The Voicebot Podcast

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

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

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

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Key stories in this episode include shadow AI arriving via employees, Meta's secret generative AI strategy, and a new framework for entertainment appl...

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

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

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

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For you today, we have updates around Google Cloud Next, the LLM announcement gauntlet continues, new funding rounds, and text-to-music apps. This wee...

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

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We begin this week with three thematic discussions. Generative AI myths reviews the recent Stargate rumors and why journalists are so easily co-opted ...

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

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 mode...

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

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Google dominated the generative AI news earlier in 2024. The unexpected introduction of Gemini 1.5 is covered in depth, and guest host Allen Firstenbe...

Deepfake Detection with Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan - Voicebot Podcast Ep 374

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 peop...

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

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Goo...

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

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

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

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 throu...

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

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 G...

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

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 wi...

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

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

OpenAI Fallout Developer Panel - Voicebot Podcast 364

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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. Whil...

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

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week continues the theme of market shift. Satya Nadella correctly aligned with the generative AI zeitgeist in focusing on practical applications ...

Developers GPTs Showcase Roundtable - Voicebot Podcast 362

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

GPTs enable users to create a custom ChatGPT experience for themselves and others. Developers gathered to discuss their early creations using OpenAI's...

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

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

OpenAI Dev Day Rundown with Developer Panel - Voicebot Podcast 360

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 A...

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

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 stor...

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

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Atul Deo, general manager for Amazon Bedrock, the generative AI service from AWS, recently shared the company's view on the industry, use cases, techn...

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

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

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

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week's Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown focuses more on features and economics than foundation models. Featured stories this week include: Ado...

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

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Generative AI News - Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Bard, and Many More - Voicebot Podcast 354

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown wrapping up an active September had more big stories than any other week of the month. The tech giants were out ...

Generative AI News This Week - Alexa LLM, DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT, Mircosoft Copilot, Google Bard, Funding, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 353

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have another episode of the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown, which provides a live discussion of the week's top industry news. This week, the tec...

Generative AI News This Week - NVIDIA GPU Performance Gains, Roblox and Salesforce Copilots, Jobs at Risk from Generative AI and More - Voicebot Podcast 352

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for September 14, 2023 is here. We are seeing another acceleration in the news cycle. Featured stories this week...

Soapbox Labs Founder and Ireland's AI Ambassador Patricia Scanlon - Voicebot Podcast Ep 351

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Patricia Scanlon is the founder and executive chair of Soapbox Labs, the company behind the industry's leading automated speech recognition (ASR) for ...

Generative AI News This Week - Cloud Wars and LLMs, NVIDIA Revenue, Mailchimp, Hubspot, Intuit, Zoom, OpenAI, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 350

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We return this week with the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for September 8, 2023. Get ready for a lot of product announcements and some special se...

Generative AI News This Week - Google Gets is Gen AI Mojo Back, ChatGPT Enterprise Debuts, New Big Funding Rounds, Products & More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 349

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for August 31, 2023. Google may have dominated the headlines this week, but it was hardly alone. Special segments th...

Hour One CEO Oren Aharon is Leveraging Generative AI to Fuse Video with Virtual Human Features - Voicebot Podcast Ep 348

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Oren Aharon is CEO and founder of Hour One, a leader in virtual human innovation, and a pioneer in generative AI. He joined Bret Kinsella to talk abou...

Generative AI News This Week - Is ChatGPT Dying? Generative AI Market Data, Meta Challenges OpenAI, ElevenLabs & More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 347

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is back for August 24, 2023. Special segments this week include: What does the market data say about generativ...

Telefonica and VUI Agency Talk about Generative and Conversational AI in the Contact Center - Vociebot Podcast Ep 346

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Rojewski, Telefonica's manager of AI and automation in Germany, and Patrick Esslinger, co-founder of VUI Agency joined Bret Kinsella to talk abo...

Generative AI News - GPT-4 LLM Moderation, CEO and Gen AI, Llama 2, Voiceflow, Anthropic, Pindrop & More - Ep 345

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's time for the Generative AI News (GAIN) Rundown for August 17, 2023. Special segments this week include: Using GPT-4 to moderate LLM inputs Th...

