What happens when AIs become indistinguishable from humans? Elliot & Tom tackle the question of will we need to prove life in a digital world? Show Notes - Bots beat CAPTCHA results https://qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-turing-test-websites-authenticity-1850734350 - On the internet, nobody knows you are human https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23608961/tiktok-creator-bot-accusation-prove-theyre-human - AI detection tools falsely accus international students of cheating https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/08/14/ai-detection-tools-falsely-accuse-international-students-of-cheating Runsheet 00:00 The Fun begins 01:45 The problem of AIs replicating humans and becoming indistinguishable 05:00 Are AIs replicating humans an issue at all? 10:20 Should we have the right to know we are conversing with a human or and AI? 11:30 Do we have a right to know about AI generated content? 17:00 Are AI detectors failing? 23:30 Moving towards a zero trust world, only relying on certain logos and URLs 26:30 Will financial verification be a form of proving life? 28:10 How will creators proving your work is your own? 32:15 Will AI create it's own style attributable it? 34:50 How will social media juggle creative bots vs bad bots? 40:10 How will places deal with autobanning or shadown ban real humans? 43:00 Wrapping up

This week Tom and Elliot talk through the most active VCs in the AI space. Exploring what the big players, the old players and the new players are all doing. ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00 The fun begins 01:00 Where are VCs investing in AI? 04:00 What is the top 5 VCs strategy when it comes to AI? Who are the most active? 22:00 What does the YCombinator cohort look like? 35:00 What are the new AI focussed funds? ⚡Show Notes ⚡ - https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-companies/?_categories=ai-ml&_sort=stage_at_investment-asc - https://www.nea.com/news/press-releases/nea-closes-on-two-funds-totaling-6-2-billion - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/09/sound-ventures-has-already-plugged-half-its-new-240-million-ai-fund-into-three-companies/ - https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-winter-2023-batch 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/YhCTTEF9#podcast #tech #ai #startup

This week Tom and Elliot talk through some active startups using AI in their products. We discuss which ones we would invest in if we could. With so many startups to choose from we had to filter the list. ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00 The fun begins 04:00 Scale-ups building AI 22:20 Early Stage companies building AI 27:00 Early stage companies using AI 44:00 Scale-ups using AI 48:00 What big tech is building and buying ⚡Show Notes ⚡ - https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement - https://www.askfelix.ai/ - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/builderai - https://www.hippocraticai.com/ - https://orby.ai - https://gan.ai - https://www.safely-you.com/ - https://www.spellbook.legal - https://www.mosaicml.com/ - https://beta.character.ai/help - https://www.harvey.ai/blog - https://www.deepl.com/en/blog/how-does-deepl-work - https://shield.ai/ 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/YhCTTEF9 #podcast #tech #ai #startup

This week we discuss if AI is going to be a product on its own or a feature in every product. What are the ramifications of this for big tech, consumers and AI startups. Enjoy! ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:13 - Is AI A Product or a Feature 00:12:17 - The AI Value Chain 00:24:45 - The Need for National AI Capacity 00:38:19 - Are the big tech companies going to win or lose? 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/gAsSnctwCx #podcast #tech #ai #startup

Tom and Elliot talk about open source AI. We discuss where it is today, how Github and Hugging Face have helped shape it and where it's likely to go in the future. ⚡Show Notes⚡ - https://thesequence.substack.com/p/open-source-generative-ai-is-experiencing - https://cognitiverevolution.substack.com/p/openais-foundry-leaked-pricing-says - https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1649881019053404163 - https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/04/13/the-great-flowering-why-openai-is-the-new-aws-and-the-new-kingmakers-still-matter/ - https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-launches-the-first-of-its-stablelm-suite-of-language-models 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/gAsSnctwCx #podcast #tech #ai #startup

This week Tom and Elliot talk all things Foundation models. Which models are next? Are foundation models the infrastructure layer for AI? Is there room to compete on foundation models? We cover news, deals and papers all focused on this one question. We're trying something new with the format, focusing our chats around a single idea each week. Let us know what you think! ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00 The fun begins 01:20 The New Format 02:45 Are Foundation Models the Future of Artificial Intelligence? 04:00 What is a Foundation Model? What are the characteristics that define a Foundation Model? 08:00 Is GPT-4 a Foundation Model? Examples of current Foundation Models 10:15 Meta's Segment Anything Model - is it a Foundation Model? 18:30 Is Bedrock a genius move by Amazon? 23:45 THe Llama effect 30:45 The future. Are Foundation Models the Future of Artificial Intelligence? ⚡Show Notes⚡ 📰Are Foundation Models the Future of Artificial Intelligence?📰 - Facebook Releases the Segement Anything Model (SAM) https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/ - Amazon announces 'Bedrock,' its ChatGPT and DALL-E rival https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-bedrock-aws-ai-chatgpt-dall-e-competitor-2023-4 - The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-llama-effect-how-an-accidental 💲Dealbook💲- - Fixie.ai raises $17m seed round https://blog.fixie.ai/the-future-of-software-development-with-llms-is-here-announcing-fixies-developer-preview-and-17m-cf6fca0c4041 - Chroma raises $18m seed round - Anthropic plans to raise $5b to take on OpenAI https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/ ⚡Show Notes⚡ 📰Topic📰 - Facebook Releases the Segement Anything Model (SAM) https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/ - The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-llama-effect-how-an-accidental - Amazon announces 'Bedrock,' its ChatGPT and DALL-E rival https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-bedrock-aws-ai-chatgpt-dall-e-competitor-2023-4 💲Dealbook💲 - Fixie.ai raises $17m seed round https://blog.fixie.ai/the-future-of-software-development-with-llms-is-here-announcing-fixies-developer-preview-and-17m-cf6fca0c4041 - Chroma raises $18m seed round - Anthropic plans to raise $5b to take on OpenAI https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/\ 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/gAsSnctwCx#podcast #tech #ai #startup