, you know,
we have built the Mac brand creators,
largely built the Mac brand, GarageBand,
and all these other toolsthat people use for years.
Uh, their, their, I, you know, their, uh,
their video editing package,you know, really a lot

(14:44):
of people have relied onthat for many, many years.
And it's been a mainstayof the Mac user community.
And to basically say thatthis iPad Pro is going
to basically eliminate theneed for you to be able
to play the piano, be able to have

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whatever other instruments werein there that they smashed.
This ad was kind of a shot in the face.
And I, I am of the opinion here
that has, has, uh, apple
and I think tech users,we have a lot of tech.
We have a lot of tech in our hands, right?

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We're carrying a very, verypowerful mobile phones.
We're carrying very,very powerful computers.
We're carrying very powerful tablets
both on the Windows, Mac, Android side.
We're carrying thesereally heavy machines.
We've got IOT devices,we've got cameras, we've got

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the ability now to have smart TVs.
We're inundated with tech.
And I personally
enjoy going to an orchestra.
Uh, my kids, uh, violin and cello.
I absolutely enjoy that.

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I'm not necessarily a bigconcert person per se.
Um, I know a lot of people are.
So it really is one ofthose situations where
who approved and whosigned off on that ad spot,
and what were they thinking?

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It's kind of like this insult, you know,
I try as much as I can towalk away from tech as often
as I can because it's alittle bit overwhelming
and I wanna be able to disengage.
Now, obviously, on an airplane, I'm,

(16:52):
I'm reading from my tabletbecause it's easy to do.
So I consider that a convenienceand carrying paper books,
and a lot of people still like to have a,
the feel of a book.
I'm not in that crowd.
Um, so,
but at, at certainpoints, we wanna be able
to disconnect a little bit, right?
And, uh, them, this,

(17:15):
this message they sent inthis ad was truly off base.
It was, it wasn't aboutcreation anymore, it was just,
it was like, oh,
and maybe, maybe this iPadPro will do miraculous things
for people like me thatcan't play a piano,
they can't play a guitar.
That, as far as I know, never really tried

(17:36):
because it was never inmy interest range to be,
my entire family plays musicalinstruments, so I'm assuming
I would probably do okay as well,
but I just never had an inklingto do that or, or want to.
Um, I'm envious of those thatcan pick up, you know, my,
my son can pick up a guitar
and, you know, he canlisten to something once

(17:58):
and start playing it back.
It's, to me, that is amazing.
Uh, shows this very,you know, creative side
and I just do different things creatively.
So I, I don't know. I don't know.
Is, is, is Apple reallythinking the computers are
gonna take over everything?

(18:18):
Maybe, you know,
we've been talking aboutthis AI stuff a lot,
so I don't know.
But let's say you, did you see the ad?
Did you not agree with it?
But again, I think it wasjust a bad marketing move
by, by Apple.
I could have set in onthe review of the ad
and said, oh my God,what are we doing here?
You know, what's the messagewe're trying to, uh, impair?

(18:42):
Meanwhile, this massive geo magnetic storm
that has led to many of youseeing a nighttime light shows.
Now, my daughter got a, her,uh, bucket list checked off
by seeing the Royal Borealis in, in, uh,
where she was at in Washington state.
But Thisme Storm has, uh, ledto some outages, including

(19:04):
problems for starlink.
It disrupted some GPS signals
and it affected the orbit ofthe Hubble Space telescope,
which I thought was curious.
Um, so the KP index
of this thing was off the chart
and people were seeinga degraded services.

(19:25):
Um, but, uh, as far
as I know, I was still online.
My system never reported a total outage.
'cause I have, uh, stuffthat's monitoring that now.
But, uh, this definitely was,was, was a big one, uh, one
of the biggest on records so far.
And, uh, more to comehere. Very, very curious.

