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This Day in AI Podcast

Michael Sharkey, Chris Sharkeypodcast.thisdayinai.com
Join Michael and Chris Sharkey, two proudly average tech enthusiasts, as they stumble through the world of artificial intelligence with all the grace of a robot learning to dance. This (sometimes weekly*) podcast delivers an hour-long conversation about their thoroughly middle-of-the-road adventures with AI. No PhDs. No Silicon Valley insights. Just two guys with enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, sharing their unexceptional yet entertaining experiences with AI tools and technology. Subscribe now to hear: • Mediocre hot takes on AI developments • Stories of AI experiments gone adequately okay • The most average advice you'll ever need • Two Sharkeys trying their best to sound smart about algorithms • Childish AI prank calls that somehow fool everybody • Attempts at using AI for phishing attacks on their mother • "Chart-topping" AI songs according to the brothers Join our perfectly mediocre community where being average at AI is celebrated, questions are encouraged, and learning through mistakes is our specialty. Because let's face it - most of us are figuring this out as we go along. New episodes drop whenever we remember to record them. 🎙️ Proudly supported by Simtheory.ai
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Episodes

EP79: Fun with ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode & Which Models Do People Actually Use?

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- Thanks for listening and all of your support of the show! ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Fun with ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode & Moshi 04:11 - Thoughts on Advanced Voice Mode, Voice Mode API & Voice as an Interface 29:31 - We Share Simtheory.ai Model Usage Data: Forget Benchmarks... Which Models Do People Actually Use? 38:35 - Llama 3.2 with Vision: Thoughts on New Models and Llama Stack 55:02 - Google Gemini 1.5 Pro 0...

Sep 27, 20241 hr 13 minEp. 79

EP78: One Week Later: o1-mini o1-preview & Can We Now Build Agents?

Sign up to Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:56 - o1-mini & o1-preview 1 week later: our thoughts and experiments including Klarna CRM, Chess, & DOOM 20:45 - What is Missing to Make AI Agents Now? 40:12 - Are OpenAI laser focused now of the best models/AGI? 48:42 - OpenAI's o1 is getting great reviews from experts, 53:52 - Pixtral 12B: about the model and thoughts 59:24 - LOLs: Is Google Gemini Live Sentient? Thanks...

Sep 20, 20241 hr 4 minEp. 78

EP77: OpenAI o1 & o1-mini, The Era of AI Reasoning & Is Reflection-70B a Fraud?

Try o1 & o1-mini: https://simtheory.ai ----- 00:00 - OpenAI o1 & o1 Mini Discussion 18:26 - Evals of OpenAI o1 & Chris Discusses Malicious Uses 32:55 - Will OpenAI o1 with Agency Take Jobs or Augment Workers? 48:58 - Does OpenAI o1 & o1 Mini Make Agency Products More Viable Now? 52:28 - Can we Build a CRM for Klarna Using OpenAI's o1? And Model Examples 1:03:37 - Is there another OpenAI model coming? Orion? 1:05:45 - Reflection 70B & Matt Schumer Drama: Was Reflection 70B a F...

Sep 13, 20241 hr 20 minEp. 77

EP76: Can AI Fix Its Own Mistakes? (Reflection 70B) & How Much Will You Pay for AI Productivity?

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Our Community: https://thisdayinai.com ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Days of AI Models Lives 04:02 - Reflection 70B Open Source Model: Is It The Best Open Source AI Model or Just Great Prompt Engineering? 24:48 - Is Microsoft Office a Dud? What Actually Makes you More Productive in Enterprise AI. 36:15 - OpenAI Floats $2,000/month for New Models Strawberry (Q*) and Orion. Is it Expensive or Cheap for Potential Gains? 55:51 - Boom Factor for Reflection 70B & Fina...

Sep 06, 20241 hr 1 minEp. 76

EP75: OpenAI🍓, Q* & Orion: What Will Happen When AI Has Agency?

Get a Simtheory AI Workspace: https://simtheory.ai Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/69-ep75 ------ 00:00 - Lols 00:29 - Discussion on OpenAI's Strawberry Q* and Orion Leaks and What it Might Mean for the Future of AI Agency & Background Tasks 31:48 - Google's New Gemini 1.5 Pro & Flash Experimental Tunes: Our Thoughts 44:22 - Google's Diffusion Models are Real-Time Game Engines GameNGen & Future Model Simulations 58:06: Qwen2-VL Vision Models: Initial Thoughts 1:08:00 - ...

