Best Smartglasses Podcasts (2024)

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Building AI for the Win! 21:43

15d ago21:43

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Episode Notes The Build AI initiative is designed to help shape the future of artificial intelligence with a focus on the experiences of blind and low vision people. Everette Bacon, Aira’s VP of Blindness Initiatives talks with Jenine about Build AI and how customers can get free Aira when opting in. We’ve also got a special contest for you to win …

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Convention Special: Putting the AI in Aira, ACB 2024 55:36

26d ago55:36

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Episode Notes You couldn’t go anywhere this convention season without hearing the letters A I. From ACB 2024, July 8 in Jacksonville, Florida, we bring you our presentation “Putting the A I in ira”. Learn more about all the things we announced and read our blog posts on our web site, https://aira.io. Find out more at https://airacast.pinecast.co Th…

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Convention Special: Breaking Barriers at NFB 2024 1:07:57

26d ago1:07:57

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We announced a lot of exciting things this year during our convention presentations starting with the July 4th NFB session, “Breaking Barriers”. Join our team in Orlando, Florida. More information is coming to Airacast about these initiatives so sit back and catch the energy of NFB 2024! You can learn more about Aira and read all of the blog posts …

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A quick look at ACCESS AI 9:13

1M ago9:13

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A quick review of the new features of Access AI, free to everyone in the Aira Explorer app. We cover preferences, chat history and multiple image description. Episode Notes Find out more at https://airacast.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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AWE 2024 Panel Discussion: Current State and Future Direction of AR Glasses 56:00

1M ago56:00

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I moderated a panel at the recent AWE conference that took place a couple of weeks ago in Long Beach, California. The panel featured Karl Guttag from KGOnTech, Adi Robertson from the Verve, Jeri Ellsworth from Tilt Five, and Ed Tang from Avegant. The session was titled: Current State and Future Direction of AR Glasses and the session description re…

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Making the Most of Aira during Convention Season 49:20

2M ago49:20

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Episode Notes National conventions are upon us and this year is huge for Aira. Everette Bacon, VP of Blindness Initiatives, will give us news on pricing and plans. Then he and Jenine Stanley will talk NFB and ACB conventions. Carla Kane, Manager, Learning and Development, tells us about the emphasis on navigation training that was shaped with custo…

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Generative AI News Rundown - A Deep Dive Into ChatGPT-4o, Gemini Upgrades and Intrigue & More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 381 1:13:39

2M ago1:13:39

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OpenAI introduced GPT-4o as a new model and the foundation for ChatGPT. The company also offered more than a dozen videos and other use case examples, which enabled us to break down many of the nuances enabled by the new model. Is this the voice assistant everyone always wanted? A day later, Google debuted its latest updates for Gemini and offered …

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Generative AI News Rundown - Shadow AI, Bedrock Studio, Mistralmentum, GitHub Copilot, Stack Overflow, Open AI & More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 380 1:06:29

2M ago1:06:29

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Key stories in this episode include shadow AI arriving via employees, Meta’s secret generative AI strategy, and a new framework for entertainment applications powered by the technology. There are also six stories about big funding rounds and several products adding generative AI-powered features. Generative AI News Top Story of the Week 🔦 Employees…

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Generative AI News Rundown - LLM Palooza with Llama, Mistral, Phi & Grok, Plus New Funding, Adobe, Apple, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 379 1:03:52

2M ago1:03:52

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Over two recent weeks a landslide of stories mostly revolved around large language models (LLM). Llama 3 was the biggest news, but the debut of new models by Microsoft, Mistral, and X.ai also pointed to a downstream impact. We also have a couple of nine-figure funding rounds, a nine-figure acquisition, and a new unicorn valuation is confirmed. Read…

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Generative AI News Rundown - Google Talks Agents, Mistral Surprises, Elon Musk Raising Billions and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 378 1:03:09

2M ago1:03:09

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For you today, we have updates around Google Cloud Next, the LLM announcement gauntlet continues, new funding rounds, and text-to-music apps. This week’s news concludes with a discussion around the shortcomings of autoregressive large language models (LLM) and why the technology is unlikely to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). Read the…

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Generative AI News Rundown - Debunking Myths, Plus Anthropic, X.ai, Databricks, OpenAI, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 377 58:33

