Limitless Podcast

In this episode, we examine the ethical implications of AI development by Meta and OpenAI, contrasting Meta’s addictive “Vibes” video platform with OpenAI’s productive “Pulse.”

 Ejaaz and Josh discuss user reactions to both technologies, prompting a dialogue about engagement-driven versus life-enhancing AI. Join us for insights that challenge listeners to reflect on their values in the evolving tech landscape and anticipate an upcoming interview with Pulse's creators!

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Meta Vibes
1:44 Short Form AI Addiction
3:24 Public Reactions to Vibes
5:37 Meta's Talent Acquisition
7:08 The Dystopian Perspective
11:10 OpenAI's New Feature: Pulse
13:17 Pulse: Your Digital Assistant
15:38 User Experiences with Pulse
17:31 Public Sentiment on Pulse
21:09 Optimism vs. Dystopia
22:55 Future of AI Personalization
23:35 Upcoming Episode Preview
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Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213

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Josh:
So remember all those big billion dollar paychecks multi-billion

Josh:
dollar paychecks that we've been talking about zuck issuing to these top

Josh:
tier ai engineers ejaz well the good news and the bad news is that we know where

Josh:
the money's been going now because the meta team has released their first major

Josh:
product and it's a little freaking scary it's a little dystopian we're going

Josh:
to get into exactly what it is how it all works but before that there is a second

Josh:
character in this story that is taking a seemingly opposite approach.

Josh:
And that's OpenAI, who has dedicated all of their engineering talent towards

Josh:
a new feature called Pulse.

Josh:
Now, Pulse proactively assumes what you are going to want and delivers you value

Josh:
and thinks for you literally overnight in order to make your life better.

Josh:
So what we're seeing here, as these companies release more features,

Josh:
is that they're actually taking two very separate approaches that are seemingly

Josh:
one kind of optimistic, one a little more dystopian than each other.

Josh:
EJS, can you first walk us through the meta news, what they announced,

Josh:
how it works, what they've been up to with all of this multi multi multi multi

Josh:
billion dollars worth of talent.

Ejaaz:
Okay so the product is appropriately

Ejaaz:
called vibes which implies

Ejaaz:
that it's something uh good that's gonna kind of like comfort you maybe even

Ejaaz:
sedate you josh and i use that term very specifically because they've basically

Ejaaz:
created ai tiktok ai ig reels um in the words of alexander wang the head of

Ejaaz:
Meta's super intelligence lab.

Ejaaz:
He goes, excited to share Vibes, a new feed in the Meta AI app for short form AI generated videos.

Ejaaz:
And rather than speak about what it is, I'm going to show you a few videos.

Ejaaz:
You've got an astronaut riding a bike here. You've got a bear and a dinosaur

Ejaaz:
fighting underwater. You've got a cat announcing the news. You've got people running on clouds.

Ejaaz:
And before I start shitting on this, Josh, I'm going to say that it's actually

Ejaaz:
really high quality um the graphics the kind of way that you can seamlessly

Ejaaz:
edit and remix a bunch of these different contents and videos it's actually pretty cool but i don't

Ejaaz:
really agree with the thesis which is basically

Ejaaz:
how can i get a bunch of people addicted to watching short form content as if

Ejaaz:
they weren't already addicted as well already you can now basically take any

Ejaaz:
kind of idea that you might have spend a few seconds running out a prompt and

Ejaaz:
create a new video that just endlessly loops addicting you to watch it over

Ejaaz:
and over again can you walk us through

Josh:
Like exactly how this works is is it the user that's kind of prompting a model

Josh:
and then posting it to a separate timeline is that kind of what this is So maybe

Josh:
like an Instagram-Facebook hybrid, but purely AI-generated? Yeah.

Ejaaz:
So if you imagine you're on your Instagram app and you click add a post or create

Ejaaz:
a post, you will now see an option to create an AI-generated video.

Ejaaz:
And when you tap that, it'll come up with a little prompt box,

Ejaaz:
similar to if you've ever interacted with ChatGPT or even typed anything in Google.