(19:48):
Today, there was a imi, uh,uh, an image shown on universe
today of the spacesuit that
is going to be worn by, uh,
SpaceX astronauts, um,
when they do an extra, whenthey basically do a EVA

(20:10):
or they go outside ofthe, the Dragon Capsule.
Um, but what is interestingto me about this particular
suit, I don't see any environmental stuff.
So I'm just curious,
where does the environmental hookups come?
Where's the oxygen supply?

(20:33):
Um, is this thing going to be designed so
that they can only be outside 10 minutes?
And it is just a little weird to me.
Um, this particular space suit, uh, um,
it looks a lot like thespacesuits they wear on their
launches, but this is theone they say they're gonna

(20:54):
do the walk-in, uh, wherefour people are going to be,
uh, exiting the vehicle.
So, um, I'm looking forward
to hearing more details, uh, on this.
But, uh, for those ofyou that are listening,
it really looks almostthe same as the spacesuit
that they wear on launches.
They're not, there's not toomany deltas there at all.

(21:16):
Moving into a little bit, uh,more news here on earth, uh,
Amazon Robo Taxi Companyis under investigation
after two crashes with motorcyclists.
So the N-H-D-S-A is looking into this
with involving the zoox ZOOX robotaxis,
where the vehicles wererear ended by motorcycles

(21:36):
after a sudden break.
So, uh, these of issues are gonna continue
and we'll see more ofthem as time goes on.
TCLA company that is not really known for
crazily priced TVs, TCL haspriced its insanely bright,
115 inch, what they'recalling the QM 89 4K TV

(22:01):
at $27,000.
Now I've got TCL TV directlyin front of me that ,
you know, I, it was, it's not,uh, you know, it's, it's not
high resolution bad boy,
but it'll do, you know,it'll do, uh, 10 80.
I think I paid like $260 forit or something like that.

(22:24):
But this is supposedto be an astonishingly
bright and immense.
So, uh, that tells you where TCL l's going
and they, you know, again, they're not,
haven't been known over the years
for having these superhigh end television.
So they're entry into this as,uh, something to be watched.

(22:44):
The, uh, talking about thosegeome geomagnetic storms remain
likely as the sun continuesto erupt X class flares.
So, uh, no space Weather Prediction Center
said early Monday that a G three
or strong geome storm warning was infected
until 2:00 AM Eastern.

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While strong storms are nolonger likely conditions expected
to gradually wane throughout the day,
the center says forecast moderate
as strong geome storms are likely
as are minor storms on Tuesday.
So, uh, again, we'll keepour eyes peeled or within
and see if we have any more,uh, uh, big, I guess they,
I don't know if they callthese weather events or not,

(23:27):
but, um, on the tech side,Microsoft is, Microsoft Places
specifically is usingAI to find the best time
for your next office day.
So if you're working remote
and you're trying to figure outa day to work with your team
and, uh, and want to bein the office together,
places will help you do that

(23:50):
by looking at everyone's schedule.
Again, my team is all remote.
We, we only do, uh, you know,meetups that are planned, uh,
and you know, like once a year.
But if you are in a situationwhere trying to meet up
with your team and, and when
and where, uh, this new featureat Microsoft Places will
help you do that.
For the big super enterprise group,

(24:13):
Volkswagen has released its battery
and motor details for its upcoming id.
Buzz and electric MicrobusVolkswagen is launching three ID
buzz configurations,including a special first
edition version.
So these, uh,
electric micro buses goon sale later this year,

(24:33):
and, uh, they're gonna comewith a 91 kilowatt battery
and a 20 inch wheel standard.
I don't know why the wheelsize is that, uh, important.
Uh, the VWS
and Pro S model have a realwheel drive 282 horsepower,
and the Pro s plus canoption in all wheel drive
for 335 horsepower motor for,

(24:58):
I guess these are electric motors.
And they are going to have a80 91 kilowatt hour battery,
uh, to offer as much
as 310 miles on a single charge.
And, uh, again, I take these, these, uh,
these mileage numberswith a grain of salt.