2M ago58:33

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We begin this week with three thematic discussions. Generative AI myths reviews the recent Stargate rumors and why journalists are so easily co-opted into publishing stories that may have a seed of truth shrouded in impractical, nonsensical claims. We also discuss three news items highlighting how generative AI is transforming the search market and…

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Generative AI News Rundown - Pi-crosoft, Unusual Inflection, Google + Apple, GPT-5, Anthropic, Grok-1, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 376 1:02:30

2M ago1:02:30

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We begin with an in-depth discussion of Microsoft’s not-quite acquisition of Inflection AI and the billion-dollar startup’s recent large language model (LLM), which appears to approach GPT-4-level performance. We carry on with the LLM roundup with a review of Grok-1’s open-source debut, Apple’s discussions with Google about using Gemini for the iPh…

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Generative AI News Rundown - Gigantic Context Window, Gemma Open-Source, NVIDIA, Mistral, Klarna & More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 375 1:01:52

2M ago1:01:52

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Google dominated the generative AI news earlier in 2024. The unexpected introduction of Gemini 1.5 is covered in depth, and guest host Allen Firstenberg discusses his first-hand experience testing the model. We also cover the Gemma open-source models and Google’s latest PR misstep related to its image generation. Also on tap are discussions around …

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Paul Travers (Vuzix) on Enhancing Real-World Engagement with Smartglasses 1:09:25

3M ago1:09:25

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Paul Travers is the Founder and CEO of Vuzix, a pioneer in wearable computing, augmented reality, waveguide optics, and display engines. Prior to Vuzix, Paul was an engineer at Eastman Kodak, innovating the future of digital cameras. He went on to become a serial entrepreneur, having started multiple hardware technology companies, including in soun…

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Getting to Know Access AI 51:08

3M ago51:08

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Episode Notes Airacast is celebrating global Accessibility Awareness Day! In this episode we take a look at Aira’s new Access AI feature. You have a number of ways to get image descriptions and other information both from inside the Aira app and through the share sheet. This includes access to verification or direct connection to our visual interpr…

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Deepfake Detection with Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan - Voicebot Podcast Ep 374 1:10:22

3M ago1:10:22

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Vijay Balasubramaniyan is the CEO and co-founder of Pindrop. He first joined me on the podcast way back in 2019 for episode 86. I still recommend people listen to that episode. You will learn a lot about voice authentication. In 2021, Vijay returned for episode 193. We now have him three years later and the topic is new. Deepfakes and voice clones …

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Joanna Czajka of Opera on Adding Generative AI to Web Browsing - Voicebot Podcast Ep 373 1:11:39

3M ago1:11:39

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Joanna Czajka joined me to discuss how her team integrated OpenAI technology into the Opera browser to provide more value to users. She goes into the journey that started with rethinking the browsing experience and being midstream in that process when ChatGPT launched. That led to more rethinking of the experience and the introduction of several ge…

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The 150th Kentucky Derby with Aira 1:37:30

3M ago1:37:30

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Episode Notes IN the second of our Events series we bring you coverage of the 2024 Kentucky Derby. The race was exciting but there’s so much more to the spectacal of the 150th running of this first jewel in the Triple Crown. Our visual interpreters give you background on the fashions, the horses and jockeys with a feed live from Churchill Downs. Qu…

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L.Michelle Salvant (LMichelleMedia) on Transforming Mental Health Through Camera Glasses 1:13:07

3M ago1:13:07

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L.Michelle Salvant has been wearing smart glasses daily for years, harnessing their potential to enhance personal therapy, healing, and self-discovery. Her engagement with wearable technology began as a Google Glass Explorer, which sparked her interest in documenting and reflecting on life’s moments through what she developed as “Immersive Journali…

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Total Eclipse of the Park 2024 1:45:08

4M ago1:45:08

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Aira Events: Total Eclipse of the Park 2024 Eclipse coverage Our customers asked for more visual interpreting at live events. We’re starting that coverage with the solar eclipse of 2024. Professional visual interpreters will describe the activities both in the sky and on the ground at the Total Eclipse of the Park event in Rochester, NY. In coopera…

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Introducing Access AI 22:21

5M ago22:21

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Episode Notes Airacast Introducing Access AI Aira has added AI image description and verification to our mobile and web apps. We’ve bridged that gap between AI and professional, secure human visual interpreters. In this episode we’ll take you through each of the features of Access AI. What differentiates it from other AI image solutions? Chapter ma…