Generative AI News - GPTBot Debut, Amazon's Gen AI Strategy, W&B Becomes a Unicorn, Tome, NVIDIA, Cohere, Zoom & More - Voicebot Podcast 344

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for August 11, 2023 is here. Special segments this week include: GPTBot and OpenAI's plans to politely crawl t...

Generative AI News - GPT-5 Rumors, G3PO from OpenAI, Generative Google Assistant, Inworld, Meta, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 343

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Schwartz, the head writer at Voicebot.ai, joined Bret Kinsella to break down the top Generative AI News (GAIN) of the week. Generative AI News - ...

Generative AI News - New ChatGPT Features, Identifying AI Text, Perplexity, Grammarly, and More - Voicebot Podcast 342

13 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Schwartz, the head writer at Voicebot.ai, was joined by GAIN producer and Synthedia researcher Andrew Herndon. Generative AI News - Featured Stor...

Conversational AI Innovators at Project Voice 2023 with Lilypad, Dexer, ConverseNow, Speechly, CDI, and Calen - Voicebot Podcast Ep 341

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Project Voice gathered again in Chattanooga, Tennessee in April 2023. I had the opportunity to interview several innovative companies while on site. ...

Generative AI News - Llama 2 Shakes up LLM Market, GPT-4 May Not Be Degrading, Apple GPT, Wix, AP, AI21, SAP, and More - Voicebot Podcast 340

23 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Here is the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for July 20, 2023. Special segments this week include: Meta launches Llama 2, making it open source an...

Generative AI News - ChatGPT's Usage Stats, Anthropic's Claude, Lots of Funding Rounds, Deepfakes and New Products - Voicebot Podcast 339

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is back and was recorded on July 13, 2023. Special segments this week include: Anthropic's ChatGPT competitor ...

The Evolution of Conversation Design in the ChatGPT Era Part 2 - Voicebot Podcast 338

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How are ChatGPT and the rise of large language models impacting conversation designs and designers? Today, in Part 2 of our series on conversation des...

Generative AI News - Busting AI Myths, Giant Funding Rounds, AI in Education and Media, and More - Voicebot Podcast 337

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Host notes - My apologies about the audio quality. We recorded on the road, and the mic setup didn't work as planned. The YouTube video audio is a lit...

The Evolution of Conversation Design in the ChatGPT Era Part 1 - Voicebot Podcast Ep 336

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How are ChatGPT and the rise of large language models impacting conversation designs and designers? Today, in Part 1 of our series on conversation des...

Generative AI News - AI Search Metrics, Market Growth Data, Marvel, Oracle, Amazon, Inflection & More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 335

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown this week was recorded on June 29, 2023. Some special segments include: Generative AI search metrics compare w...

Voicemod CEO Jaime Bosch on Voice Changers, Audio Expression, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 334

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Voicemod is a pioneer in audio expression. The company is best known for its real-time voice changer technologies that are popular in the gamer commun...

Generative AI News - EU AI Act, LLM Regulation, Vimeo, Mercedes, Funding Rounds and More - Voicebot Podcast 333

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is back and was recorded on June 22, 2023. Some special segments this week include: The New EU AI Act and how ...

Rembrand CEO Omar Tawakol on Generative AI and Product Placement in Videos - Voicebot Podcast 332

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Omar Tawakol is CEO and co-founder Rembrand, a company using generative AI to automate product placement in online videos. Earlier this year, he annou...

Generative AI News - OpenAI Cuts Prices, Google's AI Model Garden, Salesforce AI Fund, Generative Search & More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 331

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have another Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for you today. It was recorded on June 16, 2023. Some special segments this week include: OpenAI's...

Generative AI News 18 - Apple's VR Bet and Lack of Generative AI. OpenAI, Google, Jasper, Instacart, and More! - Voicebot Podcast Ep 330

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The latest Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is live and was recorded on June 8, 2023. Some special segments this week include: Apple's Vision Pro o...

