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Today’s show:
Jason and Sunny make a bunch of predictions and bet $1000 on each for the upcoming year in AI.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason to make some 2024 AI bets
(4:46) Bet 1: There will be a top 100 song created by AI
(10:22) Power dynamics in the music industry and its intersection with AI
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(14:34) Bet 2: There will be AI capable of JCAL doing an TWiST Segment
(18:51) Bet 3: There will be a AI-generated Pixar short that has made it into mainstream
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(29:06) Bets 4 and 5: We see a small model deployed locally on on iphone/android
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(49:34) Bet 6: Multimodal Models are #1 by usage AND open-source multi modal beats out closed source
(52:00) LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant
(58:04) The potential implications of the New York Times lawsuit
(1:10:01) OpenAI's financial success, copyright lawsuits, and the potential of Disney and the New York Times in AI
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LINKS:
Midjourney: https://www.tiktok.com/@controllaxyz/video/7319184981987839263?_r=1&_t=8igobwQ1dzq
AI Drake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhVuQ06tO3M
AI Spongebob: https://twitter.com/Teridax/status/1741205766046888149
AI Pixar: https://twitter.com/eyishazyer/status/1741418522448986492
TinyLlama: https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0
Llava: https://llava-vl.github.io/
Suno AI: https://www.suno.ai/
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Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland
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