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Alex Westner (Xander) on How Caption Glasses are Changing Lives for People with Hearing Loss 1:25:43

5M ago1:25:43

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Alex Westner is the CEO and co-founder of Xander, a company at the forefront of using augmented reality (AR) technology to create innovative solutions for individuals with hearing loss. Xander's product, live captioning AR smart glasses, allows users to engage in conversations with real-time transcriptions displayed directly in their field of visio…

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Generative AI News Rundown - ChatGPT with Memory, Bard Becomes Gemini, Hugging Face, Frame Smartglasses & More - Voicebot Podcast 372 58:30

6M ago58:30

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We have 16 generative AI news stories from the first two weeks in February. The evolution of assistants topped the news with ChatGPT, Gemini (aka Google Bard), and Hugging Chat. We break that down in depth and how memory and how generative AI personal assistants are attempting to fill in the gaps where their predecessors fell short. There is more f…

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Generative AI News Rundown - Taylor Swift + Biden Deepfakes, Azure Growth, Indian LLM, Yelp, Shopify, Etsy and More - Voicebot Podcast 371 53:09

6M ago53:09

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Here are fifteen generative AI news stories from the past week. Links to the articles are below, or you can watch the GAIN Rundown via YouTube above. Deepfakes and momentum by Microsoft topped the news this week, while positive moves by Google may have gone unnoticed. Plus, we have another deep dive into new retail-oriented solutions, new funding r…

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Generative AI News Rundown - ChatGPT Goes to College, The Government Investigates Gen AI, Google Faces Precarious Choices, and More - 370 1:00:58

6M ago1:00:58

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We have sixteen generative AI news stories again for you this week on the Generative AI News Rundown (GAIN). Watch the video discussion above or click the links below to read the news. ChatGPT went to college this week as Arizona State University announced a partnership with OpenAI, while Washington State adopts new generative AI guidelines encoura…

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Generative AI News Rundown - Meta's GPU Hoard, ByteDance Models, Deceptive LLMs, Copilot, Google, 1X, and More - Ep 369 58:49

6M ago58:49

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Sixteen generative AI news stories from the past weeks were on the agenda for this week’s edition of GAIN. You can watch the video discussion above or click the links below to read the news. Meta, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, Anthropic, Amazon, Walmart, McKinsey, 1x, Will.i.am, and more all had news this week. Eric Schwartz, head writer of…

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Zac Duff (JigSpace) on Embodied Cognition and Leveraging AI + Spatial Computing to Transform Communication 1:22:34

6M ago1:22:34

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Zac Duff is the co-founder and CEO of JigSpace, a company focused on making it simple to create and share 3D instructions for anything, or, as their tag line suggests, making the hard to explain hard to forget. If you’ve watched the introduction of the Apple Vision Pro, or seen the demos or device itself, then you’ve had a glimpse of JigSpace when …

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Nils Pihl (Auki Labs) on Augmented Reality as Spatially Enhanced Communication 1:41:13

6M ago1:41:13

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Nils Pihl returns as our guest for a second time on the podcast. He is the CEO and founder of Auki Labs, a company dedicated to revolutionizing augmented reality positioning. Auki’s technology uses peer-to-peer communication to establish a distributed spatial computing protocol. In this episode, we revisit some of the themes from the first episode,…

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Generative AI News Rundown - CES, GPTs, ChatGPT Team, Rabbit, Perplexity, and Much More - Voicebot Podcast 368 58:08

7M ago58:08

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We highlighted 19 generative AI news stories from early January in the latest episode of GAIN. Watch the video discussion above or read the news through the links below. CES is the featured segment at the top, with some hits and misses but mostly misses. We also have news from OpenAI with two ChatGPT announcements. That is followed by news from Goo…

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Generative AI News - OpenAI's New Board Powers, Gemini v GPT-3 & 4, Copilot Music, Instagram, and More - Voicebot Podcast 367 59:33

7M ago59:33

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Google once again made our featured story section with an independent benchmark performance analysis of the Gemini Pro LLM compared with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. We go into more depth about the benchmarks and how to interpret the results. Channel 1 says it’s positioned to change the news media with its virtual human avatar-delivered stories and Accenture…

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Michael Hoffman (IQXR) on Solving the Hard Problems for Enterprises 1:26:26