Ejaaz:
And you can just describe what you want to see in a video.

Ejaaz:
So it could be, in this case, a cow wearing sunglasses mooing at you enthusiastically,

Ejaaz:
or it could be a bird flying underwater. It could be pretty much anything you want to make up.

Josh:
Okay, this was shocking when I saw this.

Josh:
I guess it would be an understatement, it was my perception.

Josh:
But before we get into my perception, your perception, because I'm curious what

Josh:
you think, Ejaz, what did the public think of this? How did they take this news?

Ejaaz:
Okay so there are two camps uh

Ejaaz:
one is louder than the other so camp

Ejaaz:
number one unsurprising uh is summarized

Ejaaz:
by lindy man over here always a good reminder

Ejaaz:
that the people making these products are not using them

Ejaaz:
zuck is spending his time doing mma training running

Ejaaz:
a business reading but why buying hawaiian

Ejaaz:
real estate and talking to people this is meant for

Ejaaz:
you not him he sells you plastic and

Ejaaz:
rubber so he can buy wood and stone the point that this

Ejaaz:
man is making is basically he's selling you a

Ejaaz:
product that is going to waste your hours waste your

Ejaaz:
time suck your attention up into a vacuum

Ejaaz:
that pays betters bills pays their advertisers out

Ejaaz:
whilst you eventually are the product

Ejaaz:
now the other camp is displayed

Ejaaz:
by Arthur Rock over here where he goes not surprised

Ejaaz:
by the overwhelming d-cell takes on this it

Ejaaz:
is the same myopic snobbery of inventions past

Ejaaz:
david hockney called the photograph looking at the world from the point of view

Ejaaz:
of a paralyzed cyclops basically this person is saying you guys are being extremely

Ejaaz:
short-sighted this is the new innovation that everyone's been hoping for and

Ejaaz:
it'll end up being a very productive thing

Ejaaz:
Before I want you to retaliate to this, Josh, I can see his point of view.

Ejaaz:
I can see his point of view. If this is a tool that is used for good,

Ejaaz:
imagine being able to educate on a very abstract concept that is so hard to

Ejaaz:
communicate over words or just by speaking into a microphone, much that we do.

Ejaaz:
If there was a way that we could visually kind of illustrate a complex topic

Ejaaz:
and teach many others, I could see that being really productive.

Ejaaz:
But I don't think that that's what it's going to be used for the majority.

Ejaaz:
I think it's going to be used for mass consumption. Whatever gets you views, whatever gets you paid.

Ejaaz:
Josh, I want to pass the ball to you to give the first opinionated take on this, please.

Josh:
Okay. So like I said, like we've been saying for months, they have spent an

Josh:
astronomical amount of money on hiring talent.

Josh:
They have extracted the best engineers in the world.

Ejaaz:
$23 billion, which includes a $15 billion investment to acquire Alexander Wang,

Ejaaz:
the guy that heads up this product.

Josh:
They spent $15 billion for the guy that just posted that tweet.

Josh:
So that's the context there. They have spent an ungodly amount of money designing

Josh:
and developing this team, which you would hope that they are working to design

Josh:
this really impressive software.

Josh:
And before I get into the actual commentary, I do want to provide a little context

Josh:
to the people who kind of aren't aware, or this was something I was thinking

Josh:
about as I was reading the news, is that when you think about Meta and previously Facebook,

Josh:
the Facebook team spent a lot of years and a lot of talent on developing a way to better serve ads.

Josh:
And that resulted in a very addicted algorithm. them.

Josh:
So they spent God knows how many engineers, millions of hours,

Josh:
top talent out of universities.

Josh:
They sucked them in. They paid them with a lot of incentives and these wonderful

Josh:
offices that they get to work in, free lunches.

Josh:
And they said, hey, your job is to figure out how to create a better timeline

Josh:
to get people more hooked to sell better ads.

Josh:
And that is a little bit of a dystopian way of seeing things.

Josh:
So when I heard that they were spending all this money to hire all this talent,

Josh:
this new AI initiative for a new company named Meta, I was like,

Josh:
okay, we got a chance here. and the very first product they announce is.

