e428 — Is you is, or is you AIn’t my AI?

Published 14 August 2023

Andy, Michael and Michael get together for a show full of generative AI: audio, bucket lists, books and agents. Andy starts things rolling with a Nvidia follow on article from last week, and a throwback to e156 from 2016. Then things start to get exciting with a number of generative AI examples, beginning with Meta’s AudioCraft, an open source example of generative audio. Next up is Söka, a new app that allows you to create your own bucket list, with the help of generative AI to provide suggestions. Each of the co-hosts gave this a whirl and share their interesting results.

Then, continuing with open source, Michael M brings forward an update from an April discussion during e412 where the generative agents that are essentially non-player characters (NPCs) that interact with one another powered by a large language model. The Smallville environment is now open source, so you can give this experience a try yourself.

Next is a disturbing development where author Jane Friedman noticed that AI generated counterfeit books were being sold online and attributed to her. In her blog post, Jane shares her experience in what it took to correct Amazon and Goodreads, and what other authors have experienced.

This leads to a discussion about Benji Smith’s prosecraft.io service which was taken down last week. Check out the discussion in the podcast, and see what Benji wrote about the experience from the links in the show notes below.

Andy takes a moment to step up on the soapbox and share his thoughts on the meaning of AI. And concludes the episode with a fun reference to a keycap that is designed to run Doom. Check out the show notes for this below.

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