1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,960 The tech news singularity approaches. That's just where companies shove more and more AI into basic everyday objects until literally 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,480 every topic qualifies as tech on some level, and I don't know, sounds great to me. 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:17,440 Google held its IO event today to detail its ongoing plans to put generative AI in absolutely 4 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:23,520 everything, starting with the public rollout of Gemini-infused Google search results. 5 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:32,560 Your grandma's going to be using this. Prepare yourself. The tech giant says they want to start by providing AI curated results and AI overview 6 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:38,640 summaries to users looking for inspiration, like those making open-ended requests for date ideas, 7 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,160 to which the only acceptable answer is Casa Bonita in Denver, Colorado. 8 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:47,360 Either she gets it or she's not worth it. If you search date ideas, you'll get one answer every time. 9 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,840 The company did, however, throw one bone to skeptics of the direction Google search has 10 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,800 taken over the last few decades. Last few decades. 11 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,520 The company did, however, throw one bone to skeptics of the direction Google search has 12 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:10,080 taken over the last few decades, a dedicated web search tab that filters out Google's various 13 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,320 widgets and doodads, leaving just text-based results. 14 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:20,320 I'm getting sad here. Google also announced several updates to its stable of AI models. 15 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:26,960 Gemini 1.5 Pro is now available to all developers with up to a 2 million token context window. 16 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:33,040 Gemini Nano now has multimodal capabilities that allow it to take images, audio and video as input, 17 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:38,160 and they've added a faster lower latency model, Gemini 1.5 Flash. 18 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:43,520 Google has also integrated Gemini as a panel on the side of most of its workplace suite, 19 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,440 which can be toggled on or off. Thank you so much, Google. 20 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:53,920 Plus, they've added an AI teammate intended to act as a kind of productivity buddy, 21 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,200 tracking tasks and coordinating communications with co-workers. 22 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:03,440 You can even personalize it and give it its own name. I've named mine Jacob after our writer Jacob, 23 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,440 which is only a problem when I get Jacob and Jacob confused. Are you talking to me? 24 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:16,560 Looks like they're in the room now. As for more visual AI stuff, there's the even better text-to-image model, 25 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,400 Imagine 3, that's how they say it, even though it should be Imogen. 26 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:28,000 Moving on. And Google DeepMind's Vio, a generative video model that looks like Google's fairly impressive 27 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,760 answer to open AI's Sora. The question of whether this was straight on YouTube videos should be obvious. 28 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,440 It'll be available to a few creators through the new VideoFX tool, 29 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,960 and it comes integrated with Google's AI watermarking system, 30 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,520 SynthID, which now works with video and could be built into YouTube one day. 31 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,600 Another big maybe is Project Astra, which Google described as 32 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,640 our vision for the future of AI assistance that can perceive live video and audio 33 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:00,800 and answer in real time. And we think it's so cool that they want that. 34 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,240 Have you made it yet? Cause why are you showing it, otherwise? 35 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,800 What if this existed? Yeah, that would be cool. 36 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:09,760 Cool idea, Google. 37 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:18,240 That's awesome, Google. CEO Sundar Pichai also hyped up DeepMind's Alpha Fold 3, 38 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,960 the revolutionary protein structure prediction tool that can do the same thing for all sorts 39 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:30,160 of different molecules now. And finally, Google announced a grab bag of AI-adjacent accessibility features for Android. 40 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,800 There's one that can monitor phone calls live and flag whether they are likely to be scams, 41 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:42,080 one that describes images for visually impaired users, and another that allows users to control a cursor with their head and face. 42 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,320 Of course, Apple also recently announced a similar eye-tracking accessibility feature. 43 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,720 And besides, you could already control your phone with your face. 44 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:56,800 You just gotta get real close. So that was, uh, you just get close enough and then you can do anything you want. 45 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:04,160 I use my tongue personally. In other AI news, Ilya Sutskiver, OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist, 46 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,360 has suddenly left the company for reasons unknown, 47 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,680 though he indicated that he was excited about vague future plans that he would 48 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,280 outline at some later point. Once he gets the chat GPT summary of it. 49 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:21,760 Only a few hours later, Jan Leike, co-leader of OpenAI's super alignment group, 50 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,920 announced that he was leaving the company as well, tweeting just two words, 51 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:33,520 I resigned. Bit abrupt. OpenAI has seen several similar high-profile departures within the last few months, 52 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,520 including four researchers, their head of non-profit and strategic initiatives, 53 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,800 and their VP of people. Whatever the heck that is. 54 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,920 Do they have a VP of non-people? That's every other VP. 55 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:54,640 VP of staplers. He's got his own office. At least one of the researchers stated that he didn't trust the company to 56 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,280 behave responsibly around the creation of artificial general intelligence. 