AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

By: Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell
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  • You want to follow the AI space but it's just too much? Welcome to your favorite new show. AI For Humans catches you up on all the AI news, tools & issues. Each week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell help explain exactly how this ground breaking technology will change our world. Plus, it's fun! Don't take our word for it. Fast Company says "AI For Humans may be the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence". Subscribe now to stay up-to-date on one of today's most important emerging technologies. New episodes every Thursday.
    2024
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  • Deepseek R1 Chaos & Updates, More New Chinese AI Models & More AI News

    Deepseek R1 Chaos & Updates, More New Chinese AI Models & More AI News
    Jan 30 2025
    Deepseek’s R1 model shook OpenAI & now Sam Altman says they’re moving faster. We explain what’s going on, where we go next (AGI anyone?) and how China is a MAJOR AI player now. It’s not only Deepseek, China’s Qwen2.5 Max model is brand new, Chinese AI video tools like Kling & Minimax keep shipping updates. AND they’ve got tentacle robots! YIKES. Meanwhile, Apple’s pretty happy with their position AND we cover some of our favorite AI creators newest work in AI See What You Did There! IT’S GETTING CRAZY AGAIN Y’ALL! Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // SHOW LINKS // Deepseek R1 Shocks The World https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/technology/china-deepseek-ai-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk4.bGIR.hQusJjr7ruV4&smid=url-share Did They “Steal” OpenAI Data? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/microsoft-probing-if-deepseek-linked-group-improperly-obtained-openai-data Meta Scrambling into War Rooms https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-scrambles-after-chinese-ai-equals-its-own-upending-silicon-valley?rc=c3oojq&shared=924bbcc92a1a8b36 Marc Andreesen Called This AI’s Sputnik Moment https://x.com/pmarca/status/1883640142591853011 Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Launch Sooner https://x.com/sama/status/1884066337103962416 Trump Calls it a ‘wake-up’ moment for American Scientists https://x.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1884032343272575361 Palmer Lucky Says Impressive But Also Maybe Psyop https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1884351579240927677 US Navy Bans Deepseek Due to Ethics & Safety Concerns https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/us-navy-restricts-use-of-deepseek-ai-imperative-to-avoid-using.html Jevon’s Paradox (explain briefly) https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1883753899255046301 Trump Tariffs on Semiconductors https://x.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1884023740826280053 Apple Celebrates https://x.com/alexocheema/status/1884017524368720044 Chinese Open Source AI Music Generator https://x.com/victormustar/status/1884166716181344300 https://huggingface.co/m-a-p/YuE-s1-7B-anneal-en-cot Hailuo Minimax Director (Early Access Only) https://x.com/maxescu/status/1883853629817512429 https://x.com/Hailuo_AI/status/1884176446702428568 Evil Dead Minimax Shot https://x.com/WuxiaRocks/status/1884147071982461009 AI Warper Makes Female Asmongold AI Influencer https://x.com/AIWarper/status/1884262138908467244 Indiana Jones In Front Of Live Audience https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1hr7xcs/indiana_jones_but_its_filmed_in_front_of_a_live/ Deepseek GROQ Coding Generator https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1884368360940400652 Spiral Robots https://youtu.be/2GFyFmMm9-A?si=8jEWJvJl2yG0BreR Kling Elements https://x.com/maxescu/status/1884250507012985027
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    55 mins
  • OpenAI's $500B Stargate Project, Cutting Edge Chinese AI Models & More AI News

    OpenAI's $500B Stargate Project, Cutting Edge Chinese AI Models & More AI News
    Jan 23 2025

    AI is speeding up… Is Project Stargate the $500 billion dollar path to AGI? OpenAI seems to think so. Plus, details on Deepseek’s R1 open-source reasoning & more AI news!

    Anthropic’s Dario Amodei discusses the next few years of AI, OpenAI’s Operator is likely coming this week, Google’s new Gemini model (Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental 01-21) is VERY good, hands on with Hailuo’s Minimax Character Reference tool and an AI that can see five seconds into the future.

