Chapter 1: What is Perplexity's Computer feature and why is it underwhelming?
Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome. It is Tuesday, March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, and not a green among us. Very nice. Not a green. Behind Anne's shirt. It is. Andy's drinking green water. Anne's got actual plants. I've got plants. I've got plants.
Chapter 2: How does NVIDIA's NemoClaw differ from traditional AI agents?
Very green. Green plants. Only today. Only for St. Patrick's Day. I speak, so I got to know that. I mean, it's green, but it's... There's a curtain on the other side of that. That's green, but you know. It is episode 682 today. My name is Beth Lyons.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of local-first claw architectures?
I am hosting. With me in the studio today is Brian Mossery.
Chapter 4: How is ElevenLabs expanding its creative platform?
Mossery! Amode. Amode.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of humanoid combat robots in Ukraine?
Amode. Damn, I have that in my head. Do you say Amode? Are you one of those people, Beth? No, no, no. Brian says it because that's how his name is pronounced, right? You do the emphasis on the second syllable. So I have to hear Brian in my head say Amode.
also to be fair and i mispronounce almost everybody's name and andy and beth correct me all the time so there's really like i would say it's a modi or ammo day but it's it's not that i yeah there's last names right so it's i have elon musk or i have elon musk problems i it's a whole elon you have elon musk and like a really good guy i think mixed up or no no he's in
You have Epstein and... No, no, no. No, not Epstein. Eason Bollick and Elon Musk. Yes. Eason Bollick and Elon Musk. And now it's us, right? Because, like, we both go... Eason Bollick while we're doing it. Hey. Also in the studio is Anne Murphy and Andy Halliday. Excellent. So happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody. What has been happening in AI in your worlds? I mean...
The other thing I was going to bring up really quick, because I know there's other stuff about Jensen Huang, and there's been some cool NVIDIA stuff that kind of jumps off what Andy had yesterday. We should definitely talk about that too. But I'll tell you one of the things that just keeps coming back to mind. I'm going to actually bring it up on screen really quick, is Perplexity's computer.
Now, computer, not personal computer, which Andy, I know you signed up to get early access to. I don't believe that's happened just yet. No. This is just computer inside of Perplexity. And I mean, I'm kind of in it right now. And I keep getting emails because, you know, I'm an annual subscriber, user of Perplexity, which I'm happy to be.
But it keeps saying like, hey, Brian, don't you want to go back in there and build something with a computer? And I go, yep, that's right, I do.
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Chapter 6: Can AI act as a mediator in human relationships?
I want to go build something with a computer. The thing is, It's been a week now and I can't come up with like one thing that I think would be valuable to me that I would want to do in computer.
Chapter 7: How is AI fluency affecting reading and critical thinking skills?
And then just this is the news part of it that I want to do is like it's that news like in 24 last 24 hours. But what I have up on screen are the suggestions by perplexity on what I might be able to do with computer. And I really have to tell you, I'm just super underwhelmed. I don't know who needs to build an S&P 500 chart or, for that matter, an NVIDIA stock timeline or a Tesla stock timeline.
Those are all things I can instantly find online. I can find a thousand different rent-to-buy calculators. Now, if it's my specific situation or... Sorry, Andy, I wasn't sure if you were speaking or not. You're unmuted here. Yeah, I wasn't saying anything. But, you know, I don't know. I mean, index. I mean, maybe some presidential election stuff.
I could see some things that maybe my daughter would do in terms of research papers like this one over here. One of these is like a research paper.
Chapter 8: What future challenges do we face with AI and communication?
I forget which one somebody is. You know, one of their examples is, hey, let's build Windows 3.1. Look, I don't have more to add to this. I just like, maybe I'm missing it, but I can't figure out if that's what you're giving me perplexity in this era with what we know is possible with the cloud codes of the world. I feel like, wow, you should have come with something better.
But then again, maybe I'm not this hypocritical perplexity user. I just don't know who needs to build, rebuild stock tickers for something that's easily accessible. usable and findable on the web. Like why? So I don't know. Am I missing something? And am I missing something there?
So this has been an ongoing experience for me when I go in and I'm like, cool, they're going to show me use cases so I can just like fast forward to the stuff that's going to have an impact. And I look in there and I'm like, am I doing this wrong? Cause those things all seem really easy. Like they all exist out in the world.
And now we're trying to, I hate to use a metaphor like this, but like we're bringing a gun to a knife fight people. Why are we doing this? I've had that in Manus, in GenSpark, in computer. And the weakness of their use cases they gave me prevented me from buying or subscribing to computer. Because I was like, not inspired. I need a...
I need something to aspire to because I'm getting all my needs met elsewhere. But I do love perplexity. So I was very tempted. I'll say that just out of faith because they're so I love it. Love it. Okay, so I have a more positive experience of using a computer, a perplexed computer.
So, you know, one of the things that I've worked on historically over the past several years is this idea of generating a whole collection of series of memories, if you will, or documents that capture certain progressions that go through your life. And one of them that occurred to me, because I came across some pictures on an old hard drive of one of the early skis that I skied on.
And I was kind of amazed at what a rickety old pair they looked like. But these were professional skis at the time. And so I said, I want to get a photograph of each of the skis that I can recall having. And there's a lot of them over the course of my lifetime. And there's a progression in the technology that I want to capture. And so I asked computer to do that for me.
And so it entered into a dialogue with me, said, okay, we'll find the photos if we can. I'll look for those for you. And then as we get each in the succession of skis, I'll store that photo for you on your drive. And then we'll move on to the next one. And so I got drawn in last night to this interactive process with computer, perplexity computer.
And I've gotten all the way up to, I don't know, 1980 roughly. Okay. And it was really, really satisfying. I had a collaborative agent that was doing all the background work to collect those images and present them and doing deep research. It didn't just get the images. That wasn't the limit of it.
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