7M ago1:26:26

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Michael Hoffman, or “Hoff” as most know him, is the co-founder and CEO at IQXR, a company solving the hardest problems facing global-scale, enterprise XR deployments, and doing so with an open source approach. Previously Michael spent nearly a decade working with the Microsoft Hololens team. He was a Principal Engineering Lead at Microsoft for a co…

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Generative AI News Highlights - Gemini, Grok, Mistral, Microsoft, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 366 1:02:55

8M ago1:02:55

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Google ranks as our featured story section with the launch of the Gemini LLM and the new AI Studio. Mistral and Microsoft were other big newsmakers with the introduction of small LLMs this past week. And there is a lot on the new product and funding front, the EU AI Act, an OpenAI and news media tie-up, and a lot more. Generative AI News Featured S…

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Generative AI News This Week - ChatGPT Turns 1, Anthropic's and Inflection's New Models, SoapBox Labs Acquired, Amazon Q & More - Voicebot Podcast 365 59:09

8M ago59:09

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To say November closed with a flurry of generative AI news is a severe understatement. OpenAI almost melted down pulled it back together, and then we had a birthday for a little product called ChatGPT. Nearly every OpenAI competitor attempted to seize on the company’s turmoil and ramped up their visibility for sales, product announcements, or fundr…

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OpenAI Fallout Developer Panel - Voicebot Podcast 364 59:44

8M ago59:44

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Today, we have a special episode that was recorded in the midst of the OpenAI management saga where CEO Sam Altman was fired and then hired back. While the management issues have been updated, I thought you might like a window into how developers were thinking about this incident and how the harm in reputation and relationships won't soon be resolv…

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Generative AI News - OpenAI Hegemony, Copilots Everywhere, Unity, Picsart, Symphony AI and More - Voicebot Podcast 363 59:47

8M ago59:47

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This week continues the theme of market shift. Satya Nadella correctly aligned with the generative AI zeitgeist in focusing on practical applications of the technology. Individuals and companies have moved past bewilderment and wonder and now want to begin implementing and adopting solutions that offer tangible value. Eric Schwartz, head writer of …

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Developers GPTs Showcase Roundtable - Voicebot Podcast 362 52:06

8M ago52:06

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GPTs enable users to create a custom ChatGPT experience for themselves and others. Developers gathered to discuss their early creations using OpenAI's latest innovation and wat they've learned.By Bret Kinsella

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Yi Xu (OPPO) on OPPO's Role in the Coming Age of AR Smartglasses 1:02:50

8M ago1:02:50

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Yi Xu is the director of XR Technology at OPPO, a leading Android smartphone company that's innovating in AR with their Air Glass product line. Prior to OPPO, Yi received a PhD in computer science, specializing in computer vision. He utilized these skills as computer scientist and engineer at GE Global Research and CapsoVision, working on a number …

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Generative AI News - Grok, OpenAI Dev Day, GitHub Copilot, Aleph Alpha & More - Voicebot Podcast 361 1:05:36

8M ago1:05:36

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Your Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is here. This week represents a market shift. OpenAI Dev Day is the biggest news, but Grok from x.ai/Twitter/X, GitHub Copilot, a big cyber attack, and other stories depict a rapidly shifting market. We saw shifts earlier this year, but many seemed reactionary or random. Today, everything seems much more inten…

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Ibig Sabihin Podcast Kasama Si Andy Valero: US Army Infantryman at 101st Airborne Division, Life and Discipline At The Military, Journey From Tondo Manila To United States of America 1:55:53

9M ago1:55:53

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I first met Andy at one of the League of Legends community LAN parties more or less half a decade ago. Now, the street-smart kid from Tondo is serving the American people as a member of the United States Military. After years of being in the US and almost forgetting how to speak good, old Tagalog, we chat about his life in his second homeland. Andy…

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Bobak Tavangar (Brilliant Labs) on the Power of Combining Open Source AR Hardware and Multimodal AI 1:05:56

9M ago1:05:56

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Bobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world. Bobak studied at George Washington and Georgetown universities before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University. Bobak is a …

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Kirin Sinha (Illumix) on Creating Digital Infrastructure for Real-World Venues 1:10:42

9M ago1:10:42

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Kirin Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Illumix, a company building the digital infrastructure for real world venues. You may be familiar with Illumix if you’re a fan of the horror franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and the mobile game, Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery. While the game found a tremendous amount of success, the company …