Aug 30, 20241 hr 13 minEp. 75

EP74: Human Eggs with Ideogram 2.0, Phi 3.5 Boom Factor + AI-Free Startups

Sign up to Simtheory for an AI workspace: https://simtheory.ai Try ideogram 2.0 on Simtheory --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Ideogram 2.0: Your new AI graphics designer? 23:46 - Microsoft Phi 3.5 Initial Impressions & Thoughts + Boom Factor 38:51 - AI workspace productivity: how much is your productivity worth? 55:08 - Procreate's Anti AI Movement: Marketing or a New Category? 1:07:06 - Chris's thoughts on Phi-3.5 Fine Tuning & Lack of Documentation, Accessibility of Models to Try --- To see image...

Aug 23, 20241 hr 13 minEp. 74

EP73: Has Google Done It? Grok 2 Beta & Is Tuning All You Need?

Sign up to Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ------- 00:00 - Reactions to #madebygoogle and Gemini Live 15:30 - Grok 2 Beta Tested & Is Grok Getting Flux Credit? 39:03 - Future of Personalized Software in Education & The Workplace: Are Devs Still Needed? 1:02:16 - Claude's Prompt Caching Explained 1:11:18 - Hermes 3 (Llama 3.1 Fine-tuned for instruction following) 1:19:18 - Is Tuning All You Need? Why Claude Sonnet 3.5 is so good. Thanks for watching/listening/subscribing/liking/commenting...

Aug 16, 20241 hr 25 minEp. 73

EP72: Croc Test with Gemini 1.5 Experimental, Flux Destroys Midjourney & GPT4o Model Updates

Sign up to SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai ------ Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com ------ Jump around: 00:00 - Gemini 1.5 Experimental Experiments 20:11 - SimTheory 22:54 - LMSYS Leaderboard: Does it match our experience? 27:31 - Flux by Black Forest Labs is Better Than MidJourney 48:04 - OpenAI announces new GTP4o (50% cheaper inputs) & structured outputs 1:12:35 - Groq raises 640M to meet "soaring demand" will this fix unreliability? Thanks for listening, if you like this show p...

Aug 07, 20241 hr 18 minEp. 72

EP71: Llama 3.1 Special Edition + GPT-4o Mini Fine Tuning & Chris's AI Poker Apology

Try Llama 3.1 Models on SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/64-ep71 ------ CHAPTERS: ------ 00:00 - Llama 3.1 8B, 70B and 405B News & Initial Thoughts 27:44 - Discussion on Context Input Optimization, RAG and context focuses including "memory stack" 38:53 -Best model right now? GPT4-Mini daily driving & is Claude Sonnet 3.5 getting dumber? 42:17 - Official Llama 3.1 BOOM FACTOR scores 47:08 - GPT4o-Mini...

Jul 24, 20241 hr 4 minEp. 71

EP70: AI Poker, GPT-4o Mini, Mistral NeMo, Codestral Mamba, MathΣtral & LMSYS Wars

Try SimTheory Beta: https://simtheory.ai/chat Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/63-ep70 Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com Merch: https://www.thisdayinaimerch.com/ ===== Thanks for listening! ===== CHAPTERS: 00:00 - It's good to be back... 04:12 - Chris's Learnings From Playing Poker Using AI 32:11 - Initial thoughts on GPT-4o Mini from OpenAI 44:15 - Mistral's NeMo 55:01 - Codestral Mamba 1:04:48 - MathΣtral: Scientific Discovery or BS? 1:12:59 - New Models on LMSYS: Column...

