ChatGPT marked its first birthday on Nov. 30 with OpenAI entering a whole new era filled with familiar faces and few new ones. Brian and Sarah keep things casual on this episode, welcoming friend of (and off) the pod Mason Del Rio, a data scientist and analyst with media production experience, to discuss ChatGPT's impact in its first year. [Editor’s note: Mason also helped us with editing this episode, which we greatly appreciate.]
For coders, creatives, and writers, the online world is increasingly saturated with AI-powered content. What’s going to happen next in 2024, and what will it mean for the workforce? All of this and more are on the table, along with a suspenseful edition of "Two truths and l’AI." Find out if Sarah finally cracked Brian’s strategy once and for all.
Timestamps for this episode:
[0:00] Intro
[0:18] Welcome
[1:35] Introduction of Mason Del Rio
[2:47] What the changes at OpenAI mean
[6:48] What OpenAI’s changes mean for Microsoft
[10:16] OpenAI’s new board
[11:25] What Pika Labs is doing for text-to-video tech
[14:55] Increased quality of generative AI output in less than a year
[16:05] HeyGen’s AI-generated video avatars
[18:17] "Two truths and l’AI"
[27:06] One year of ChatGPT: What has changed?
[31:40] ChatGPT relevance for Github and Microsoft
[33:25] Practical applications for professionals outside of computer science
[36:57] Impact on persuasion for politics, sales, and customer service teams
[42:32] Generating images for product design and textiles
[44:50] Generative AI for video
[46:07] Expectations for AI in 2024
[53:20] Most impressive generative AI capabilities so far
Links for topics referenced in this episode:
ChatGPT’s birthday (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/chatgpts-one-year-anniversary-how-the-viral-ai-chatbot-has-changed.html
Inside look at Microsoft’s relationship with the board at OpenAI (The New Yorker): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/the-inside-story-of-microsofts-partnership-with-openai
Reactions from prominent women in tech to OpenAI’s all-male (so far) board (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/women-in-tech-openai-board/
AI-powered video-editing platform Pika raises $55 million (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/28/pika-labs-which-is-building-ai-tools-to-generate-and-edit-videos-raises-55m/
HeyGen raises $5.6 million for its AI-powered video tools (Forbes): https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/11/29/ai-video-startup-heygen-launches-near-instant-avatar-generator-adds-56-million-in-funding/
"Avengers Wes Anderson Trailer" (YouTube):
"Star Wars by Balenciaga" (YouTube):
Making $200,000/year to talk to chatbots (Wall Street Journal): https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/talking-to-chatbots-is-now-a-200k-job-so-i-applied-258bd5f0
Using AI to complete a Sophoclean play (The Tribune-Democrat): https://www.tribdem.com/news/ai-completed-sophoclean-play-presented-at-upj/article_fabc8d3a-8fd8-11ee-9b2b-1b8f63ccbc8b.html
Chris Onstand’s use of AI to replicate voices from his webcomic "Achewood" (Polygon): https://www.polygon.com/entertainment/23712969/achewood-2023-ai-chris-onstad
More links to news that didn’t make the show:
ChatGPT-written legislation for a city in Brazil (Associated Press): https://apnews.com/article/brazil-artificial-intelligence-porto-alegre-5afd1240afe7b6ac202bb0bbc45e08d4
Yann LeCun’s near-term AI superintelligence skepticism at Meta: (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/03/meta-ai-chief-yann-lecun-skeptical-about-agi-quantum-computing.html
Meta’s global ban of AI-made political ads (ZDNet): https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-will-enforce-ban-on-ai-powered-political-ads-in-every-nation-no-exceptions/
Amazon announces Q chatbot for businesses (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/28/amazon-announces-q-an-ai-chatbot-for-businesses.html
Music used in this podcast comes from "Vanishing Horizon" by Jason Shaw and is licensed under an Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Episode 6: Guest Mason Del Rio talks ChatGPT's 1-year anniversary