Josh:
How to get people addicted to a timeline for the AI age, where it is AI version

Josh:
of this timeline, except it's generated completely through an AI model instead of human generated.

Josh:
And the scary thing for me is that AI generated content, EJ,

Josh:
as we've talked about this in the past,

Josh:
it can get very good very quickly, where if you have access to a front facing

Josh:
camera on someone's smartphone, and it's watching your eyes dilate as you watch

Josh:
more interesting videos or lower and it detects every retention rate,

Josh:
it can slowly iterate over time.

Josh:
And with TikTok, when you're scrolling through these timelines, there's a a

Josh:
fixed set of content that you can get through so maybe the

Josh:
algorithm is choosing between five top videos that are interesting to

Josh:
you with an ai generated timeline there

Josh:
is no limit to the amount of videos

Josh:
it's very open-ended so that n number that they could choose from becomes infinite which

Josh:
means you can iterate over time until it becomes maximally addicting

Josh:
for the specific user and generate content on

Josh:
the fly so that is my dystopian approach it is very discouraging to

Josh:
see this like i understand where they're coming from but

Josh:
like my god as the first product to offer without any

Josh:
good explanation like i'd love to hear from

Josh:
them why i think they really just drop this

Josh:
and like hey here's this thing we've been working on here's our first cool project um

Josh:
without explaining the the vision and the why behind it and i think that's equally

Josh:
as important because sure this is great technology it's nothing novel we've

Josh:
seen vo3 make great videos way better than these so it's not like this is novel

Josh:
technology they've just applied a timeline to it for the first time um but i'm

Josh:
curious if you agree or disagree just what are your thoughts on,

Josh:
where do you stand with this okay.

Ejaaz:
So i'm conflicted i agree with a lot of what you just said but i want to point

Ejaaz:
a few things out i want to argue with you a bit josh feel free to jump in whenever okay um

Ejaaz:
Number one, I think we might be sitting on our own ethical horses right now.

Ejaaz:
Do we apply the same kind of critique

Ejaaz:
to TikTok as much or social media in general? I'm not sure that we do.

Ejaaz:
I think that because you and I are so invested in AI and we want to see it kind

Ejaaz:
of change the world, we expect that anyone,

Ejaaz:
particularly someone that's spending hundreds of billions of dollars on compute

Ejaaz:
to scale the best AI models in the world to use it for good or whatever we define as good.

Ejaaz:
I don't think Zuck's ever explicitly stated that he was going to do that, right?

Ejaaz:
He never claimed that he wanted to build the best AI model to make you a genius.

Ejaaz:
He said Facebook or Meta specifically's mission and goal has always been to

Ejaaz:
bring people together, to create a better social environment,

Ejaaz:
to help them connect, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. and he said that Meta's

Ejaaz:
chops have been cut in building consumer apps.

Ejaaz:
That's their bread and butter. He said that on the Doha Cash interview that

Ejaaz:
he was on a couple of weeks back, right?

Ejaaz:
And he's kind of delivering on that promise, I guess. And maybe we just don't

Ejaaz:
like how it's materialized.

Ejaaz:
I agree with you that he should have sold the vision a bit more because Zuck

Ejaaz:
has never explicitly come out and said, hey, we want to increase eyeballs on our app.

Ejaaz:
We need to increase shareholder value. And therefore, that's what we're trying

Ejaaz:
to do here. he's always sold a more like, we're going to connect people online

Ejaaz:
and that's going to bring us closer together.

Ejaaz:
I want to hear what his pitch is.

Ejaaz:
I'm kind of curious to hear from him versus Alexander Wang.

Ejaaz:
The other thing that I'll say is I do think they're going to spin this from

Ejaaz:
an educational point of view as well.

Ejaaz:
I think they're going to use examples of people using this to kind of explain

Ejaaz:
really complex topics, to illustrate new inventions or whatever that might be,

Ejaaz:
or even to ideate like kind of new film concepts or video concepts to entertain.

Ejaaz:
And I don't think net net, that's going to really result in too much of a bad thing.