Jul 19, 20241 hr 22 minEp. 70

EP69: Fun with kyutai's Moshi. SimTheory Beta is Here! + Future Assistants

Try SimTheory Beta: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/62-ep69 ---- 00:00 - Fun with kyutai's Moshi 28:06 - SimTheory Beta is available: what is new, what we learnt 49:04 - RunwayML Gen-3 Alpha 52:06 - Is AI in a Bubble? 59:52 - Claude Sonnet Prompt Leak for Artifacts 1:07:23 - Salesforce's 1B Parameter Model 1:14:14 - Moshi Interrupts Us

Jul 05, 20241 hr 16 minEp. 69

EP68: We ❤️ Sonnet 3.5, Rabbit r2 Exclusive, OpenAI Voice Delay, Gemma 2, and UDIO/SUNO lawsuit

Community: https://thisdayai.com SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Thanks for listening, if you like the show, please consider leaving a review to help us grow our audience. ==== CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Thoughts After Daily Driving Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 21:07 - OpenAI Delays ChatGPT Voice for Safety? Thoughts on OpenAI Releases Vs Anthropic 31:01 - Exclusive: Rabbit r2 Preview (the app) & Should We Exploit Sponsors? 36:04 - Major record Sony and Universal Music Group Suing UDIO / SUNO 41:51 ...

Jun 28, 20241 hr 4 minEp. 68

EP67: Claude 3.5 Sonnet Beats GPT-4o + Ilya Sutskever's New Startup & Hedra lols

Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/60-ep67 Community: https://thisdayinai.com SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Hedra Lols cold open 02:24 - Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet Impressions 20:02 - Claude 3.5 Sonnet Vision Image Tests 25:32 - Claude 3.5 Sonnet Refusal Problems 28:54 - More on Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Artifacts and Future AI UI 51:41 - Hedra fun 58:29 - Thoughts on Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc (Safe Superintelligence) 1:09:12 - Is AI Bad For Kids?...

Jun 21, 20241 hr 15 minEp. 67

EP66: Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute, Dream Machine, Mistral Funding & OpenAI Revenue

Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/59-ep66 Community & discord: https://thisdayinai.com Join SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Apple Intelligence & Apple Private Cloud Compute Thoughts, Approach and Model Discussion 41:19 - LumaLab's Dream Machine 48:00 - Mistral's Fundraise & Valuation: Are AI Labs Proxies in the Big Tech AI War? 52:40 - Stable Diffusion Medium 3 56:28 - OpenAI's Revenue Leaks, AI Usage in EDU and Workplaces Thanks for listening and ...

Jun 14, 20241 hr 24 minEp. 66

EP65: AI Doomerism, Qwen2, Kling Video Generation, Mistral Fine Tuning, Will Recall Be Recalled?

Join SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Join the community: https://thisdayinai.com Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/57-ep65 ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00: Fun with AI yet everyone is doom and gloom 13:25: Qwen2: our initial thoughts 22:12: Kling Video Generation 25:11: Mistral's Fine Tuning SDK: Chris Fine Tunes using Mistral 31:32: Looking Backwards: Streaming Video-to-Video Translation with Feature Banks & AI Deepfakes 40:06: Is Microsoft's Recall Going to Be Recalled? 44:00: The Next AI...

Jun 07, 202458 minEp. 65

EP64: Microsoft Build, Can We Get This Song to #1? Google AI Fail, GPT-4o, Phi-3-Vision, Mistral-7B-v0.3

HELP US GET THIS SONG TO #1: https://www.udio.com/songs/aM5GyzoomJn4fycgyhsUyL (Remember to keep listening and heart the song!) Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Thanks for listening and all of your support, we appreciate it. -------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Google's AI Overview Fails 18:50 - The Reality of Using AI 25:02 - Two weeks of GPT-4o 34:36 - Microsoft Build: CoPilot+ PCs, Recall, AI Narks, Phi-Silica, Team CoPilot, CoPilot with GPT-4o Voice 54:41 - P...

May 24, 20241 hr 22 minEp. 64

EP63: GPT-4o, ChatGPT Voice & Google I/O AI Recap (Project Astra) + Future Computing Interfaces

Join the fun at: https://thisdayinai.com SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/55-ep63/ UDIO song: https://www.udio.com/songs/iu1381RxvjfzWznGHeVecV Thanks for listening and all your support of the show! CHAPTERS: ------ 00:00 - We're changing the name of the show 00:52 - Thoughts on GPT-4o (GPT4 Omni), ChatGPT Free Vs Plus & impressions 27:57 - ChatGPT Voice Mode: A Dramatic Shift? Voice as a Platform: Star Trek Vs Her 34:54 - Project Astra & The ...

