autonomous delivery

Americans are watching a lot of television, but it’s not broadcast or cable TV. For the first time, linear TV made up less than half of all TV viewing last month. We’ll talk about how the rise of streaming and the ongoing Hollywood strikes may accelerate cord cutting. Plus, how the U.S. is still being represented in the Women’s World Cup final. And, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty with guest host and Economics on Tap first-timer Nova Safo, who enlightens us on why all radio show hosts should drink sherry.

Here’s everything we talked about:

• • “For the first time, cable and broadcast makes up less than half of TV viewing” from CNN

• • “What to know about SAG-AFTRA waivers and why actors are making movies during the strike” from AP News

• • “American referee Tori Penso picked by FIFA for England-Spain final at Women’s World Cup” from AP News

• • “Beer? Pour me a grey one” from Marketplace

• • “Could stablecoin regulation come sooner with PayPal USD launch?” from Marketplace

• • “First Bank of U.S. to be turned into museum of the American economy” from Marketplace

• • “Can AI product review summaries help us make better purchase decisions?” from Marketplace

• • “Serve Robotics goes public, but the robot delivery industry has a ways to go” from Quartz

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Keller Rinaudo Cliffton thinks we’re already experiencing the technology of tomorrow, just that it’s not evenly distributed...

About a decade ago, Keller transformed his smartphone robot company into Zipline, which today orchestrates on-demand drone deliveries all over the world. Zipline got its start delivering critical medical supplies to hospitals in Rwanda: a testament to Keller’s belief that innovation is already improving lives outside the U.S.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Keller recounts the ongoing and often challenging development of Zipline’s delivery drones. Plus, how Zipline is now chasing the commercial market, and could soon be delivering packages from stores like Walmart within an hour of a customer clicking “purchase.” 

This episode was produced by Carla Esteves and edited by John Isabella, with music by Ramtin Arablouei. Our audio engineer was Josh Newell. 

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Timestamps:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter
• (01:30) News Preview
• Tools & Apps
  • (03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
  • (08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop
  • (12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT
  • (14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos
  • (16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries
  • (18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI
• Applications & Business
  • (19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom
  • (22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think  
  • (25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster 
  • (28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot
  • (30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis
  • (32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters
  • (33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work
• Projects & Open Source
  • (35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly  +  Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio
  • (38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents 
  • (41:37) Bard API
  • (43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face
  • (44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source
• Research & Advancements
  • (45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning
  • (49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds
  • (51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans 
  • (54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages
  • (56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models
  • (59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes
  • (01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
• Policy & Safety 
  • (01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI
  • (01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?
  • (01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare 
  • (01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud
  • (01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media
• (01:28:44) Outro