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Welcome to Top 5 Tech, a weekly show about what to watch, listen to, download, read,
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and something deep every week.
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It is HomeView week, Apple's first smart home hub with a screen.
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I've been reviewing it for over a week and have over 45 minutes showing everything possible
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with HomeView, what you can and can't do, and how my family fooled it.
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So I'm going to link my own video, but also include a bunch of other videos like the new
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Apple TV 4K review and a bunch of other creators' Apple HomeView review.
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Jennifer Pattison Tui at The Verge, she's actually been a guest on Primary Technology
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and is going to be on Mac Power Users this Sunday, but she has an excellent review.
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Also Shane Watley, Joanna Stern, and Eric Wielander, all with incredible reviews.
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So if you just want to binge all the HomeView content, I'll put it down in the show notes.
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What to listen to and read this week is both going to relate to one of the biggest tech
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news stories of recent history.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who is a co-founder of the company, and it was the second most
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profitable and valued company just after Apple, over $4 trillion market cap, he was caught
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having two affairs this past year.
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One was with a supposed Singaporean spy
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who worked for one of NVIDIA's customers
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and the second affair was with someone in NVIDIA,
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actually the VP that reports to him directly.
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Bad situation, but it forced him to have to resign his position as CEO of NVIDIA.
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There's a lot of ramifications to that,
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especially because the company is not set up for succession.
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NVIDIA had very much a flat org chart,
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meaning lots of people reported to Jensen Wang directly
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and there were not a lot of VPs that could take over easily.
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What I want to listen to is an episode of the Verge cast with Liz Lopato
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who explains in-depth the ramifications, what this means,
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why the company was not set up or prepared for this at all.
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So I recommend that.
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And on what to read, I'm going to link my co-host's article,
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"NVIDIA's Jensen Wang, the most important CEO in tech, just resigned."
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This was published right after the news broke just this morning
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as I record that he's leaving the company.
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So again, if you want to understand the ramifications,
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what this means for AI,
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NVIDIA has a huge role in the AI industry.
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They make the chips that many of these AI models run on.
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Jensen's article is the one to read.
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Now, something a little more fun on what to download,
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there's a new podcast player app out there.
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This is Tripod by Ben McCarthy.
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I've been testing it for over a week.
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It is a great podcast app.
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There's a subscription for some premium features
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like choosing what chapters play within an episode,
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but it is beautifully designed,
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actually works on the Home View, also CarPlay,
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has an Apple Watch app.
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And again, just a really nicely designed podcast player.
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I still love supporting third-party podcast apps.
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Most people listen to podcasts either on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube,
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with third-party podcast players.
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They're just way better at managing and listening to lots of podcasts,
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if you're like me and have a lot of shows that you love.
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So recommend, try, you can use it and never pay the subscription.
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But if you like some of those features, check it out.
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And on Something Deep, my friend Nate sent me this podcast episode,
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The Best Possible AI Catastrophe.
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This was my first time listening to the show, Pablo Toria finds out.
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But in the show, they talk a lot about what are some recent events,
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like a hacker hacking into the freezers of supermarkets in the UK, I believe,
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or the EU and turning them off just using an open source.
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And I just wanted to frame this again.
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Yes, there are many dangers when it comes to AI,
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especially the idea of open source models,
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meaning you can download an AI model
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onto a computer that you run at your house,
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and then it's not beholden to safeguards
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that the AI companies put in place.
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Open source models run locally,
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so there is no check and balance from some other company.
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So there are dangers there for sure.
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But calling back to the news about Jensen Wang
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having to resign from NVIDIA,
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that actually might be good news for slowing.
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down the A.I. race.
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There's a lot of other news like Anthropic is filing for an IPO and is going for a valuation
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of over $1.4 trillion, which is wild, will be one of the largest IPOs ever.
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But this news about Jensen Wang and going for an IPO, Anthropic and the CEO, Dario Amadei,
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have written a letter to slow down the frontier pace and just take a step back.
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So maybe some of the current events this week will actually slow the progress these companies
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can put together, reasonable safeguards, maybe even laws in place for how these companies
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need to report what their models are doing, the checks and balances they put in place
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on themselves, and maybe some companies that can put those checks and balances outside
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of those companies to really keep an eye on it.
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It was an interesting episode.
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It felt a little closer to A.I.
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Doomerism, which I'm not there.
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I know there are dangers and we need to have safeguards, but I don't think it's going to
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kill us all just yet.
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