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Nish Kumar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3865 total appearances

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Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Basically, the only episode I can find is called Is Britain's Benefit System Broken?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

So just on a technical side, how do you build a bot like this?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

How do you go about doing it?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Because obviously it synthesized your voice as well.

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Yes, yes.

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

So what are you doing?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Are you just plugging in every single thing you've written or said publicly to generate that?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

And most people don't.

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Before we let you go, it would be a shame for us to have you here and not ask you about the biggest news in AI right now.

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

So in March, OpenAI shut down its AI video generator, Sora, after launching a new app for it just five months earlier.

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

You'll have seen...

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

people using Sora to create bizarre videos like dogs driving cars, the queen rapping or ordering jerk chicken.

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

But the shuttering of the video generator comes after Disney withdrew from a billion dollar deal with it to license its characters in the video creation AI.

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Jamie, why do you think this has happened?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

And does this show you how sort of volatile the market is really?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

I mean, we're constantly told that, you know, all of our investment is moving towards AI and

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Ann Pettifer, The Economist, was on this show a couple of weeks ago saying that she's concerned that the AI bubble is going to burst and she was sort of comparing it to the 2008 financial crisis.

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Is this a concern from a sort of economic perspective because of how much of our investments are tied up with AI?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

Or is this just a simple example of Sora maybe not being as effective as people thought it was, so Disney not wanting to give over their IP to something that was actually a bit shit as a piece of tech?

Pod Save the UK
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett

They don't want to see Mickey get pegged by Minnie.