Ejaaz:
But I think you and I have been primed on TikTok too much. The other thing that is in your camp, Josh,

Ejaaz:
is I think Zuck has seen a growing trend of Gen Z people watching absolute slop,

Ejaaz:
not AI slop, just slop on TikTok.

Ejaaz:
If you watch what some of the kids are digesting, like what was that skibbity

Ejaaz:
toilet trend that was going nuts that basically all the kids could talk about

Ejaaz:
or baby shark and all that kind of stuff.

Ejaaz:
I think he's seen that and he knows that there are a bunch of kids that are

Ejaaz:
entering the workforce or whatever that like this kind of stuff and he's just

Ejaaz:
engineering a product that they're going to get hooked on and I'm very bearish on that.

Josh:
Very well could be. I guess we'll leave it at that and we'll see.

Josh:
I'm very much looking forward to the messaging that they're going to have around

Josh:
this going forward and how they plan to use the technology.

Josh:
But maybe you're right. Maybe we're just being a little too optimistic on our

Josh:
expectations for Meta and the team.

Ejaaz:
But this isn't unlike Meta or Zuck's nature, right?

Ejaaz:
Like literally last week, they

Ejaaz:
released a new AI dating app with two features that will help you find

Ejaaz:
the love of your life, or, you know, just a girlfriend or a boyfriend or whoever

Ejaaz:
you want to hang out with.

Ejaaz:
And I'm referencing, this post summarizes actually very well,

Ejaaz:
that the new AI assistant lets you search for a Brooklyn tech bro who would

Ejaaz:
go to EDM concerts with me.

Ejaaz:
And this one hit pretty close to home because, you know, we live in Brooklyn

Ejaaz:
and it very much fulfills the stereotype here.

Ejaaz:
So the point I'm making is Zuck and Meta haven't really kind of blindsided us

Ejaaz:
or surprised us. They've kind of been making moves like this all along.

Ejaaz:
And maybe this is the next step of a path that they just want to go down.

Josh:
Yeah, I guess. Well, time will tell. I'm looking forward to future messaging

Josh:
from $15 billion Alex Wang.

Josh:
Hopefully he has something a little more inspiring to share with us.

Josh:
But on the inspiring front, on the optimistic front, on the hopeful front,

Josh:
we have OpenAI Ejaz, who is now doing something proactive.

Josh:
I think this is the first time where an AI is actually thinking on behalf of

Josh:
you without being prompted. Can you explain to us what's going on with this new pulse feature.

Ejaaz:
Okay what if i told you josh that the episode that we're filming tomorrow the

Ejaaz:
ai roundup was actually formed by open ai's latest product that they released a few days ago that'd

Josh:
Be pretty stoked because uh that would save us a lot of time in preparation yep.

Ejaaz:
I am talking about open ai pulse and in sam's words pulse works for you overnight

Ejaaz:
and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data,

Ejaaz:
your recent chats, and more.

Ejaaz:
Every morning, you get a custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in.

Ejaaz:
It performs well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you.

Ejaaz:
In regular chat, you could mention, I'd like to go visit Bora Bora someday,

Ejaaz:
or my kid is six months old and I'm interested in developmental milestones.

Ejaaz:
And in the future, you might get useful updates. And to kind of summarize what

Ejaaz:
this product does, Josh, it's kind of a digital you.

Ejaaz:
Thinks and gets better as you sleep, literally.

Ejaaz:
So whilst you and I are asleep, it's thinking about what would Josh want to

Ejaaz:
hear about tomorrow morning?

Ejaaz:
What was the task Josh was trying to figure out at 12 p.m.

Ejaaz:
Today that he didn't end up figuring out? How can I help him achieve that goal

Ejaaz:
faster and quicker than his deadline in a week's time?

Ejaaz:
It's meant to be a digital version of you that's meant to help and aid you,

Ejaaz:
very much like a personalized AI that you and I have been so,

Ejaaz:
so excited about kind of using and interacting with.

Ejaaz:
This was a feature that they released for pro users.

