Still Human, For Now… with Jag Sharma, Jason Kapadia and Felina Tan - E77
Who gave AI our microphones…?
Google’s most impressive development in recent months is on everyone’s lips, but we’re left wondering if NotebookLM is about to take over the podcast charts.
Until then it's still the human Jag, Jason and Felina bringing you the latest tech news on Disconnected, with a look at Meta’s vision of the future with their new wearable, and whether AI has finally helped the bots defeat ‘captcha’ for good.
This episode of Disconnected covers:
AI’s shocking success rate at passing ‘captcha’ tests, how we beat the bots
Google’s NotebookLM taking a podcast approach to AI summaries
Meta’s Orion glasses promising to tear us away from our phones
Episode Highlights:
“So Captchas are obviously designed to verify human users. They're now really, really vulnerable to what AI can do, and their improved pattern recognition capabilities.” - 4:00 - Felina Tan
“It's like any security measures that are put in place, the AIs can be trained to defeat it, because their reasoning is getting just as good as humans.” - 7:10 - Jason Kapadia
“NotebookLM can generate AI audio podcasts about a specific topic with realistic male and female voices talking about the content that you just added.” - 16:00 - Jason Kapadia
“How easy is it now to learn stuff? I recall studying at university, having to read journal articles that were 20+ pages long. If I could just copy paste that into NotebookLM, then sit back and listen to a 20 minute podcast discussion on the journal article - it's amazing!” - 22:35 - Jag Sharma
“The Orion glasses aren’t available to buy at the moment. It was just an update from Meta with a likely launch at least a year away. The price point they’re aiming for is similar to a high end smartphone. Have Meta cracked the code?” - 27:10 - Jag Sharma
“There's going to be a lot more in terms of the attention economy, and the value it’ll bring to advertisers, etc. It just opens up a huge amount of new opportunities, and I don't know if it's all going to be positive.” - 29:50 - Jason Kapadia
Links & references:
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Felina Tan:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/felinagabrielletan/
Jag Sharma: