The Best One Yet
BONUS 🤖 “The AI Pod” — Our Best Artificial Intelligence stories from 2024
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
(ChatGPT says these are the best AI stories in the whole business news industry):#1. Every dating app stock is down this year except for 1: Grindr… because Wall Street fell in love with Grindr’s AI wingman. (7/1/2024)#2. Scarlett Johansson lawyered up after OpenAI tried to rip-off her voice… it’s move fast and break things all over again. (5/22/2024)#3. We found a social network with zero humans — but billions of bots… Because on SocialAI, you have 1M followers, but none are real. (9/20/2024)Share this episode with your techiest buddy… or send it to a robot.We’ll be back on Monday, January 6th, with our regular TBOY podcasts. But look out for more bonus pods from us dropping over the holidays.And if you crave more business storytelling from us? Check out our weekly deepdive show: “The Best Idea Yet”: The untold origin stories of the products you’re obsessed with. From the McDonald’s Happy Meal to Birkenstock’s sandal to Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly. Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.—-----------------------------------------------------Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts FOR MORE NICK & JACK: Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/ Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/ SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What are the top AI stories of 2024?
This is Nick. This is Jack. And today's artificially intelligent pod is the best one yet. It's a T-boy. The top three AI stories you need to know today. Jack, you are glowing over there because yetis, we're on vacation right now, but we still whipped up a week of bonus episodes for you. And today, it's the best of AI. Yes, it is. Our best stories of the year on artificial intelligence.
So Yetis, send this episode to your techiest of buddies. Or better yet, send it to your buddy who isn't techie. Yeah. But wants to understand what's going on with AI.
Or send it to a robot.
Before they send it to us.
We're going to send it to Sam Altman because he keeps texting us and we're like, Sam, fine, we'll make an AI show.
All right. He's a listener of the show. But Jack, three stories for today's bonus pod. What do we got? For our first story, we're going back to July 1st, when every dating app stock was down except for one, Grindr. Grindr. Grindr was up because Wall Street was already falling in love with Grindr's AI wingman. For our second story, we're going to May 22nd.
Scarlett Johansson was lawyering up after OpenAI tried to rip off her voice for their latest chatbot. Because in AI, it's move fast and break things all over again. And our third and final story is from September 20th. We found a social network with zero humans, but billions of bots. Billions. On social AI, you have 1 million followers. None of them are real people.
But that's okay. That's okay. Is it okay? It's okay. We'll discuss if it's okay.
But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of AI stories, Jack. Love. It's easy to say, but hard to describe. AI. Also easy to say. Also hard to describe. That's why all year long, our goal has been to find headlines, stories, examples, and analogies, plus some fantastic takeaways to help us all understand AI.
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Chapter 2: Why is Grindr's stock rising in the AI space?
But Scarlett Johansson declined. She didn't want her voice to be the voice of the chatbot that we all use in the future. Yeah, she didn't want to Siri herself, is what we're saying. But then last year, Sam Altman gave a speech, and he referenced the movie Her. He couldn't stop thinking about the voice from the movie Her.
He said that voice from the movie Her was the inspiration for chat GPT products. And then last week, Sam Altman tweeted one word during the OpenAI demonstration that we all saw. And what was that word, Jack? Her. And now we just met Sky, the new voice of ChatGPT, who sounds just like Scarlett Johansson. Exhibit A, the defense rests their case, Jack.
It seems like Sam Altman is obsessed with the movie Her, obsessed with the voice of the AI in the movie Her, and just launched a chatbot that sounds just like the voice in the movie Her, which belongs to Scarlett Johansson. So besties, let's just put aside the problem with always selecting female voices for voice assistants for a moment. Alexa and Siri, you know what we're talking about.
Now ScarJo is considering suing OpenAI for an attempt to impersonate her voice without her permission. As if Hollywood needed another reason not to trust AI. Colin Joust, Weekend Update. Your turn. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at OpenAI? The AI industry is making tech's biggest mistake again. Moving fast and breaking things.
Quick reminder here, but one year ago, Jack and I did a pod on how thousands of scientists asked AI leaders to pause AI. They asked to pause the development of AI because AI could inadvertently take over human beings. They wrote that it was an existential threat to mankind in the future.
All right, well, Jack, it's been one year since then, and what does the situation look like right now, man?
Well, Sam Altman is the leader of AI, and he's done the opposite of pausing. Yeah, it is. Instead of pausing AI, it appears Sam Altman has moved really fast and seems to be breaking a bunch of things along the way. One example, OpenAI was sued by the New York Times and other publishers for digesting and regurgitating their paywall journalism without their consent.
Well, just like Zuck, Sam Altman is breaking rules and norms to stay ahead of the market. And just like Zuck a decade ago, He doesn't mind if he breaks things along the way.
In fact, OpenAI just disbanded the entire internal team that was focused on ethics and safety at OpenAI.
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Chapter 3: What happened between Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI?
You pick like a mix of personalities that you want replying to your posts. And then you start posting your thoughts on social AI about anything, just like you would tweet about anything. But unlike in reality, your post is racking up likes and comments in the hundreds and the thousands immediately.
And we're looking at these comments and they're by people with pictures and names that look real commenting on your post. It's a wild experience.
Yeah, the comments are like, you're so right, Jack. You got an awesome idea right there. Or like, I can't believe you, Jack, wore that shirt. It looks great on you, man.
But it's not just all cheerleading posts. Like some of the comments will be like, interesting thought, Jack. I have a critique for you though. And if you're looking to like have a little spicy time, you can choose to have trolls and haters in your follow mix who will throw a little shade at you. They're like classic Jack posts, all cookie, no crisp.
So you, the human being, get the experience of being a big influencer personality with all these followers, getting all these engagements and comments. But all those engagements and comments are the bots. Interesting use case for this app. If you have an idea for a tweet, but you're not sure about it, you could tweet it on this app. see how the AI bots respond.
And if you like the response, tweet it in real life. So Social AI has created a social media app for human beings that's 99.9% bots. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Social AI? This is the ultimate social experiment. So Jack and I jumped in T-boy style and fooled around with this product a bit, and frankly, we got a pretty satisfying feeling.
Getting a thousand comments and a million likes on a tweet, it feels powerful. Yeah, it is more viral than any of our posts have ever gone ever in history. But was that powerful, satisfied feeling kind of hollow, given that all the comments were not real human beings? Or was the satisfaction real? Because on social media, it's about the numbers. It doesn't matter about the authenticity.
The long-term success of social AI will answer that question. Do we use social networks to connect with followers or to count followers? In answering that question, social AI may be the ultimate social experiment. Yetis, those are the best AI stories of 2024. But now it's time for the best fact yet on AI for 2024. This is an important one.
AI actually requires 10 times more electricity than regular internet use. All right, Jackety, sprinkle on some context. What's another way we could translate that? Asking an AI chatbot a question requires 10 times more computing than asking Google a question. 10 times more. Besties, that is why the AI boom is also an energy boom. It's because ChatGPT is an electricity hog.
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