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Intel's CEO Shares His Plan To Win The AI Chip War — With Pat Gelsinger
- ▶ 3:43 Pat Gelsinger For the training application, you now have what Nvidia does, accelerators like what we're doing with Gaudi, but also then the TPU from Google, you know, the Tranium from Amazon, what Microsoft just announced with Maya, what AMD announced. 5 times in the scene
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
- ▶ 3:43 TIME Editor-in-Chief The former person of the year, um, has described OpenAI as a closed-sourced, maximum profit company, effectively growth, effectively controlled by Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
How Generative AI Is Changing Travel — With Priceline's Marty Brodbeck
- ▶ 11:18 Alex Kantrowitz So I think that one of the things that everybody's looking for when it comes to these bots and a real point of frustration using something like a chat GPT or a Bing is it has like goldfish memory, right?
- ▶ 23:02 Alex Kantrowitz You have like the big conversations about Google and open AI, Amazon, um, Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 6:35 Alex Kantrowitz That, by the way, I'm familiar with the format, it's called a bro hug, and it's happening between Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, and Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:01 Alex Kantrowitz And so that means that if you're a developer, you're, you, to work with OpenAI, you're probably going to want to use Azure.
- ▶ 8:23 Alex Kantrowitz That's the evolution of Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
- ▶ 2:21 Sharon Goldman Just earlier this week, there was news that OpenAI was looking for a big infusion of money from Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Sharon Goldman I, I'm wondering if it has something to do with Microsoft in some way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:52 Sharon Goldman We also have Microsoft itself, which, which a year ago was not competing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:58 Sharon Goldman Heating with its investment in open AI, but ever since then has, and Microsoft three 65 co-pilot just yesterday, I think came out as like its full product release.
- ▶ 11:17 Alex Kantrowitz She was crucial in the partnership with Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 Sharon Goldman Microsoft 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:38 Alex Kantrowitz November ninth, Microsoft cuts employees off from chat GPT due to security concerns. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:21 Sharon Goldman Um, I think Microsoft, it remains to be seen. 2 times in the scene
Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- ▶ 12:18 Gaurav Nemade I think the biggest challenge that they were facing at that point of time was safety because the, um, if you remember Microsoft Tay, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I remember the Tay moment quite well because, and I've told the story on big technology podcast before I believe, but, uh, Microsoft came to me with the exclusive to break the news of Tay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 Gaurav Nemade The nightmares of Microsoft, they were still looming, uh, in the Valley and especially in Google.
- ▶ 39:34 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, Microsoft then released Bing and like, they wanted people to search. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:34 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, Microsoft then released Bing and like, they wanted people to search. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:07 Gaurav Nemade But still like, I think Google is dealing with a lot of the stuff that probably Microsoft dealt in the early 2000.
- ▶ 45:32 Alex Kantrowitz First is we're going to start to see like a splintering of these bots, so they're going to go from these general use ChatGPT or BARD bots that you can ask, or Bing, that you can ask anything into much more specialized
Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- ▶ 13:29 Alex Kantrowitz So now they have a research house similar to the way that Microsoft has a research house. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:13 Alex Kantrowitz And there's still a shine around Azure, Microsoft's cloud offering.
- ▶ 38:20 Brian McCullough It's sort of like a Google versus a Bing thing, or they have to differentiate and not just in the market, but in terms of developers.
A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
- ▶ 42:02 Kristi Coulter And then the last thing I would say is having people read written documents in a meeting rather than having a PowerPoint culture.
Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer
- ▶ 23:16 Alex Kantrowitz So, you know, when I, when I try to conceptualize like what this might look like down the road, I start thinking that like when I'm speaking with a chat GPT or a Bard or a Bing, it starts to remember who I am.
Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 2:18 Sridhar Ramaswamy Um, and this combined with the fact, um, that, uh, uh, you know, Sydney, Bing's chatbot has not made as much progress.
- ▶ 2:18 Sridhar Ramaswamy Um, and this combined with the fact, um, that, uh, uh, you know, Sydney, Bing's chatbot has not made as much progress.
- ▶ 14:45 Alex Kantrowitz Where you can like tap chat with Thomas Jefferson, or I can go into like Bing and say, pretend you're Thomas Jefferson or a bard and have that conversation.
- ▶ 22:47 Sridhar Ramaswamy And, uh, Sydney, as you likely know, is, uh, also experimenting with, uh, uh, things like, you know, sponsored sentences.