(25:18):
Uh, they never give you as many miles
as they say they're gonna give you.
Meanwhile, Europol isinvestigating a data breach
after Hacker offers tosell classified data.
So the hacker known as IntelBroker, announced on May 10th,
they'd gain access to Europol systems
and obtained for officialuse only in classified data,
including employee information,source code, recon,

(25:41):
and guideline documents, accurate claim.
The data come from severalagencies within Euro pool.
Uh, accordingly, this datahas been sold within a day
of it being put up, andthey're looking into the
infiltration and shut down aspecific site where this data,
uh, allegedly came from.

(26:05):
The ransomware
scene continues to grow.
There's a ransomware calledBlack Basta, B-A-S-T-A,
the Black Basa ransomware has become one
of the biggest threatsworldwide, according to the CISA
and FBI more than 500victims in two years.

(26:27):
So, uh, this, this specific
ransomware has reap, reached,reaped a lot of havoc,
and it's been around for a bit.
Doesn't really say how it proliferates
or how it basically gets in the systems.
Probably some sort of phishing system.
But, uh, this particular

(26:51):
ransomware is still growing
and claiming victims, victimsbeing companies largely.
And, uh, the tactics
and techniques indicate, uh,that there's still continued
to compromise a lot of systems.
Meanwhile, MIT is giving AIthe power to reason like humans

(27:11):
by creating a hybrid architecture.
MIT scientists havedevised three libraries
that can be combined with AI systems
to improve their reasoningand contextual awareness
and programming, strategicplanning and robotics.
The large language, whichincludes chat GBT Claw three Opus

(27:31):
process, and generatetext space on human input.
These technologies haveimproved greatly, of course,
but MIT should now claimthey've cracked a problem
by creating a treasuretrove of natural language
abstractions that could leadto more powerful AI models,
abstractions, turn complexsubjects into high level
characterizations and emitnon-important information which

(27:52):
could help chatbotsreason, learn, perceive,
and represent knowledge just like humans.
Currently, scientists argue
that LMS have difficulty abstracting
information in a humanlike.
Well, well, you watch thedemo from OpenAI today, um,
you might change your mindjust a little bit on that.
They've organized naturallanguage abstractions into three

(28:13):
libraries, and I hope thatthey'll grant Gator contextual
awareness and give morehumanlike responses.
The OpenAI demo had the AItell a story in varying degrees
of joyful to seriousness and dramatic.
And the tone of the actualAI changed quite a bit,
which was, uh, very, very interesting.

(28:34):
Excuse me. According to the Daily Mail,
get ready for flights to space,
1.4 billion dream chaserplane will take cargo
and eventually humans intoorbit after passing final test.
This is a specific spacecraft
that's been talked about quite a bit.

(28:55):
The craft will make its made trip
to International Space Station,low earth orbit later this
year, carrying over 7,800pounds of cargo, along
with SpaceX and Boeing.
Sierra Space is one of thecompanies contracted by NA,
NASA a decade ago to send people equipment
to the National Space Station.
Uh, I'm familiar withSierra's, the company,

(29:17):
not their space division.
Uh, a lot of smartpeople working over there
and, uh, spent a lot of time at Sierra's,
the office I worked with in Colorado.
But, uh, yeah, the dream chaser, uh,
looks just a little bit like a glider.

(29:37):
Um, 'cause it does, it is a glider.
It's almost, it, you know, it takes on
that space shuttle type of, of view.
And, uh, we'll see how they, uh,
how they do on their first flight.
That's coming up later inthe year York Time will tell.
But, uh, I don't knowabout people, you know, at
what price point per se.

(30:00):
Another big AI feature could be on the way
for YouTube music, um,some sort of AI feature.
And, uh, it's first reported by Ither.
It looks like Gemini extension could
be on its way to YouTube music.
We'll let you command Gemini play music
through your YouTube music account.
It also apparently improvesdiscovery and search results,
and we're looking for music.

