ChatGPT's Imaginary Product Trick

Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell start things off by chatting with Soundslice's CEO Adrian Holovaty who responds to OpenAI inventing an imaginary feature. Then its news roundup time: The Trump administration’s sweeping new AI action plan, why AI shopping assistants still struggle with trust, the future of always-on AI wearables after Amazon acquires Bee, and Netflix officially embraces generative AI in its productions. Enjoying the AI Inside podcast? Please rate us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcatcher of choice! Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00:00 - Podcast begins 0:01:01 - A Conversation with Adrian Holovaty, Soundslice 0:26:24 - White House Unveils Sweeping AI Action Plan to Boost Development 0:34:32 - OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers 0:39:02 - Perplexity in talks with phone makers to pre-install Comet AI mobile browser on devices 0:39:36 - AI shopping assistants have a trust problem 0:42:32 - Replit makes vibe-y promise to stop its AI agents making vibe coding disasters 0:47:38 - Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say 0:48:42 - Limitless AI 0:55:40 - OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 0:59:23 - US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules 1:01:25 - Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time 1:06:06 - Google’s ‘Big Sleep’ Just Became the First-Ever AI to Prevent a Cyberattack 1:07:03 - Researchers from top AI labs including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic warn they may be losing the ability to understand advanced AI models Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices