Coming this week: Yann LaCun, a collab with Shannon Morse, and more!
A quick round-up of the past and future to catch you up to speed
Hey yall. I will try to keep this brief. Simply because this is a BIG week with some amazing surprises in store. So I think first of all, just be sure to be on the lookout for:
Don’t miss tomorrow’s AI Inside podcast
Jeff Jarvis and I interview Yann LaCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the “godfather of AI.” It’s a special episode where Yann covers current LLM’s lack of intelligence compared to house cats, how AI's greatest challenge is developing world models that comprehend physical reality, and how Meta's open-source LLAMA strategy is working for the company. Subscribe so you don’t miss it, either to the podcast or on YouTube!
Thursday’s collab bonanza with my friend Shannon Morse
I flew to Colorado last weekend to hang out with my friend and YouTuber Shannon Morse. We collaborated on a few videos, one coming to her channel and one to mine. Expect both of the videos to drop on Thursday morning. Let me just say that you’ll want to be subscribed to both of our channels when that happens because you could actually win something in the process and… it’s pretty cool!!
Hey, it’s me on other people’s podcasts!
I shared in my end-of-2024 round-up video that one of my goals for the year is more collaborations, more travel, and more appearances on other people’s podcasts! So far, I think I’m doing alright. Check it out:
Daily Tech News Show Briefing Bonanza
Tom Merritt, host of DTNS, was on a two-week vacation to Japan. He left me in charge of a number of the DTNS-B episodes in his absence and I am appreciative of the opportunity to hold down the fort with some amazing co-hosts! I felt so dialed into the tech news, something I haven’t felt since my time ended at TWiT in 2023! I was on so many episodes, it’s a little too many to list here. But head over and subscribe to the podcast if you haven’t already because I do the show every Tuesday and Thursday even when Tom isn’t traveling. That includes this morning where we discussed the impact of Google’s AI Overviews on website traffic!
Techsploder with Mikah Sargent was INSANELY fun
I got to give Mikah the Techsploder treatment and we got super nerdy on nostalgia trips featuring the Kindle Keyboard and a Sanyo BlackBerry knockoff device that was a pinnacle device for Mikah in his younger years. I adore Mikah and always look forward to the chance to catch up with him.
And hey, I hopped on Tech News Weekly, Mikah’s show, to talk about the news around the Pixel 9a delays so you should check that out while you’re at it!
Why do my product reviews in a boring studio when I can do them…
Here! In the beautiful vineyards of Sonoma where I live my life! I figured why not take my tech to random places with beautiful and interesting scenery and do the reviews there? This video review of the Nothing Phone 3a has taken off, so me thinks you’ll see me do more of this in the future. (Perhaps even this Thursday??)
If you prefer to read your tech reviews, I got you covered over on ZDNet:
I switched to $379 Android phone from my Pixel 9 Pro while traveling - and didn't regret it - ZDNet
Android Faithful is popping!
Hey! We are sponsored! I don’t know if I’m allowed to be the one to announce that but yes! We got a sponsor which means we are monetizing the podcast on a deeper level, and we hope there’s more where that came from. This is also a reminder that you can get an ad-free version of the podcast by joining us on our Patreon. Which, by the way, we have some really awesome stuff in the works for THAT with plans to launch those changes pretty soon. OK, I’ll stop talking about stuff that I’m not even sure I’m allowed to talk about yet!
OK phew that was A LOT
More in the pipeline. I’m battling a bit of guilt that I’m not writing as much as I’d like. I am constantly running up against that tricky SOB called “time” and the fact that there is never enough of it. But I’m having a blast and so incredibly grateful to have you along for the ride.
Thank you for being with me on this amazing journey, ya’ll!!