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September 30, 2024 61 mins

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Episode 16 - Rico & Mike's Year in Review

In this episode, Rico and Mike review the major AI developments, trends, wins, and fails of the past year. They cover generative art, coding with AI tools, multimodal AI, and discuss predictions for 2025.

Topics & Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction & Episode Overview
01:00 - Evolution of Generative Art Tools (MidJourney, DALL-E, Leonardo AI)
04:00 - Generative Art Examples and Mike’s Photoshop Tip
07:00 - AI Productivity Tools for Coding (GitHub Copilot, Replit AI)
12:00 - Education and AI Coding: Future Predictions
19:00 - Generative AI Video (Runway ML, Final Frame)
23:00 - Generative AI for 3D Spaces (Blockade Labs)
25:00 - Text-to-Speech Tools (11 Labs, Google, Amazon Polly)
26:00 - Speech-to-Text Tools (DeepGram, Whisper)
29:00 - AI for Voice Pranking (Bland AI)
32:00 - Custom GPTs: A Year in Reflection
34:00 - Ethical Concerns & Information Bias in AI Models
36:00 - Interview Prep Tools and Research Tools (Perplexity AI)
38:00 - Omni-channel CX and Customer Engagement Tools (Helios)
42:00 - Biggest AI Wins & Fails of 2024
46:00 - Trends for 2025: Multimodal AI, Agenic AI, Open Source Models
50:00 - AI Governance and Regulation Predictions

Here are the AI tools and services we mentioned in the podcast, along with their respective website links:

MidJourney - https://www.midjourney.com
DALL-E 3 - https://openai.com/dall-e (Can also be used with Bing's AI Image Generator) 
Leonardo AI - https://leonardo.ai
Fooocus Model  using Stable Diffusion - https://stability.ai/
GitHub Copilot - https://github.com/features/copilot
Replit AI - https://replit.com/site/ai
Runway ML - https://runwayml.com
Final Frame - https://finalframe.ai/
Blockade Labs - https://www.blockadelabs.com 
Eleven Labs (Text-to-Speech) - https://elevenlabs.io/
DeepGram (Speech-to-Text) - https://deepgram.com 
Bland AI - https://www.bland.ai/
Custom GPTs - https://openai.com/chatgpt
Perplexity A

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