(30:20):
Although the new feature isn't out,
it's currently being tested,and Android has already
found a way to activate it.
And a demo featured in its initial report,
Android already contributed known leaker
set up the Gemini extension
for YouTube music and Google App.
Once it was set up, itcontributed used voice prompt ask
Gemini to placed somemusic from their Gemini,
worked its magic to searchYouTube music results.

(30:42):
So, uh, the leaker took to x
to reveal screenshotsfrom the app to help page,
which list a number ofprompts that can be used
to launch the launchYouTube through Gemini.
So standard voice requests includes,
show me some rock music,find some name, find artists,

(31:05):
search songs similar to this, et cetera.
So we'll see with the, uh,Google IO event whether
or not, uh, they announcedthat this is pretty remarkable.
I I haven't, uh, had muchexposure to Windows 11,
but apparently ads in Windows11 are becoming the new norm
and look like they're headedfor your settings Homepage.

(31:25):
Are you actually getting ads in Windows
when you use the operating system?
You're getting ads. If, if you are,
I I want to hear from you.
Send me screenshots of whatthese things look like.
Windows lateness noticethey notice an ad, which is
for Xbox Game Plus as partof the latest preview review

(31:47):
of the os, and it's in the,
uh, it's in the game.
Let's see, for the initiate,
the game passes Microsoft description.
Not every tester willsee the advert, though
for now at least, it'sonly rolling out to those
who have chosen option toget the latest updates.
Assume as they're available,the ad only appears
for those signed into a Microsoft account.

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Microsoft explains in a blogpost that the build, that the
advert for Xbox Games willonly appear to Windows 11 users
who actively play games on their PCs.
The other changes provided
by this preview release arealso useful to fixes
for known issues, but isn't pushing ads

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into operating systems.
A step too far
Now for some really super historical data.
And to show you wherewe have come Beethoven,
what does Beethoven haveto do in a tech show?
Well, it's being reported thatBeethoven likely didn't die

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from lead poison.
A new DNA analysis revealsthere was also mercury
and arsenic, but none
of the toxins likely causedthe composer's death.
They had done a DNA test onsome of his verified hair.
So I guess historically theywanna know how Beethoven died.

(33:18):
Uh, lead poisoning definitelyapparently a, uh, added
to it liver damage, uh,according to his report,
having had jaundice and swollen limbs.
But anyway, yes, they were able to do DNA
analysis on Beethoven's hair.
Tesla has rehired some ofits supercharger workers.

(33:40):
Week after Musk basicallyfired the whole team,
they began hiring back someof the almost 500 members
of its supercharging team thatCEO must dismiss last month.
Chief among the personnelof return is Max d Zeer,
the director of chargingfor North America.
According to people withknowledge of the matter
who asked not to be identified

(34:02):
because it information is private,
wasn't me immediately clear
how many laid off workershave been rehired.
Musk has not responded to messages.
So Musk dissolution
of the team stunned a broaderelectric vehicle sector
as supercharged the argumentTesla shrew his product In the

(34:23):
past year, the companyconvinced competitors
to embrace his plugs afterwidespread bull back.
Mudge pledged last week tospend well over 500 million on
growing Tesla's network this year.
Someone, uh, chopped somecables though recently
and, uh, needed some money,I guess, for their drugs
because they cut all the cordsat a, at a charging station.

(34:43):
And, uh, I probably, uh, stripped it
and cashed the copper in
Ikea is adding energy monitoringto its home Smart app.
The new Energy insight featuremonitors real-time energy
comes such, but only in Sweden.
However, IKEA is launching itsfirst ever energy monitoring
smart plug globally.

(35:06):
So, uh, you basicallyhave a plug and a plug.
You basically plug a plug into your plug,
you plug your gear, gear in the plug,
and it monitors the electricity.
So why don't just build thisinto the socket themselves?
Um, so we'll see.

(35:27):
And many of us have hadenergy, uh, monitoring devices
before I had issues in Hawaii,
and I was trying to figureout what the culprit was
for high electricity billsand never really found it.
It was just highelectricity bills in Hawaii.
And, uh, but some of you run into this
where electric bill's crazy

(35:47):
and you wanna figure out what's going on.
Uh, this is a great wayto get some insights.
Now, GPS, you know, GPS is relatively easy
to jam and
I know a lot about this.
I can't probably still forthis day go into any details

(36:08):
on my knowledge on, you know,how to avoid being jammed
and so forth that probablywould land me in jail.
But I do have some, some knowledge on the
topic, although it's dated.
But just to say with anything,if you have enough power,
, anything can bejammed on any RF level.

(36:30):
To be quite frank, unjammed navigation
is something that, well, youknow, it's pretty simple.
If you have an inertialnavigation system using technology
that was used, you know, formany, many years, uh, you,
you know, don't necessarily need
G-P-S-G-P-S can be a backup.

(36:51):
Uh, inertial navigationsystems, uh, you know, are
not susceptible to jamming,
although they are a highcost to maintain, um,
and, you know, have to do allkinds of, uh, calibrations
with them from time to time.
But a UAA UK aircraft hastested groundbreaking quantum

(37:13):
technology that could pave theway for an unjammable backup
for GPS navigation.
So, while GPS is satellite based,
the new system is quantum based.
A term used to describe tech
that is reliant on the properties
that matter at very small scales
and essentially cooled cooled to minus 273

(37:37):
degree Celsius.
So it's almost, it'sbasically the system's, uh,
cools atoms to just aboutas cool as they can get.
And the aim is to use those atoms
to measure the directionplane is pointing in
and its acceleration.
All that combined couldbe used, determined
where the plane plane is witha high degree of accuracy.

(38:00):
So, uh, so of courseindividual item, uh, atoms
or mind boggling small
a hair is about a millionth atoms wide.
And working on this scale isdifficult enough on the ground,
but the flight demonstrated.
These atoms could be usedin a very limited space
and generally challengingenvironment of an aircraft power,

(38:22):
bouncing around all the otherthings that go along with it.
But they said that in fiveto 10 years, it could,
this tech could be the size of a shoebox
and a thousand times moreaccurate than comparable systems.
So, uh, I'm sure now it isma is is very, very large.
But, uh, time will see, time will tell.

(38:45):
Of course, GPS receiversare probably about the size
of a shoebox as well, oreven smaller for aircraft.
Android boats are about toget a major iMessage feature,
being able to edit sent messages,
a popular feature on messaging apps like
iMessage and WhatsApp.
However, it has yet to arrive
to the masses via Google messages

(39:06):
that could change very soon.
It's been shared on x wherescreenshots demonstrating
how Google messaging editingfeatures will work in an
upcoming software version.
Some Android users,including the X posters,
are currently testing new feature.
Once it's rolled out, userswill be able to edit message

(39:27):
by long pressing on themessage they wish to change.
They can tap on a pencilicon located next to the copy
to delete star or edit.
So, uh, the original messagestill can be read though
and, uh, but this could becoming to a, to your phone soon.

(39:48):
According to NBC news,
AI personas are the future of dating.
Uhhuh Bumble founder says,money, those aren't buying it.
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfhardspeaking Thursday at the
Bloom Tech Summit SanFrancisco said their company is
considering how AI can assist

(40:09):
and empower women in theirsearch for a connection.
Uh, one particular use of AI
that she mentioned hasgained traction online,
although not everyone liked the idea.
They proposed a scenario whichsingles could use AI dating
concierge as stand-ins forthemselves when reaching out
to prospective partners.