57 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:04,000 OpenAI's internal culture appears to be significantly out of step with public 58 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,640 sentiment on this issue, as a recent YouGov survey found that 63% of Americans would support government 59 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,440 legislation to prevent the creation of super intelligent AI. 60 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,280 Sam Altman was apparently one of the few who watched Terminator and The Matrix 61 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:22,320 and thought, hell yeah, sick. That's what I'm talking about. 62 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,080 I hate the billet, John Connor. 63 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:32,960 Taking immediate action earlier today, the US Senate revealed a $32 billion a year roadmap for regulating AI, 64 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,400 which makes no concrete suggestions for how to regulate AI. 65 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:41,760 We're very much in the creating a committee to develop a framework for considering legislation 66 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,200 stage of the regulatory process, and that part's important. 67 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,560 Plus, that annual $32 billion is primarily intended for investment in non-military AI 68 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:55,200 innovation, so apparently we're going to regulate Sam Altman by giving him money. 69 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:58,240 More AI? A2? 70 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:06,480 Quick bits? Apple's newest 17.5 iOS update appears to be causing old long-deleted photos, 71 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:12,400 including nudes, to reappear in users' photo albums, as if they were recent photos. 72 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,600 You don't want that. Dozens of users have reported encountering this issue, 73 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:25,760 including on devices that were previously wiped. To be clear, this doesn't necessarily mean that Apple has secretly been holding on to supposedly 74 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:32,880 deleted data. Old deleted data isn't really gone-gone until it's been overwritten by something else, 75 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:37,920 which is probably how the i-necromancers at Apple accidentally brought a bunch of elderly 76 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,200 dick pics back from the grave. The pics are elderly. 77 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:42,160 I don't know about the dicks. 78 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:49,600 Leaked internal documents from Dell show an extremely bullish attitude towards 79 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:55,040 Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite chips, which are set to launch imminently. 80 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:59,760 Dell apparently already expects to include second-gen Snapdragon X Elite chips in its 81 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:06,000 2026 laptop lineup, as well as a third generation for either 2027 or 2028, 82 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,840 depending on whether the AI has gotten us all by then. 83 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,680 These second-gen chips are expected to be even more efficient than their already 84 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:19,920 super-efficient predecessors, cutting the power draw of Dell's 2026 laptops down to 20W from 85 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:26,400 25.5W. ASUS is only scheduled to announce its own Snapdragon X Elite-based laptop on Monday, 86 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,160 so this is a bit like checking your parents' closet for your birthday present, 87 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,000 only to find several years' worth of future birthday presents. 88 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,040 And now everything's been ruined. There's no surprise. 89 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:45,440 Socks? 2030? Really? A federal investigation of Alphabet subsidiary Waymo is underway due to the company's self-driving 90 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:50,880 cars being involved in a lot of crashes. Waymo crashes than necessary. 91 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:59,760 Anyway, investigators have found 22 incidents where Waymo's cars collided with objects like 92 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:05,360 gates, chains, and parked cars. Meanwhile, automakers as a whole have been put on notice 93 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:10,960 by the FTC to stop selling connected cars that illegally collect users' data. 94 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:16,240 That sounded really scary until the FTC revealed this issue has been on their radar for years. 95 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,640 Nissan and Kia's privacy policies allow them to track your sexual activity, 96 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:26,080 and the FTC is just watching. Gross. It was in the terms. 97 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:34,560 New York City will be testing AI-enabled gun scanners from a company called Evolve 98 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:39,440 in its subway system, with Mayor Eric Adams saying an analysis of the scanner's accuracy 99 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:44,560 will be conducted, even though the city already tested Evolve scanners two years ago. 100 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:50,160 That test revealed the scanner's detections were actually false positives 85% of the time. 101 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:55,760 Another 14% of detections were cops. You'd think that math that disappointing would mean 102 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:00,720 something to the education system, but apparently several U.S. states are still considering putting 103 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,440 similar scanners in schools. It wouldn't be the first time a school gave a passing grade to an 104 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:10,640 underperformer, but that's usually reserved for star athletes who actually put points on the board. 105 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:15,760 We gotta make it a championship this year! And TikTok is including chat GPT-generated 106 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,840 answers to some of its search results in a test to see just how deeply they can confuse the youth. 107 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:28,240 The app does warn users that AI smart search could get things wrong, but TikTok users should be 108 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:33,280 used to that. Last September, the app tested supplementing its search results with links to 109 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:39,440 Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, and other websites, since many young people treat TikTok as a search engine, 110 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:44,000 and may not know there's a whole internet out there that isn't based on only 111 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,000 fans' funnel accounts and confident misinformation. Or at least, there used to be. 112 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:53,600 There also used to be more tech news every Friday. And guess what? There still is. I'll see you then.