May 17, 20241 hr 43 minEp. 63

LIVE: OpenAI Spring Event (Post Event Reaction)

LIVE after the OpenAI Spring Update Event! Hear our initial reaction to GPT-4o and "Her" like virtual assistant with low latency voice. More testing/discussion coming later in the week. Community: https://thisdayinai.com.

May 13, 202459 min

EP62: What is gpt4l-auto? Which GPT2-chatbot is best? Should you stop your education because of AI?

Community: https://thisdayinai.com Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/54-ep62 SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai If you like the show, please consider leaving a comment and subscribing! We love to hear your thoughts on topics discussed on the show. ----- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot, im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot 02:33 - Which model is the best? gpt2-chatbots compared with current top models using "snake test" 11:07 - Are 3 New Models Coming? GPT-4L, GPT-4L-AUTO & GPT-4-AUT...

May 10, 20241 hr 27 minEp. 62

EP61: What is GPT2-chatbot? MoE Theories, ChatGPT Search, Virtual Try On & Fine-Tuning Experts

Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/53-ep61 Community: https://thisdayinai.com SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Thanks for watching, if you like the show please consider subscribing, liking and all the stuff lord youtube requires. CHAPTERS: ---- 00:00 - GPT2-chatbot: What could GPT2 Be? Is This GPT4.5 or GPT-5? 37:08 - Is OpenAI about to take on Google & Perplexity with Search? ChatGPT Search? 52:15 - Fun with Virtual Try On: IDM-VTON 1:01:30 - Anthropic Releases Claude App for iOS ...

May 03, 20241 hr 23 minEp. 61

EP60: Rabbit r1 Launch Party, LAMs, Microsoft's Phi-3, Hume AI EVI API, Llama3 Updates & Groq Speed

Community: https://thisdayinai.com Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/52-ep60 SimTheory with Groq Llama3: https://simtheory.ai Thanks for listening! Llama3 Tunes Mentioned on Show: https://huggingface.co/Orenguteng/Lexi-Llama-3-8B-Uncensored https://huggingface.co/sherazkhan/Mixllama3-8x8b-Instruct-v0.1 https://huggingface.co/mattshumer/Llama-3-8B-16K https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/Llama-3-8B-Web CHAPTERS: ===== 00:00 - Rabit r1 Launch Party & Can LAMs Be Useful? 13:40 - Micros...

Apr 24, 20241 hr 1 minEp. 60

EP59: Unhinged Meta Llama 3 *Special Edition*

Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/51-ep59 SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai This Day in AI Community: https://thisdayinai.com CHAPTERS: ====== 00:00 - Meta Llama 3: Chris's Cheese Song & Zuck's Silver Chain 04:07 - Everything Meta Announced with Llama 3: 7B & 40B Model with 400B coming soon 21:31 - Is Groq The Ideal API Host for Llama3? 28:44 - Llama 3 Being Made Available via Meta Apps to 3B Users with Meta AI in Instagram, Whatsapp and via Web 38:01 - Llama 3 Licensing Must I...

Apr 19, 20241 hr 27 minEp. 59

EP58: We Convinced a Record Label to Sign an AI Artist + Udio AI Music, Gemini 1.5 Pro, GPT-4 TURBO, Mixtral

AI News: https://thisdayinai.com SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/48-ep58 ------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Udio, Udio Examples 10:45 - Will a Record Label Sign an AI Udio Artist? 19:09 - 3 Major LLM Updates/Release in a Single Day 22:58 - Google Gemini 1.5 Pro General Availability, Audio Modality & Impressions 30:20 - Google Cloud Next 2024 AI Announcements Discussion 47:18 - OpenAI Announces "improvements" to GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4 Turbo Official Release &a...

Apr 12, 20241 hr 10 minEp. 58

EP57: Is Gary Right? VoiceEngine, Cohere Command R+, Stable Audio 2, Grok 1.5

AI News & Discord: https://thisdayinai.com Try AI on SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/46-ep57 ------ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Mike's Meta Ray Band AI Glasses With No AI 03:52 - OpenAI's Voice Engine & Voice Cloning Safety 14:03 - ChatGPT Now Has Inpainting & Comparison to BrushNet by TencentARC 19:44 - Is There a Business Model for AI Right Now? Is Gary Marcus Right? 44:31 - Cohere's Command R+ Model & Tooling 58:20 - Grok-1.5 & Grok Impr...