Ejaaz:
And in the words of Fiji Simo, the CEO of product, she goes,

Ejaaz:
AI should do more than just answer questions.

Ejaaz:
It should anticipate your needs and help reach your goals.

Ejaaz:
And I kind of like this idea of instead of pitching you an AI agent that can

Ejaaz:
solve all your problems,

Ejaaz:
they're taking the step before that, which is let me help understand what you're

Ejaaz:
trying to achieve and help you in small ways, which is give you up the information

Ejaaz:
that you didn't even know you needed to help reach your goals.

Josh:
This is super exciting. This is, it feels like a very natural extension to OpenAI's memory feature.

Josh:
I mean, if you remember, they were the first ones, I believe,

Josh:
to roll out memory and it became kind of the moat that they had.

Josh:
And I love that this is an attempt to build on top of the moat.

Josh:
And I also love that that came from Fiji, who is the CEO of product of OpenAI, like the a semi-CEO.

Josh:
But it's cool that they're actually, they're shipping these really cool features

Josh:
that are now building on top of that mode that they've created.

Josh:
And again, I mean, I use ChatGPT mostly because of that memory mode.

Josh:
I think it's really powerful. It makes a big deal. And I would love,

Josh:
for AI to be proactive. And by all means, I very much think this is the first

Josh:
time an AI is doing this, where it is actually ingesting your memory,

Josh:
sitting on it, thinking about it.

Josh:
They are applying the absolute best models they have overnight when you are

Josh:
not online, and then surfacing the most helpful things based on their absolute

Josh:
best models the following morning.

Josh:
And that to me seems really helpful.

Josh:
Like, okay, maybe it's in a way, it's like, a lot of times someone will tell

Josh:
you like, oh, just go sleep on it. You'll come to an answer in the morning.

Josh:
AI is very much. It's sleeping on it. It's sleeping on it for you,

Josh:
on your behalf. And it is surfacing the best answer. So to me,

Josh:
this is a really cool feature. I'm a big fan.

Ejaaz:
Do you want to know something cool, Josh? So I have a pro subscription and I've

Ejaaz:
been using it in the four days since it's been released.

Josh:
What has it been like? What do you get?

Ejaaz:
It started off kind of like a newsletter, your own personalized newsletter on

Ejaaz:
your life, Josh, on all your interests that you wanted to hear about.

Ejaaz:
And the newsletter would tell me things that happened

Ejaaz:
over the last couple of days okay this is the this

Ejaaz:
is the progress i'm really excited to tell you about this okay so step one is

Ejaaz:
newsletter debrief on the things that have happened the

Ejaaz:
last few days it that's cool but nothing super

Ejaaz:
novel day two it started

Ejaaz:
telling me those things that happened over the last couple of days but also

Ejaaz:
started giving me ideas of what could happen in the future it was like okay

Ejaaz:
oh have you ever thought about like you know maybe this AI agent could end up

Ejaaz:
actually feasibly doing this because of this advancement that NVIDIA did with this chip.

Ejaaz:
And I'm like, huh, you know what? I never really thought about that.

Ejaaz:
That's actually really interesting.

Ejaaz:
And then yesterday, Josh, the prompt that it gave me was a list of things that

Ejaaz:
was the latest news in AI.

Ejaaz:
And it said, by the way, have you considered talking about this angle when you

Ejaaz:
film the episode on Wednesday? Yeah.

Ejaaz:
And I was like, how, wait, how do you know I'm filming an episode on Wednesday?

Ejaaz:
And then I realized I'd had a separate conversation with ChatGPT earlier on

Ejaaz:
that day, trying to brainstorm ideas of how I would frame an argument.

Ejaaz:
And it had brought in a new news topic that had broke that morning and synthesized

Ejaaz:
it with that goal that I was going to film on Wednesday.

Ejaaz:
And it was said, by the way, you should include this in that and frame it this way.

Ejaaz:
So it's already kind of getting me to think ahead of my life in ways that I

Ejaaz:
actually hadn't considered. or maybe I would only think about on that day.

Ejaaz:
So it's kind of like helping my future self in a weird way.