(40:29):
There's a world whereyour dating concierge
could go and date.
You could go on a date for youwith other dating concierge,
and then you don't haveto talk to 600 people.
Okay,

(40:49):
so how would it do that?
Would it mimic how people chat?
Um, I dunno.
I sounds, uh, sounds making,
it sounds like dating even harder.

(41:12):
It really does. It reallydoesn't make sense to me.
Be honest with you, Waymo says,
as Rob taxis are now making50,000 paid trips every week,
of course the company operatesway more one in Phoenix,
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
So, uh, that's quite a few 50,000,

(41:33):
thousand pay trips everyweek across the cities
operating 24 7.
And it receives an averageof 300 bookings every hour.
Well, they're definitelydoing better than Cruise,
which just only recentlyredeployed some of its vehicles.
So have any of you rode in a Waymo,

(41:56):
done a more ride with a Robax?
Well, tomorrow's the big day.
Google IO 2024 will be all about AI
and, uh, you'll be ableto watch this on, uh,
on the Google side or the YouTube channel.
It'll be a livestream andthere'll be a, even a version

(42:19):
with the American SignLanguage interpreter.
So AI is, uh, again,
probably gonna have somemajor announcements,
but again, I think it's,it's just gonna be ai, ai,
ai AI is one would expect.
And how's that gonnaintegrate into hardware
and what's it gonna mean for developers?

(42:40):
Uh, we'll only see and probablyreport on it on Thursday.
Encrypted mail serviceproton is again in trouble.
They've handed suspect personaldata to law enforcement.
Again, this is the second time,
and proton is supposed to be the service
where your messages, your account,

(43:02):
everything is super secure.
Proton recently removed the claim
that it didn't track user'sIP addresses from its website.
Proton has been previously accused
of offering realtime surveillance to
of users to authorities.
And this latest instance,
proton Ho Proton handed overan account recovery email

(43:25):
address the Spanish policeconcerning a suspect lead
to be supporting some separatist group.
They then handed theirrecovery address to Apple,
which was reportedly able
to identify the individualassociated with the account.

(43:45):
Proton told AKI outfit Ricestore privacy was well aware
of the case, but its handswere tied under Swiss laws
against terrorism.
Proton has minimal userinformation as still illustrated
by the fact that in the casedata obtained from Apple,
we used to identify the terrorism suspect
a proton spokesperson protested.

(44:06):
Proton provides privacy by default
and not anonymity by default
because anonymity requirescertain user actions
to ensure proper offsets, such
as not adding your app account
as an optional recovery method.
Huh? So better knowyour password over there
and not have a backup account.

(44:28):
Meanwhile, US tariffs onChinese EVs may grow up around
around 25 to a hundred percent.
The administration is reportedly set
to quadruple Chinese electricvehicle tariffs as part
of an onslaught of increased taxes
on imports from the country.
Chinese EV tariffs areexpected to go from 25
to a hundred percentsubmitting pricing out

(44:49):
of the EV production in the US market.
Chinese sworn ministryspokesperson Lyan vowed on Friday
that China would take allnecessary measures defendants
rights and interest when itcomes to additional tariffs.
Notice we didn't takeoff a lot of the, uh,
Trump era tariffs.
Those were REM remained on even though
people complained about them.

(45:13):
Google, Google's Projectstarline video conferencing
Tech is coming to offices.
So their starline videoconferencing is a very,
very expensive high-end product.
But the company's teamed up with HP
to start selling scale downversions of the product to
lower end enterprise clients.

(45:35):
So, uh, the companyfirst began demoing the
service in 2021.
The first version of itinvolved a 3D video chat booth
or the projection of theperson you're talking to.
It was pretty impressive.
A KAA holographic technologythat was, you know,
but element very, very expensive.

(45:56):
So, uh, I guess this oneis, uh, a dumb down version
that will be a little bit cheaper.
Maybe Apple
and Google though are gonnaroll out cross platform feature
to tackle unwanted Bluetooth trackers.
Android iOS user receive analert if an unknown tracker
moves with them over time.

