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- [Leann] This is Future Tech,

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(digital whoosh)

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where each week we discuss the
good, the bad, and the ugly

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of where tech is headed
in 2023 and beyond.

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(whooshing)

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Surprise, surprise. We are
back to talk more AI this week.

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Blake Montgomery joins us as
deputy editor over at Gizmodo

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and Blake, we have so much
to break down this week.

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Let's just start with one of
the bigger ones. Bard, right?

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It was released the, to the
GA, the general audience.

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- Yeah. You, me and everybody
else can now use Google's

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ChatGPT competitor, Bard. It's a chat bot.

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You might have used it already.

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Google has been prompting
users to sign up for it.

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They're adding AI to
Gmail and Google Docs.

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And Bard is its own, like,
conversational assistant.

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You talk to it, it's a little
less weird than ChatGPT.

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getting added to Bing, if you'll remember,

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it was saying that its
name was really Sidney.

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It had really strange hallucinations.

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Bard is much more toned down, much more

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kind of normal conversation.

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- Bard is like, I'm the business app.

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- Yeah. But Google is
like, we don't want things

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to look weird. We want to clamp down

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on anything strange or
aberrant that Bard might say.

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And so it is quite useful
and it is, you probably

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you've experienced something
like it using ChatGPT before.

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It's not so different.

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But, I think, I mean, Google is much,

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Google search is much
more popular than Bing,

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and so this marks a watershed
moment of AI getting released

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to an even larger swath of the population.

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Like, ChatGPT is a hundred
million users, they say

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and Google search has what?
Billions. Multiple billions.

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- I would kind of assume so, yeah.

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- It's the most popular site on the web.

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So this is a big, it's a big moment.

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- Okay. So that those efforts were

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in an effort to not be
weird, but we did see kind of

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a weirder rollout of some AI this week.

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Text to video rolled out, which, you know

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it was pretty cool to see.

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- Yeah, it's really interesting
and it's in that early stage

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you know though, those
first AI generated images

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that you saw that were
sort of like, they had the

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weird hands. The teeth
are kind of strange.

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The eyes might not quite be level, like

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- It was like a Simpsons
episode from like the nineties.

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- Completely.

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- Remember the the animation
was a little wonky.

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- [ Blake] Yeah, and text to video

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is in that stage right
now. You look at the video

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and you're like "I can
see something's off".

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Like this is actively
quite strange, but it is.

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You can now with several different kinds

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of generators that we've written about

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you can give it a text prompt,
give the AI a text prompt,

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and generate three, around
three seconds of video,

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of anything you really want.

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- Except for hands. It seems like

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the AI just can't get hands right.

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I mean what's, what's the
explanation? Do we know?

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- The things that I've read about that

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basically come down to,
it's hard to render hands,

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even for human artists.
And, so I think that's it.

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For me, it's the teeth. They
always weird me out in AI.

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There's always too many.

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- Do you remember when
Sonic The Hedgehog's teeth

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weirded everybody out?

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(laughing)

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- [Blake] Yeah, in the movie.

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- [Leann] Like it looked, they
look like real, like veneers.

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They were like, no, no. It was great.

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- [Blake] Yeah. It's like
on a strange furry hedgehog.

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He shouldn't have like
human teeth and kind of

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tiny human eyes.

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- Yeah, I hated that.
You know what else we saw

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this week is we actually
saw Stanford's kind

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of version of Meta's, right,
AI be taken down by Alpaca.

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- Mmmhmm. We saw some Stanford
researchers generate a copy

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so more or less of Meta's
large language model,

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which is called LLaMA,
which has not been released

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to the public. It has
been leaked on 4Chan,

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and some people have started
to mess around with it there.

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But we saw these researchers
kind of generate a copy

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for pretty low cost. It was around $600,

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which compared to Microsoft
has made super computers

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that are estimated to be tens of millions

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of dollars to train AI,
like ChatGPT, for open AI.

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And so the fact that
they could generate this,

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it was a team of about 10 people,

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It's really small, it's really low cost.

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They ended up taking it down
because the researcher said

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we don't have adequate safeguards
which is very responsible.

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And so it just is showing
that AI is like proliferating

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further, and further, and
further and eventually

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there'll be a lot of
different like homespun AIs.

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- Yeah, no, it's interesting
to, to watch it all unfold.

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Also, I mean, anything else
this week that you want to

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talk about? I know Adobe, I
believe even released something.

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- Yeah, there were a couple more moments

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of big blue chip tech
companies releasing AI.

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So Adobe released an
image generator that seems

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fairly standard at this point.

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There are a lot of image generators.

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Shutterstock released one in January.

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The other big moment
was also image related.

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Microsoft, which has integrated
ChatGPT, into Bing search

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like just for text, is adding
the DALL-E image generator,

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which is also made by open
AI, into Bing image search.

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So now you'll be able to prompt
Bing to generate an image

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in the same way that you would
like go to Dall-E and say

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I want an image of like a ponytail that

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runs down the castle. Like Rapunzel.

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We made, what did we make?

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- I'm halfway there.

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- What did we make the other day

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when we were writing about it?

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I think it was a monkey as
a cosmonaut running through

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a field of Bluebonnets
and did pretty well.

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(laughing)

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- [Leann] I'll have to go look for that.

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All right, of course. A lot
going on in the world of AI.

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For more stories on AI,
check out gizmodo.com.

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