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Ibig Sabihin Podcast Kasama Si Francesca Palabrica: Nuclear Physics, Miss Universe Muntinlupa 2021, Educational Content Creator, Nuke Energy In The Philippines for Filipinos 1:11:48

9M ago1:11:48

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In this episode, we dive into the multifaceted life of Francesca Palabrica, a dynamic presence in both the scientific world and the arts. From her role as a physicist to her experiences as Miss Universe Philippines contestant, Frankie tells how she merges these diverse worlds. We talk about the challenges and triumphs she’s faced along the way, get…

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OpenAI Dev Day Rundown with Developer Panel - Voicebot Podcast 360 1:07:31

9M ago1:07:31

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OpenAI Dev Day offered the industry a lot of new announcements and useful features. GPTs offer a no-code ChatGPT customization option for users, the Assistant API provides new features for developers, and GPT-4 Turbo is more capable and less expensive to use for chat use cases than 3.5, and maybe GPT-4 itself. If you would like a 12-point rundown o…

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Generative AI News - Deepfake Market Data, Biden AI Rules, Anthropic Gets $2B, LexisNexis, ChatGPT, RedPajama & More - Ep 359 1:04:33

9M ago1:04:33

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The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for November 3, 2023 is here. Just when we thought it might be a slow news week, it just pours in. Eighteen stories this week! Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week 🔦 Deepfake consumer sentiment - Key findings from a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults shed new light on consumer awareness, experience, and con…

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Evan Rose (Rose Digital) on Adding Value and the Challenges of Leading a Fast Growing Company 1:09:58

10M ago1:09:58

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Evan Rose is the founder and president of Rose Digital, a company specializing in using augmented reality to help brands engage and delight their customers. Beyond that, Rose Digital serves as an innovation partner for its clients. On the side, Evan is the founder of AR Post, one of the leading news sources for AR and VR. He’s also the co-founder a…

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Ibig Sabihin Podcast Kasama Si Karl "Rockhart" To: Professional Esports, Shoutcasting, Sibol PH, Content Creation, Livestreaming, Self Improvement 49:41

10M ago49:41

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What happens if you combine ambition with dedication to the craft? Rockhart drops some serious insight on being an eSports vet. Rockhart, also known as John Agustin Karl To, is a well-known figure in the esports industry. He began his career as a shoutcaster by commentating on video game matches, impressing viewers with his analysis and entertainin…

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Amazon Bedrock GM Talks Generative AI Model Choice, Titan LLM, and Customer Obsession - Voicebot Podcast 358 1:10:43

10M ago1:10:43

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Atul Deo, general manager for Amazon Bedrock, the generative AI service from AWS, recently shared the company’s view on the industry, use cases, technology, and how Amazon is serving its customers. Thoughout the hour-long interview, Deo talked about his experience with machine learning in customer contact center applications, transcription services…

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Two Weeks of Generative AI News - SEO in Crisis, OpenAI Economics, Midjourney, Google, Baidu, NVIDIA & More - Voicebot Podcast 357 1:01:03

10M ago1:01:03

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This week’s Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown covers two weeks of news. Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai and I jammed in 16 different news stories and a few other tidbits in this double roundup. Featured stories this week include: OpenAI Economics - OpenAI is generating a lot of revenue from ChatGPT Plus subscriptions and API usage by software provider…

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Generative AI News - OpenAI Chips, Adobe and Canva Bring Generative AI to Design, Spotify, Opera, Observe, ElevenLabs & More - Voicebot Podcast 356 1:00:09

10M ago1:00:09

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This week’s Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown focuses more on features and economics than foundation models. Featured stories this week include: Adobe and Canva show the marketers new tool sets - Adobe introduced a new list of features, upgraded Firefly models and a new text-to-vector-image model that will make manipulating AI generative images eas…

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Generative AI News This Week - Meta's AI Adventures, Bard on Assistant, MrBeast, Cohere, LinkedIn and More - Voicebot Podcast 355 55:36

10M ago55:36

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Here is today’s Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown that kicks off a new month and a new quarter. It looks like October is going to be just as active as September. Featured stories this week include: Deepfake scams more frequent - Recent deepfakes of MrBeast and Tom Hanks highlight the proliferation of deepfake-fueled fraud and the lack of detection …

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