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Is Sam Altman’s AGI Masterclass Good? Will the AI Bubble Pop Soon? Are Voice Assistants Ready for Agentic Tasks?
Sam Altman released an AGI Masterclass that recently went viral again on X. CEO Scott Stephenson comments on the "AI Bubble" in the latest episode of his podcast. Cutting-edge research from OLA Electric and Krutrim AI question whether voice assistants are ready for agentic tasks. And much more is revealed in this edition of the AI Minds newsletter!
Deepfaking Elon Musk for 3 Months, Why Building Voice Agents Just Got Easier, and How Enterprises use AI Today
An X account showcases their extremely realistic deepfakes of Elon Musk over the past three months. Anoop Dawar discusses why building voice agents is suddenly *much* easier. Voice agents spread into even more non-tech domains, especially among enterprises. Read all this and more in today's edition of AI Minds!
Sam Altman “speaks” Hindi with Voice AI, Richard Sutton’s Problem with LLMs, and Voice AI are now “Indistinguishable” from Real Voices
How Sam Altman used AI to speak fluent(?) Hindi, why Richard Sutton has an LLM problem, how AI voices became "indistinguishable" from human voices, and much more is revealed in this edition of AI Minds!
Satya Nadella on AI in healthcare, a16z discusses voice agents’ role in labor, and deep dives into speech modeling
Microsoft's CEO predicts how AI will impact healthcare. The team at a16z reveals what they think will happen to labor when voice agents hit the market full-force. VP of Research at Deepgram, Andrew Seagraves, goes in-depth with Agora on the challenges of speech modeling. And much, much more resides in this edition of AI Minds!
Altman on Banks’ Voice Authentication, Elon Musk discusses humans’ purpose with AI, and OpenAI’s “Effective” Voice Agents
Sam Altman is shocked that banks still accept voice authentication, Elon Musk discusses AI's purpose for humans, and OpenAI's gpt-realtime is put to the test. Learn all this and more in this week's edition of AI Minds!
Jensen Huang and NVIDIA’s New Dataset, Apple’s new Siri, The Ultimate Guide to AI Voice Cloning
NVIDIA's new Granary dataset features around 1 million hours of audio. Apple's new Siri will be able to take actions on your behalf across various apps by following voice commands. And you can learn how to go easily from a beginner to a pro voice cloner with a simple, eleven-minute tutorial! All these features and more in today's edition of AI Minds.
Lex Fridman & Zuckerberg speak Hindi with AI, Amazon buys wearable AI device “Bee,” and Meta closes deal to buy AI voice replicator PlayAI
Hear Fridman and Zuckerberg speak Hindi, see how Amazon plans to progress the wearable AI space, and learn how Meta is going to use AI voice replicators in the future.
Eric Schmidt says AI is Underhyped, Zuckerberg discusses AGI & China, and NVIDIA’s plans for physical AI
In this edition of AI Minds, check out former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, giving a TED Talk on why the AI Revolution is underhyped. Listen to Mark Zuckerberg's "masterclass" in AI, AGI, and China. Find out what Jensen Huang plans to build nest at NVIDIA. And learn so much more about the latest the AI world has to offer!
Altman Questioned by Senator John Fetterman, Karpathy on New LLM Paradigm, and Google Chief Scientist talks AI Coders
This week, we find that Sam Altman was questioned by Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) about the Singularity at the AI Hearing. Also, Andrej Karpathy discusses the new LLM-fueled paradigm on X. And Google's Chief Scientist explains why we should expect AI systems to code like Junior-Engineers next year. All this and more in this week's edition of AI Minds!
Bill Gates Responds to “Will we still need humans?”, Caltech talks the One Skill AI Can't Replace, and Encrypted AI Agent Chats
While discussing AI, Bill Gates responds to the question "Will we still need humans?" Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar explains the one skill AI can't replace. Anton Pidkuiko gave agents a set of cryptography functions, and two Sonnet 3.7 autonomously figured out how to end-to-end encrypt their communication via public keys exchange. And much more is revealed in this week's edition of AI Minds!
Zuckerberg & Theo Von Poke Fun at OpenAI, What a GPT-image Feedback Loop Looks Like, and Zero-Shot Singing Voice Synthesis
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and comedian Theo Von briefly poke fun at OpenAI in a new podcast episode. X user shows what a GPT-image feedback loop (shockingly?) looks like. New research yields zero-shot singing voice synthesis model, proving that anyone can sing. And much more is revealed in this week's edition of AI Minds!
Andrew Ng’s new program launch, Why we’re poorly equipped to recognize voice clones, and Google Deepmind on 60 Minutes
Andrew Ng announces the launch of a new 5-course program. Researchers study why we are currently poorly equipped to recognize when an AI is speaking versus a human. Google Deepmind gets a spotlight on 60 Minutes. And much, much more is revealed in this edition of AI Minds!