Apr 05, 20241 hr 9 minEp. 57

EP56: We Wrote a Song! Claude Opus is 👑, Gemini 1.5 Pro & Ultra API Experiments

Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/45-ep56 Try Gemini 1.5 Pro on SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai/agent/865-google-gemini-15-your-ultimate-assistant Try Gemini Ultra on SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai/agent/866-google-gemini-ultra-the-apex-of-ai-conversation Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com CHAPTERS ===== 00:00 - Fun with Suno v3 10:38 - We Have Google Gemini 1.5 Pro API, Google Ultra API Access! 26:21 - Claude Opus is the King According to LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard 38...

Mar 28, 20241 hr 27 minEp. 56

EP55: Will Devin Take Our Jobs? Sora Interview, Claude Haiku, DeepSeek 7B, Figure1 & Robot Slavery

Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/42-ep55 SimTheory Claude Haiku Agent: https://simtheory.ai/agent/795-claude-haiku-chatbot Sign up for daily AI news: https://thisdayinai.com ==== CHAPTERS 00:00 - OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Sora Interview Train Wreck 16:47 - EU Passes the AI Act 24:25 - 1 year since Greg Brockman Unveiled GPT-4 + Cognition's Devin 52:34 - Anthropic Releases Claude 3: Haiku & It's REALLY GOOD! 1:05:20 - DeepSeek-7B Real World Vision Language Understanding 1:16:09 - It...

Mar 15, 20241 hr 29 minEp. 55

EP54: Claude 3, Gemini 1.5 1M Context Seinfeld Experiment, OpenAI's DramaAI and Inflection 2.5

Join SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Try Claude Opus: https://simtheory.ai/agent/689-claude-opus-your-conversational-companion Subscribe to This Day in AI Daily News: https://thisdayinai.com Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/41-ep54 Seinfeld Trivia Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1crRzGE_JbQCIR5dEW_ORAq1QA9Yr8qquonZLILQRUpE/edit#gid=0 ==== This week we cover Anthropic's impressive Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku releases and play with Google's Gemini 1.5 1M Context us...

Mar 08, 20241 hr 36 minEp. 54

EP53: Mistral Large, Forecasting with LLMs, The Gemini Pile On & Is CoPilot Using GPT-4.5?

Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/39-ep53 Join SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Try Mistral Large on SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai/agent/645-mistral-large Join our community: https://thisdayinai.com ==== This week we talk about the release of Mistral's Large model, Mistral Le Chat, and their deal with Microsoft Azure. We cover papers on Emote Portrait Alive, AI Lip Reading and Cover the Gemini Pile On and how it is distracting from Gemini and the 1M context size break through. We co...

Mar 01, 20241 hr 24 minEp. 53

EP52: The Groq Breakthrough, Google's Gemma 7B, Unlimited Context, Can 'Magic' Reason?

Show notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/32-ep52 Groq Mixtral: https://simtheory.ai/agent/567-groq-mixtral-edition Groq Llama: https://simtheory.ai/agent/566-groq-the-speed-oriented-chat-companion SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai ==== This week we discuss Groq's LPU Chips and the implications of low cost low latency LLMs on custom hardware. We revisit our prank calling to see if Groq's low latency gives an advantage and see if we can improve Air Canada's chatbot. We discuss the launch of Goo...

Feb 22, 202455 minEp. 52

EP51: OpenAI's Sora, Gemini Pro 1.5 10M Context, ChatGPT Memory, GraphRAG, ChatRTX, Microsoft UFO...

Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/28-ep51/ Sign up for daily This Day in AI: https://thisdayinai.com Try Stable Cascade: https://simtheory.ai/agent/508-stable-cascade Join SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai ====== This week we take several shots of vodka before trying to make sense of all the announcements. OpenAI attempted to trump Google's Gemini 1.5 with the announcement of Sora, 1 minute video generation that does an incredible job of keeping track of objects. Google showed us that ...

Feb 16, 20241 hr 29 minEp. 51
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