Josh:
That is very cool. And it seems like you are not alone in your happy sentiment

Josh:
around it because Kevin, I mean, we have some public commentary.

Josh:
People also seem to be pretty stoked that this is happening, right?

Ejaaz:
Yeah, so Kevin Rose has a tweet here where he goes, ChatGPT Pulse is one of

Ejaaz:
the most impactful features OpenAI has released.

Ejaaz:
It's an agent that continuously researches on your behalf, building on topics

Ejaaz:
from your recent conversations. i'm having a hard time wrapping my head around

Ejaaz:
this paradigm because it's truly unlike anything we've seen before and i guess

Ejaaz:
that i kind of resonate with

Josh:
That so i guess in the search to figure out how this works uh we

Josh:
stumbled upon this post by nathan dashes and he

Josh:
just said yeah just had an interesting experience with gpt plus last night

Josh:
i asked gpt a question and it gave me an answer that was

Josh:
just so so this morning the first card impulse was three

Josh:
times better to the same question um and

Josh:
then you could see there's a response from adam fry who is the lead of product

Josh:
at open ai and he said well overnight we use our best

Josh:
models and also try to think the broader intent

Josh:
of the question you ask to see if chat gpt can

Josh:
be even more helpful so what's really cool is what they're doing is i just i

Josh:
also have to wonder if they're using this as a test bed for new models without

Josh:
telling you they said they're absolute best models i wonder if that's a teaser

Josh:
i don't know i'm just speculating so i wonder if this this creates this new

Josh:
meta of engaging with the ai where you can actually prompt which topics to think about overnight.

Josh:
And if you don't feel satisfied with the answer, maybe you could just subtly

Josh:
hint it to request to think harder on it overnight.

Ejaaz:
Yeah, I think you kind of nailed it, Josh. So there's this paragraph in Fiji's

Ejaaz:
announcement post where she goes, our reasoning models, and she's referring

Ejaaz:
to OpenAI's latest models,

Ejaaz:
were built to spend more time thinking before they answer, allowing them to

Ejaaz:
work through complex tasks in science, coding, math at near PhD level.

Ejaaz:
And this is something you and I have spoken about, Josh.

Ejaaz:
We keep talking about these models breaking benchmarks and being so, so smart.

Ejaaz:
But most of our listeners, including you and I, don't really get to see the

Ejaaz:
fruits of this labor, right?

Ejaaz:
We're like, okay, we're not doing PhD level coding. So what? Who cares?

Ejaaz:
And Fiji goes, Pulse takes that intelligence and applies it proactively to your

Ejaaz:
personal everyday life helping you make progress

Ejaaz:
in the things that matter even when you don't think so it's almost

Ejaaz:
as if they're saying these models were already available and

Ejaaz:
intelligent and we're surfacing this feature this new

Ejaaz:
product for you so that you can see it happen to you in real time literally

Ejaaz:
change the way you work and interact with ai over time and i just want to give

Ejaaz:
my quick take an opinion on this because we just covered like the doom of vision

Ejaaz:
of like meta's uh scrolling a TikTok app, and then we have suddenly this.

Ejaaz:
This is way more optimistic. I can see myself using this every day and actually

Ejaaz:
growing to really depend and love it.

Ejaaz:
Obviously, the Duma side of that is like, if I'm dependent on this and OpenAI

Ejaaz:
has all my data, could they use that for different things?

Ejaaz:
But the optimistic side is, do I care if it's making me more of a productive human being?

Ejaaz:
If I can do 10x more things than I could originally do, if it can anticipate

Ejaaz:
problems before they even happen to me, that's something that I'm willing not

Ejaaz:
only to pay 200 bucks for, but maybe even a thousand bucks for if it ends up doing that, right?

Ejaaz:
And then the stark contrast to point out the obvious is this seems to be a product

Ejaaz:
that is sucking your attention to make you more productive, to make you smarter.

Ejaaz:
Whereas Meta's thing seems to be like, you know, let me help you consume a bunch

Ejaaz:
of video content and waste your time on that kind of stuff.