Aleksandr Tiulkanov on AI Policy, Laws, Regulation, and What We Really Need from Government - Voicebot Podcast 329

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aleksandr Tuilkanov is a lawyer specializing in AI policy, regulation, and legal frameworks. Early work in GDPR and AI regulation before the generativ...

Generative AI News - A Lawyer's ChatGPT Debacle, Nvidia, OpenAI, Runway, TikTok, Spotify, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 328

04 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for June 1, 2023, is here. We have some special segments for you today with hosts Eric Schwartz from Voicebot.ai...

Robert Scoble on Apple, Siri, ChatGPT, Virtual Companions, AR/VR, and a Lifetime in Silicon Valley - Voicebot Podcast Ep 327

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Scoble did the first live stream of a ride in a Tesla. The driver was Elon Musk. The Siri mobile app launched to the world in his living room. ...

Generative AI News - AI Copilot for Lawyers Exclusive, ChatGPT App, Opera, Photoshop, Tesla and More - Voicebot Podcast 326

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for May 25, 2023, is here. Spellbook's Scott Stevenson joined Eric Schwartz from Voicebot.ai and Bret Kinsella ...

GAIN Special - Microsoft Build 2023 Generative AI Announcements on ChatGPT, Copilots, Bing, and More - Voicebot Podcast 325

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft Build 2023 was more hotly anticipated than Apple WWDC which is hard to believe. However, that is the new reality created by ChatGPT and Open...

Adam Cheyer Co-founder of Siri and Viv Labs on Assistants, AI, and ChatGPT - Voicebot Podcast Ep 324

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My guest today is a giant in the world of voice assistants and AI. Adam Cheyer is the co-founder of Siri, which was originally an app that, as you kno...

Generative AI News 15 - AI Virtual Girlfriend, OpenAI on Capitol Hill, Amazon, Anthropic, Meta, Zoom, and More - Voicebot Podcast 323

20 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Here is the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for May 18, 2023. Eric Schwartz from Voicebot.ai and Bret Kinsella break down the biggest industry stori...

Generative AI News - Google Bard and Other IO Announcements, Bing Chat, The White House, Wendy's, and More - Voicebot Podcast 322

20 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for May 11, 2023, is here. Special guest and Google Developer Expert (GDE) Allen Firstenberg joined me to go in-...

Dag Kittlaus CEO of Riva Health and Co-founder of Siri and Viv Labs - Voicebot Podcast Ep 321

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dag Kittlaus is the CEO and co-founder of Riva Health, a company that has set out to revolutionize how patients manage hypertension and heart disease....

Generative AI News - ChatGPT Plugins, Deep Floyd from Stability AI, Samsung, PwC, Deepfakes, Star Wars and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 320

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have a breakdown of the week's top generative AI news stories and what they mean for the industry.  Today's hosts are Bret Kinsella, Voicebot.ai'...

Lee Mallon on Recreating Trip Advisor with ChatGPT and DALL-E for $53 and Other Adventures - Voicebot Podcast Ep 319

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Mallon is a CTO, developer, and technical advisor for AI and complex software projects. He created a hotel brand and brochure with his daughter us...

AI at Mobile World Congress - D-ID, SK Telecom, MyManu, and VUI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 318

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mobile World Congress 2023 had a lot of AI solutions on display. D-ID's Yaniv Levy talked about a new streaming API for its virtual human solution pav...

Generative AI News - New ChatGPT Features, HuggingChat, Google, Deepfakes, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 317

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 27, 2023, is here. Another week of breaking news has piled up, and we have a breakdown of the top stor...

Generative AI News - StableLM, Elon Musk, Drake Deepfake, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 316

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 20, 2023, was recorded live at the Model Mania conference, which focused on enterprise generative AI s...

Generative AI News - Charles Barkley Deepfake, Elon Musk, Hugging Face and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 315

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 13, 2023, included some breaking news on Amazon Bedrock, the new service competing directly with OpenA...

Nico Perony Director of AI Research at Unity - Voicebot Podcast Ep 314

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nico Perony is the director of AI research at the game development platform Unity. He was a co-founder and CTO of OTO, which was acquired by Unity in ...

Generative AI News - ChatGPT Gets Banned, Deepfakes Get Provenance, Bing Chat Gets Ads, Meta, Canva & More - Voicebot Podcast 313

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 6, 2023, focused on regulators and OpenAI, ChatGPT's popularity compared to the iPhone, deepfake discl...

Should We Pause AI Research? Muddu Sudhakar and Bret Kinsella Break Down the Musk Letter - Voicebot Podcast Ep 312

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Future of Life Institute, an organization funded by the Musk Foundation, issued a letter calling for a pause of "giant AI experiments" for six mon...

Generative AI News Rundown - ChatGPT, Google Rumors, Elon Musk, Zoom, Coke and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 311

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for March 30, 2023, had controversy, competition, Coca-Cola, and more. Is there a more dynamic market right now ...

Reghu Thanumalayan from Deutsche Telekom Talks Magenta and the Future of Voice Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 310

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Reghu Thanumalayan is a senior vice president at Deutsche Telekom and oversees the Magenta voice assistant. He was my featured guest in Voicebot Podca...

Generative AI News Rundown 7 - Nvidia, Google, Midjourney, TikTok, Roblox, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 309

25 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for March 23, 2023, was packed with significant announcements. Bret Kinsella hosts this week along with Eric Sch...

Generative AI News Rundown 6 - GPT-4, MS 365 Copilot, Google, South Park, and More - Voicebot Podcast 308

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for March 16, 2023, required some tough decisions. So much happened this week that we zeroed in on the biggest s...

Generative AI News Rundown 5 - Slack, Salesforce, OpenAI, Grammarly, AI21, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 307

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The top generative AI news (GAIN) of the week is back for March 9, 2023. This week, Bret Kinsella hosts along with Eric Schwartz from Voicebot.ai and ...

Generative AI News Rundown 4 - OpenAI ChatGPT API, Snapchat, Spotify, Meta LLaMA, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 306

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to get caught up on the top generative AI news of the week, Eric Schwartz and Andrew Herndon from Voicebot.ai and Synthedia break down the...

Eric Schwartz from Voicebot Compares Large Language Model Performance - Voicebot Podcast Ep 305

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Schwartz, head writer at Voicebot.ai, joins me today to talk about some of his key learnings from a recent set of tests he conducted with ten dif...

Marc Scarpa CEO of DeFiance Media Talks About Launched the First Digital Human News Anchor - Voicebot Podcast Ep 304

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

DeFiance Media is a video news platform that provides coverage of decentralized culture, technology, and finance. It was founded by CEO, Marc Scarpa i...

Bakz T. Future Breaks Down the Past Present and Future of ChatGPT and OpenAI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 303

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In today's interview, Bakz T. Future walks through the history of OpenAI, where recent developments behind ChatGPT originated, the rise of DALL-E, ima...

Generative AI News Rundown 3 - Bing Boomerang, OpenAI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, Roblox and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 302

26 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our third edition of GAIN, the generative AI news rundown. On tap today, we lead off with the Bing Boomerang. After some negative press abo...

Chandra Khatri CTO of Got-It AI on Automated Truth Checking and Generative AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 301

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chandra Khatri is CTO and co-founder of Got-It AI, a company that built an AI that builds conversational AI solutions. It can ingest existing conversa...

Generative AI News Rundown 2 - Bing's Wild Side, Bard Alert, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 300

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We had another big week in generative AI news. The testers of the new Bing Chat Mode made some disturbing discoveries, but Microsoft also made some ch...

Andrei Papancea CEO of NLX on Conversational Experiences, Customer Self-Service, and GPT-3 - Voicebot Podcast Ep 299

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrei Papancea co-founded NLX in 2018 to solve some of the problems he faced as a software engineer working on natural language understanding at Amer...

