AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends Google Gemini Ultra, AI Chip Frenzy & Tech Journalist Joanna Stern | Ep44
Feb 15, 2024
Tech journalist Joanna Stern discusses her viral Apple Vision Pro review, the use of AI by parents of Parkland victims to robocall politicians with AI voices of their children, and the backstory behind Google's move on from Bard. The hosts cover various AI topics including Google Gemini, AI chips, AI music from Suno, revenue sharing with voice model creators, and AI in Super Bowl ads.
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Ads Oversell AI's First-Take Abilities
- Super Bowl AI ads overpromised ease-of-use; realistic AI outputs often require multiple prompts and iteration.
- Advertising expectations misalign with typical first-shot model outputs, causing user disappointment.
Bimanual Robotics Are Accelerating Fast
- DeepMind's ALOHA 2 shows rapid gains in bimanual robotics, improving dexterity and teleoperation capabilities.
- Progress suggests near-term real-world tasks (pouring, opening packets) will be automated more quickly than expected.
$200 Robot Arm Learns From Demo
- Alexander Koch trained a $200 robot arm with imitation learning to pick up cubes using only camera images and joint states.
- The DIY result shows open-source, low-cost robotics are becoming viable for hobbyists and researchers.