    IT’S GETTING REAL WEIRD FOLKS

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    // Show Links //

    Stargate 500b Infrastructure Company Announced By Trump

    https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1881830103858172059

    Sama x Trump Announcement

    https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1881838015687127364

    Elon Thinks They Don’t Have The Money -- Sam Snaps Back WE GOTTA BEEEEEEF

    https://x.com/sama/status/1882085883081609484

    Satya Nadells says his paper is clean…

    https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1882086181011411443

    Trump Revokes Bidens AI Regulation Executive Order https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/trump-revokes-biden-executive-order-addressing-ai-risks-2025-01-21/

    Operator Shipping This Week?

    https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-preps-operator-release-for-this-week?rc=c3oojq

    Dario Amodei Interview From Davos

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snkOMOjiVOk

    Machines of Loving Grace
    https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace

    DeekSeek R1 Compares to o1 at a fraction of the cost

    https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1881318130334814301

    Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental 01-21 (say that five times fast)

    https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1881844578069999809

    Paper Says AI Predicts Brain Activity Five Seconds Into The Future

    https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1880184389218496770

    Demis Hassabis Expects AI Drug Spin-off To Launch AI Designed Drug Trials This Year

    https://www.ft.com/content/41b51d07-0754-4ffd-a8f9-737e1b1f0c2e

    Hunyuan3D-2

    https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/1881641699761668406

    Deep Robotics Hype Video

    https://x.com/DeepRobotics_CN/status/1882022829727859113

    Hailuo Expressive Voice

    https://x.com/minchoi/status/1881020178265460775

    New AI TV Show From The Dor Brothers

    https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/1881766606310895883

    Hailuo Minimax Character Reference

    https://x.com/Hailuo_AI/status/1877686828712788134

    Gavin’s Experiments With Character Reference

    https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1881781752324092279
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    57 mins
  • OpenAI Plans Super Intelligence, NVIDIA's Tiny Image Model & Reddit Launches GPT & More AI News

    OpenAI Plans Super Intelligence, NVIDIA's Tiny Image Model & Reddit Launches GPT & More AI News
    Jan 16 2025

    OpenAI is prepping for Artificial Super Intelligence, Sam Altman says AI fast takeoff is likely, Luma Labs’ new Ray 2 AI video model looks good and Reddit goes all GPT on us.

    Plus, an amazing new small AI model from NVIDIA, executive AI orders for more power and chips, ChatGPT Tasks kind of blows and a whole lotta Shrek (more so than you might want).

    BRB, WE GOTTA PREP FOR THE SINGULARITY Y’ALL!

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    // SHOW LINKS //

    OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint

    https://openai.com/global-affairs/openais-economic-blueprint/

    Sam Altman Says Fast Take Off More Likely

    https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1879100390840697191

    OpenSource $450 Dollar o1 Model

    https://x.com/LiorOnAI/status/1878876546066506157

    MiniMax-01 Launch: Lightning Attention

    https://x.com/i/trending/1879318547861582090

    Runway Prompt-To-Character
    https://x.com/IXITimmyIXI/status/1878088929330491844

    Executive Order For Gigawatt Datacenters

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/biden-issue-executive-order-ensure-power-ai-data-centers-2025-01-14/

    New AI Chip Rules

    https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-bidens-final-ai-chip-move-caused-an-uproar?rc=c3oojq&shared=160dd16ac575f520

    ChatGPT Tasks

    https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1879267276291203329

    Custom Reddit GPT For Answers
    https://www.reddit.com/answers/

    LumaLabs Ray 2:

    https://lumalabs.ai/ray

    Nvidia Lauches Sana

    https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/

    AI Slop Distorting Wildfire News

    https://www.fastcompany.com/91260442/ai-slop-has-is-still-distorting-news-about-the-l-a-wildfires

    French Woman Scammed By AI Brad Pitt
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ai-brad-pitt-woman-romance-scam-france-tf1-rcna187745

    Fashn Web App: Try-on + Video
    https://x.com/ayaboch/status/1878888737603830081

    New AI or Die

    https://youtu.be/cAjUy896SOE?si=BpJhqV_oOwvov01q

    My Swamp

    https://x.com/andr3_ai/status/1878110156887638380
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    52 mins

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