Generative AI News Rundown with Bing, Bard, Deepfakes, OpenAI Data and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 298

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A lot happened this week in the generative AI and synthetic media. Today introduces a new weekly (or when appropriate) addition to the Voicebot Podcas...

Karen Kaushansky Conversation Designer at Google Talks UX for Wearables, LLMs, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 297

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Kaushansky is a conversation designer at Google that led the Google Assistant UX design for WearOS and, more recently, for the Pixel Watch. Whil...

Gil Perry CEO of D-ID on Lifelike Digital People, Generative AI, and the Rise of Synthetic Media - Voicebot Podcast Ep 296

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My guest is D-ID co-founder and CEO Gil Perry. We talk about how the company logically evolved into tools for creating talking digital people and how ...

Dustin Coates from Algolia Breaks Down Keyword, Concept, and Conversational Search Models - Voicebot Podcast Ep 295

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, spurred new interest in conversational search. For the first time in over a decade, many people are beginn...

Ori Goshen CEO of AI21 Labs on WordTune, the Large Language Model Revolution, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 294

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The adoption of large language models and generative AI is booming, and I think it began with creativity use cases. And now we are seeing as it slowl...

Shane Orlick President of Jasper AI on the Future of Writing and Generative AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 293

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret Kinsella wrote this: Jasper AI quietly built one of the top AI-based writing assistants atop OpenAI's GPT-3 large language model (LLM). Then, sud...

Taylan Kamis CEO of DeepZen on Synthetic Voices for Audiobooks and New Applications - Voicebot Podcast Ep 292

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Taylan Kamis was inspired by the movie Her to pursue AI technologies that could make synthetic characters and voices more lifelike. After several year...

Synthetic Media Year in Review 2022 - Voicebot Podcast Ep 291

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

2022 was the year of synthetic media. The mainstreaming of deepfakes and voice clones, along with the rise of text-to-image AI models, assured synthet...

Voice AI Year in Review 2022 Enterprise Edition - Voicebot Podcast Ep 290

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise voice AI has been overshadowed for years by the tech giants' activities. That meant the consumer applications often drowned out what was ha...

Voice AI Year in Review 2022 - Voicebot Podcast Ep 289

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first of Voicebot's voice AI 2022 year-in-review episodes, and today we focus on consumer solutions. There was no lack of news this year, ...

Jesse Shemen CEO of Papercup on Making the World's Media Available in Any Language - Voicebot Podcast Ep 288

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse Shemen is CEO of Papercup, a company he co-founded in 2017. The company transforms audio and video media into multiple languages to broaden its ...

Chris Parkinson Co-founder and CTO of RealWear on Voice Controlled Applications for Industrial Workers - Voicebot Podcast Ep 287

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Parkinson began working on the idea behind RealWear while at Kopin back in 2007. In 2015, he founded WearNext to explore routes to further techn...

YouTuber Dom Esposito Talks About Creating His Digital Twin - Voicebot Podcast Ep 286

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dom Esposito is a top YouTuber that worked with Hour One to create a digital twin. That's a virtual human clone of himself. In this interview, we show...

Natalie Monbiot from Hour One on New Virtual Human Use Cases - Voicebot Podcast Ep 285

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Natalie Monbiot from Hour One joined me for the recent Synthedia event to present several new use cases in language learning, media, and entertainment...

Maaike Coppens on Conversation Design Themes in 2022 - Voicebot Podcast Ep 284

19 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maaike Coppens is the author of the new book Design Conversationnel published in French by Eyrolles with a forthcoming English edition. Maaike and I f...

John Campbell Founder of Rabbit & Pork on Voice SEO and What Use Cases Work Today - Voicebot Podcast Ep 283

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Campbell is the founder and managing director of the voice AI agency Rabbit & Pork, a division of TIPi Group. Previously he was head of performan...

Zohaib Ahmed on Creating Andy Warhol's Voice Clone - Voicebot Podcast Ep 282

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Zohaib Ahmed joined us at the Synthedia synthetic media conference in September to discuss Resemble's work re-creating the voice of famed pop artist A...