Ejaaz:
That's the obvious. Do you have the same kind of take, Josh, or anything different?

Josh:
Yeah, what you said reminded me of this war that I've been at with all of the

Josh:
large model companies, which is against the singular text box.

Josh:
Like the fact that you're presented with the world's knowledge and a single

Josh:
text box to engage with it really drives me crazy.

Josh:
Frustration to no end and what i love about

Josh:
the open ai approach is well it's just it's proactive it

Josh:
serves you things that you wouldn't necessarily require

Josh:
that amount of knowledge for but it takes the large knowledge that's unused and

Josh:
it applies it to something that's valuable for you and it serves it to you and i think

Josh:
that's great and i mean meta meta just has

Josh:
this this kind of like strange slightly less

Josh:
inspiring approach and sure ai video it's not

Josh:
that great now it's going to get fantastic i'm sure ai video

Josh:
will i mean eventually become more interesting than

Josh:
tiktok and it will become a very interesting valuable

Josh:
platform it's just on a personal note leaves

Josh:
me uninspired to see all this talent going towards that instead of something

Josh:
like open ai so for today for this moment in time i am a little upset with meta

Josh:
pretty happy with open ai we'll see how this changes over time but two very

Josh:
interesting noteworthy product releases that had happened just very recently here?

Ejaaz:
I think it is a tale of two different cities.

Ejaaz:
Facebook and Meta is doing its own thing. It is a social media platform.

Ejaaz:
They never claim to change the world and make you the most intelligent person

Ejaaz:
ever. They're there to kind of connect people.

Ejaaz:
And I'm ironically lacking the argument for connection with their new product.

Ejaaz:
Addiction, I get. Connection, less so. And with the OpenAI product,

Ejaaz:
Sam has always kind of pitched this vision of AGI, super intelligence,

Ejaaz:
like we're going to make you smarter and it's going to make you way more productive

Ejaaz:
and humans are going to prosper, UBI, all this kind of stuff.

Ejaaz:
And I can see this as a step towards that.

Ejaaz:
The thing that I'm most excited about in the OpenAI stuff is this seems like

Ejaaz:
the premeditated step before launching your own personal agent that can do way

Ejaaz:
more things than just talk to you. It can buy stuff for you and build stuff for you.

Ejaaz:
And, you know, they release something this morning um that will allow you to

Ejaaz:
like pay or buy uh anything which anyway is super cool

Ejaaz:
Josh, we have a really exciting episode that we're filming on Thursday,

Ejaaz:
which is with the guys that built this product, which built OpenAI Pulse. The Pulse product.

Josh:
The one that we like today.

Ejaaz:
The Pulse, the optimistic outlook. I'm highlighting the sentence.

Josh:
Talking to the optimist.

Ejaaz:
Yeah, I'm highlighting the end of Sam's announcement post where he goes,

Ejaaz:
huge congrats to Christina and Samir and the team for building this.

Ejaaz:
Christina and Samir are coming on our show on Thursday. We are recording that

Ejaaz:
episode and we're going to dig deep into AI personalization and agents.

Ejaaz:
And we cannot wait to show this to you guys.

Ejaaz:
But that comes to the end of our episode. Unless Josh, you have any other hot takes?

Josh:
That's everything. So yeah, if you guys are excited about the Christina and

Josh:
Samir episode, please tune in.

Josh:
That is like pretty huge for us to actually talk to the people who are responsible

Josh:
for creating the news that we were discussing on the show. Super exciting.

Josh:
One task for you in the comment section is to share which side you are on.

Josh:
Are we being delusional?

Josh:
Is it the pessimists that are correct? Is it the people who are building AI

Josh:
Slap? Are you team meta? Are you team open AI today?

Josh:
It's all right. You're allowed to change your opinion next week,

Josh:
but for today, where do you stand?

Josh:
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Josh:
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Josh:
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Josh:
And we will see you again in the next one for a roundup of all of the other

Josh:
stuff that we didn't get to talk about today.

Josh:
So stay tuned. We have a lot coming up and we will talk to you all in the next one.