Bot Meets World: AI News, Tools, and Hot Takes
The pop-AI podcast. Get the week’s action-oriented AI news stories, with fresh takes you can pretend you came up with.
There’s too much AI news to read each week – who has time to read all those newsletters? Our goal is to condense the key takeaways in a format that’s engaging for engineers while being approachable for Alex’s amazing momma (she hits the Save button on every episode, obv).
Listen to stay in the know about the latest in ai, generative ai, and machine learning tools. Hosted by Alex Furmansky.
Episodes
10 episodes
A Primer on OpenAI's Assistants
OpenAI recently introduced 'Assistants' and GPTs, an exciting development poised to create an entirely new app marketplace. If you missed the early days of Apple's iOS marketplace where you could make money by making a flashlight app, this is y...
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$650MM for 8 prompts, Dropbox Dash, Adobe's legal guarantee, robots learning from humans -- Ep 7 -- Bot Meets World AI
On this episode:Dropbox launches chatting with your docsDatabricks does the same for enterpriseAdobe Firefly commits to defend you against any copyright infringement claimsCarnegie Mellon has robots that w...
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Episode 7
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Bonus: Crash course on ai chatbots for documents (how do they work!?)
A common use case I've seen for AI is the ability to "chat with" your files and documents. It's the most common explainer I deliver on client calls. After listening to this short episode, you'll have a solid understanding of how these systems a...
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AI Church Service, FinGPT, Meta goes Open Source -- Ep 6 -- Bot Meets World AI
On this episode:The first AI-led church service (and the bigger picture)OpenAI's GPT support for API callsFinGPT - the LLM for all things financeRift between OpenAI/Google and Meta. Closed vs open-source d...
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Episode 6
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Adobe Firefly, Google Opens APIs, Runway ML Gen2 -- Ep 5 -- Bot Meets World AI
On this episode, we cover:Incumbents strike backAdobe releases Firefly for enterprise (branding, image generation, copywriting)Hubspot campaign assistantGoogle enables access to latest Palm 2 model and off...
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Episode 2
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Windows Copilot, NVIDIA, Google Ai Search -- Ep 4 -- Bot Meets World AI
On this episode, we cover:Microsoft Windows OS Copilot (natively integrated AI assistant in your operating system)Google Search Generative Experience (major transformation for any brand doing search marketing)NVIDI...
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Episode 4
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16:06
Anthropic, EU AI, CodeCompose, ChatGPT, Ramp -- Ep 3 -- Bot Meets World AI
On this episode, we cover:Anthropic's 100K token limitEU's AI regulations and model licensingMeta's CodeCompose (coders love making their lives better!)Ramp's RampIntelligence for intelligence around expen...
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Bonus Episode: What happens when AI take over? Reflections after attending a Silicon Valley AI Hackathon
After spending a weekend at an AI hackathon in Silicon Valley, I am convinced we will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) within 5-10 years. By AGI, I mean a computer system that can reason through life on par with the average America...
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Googles "No Moats!" Leak, Biden's $140MM AI Funding, Writer's Strike, Akkio, Browse.AI -- Ep 2 -- Bot Meets World AI
On this episode, we cover:A quick personal note about teaching the older generation about AIWhy Google's "We have no moats!" leaked letter is wrongSlackGPT / Salesforce's EinsteinStarcoder code completion<...
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Replit Ghostwriter, Pinecone, Incognito ChatGPT, Palantir -- Ep 1 -- Bot Meets World AI
On this episode, we cover - Replit's AI powered Ghostwriter- Comparing Bard vs. GPT4 for coding- LlamaAcademy (Training a Llama model on APIs)- Incognito mode on ChatGPT- Pinecone's $100MM raise- Apple health gettin...
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