(46:17):
So they are this long in thework effort to alert people
to unwanted Bluetooth trackersmay have been planted on
them, has come to fruition.
When an unknown Bluetoothdevice is seen moving
with someone over a periodof time, they'll get an alert
that reads item found moving
with you no matter which platform.
The track is paired with Apple
and Google rolling outthe capabilities IO 17.5

(46:39):
and across Android six andlater devices starting today.
So, uh, that's probably somethingthat's way, way overdue.
Of course, the cyber attack atAscension means your privacy
and security is up for sale.
Again. Uh, Ascension, one

(46:59):
of the largest healthsystems in the United States
with 140 hospitals facessignificant cyber attack
to disrupt its operations.
Reported that the attackcaused patient records systems
to go offline, Foric medicalstaff to resort to paper
again cyber attack.
What was the immediateimpact was disruptive.

(47:23):
Emergency crews had to divertpatients to other hospitals.
Staff had to implement manual workarounds.
Essential systems like, likeMyChart, phone services,
electric ordering for testsand medication were affected.
The companies had to delay some
elective procedures because of it.
Ascension's response was swift.
The system which is based in St.

(47:43):
Louis has tried to adapt to overcome this,
but again, cybersecurity
and healthcare continuesto be a super weak point.
SpaceX though spacing FAA review
of Starship launches from Kennedy.
Yes, we know that SpaceXis, uh, looking at, uh,
launching the Starship outof, uh, Kennedy Space Center.

(48:06):
So they're gonna have to go through an
environmental review now.
NASA carried out a similarreview five years ago
and saw no issue with SpaceXlaunching from Kennedy.
But since Elon space, likeKennedys Justice plans
for Starship andassociated infrastructure,
the FAA has announced anotherreview to access the impact.
And, uh, so we'll seewhat happens with that.

(48:31):
And, uh, they're hoping to do as many
as 44 Starship launches a year out
of, uh, out of the Cape.
Surprisingly, the United States
of China is meeting this week to talk AI
specifically safety and risk.
The discussions in Genevacover areas of concerns

(48:51):
and views on technical risks.
The meeting were agreed uponas part of an earlier meeting
between the president andChinese President Jinping.
And the discussion focused on the risk
and safety of AI enabled systems.
A senior administrationofficial told reporters in a
briefing Friday, therewere no formal deliverables

(49:12):
or agreements expected.
And then meeting withan opportunity exchange
of views on technical riskspresented by AI systems
and directly communicate andprospective areas of concern.
Yeah, the Chinese are just gonna do
what they wanna do for sure.
Regardless of any meeting Apple store

(49:35):
workers in Marylandhave vetoed, excuse me,
have voted not vetoed.
Apple store workers in Maryland have voted
to authorize a strike.
The company isn't negotiatinggood faith union claims.
Of course, apple doesn't want, uh,
more stores being unionized,
but the Apple's first UnitedStore in towns at Maryland is

(49:57):
authorized for strike thatfollows what the union called
over a year of negotiationwith the Apple Management
that yielded unsatisfactory outcome.
The Maryland storelocated in Baltimore since
around a hundred employees.
So, uh, we're gonna strike.
So we will see what happens there.

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So I'm gonna close this today
with an open AI interview.
Open, say, open ai.
Sam Altman gave an hour long interview
to the All In Podcast.
And when he was askedabout this summer's launch
of the next version chat,GBT, he said he hoped

(50:46):
to be thoughtful about how we do it.
Like we may release it in a different way
than we released before.
So that was curious,
but there's a bunch of seriesof questions and answers here.
Um, I I'm definitely gonnalisten to this, uh, this episode.
I haven't listened to it yet,
but I'll get it on my playlist.

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But this is just giving alittle more insight into where,
uh, chat GPT and, uh,everything else is going.
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