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November 11, 2024 63 mins

In the latest episode of the Digital Nexus podcast, we dive into a rich discussion centered around the impact of AI on search engines, particularly comparing new tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT against traditional giant Google. The episode opens with updates on the current AI landscape, including a comparison of AI advancements to human cognition and insights from Mark's work on various AI applications and more.

️TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction and catch ups, AI research comparing AI to the human brain,
06:56 - Mark on the PerCapita podcast - talking AI, web3 and the tech bro election
0️9:39 - GPT Brains video 
17:18 - Elections and AI - fabled US election results and implications
25:52 - Musk increasing his power base
29:06 - Nvidia at all time highs (again)
30:40 - Lose the GPT, Chat is just cleaner
31:34 - US election monitoring 
33:50 - Comparing search engines, Perplexity vs ChatGPT
42:01 - Apple Updates and Meta's AI Tool 
50:29 - Meta's version of the Google podcast generator 
53:00 - Recraft AI and highly customisable gen AI image generation 
58:00 - Insights from Ethan Mollick 
1:02:00 - Sam Altman on AI agent possibilities 

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LINKS 
- Digital Village - https://digitalvillage.network/
- NotCentralised - https://www.notcentralised.com/ 
- SIKE - https://sike.ai/

Per capita podcast 
https://youtu.be/6ikh5NA7S8Y?si=dz5gFwtJi9djmViH 

Video on the similarities of AI and it's brain with ours 
https://youtu.be/jIhkgSN7vVU?si=pKzaDMb1Zdua8G3l 

Election AI bit of fun
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7259758613898878976-ee8X?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android 

And the posts 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L12UPUmgOtSQv9u8Z7Z_ZBf2SfJSrEK26r3oJNHkPJs/edit?usp=sharing 

Ethan Mollick on asking the AI to do more
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_we-are-just-not-used-to-abundant-intelligence-activity-7260303546749784064-1Sxb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android 

Ethan on changing how we work with AI
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_big-study-of-187k-developers-using-github-ugcPost-7259592569674678273-iu7x?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android 

Sam Altman talking with Bill Gates on agents  
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IHruH31IYa2Tatu5zQr5R 

Election Win for Trump.
What does this mean for Elon, Tesla and Grok: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/06/what-trumps-win-might-mean-for-elon-musk/

Despite the AI slump - Nvidia just surpassed Apple: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/nvidia-just-became-the-worlds-largest-company-amid-ai-boom/

ChatGPT buying Chat.com:  https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/06/openai-acquired-chat-com/

Perplexity is winning at Search with the election:
https://www.perplexity.ai/elections/2024-11-05/us/president

Their evaluation looking to hit $9Billion with the next round of funding: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-startup-perplexity-to-triple-valuation-to-9-billion-in-new-funding-round-f2fb8c2c?mod=ai_news_article_pos2

Recraft.ai launched a new image generator tool, and it’s awesome - called Panda. https://www.recraft.ai/project/bd76ea69-4da7-47af-

Other Links
🎙️our podcast links here: https://digitalnexuspodcast.com/
👤Chris on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pcsinclair/
👤Mark on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmonfort/
👤 Mark on Twitter - https://twitter.com/captdefi

SHOWNOTE LINKS
🔗 SIKE - https://sike.ai/
🌐Digital Village - https://digitalvillage.network/
🌐NotCentralised - https://www.notcentralised.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalNexusPodcast

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