Daily AI News Podcast · Alice Mallory and Bob Trent

Daily AI News Podcast: Friday November 29, 2024 - Kanye West's AI Daughters & Canada Sues Google

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Kanye West used AI to recreate his daughters in the video for Bomb.

1. Daily AI News Podcast on Friday November 29, 2024 moves from small language models to Kanye West, Canada, Australia, and U.S. AI regulation. 2. The hosts named in the transcript guide the segment as a daily news roundup, while Kanye West, Microsoft, Apple researchers, Google, and Fraysa are central examples. 3. The episode asks how AI is changing business, art, healthcare, security, and government policy in the same week. 4. The discussion on small language models says training can drop from six months to six weeks, with less computing power and smaller data sets. 5. The hosts say SLMs can be deployed locally, which gives businesses more control over data for privacy and compliance. 6. Microsoft’s Phi-3 models and Mistral’s open-source models are used as examples of the new SLM ecosystem. 7. Apple researchers are described as testing hardware setups, batch sizes, and DDP to make SLM training faster and cheaper. 8. The show says the goal is to find the sweet spot between performance and cost-effectiveness instead of always choosing the most expensive hardware. 9. The arts segment focuses on Kanye West using AI to recreate his daughters in the music video for "Bomb." 10. The hosts note that some fans called the video lazy, while others saw it as a sign of future storytelling. 11. The episode also mentions speculation that Kanye may have used AI to modify vocals on "Sky City." 12. Australia’s proposed ban on social media for anyone under 16 is presented as one of the strictest measures discussed. 13. The Digital Industry Group, representing Snap, TikTok, and Meta, is said to worry about age verification and privacy. 14. Canada’s lawsuit against Google alleges anti-competitive practices in online advertising and seeks a fine plus divestiture of ad tech tools like ADEX and DFP. 15. The hosts compare that case with U.S. Justice Department actions, framing it as part of a wider global push to regulate tech giants. 16. U.S. AI regulation is described as uncertain under Republicans, with Trump pledging to overturn Biden’s AI executive order. 17. The crypto segment says a user exploited a logic flaw in Fraysa and walked away with a $47,000 prize pool. 18. The quantum-computing discussion says Microsoft and Atom Computing entangled a record number of logical qubits using few physical qubits, then links that progress to Bitcoin encryption and SHA-256. 19. The episode sounds like a fast-paced news recap with rapid topic changes, short explanations, and repeated plain-language clarification. 20. Listeners who want current AI policy, product, and ethics headlines will likely stay engaged, while people wanting one deep topic may skip it.

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A brisk AI news recap that keeps the pace up while staying alert to ethics, regulation, and misuse.

Daily AI News Podcast turns a week's worth of AI headlines into a quick scan of what is changing and why it matters. It moves from small language models and healthcare to Kanye West using AI to recreate his daughters in a music video, so the range stays unusual without feeling…

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