WEBVTT 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 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. 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 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:23.520 everything, starting with the public rollout of Gemini-infused Google search results. 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 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:38.640 summaries to users looking for inspiration, like those making open-ended requests for date ideas, 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.160 to which the only acceptable answer is Casa Bonita in Denver, Colorado. 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. 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:51.840 The company did, however, throw one bone to skeptics of the direction Google search has 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:54.800 taken over the last few decades. Last few decades. 00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:03.520 The company did, however, throw one bone to skeptics of the direction Google search has 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 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:14.320 widgets and doodads, leaving just text-based results. 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:20.320 I'm getting sad here. Google also announced several updates to its stable of AI models. 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. 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, 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.160 and they've added a faster lower latency model, Gemini 1.5 Flash. 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, 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:47.440 which can be toggled on or off. Thank you so much, Google. 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:53.920 Plus, they've added an AI teammate intended to act as a kind of productivity buddy, 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.200 tracking tasks and coordinating communications with co-workers. 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, 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? 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, 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:20.400 Imagine 3, that's how they say it, even though it should be Imogen. 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 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. 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:37.440 It'll be available to a few creators through the new VideoFX tool, 00:02:37.440 --> 00:02:40.960 and it comes integrated with Google's AI watermarking system, 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:45.520 SynthID, which now works with video and could be built into YouTube one day. 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:51.600 Another big maybe is Project Astra, which Google described as 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:56.640 our vision for the future of AI assistance that can perceive live video and audio 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:00.800 and answer in real time. And we think it's so cool that they want that. 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.240 Have you made it yet? Cause why are you showing it, otherwise? 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.800 What if this existed? Yeah, that would be cool. 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:09.760 Cool idea, Google. 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:18.240 That's awesome, Google. CEO Sundar Pichai also hyped up DeepMind's Alpha Fold 3, 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:22.960 the revolutionary protein structure prediction tool that can do the same thing for all sorts 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. 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, 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. 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.320 Of course, Apple also recently announced a similar eye-tracking accessibility feature. 00:03:46.320 --> 00:03:48.720 And besides, you could already control your phone with your face. 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. 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, 00:04:04.160 --> 00:04:07.360 has suddenly left the company for reasons unknown, 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:11.680 though he indicated that he was excited about vague future plans that he would 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.280 outline at some later point. Once he gets the chat GPT summary of it. 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:21.760 Only a few hours later, Jan Leike, co-leader of OpenAI's super alignment group, 00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:25.920 announced that he was leaving the company as well, tweeting just two words, 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, 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:37.520 including four researchers, their head of non-profit and strategic initiatives, 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:40.800 and their VP of people. Whatever the heck that is. 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.920 Do they have a VP of non-people? That's every other VP. 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 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:59.280 behave responsibly around the creation of artificial general intelligence. 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:04.000 OpenAI's internal culture appears to be significantly out of step with public 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 00:05:10.640 --> 00:05:15.440 legislation to prevent the creation of super intelligent AI. 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:19.280 Sam Altman was apparently one of the few who watched Terminator and The Matrix 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:22.320 and thought, hell yeah, sick. That's what I'm talking about. 00:05:22.320 --> 00:05:24.080 I hate the billet, John Connor. 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, 00:05:32.960 --> 00:05:36.400 which makes no concrete suggestions for how to regulate AI. 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:41.760 We're very much in the creating a committee to develop a framework for considering legislation 00:05:41.760 --> 00:05:45.200 stage of the regulatory process, and that part's important. 00:05:45.200 --> 00:05:50.560 Plus, that annual $32 billion is primarily intended for investment in non-military AI 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.200 innovation, so apparently we're going to regulate Sam Altman by giving him money. 00:05:55.840 --> 00:05:58.240 More AI? A2? 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, 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:12.400 including nudes, to reappear in users' photo albums, as if they were recent photos. 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:17.600 You don't want that. Dozens of users have reported encountering this issue, 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 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, 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:37.920 which is probably how the i-necromancers at Apple accidentally brought a bunch of elderly 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:41.200 dick pics back from the grave. The pics are elderly. 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:42.160 I don't know about the dicks. 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.600 Leaked internal documents from Dell show an extremely bullish attitude towards 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:55.040 Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite chips, which are set to launch imminently. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:59.760 Dell apparently already expects to include second-gen Snapdragon X Elite chips in its 00:06:59.760 --> 00:07:06.000 2026 laptop lineup, as well as a third generation for either 2027 or 2028, 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.840 depending on whether the AI has gotten us all by then. 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:13.680 These second-gen chips are expected to be even more efficient than their already 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:19.920 super-efficient predecessors, cutting the power draw of Dell's 2026 laptops down to 20W from 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, 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:30.160 so this is a bit like checking your parents' closet for your birthday present, 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.000 only to find several years' worth of future birthday presents. 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:37.040 And now everything's been ruined. There's no surprise. 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 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:50.880 cars being involved in a lot of crashes. Waymo crashes than necessary. 00:07:51.840 --> 00:07:59.760 Anyway, investigators have found 22 incidents where Waymo's cars collided with objects like 00:07:59.760 --> 00:08:05.360 gates, chains, and parked cars. Meanwhile, automakers as a whole have been put on notice 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:10.960 by the FTC to stop selling connected cars that illegally collect users' data. 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. 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:20.640 Nissan and Kia's privacy policies allow them to track your sexual activity, 00:08:21.440 --> 00:08:26.080 and the FTC is just watching. Gross. It was in the terms. 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:34.560 New York City will be testing AI-enabled gun scanners from a company called Evolve 00:08:34.640 --> 00:08:39.440 in its subway system, with Mayor Eric Adams saying an analysis of the scanner's accuracy 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:44.560 will be conducted, even though the city already tested Evolve scanners two years ago. 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:50.160 That test revealed the scanner's detections were actually false positives 85% of the time. 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:55.760 Another 14% of detections were cops. You'd think that math that disappointing would mean 00:08:55.760 --> 00:09:00.720 something to the education system, but apparently several U.S. states are still considering putting 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 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:10.640 underperformer, but that's usually reserved for star athletes who actually put points on the board. 00:09:10.640 --> 00:09:15.760 We gotta make it a championship this year! And TikTok is including chat GPT-generated 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. 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 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:33.280 used to that. Last September, the app tested supplementing its search results with links to 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:39.440 Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, and other websites, since many young people treat TikTok as a search engine, 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 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:48.000 fans' funnel accounts and confident misinformation. Or at least, there used to be. 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.