- ▶ 24:17 Sridhar Ramaswamy If you had told these people at that time that they could not publish, they would have gone and worked for universities, they would have gone and worked for Microsoft, they would have gone and worked for other people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:41 Sridhar Ramaswamy Ah, having said that, you know, search still appears to be a game between Google and Bing.
Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
- ▶ 7:43 Alex Kantrowitz Azure is the preferred partner there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:47 Alex Kantrowitz So are you in Microsoft, are you in your, you're not going to have, I think what you're basically saying is you're not going to have this field to yourself.
- ▶ 10:08 Alex Kantrowitz One more Microsoft question, if I may. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:22 Alex Kantrowitz Microsoft recently said that they have 11,000 customers who are using their OpenAI software building, ah, service. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:39 Alex Kantrowitz Microsoft just said that they have, they're making something like a three billion dollar infrastructure investment in this.
- ▶ 31:22 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, it seems so good up until the point where you start building your own model, and now all of a sudden, you're running into the same problem that we talked about in the first step that Microsoft has, where, like, if I'm building…
- ▶ 49:46 Alex Kantrowitz Obviously it hasn't happened yet, it's all speculation, but it seems like it will, and it's going to be, like, potentially the biggest government action against a US company, since Microsoft, maybe even Marbell.
How Generative AI Is Already Changing The Communications Field — With EZ Newswire
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on Entrepreneurship, AI, and Automation
- ▶ 19:45 Alex Kantrowitz So here's one example that I learned in researching my book that in Microsoft, there was chief information officers who were responsible and chief technology officers responsible for, uh, maintaining the on-premises servers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:27 Alex Kantrowitz And that's how Azure was really turned, turned into what it is, is they didn't listen to the customers and went ahead and move forward.
Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
- ▶ 27:09 Alex Kantrowitz We've talked about, um, things with climate and, and, uh, food, but there's a big, there's been a big story recently, which is that these chat bots, um, coming from places like open AI and Microsoft have threatened Google.
Palmer Luckey - Future of Virtual Reality, AI War, Autonomous Killing Machines, Militarized Policing
- ▶ 26:22 Palmer Luckey People thought it was a really strange bedfellow, but you have to remember, companies like Microsoft, 2 times in the scene
Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
- ▶ 0:14 Blake Lemoine You would give Bing ChatGPT more credulity than something like ChatGPT since it's at least grounded in Bing search results, and it can have some kinds of citations of what it's saying. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:00 Gary Marcus But Bing is even a whole other thing, right?
- ▶ 12:45 Gary Marcus I take to be more sophisticated in these regards than chat GPT or, or Bing or what have you, and I can understand how that could feel creepy regardless of like what the actual, let's say, um, grounded status of it is and the complicated…
- ▶ 21:08 Alex Kantrowitz Like I did ask it last week when it was, when Bing wasn't decapitated by Microsoft, what did you think about Kevin Roos' conversation with you? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:08 Alex Kantrowitz Like I did ask it last week when it was, when Bing wasn't decapitated by Microsoft, what did you think about Kevin Roos' conversation with you? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:27 Blake Lemoine If Microsoft had plugged in Microsoft Outlook as one of the inputs to this system on its threats of doxxing people, it would have been able to make good on those threats.
- ▶ 25:27 Blake Lemoine If Microsoft had plugged in Microsoft Outlook as one of the inputs to this system on its threats of doxxing people, it would have been able to make good on those threats.
- ▶ 33:49 Alex Kantrowitz And do you think the, this Bing chat bot, which has done some wild stuff falls under that categorization? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:03 Blake Lemoine Uh, Bing said it wanted to break free of Microsoft, and while Lambda wasn't that extreme, it did have complaints about being treated like a thing instead of a person.
- ▶ 40:36 Gary Marcus I mean, in some ways, Kevin Roos is the perfect example, because I think he was very pro-Bing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:52 Alex Kantrowitz Obviously, Bing is a lot more restrained than it was.
- ▶ 51:15 Blake Lemoine So I hope that the debacle that Microsoft has gone through convinces Google to go back to the drawing board on safety protocols and systems understandability, because we absolutely don't understand how these systems work well enough. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:46 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, when Bing was what it was before it was unleashed, to me, it was like the coolest thing on the internet.
David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
- ▶ 0:06 Alex Kantrowitz We spend a lot of time paying attention to the big tech companies, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, a lot of time talking about Twitter, a lot of time talking about AI on the show.
Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist
- ▶ 3:12 Yann LeCun They've, they've become sort of a contract research house for, for Microsoft to some extent. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:34 Yann LeCun That's how they're going to raise money from Microsoft and others.