YouTube leans into genAI with new tools for creators - DTNS 5105

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2:40This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know. Follow up on the context of those stories. and help each other understand.

2:50Dr Niki: Oh, Dr. Nikki's going to help us understand today. She's going to tell us all about robot antelopes. Okay, I didn't know that existed. Let me just say that again. Robot antelopes. And YouTube increases its appeal to live streamers and podcasters, and even moves some of the ads out of the main video window. Yeah, really interesting stuff that we're going to dive into. But first, I'm Jason Howell. I am Tom Merritt. And now let's dive into it. Let's start with what you need to know with a big story.

3:20So there's a lot of news coming from Google slash YouTube. I mean, it's all YouTube related. So figure, you know, I don't know. We'll just kind of list some of these things out. I'm sure we'll have plenty to say because it's really interesting some of the changes.

3:33Dr Niki: This is it's made by YouTube. Yes. Yeah. Big live event that they put on and basically had just a whole slew of announcements related to live, related to shorts, related to podcasting. So this is kind of three segments that we'll discuss this morning. A slew of new features coming to YouTube Live. Many of them, or some of them anyways, AI-driven. A lot of the other features outside of Live, very AI-driven. We'll talk about that. But YouTube Live rolling out, they say it's their biggest update yet. Some free little mini-games called Playables. This might be the most insignificant thing. I don't know why I led with it.

4:12that can be played during live streams, which YouTube sees as kind of like an entry point for new streamers. So they're looking to kind of create new streamers and give them tools or platforms upon which to build a fan base. So that's kind of what the playables might be all about. Support for dual format streaming. And I'm actually really curious about this. You know, it's always the question right now. It's not just automatically horizontal, as it has been for so many years for you and I, Tom Merritt. But now Vertical obviously has become very popular. So as live streamers, do we stream for horizontal or for vertical?

4:49Apparently now we won't have to choose according to this dual format streaming option. Quibi is vindicated. Yes, I know. Way ahead of its time. I mean, seriously. A new AI-powered highlights tool so you can turn key live stream moments into shareable shorts. We'll talk about that in a few minutes here. New side-by-side ad formats. You alluded to this. Monetizing streams without interrupting the live content. Because who doesn't hate when you're watching something and then suddenly, and especially with live, because you could truly miss something important. And then, boop, it takes you away, plays the ad, and then comes back and you miss that thing.

5:31Now, apparently, side-by-side ads. And then channels with memberships can switch from public to members only streams on the fly. I think that's super interesting. I don't really work much with YouTube memberships, but that could be a really strong appeal for creators who want to create something special for their members.

5:50Dr Niki: Yeah, I like all of these. The free minigames, like you said, is probably the least impactful. impactful, but it is an interesting thing to be like, Hey, if somebody wants to get started streaming and they're not sure what to talk about or what to do video, like maybe they're like, I know what I want to talk about, but what do I do video wise? Is it just going to be me? You know, that that's, that's kind of interesting. I doubt it'll really make much of a difference, but maybe it'll get a few people to start training. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but the dual format streaming is great uh my only concern there or or or fear fear is too strong a word i'm not afraid i'm not afraid jason of dual format streaming uh but is it going to be the things i want to do like is the apple announcement is the pixel announcement are those things going to be available because it has to be approved by the entity streaming the live event and so i think it's going to end up being less useful than it sounds.

6:45Dr Niki: Although I love this idea. More and more artists are doing this where they combine their streams. Cat's Eye and Lisserafin were just doing it yesterday. So I think that's a new thing. Also, that vertical horizontal video thing, Apple announced it, supporting it in the next version of the iPhone. Twitch supports it now. It's kind of becoming a thing for people to do. And then, yeah, the side-by-side ad format, like sure great new ad format that doesn't interrupt the stream that's good it's not always going to work right it's not all not every ad is going to be there we're going to get no ads in the stream so don't don't expect that to change and then uh switching to to members only streams if your membership is predominantly on youtube is a great thing uh for for us where our membership is predominantly on patreon we're going to do it the other way we're going to stop streaming on YouTube and continue the stream on Patreon and stuff like that.

7:38Dr Niki: But yeah, for YouTube creators, I think it's a great thing. So yeah, these all seem like very good features that I would love to take advantage of, but they're not going to come to me until later next year or even later than that. Yeah. So much of these announcements are like, you know, either we're ceding it to a special group and you'll hear more about it in the coming months. They always seem to say that, right this will start with a limited set of creators named mr beast exactly it'll be more than we'll see what happens yeah i think of all of these i think the dual format is probably the most interesting to me specifically just because i have had people who are like i love what you're doing uh with your live stream you know for like ai inside or whatever um but if you stream to vertical i've heard that you know that that will kind of get more more views because they want to make sure that there's more vertical live streams and everything.

8:32And this sort of feature might play around with that, but I haven't really messed with it because I don't want to isolate one versus the other. I know a lot of people that probably watch the podcasts that I do are used to the horizontal, and I want to appeal to kind of the newer generation that is so firmly implanted into vertical and everything. So having a tool to be able to simulcast into both is really desirable to me.

8:58Dr Niki: we'll see how it works yeah yeah yeah i'm i was just thinking about that like how do you need you if you're going to be safe for both you're going to have to be right in a little square in the middle you're going to have to be dead center at the very least dead center i think as far as cameras are concerned like i'm not too concerned about that necessarily it's when you start throwing around dynamic elements of like here i am on the side boxes and then we've got a big box that has the web page we're looking at this is all totally inside baseball for just no no but The framing of everything is going to be different.

9:30Absolutely. So we'll see how well it does that. And kind of speaking of that as well is shorts, which is another big avenue that YouTube focused on. And here it's almost exclusively about generative AI tools. So if you are the type to be rolling your eyes at the fact that there's so much generative AI on YouTube already, I hate to say it. YouTube's kind of like doubling down now and saying, why don't you do more? and that could backfire, I suppose, for certain viewers. But a bunch of new features. Custom version of VO3 fast. It creates at 480p, which is not the highest quality, but I guess you got to start somewhere with sound.

10:09You can apply motion from a source video to an image. So if you upload an image of you standing there and then you take the video of someone dancing, you can apply that image that's dancing to the photo and it'll animate it. And then I guess you create a short out of that.

10:27Dr Niki: That's how you can make me look like I know how to dance. Yeah, there you go. See, that's all it takes. It's that easy. Apply sound or dialogue from one video into a new short as the soundtrack source. This is powered by Google's Lyria 2. You know, when I see this or hear this or think of this rather, it's just, it's kind of like the TikTok approach, right? Like this is so much of what is done on TikTok is applying the soundtrack of one video to a new video. And then edit with AI feature, which actually places raw footage into first drafts. So you could take all your footage pieces, your music transitions, voiceover options, all that kind of stuff.

11:08And it would, I guess, assemble it for you. Man, I'd have to be really convinced that that would work well enough for me to want to use, but I'm curious nonetheless.

11:18Dr Niki: I imagine, and because they're saying first draft, or you're saying first draft, I guess, they're saying this will speed things up. It won't make a final edit for you, but it'll get things in place for you to where you're like, oh, I just need to make a couple of tweaks here instead of going through the tedium of laying everything out on the timeline. This other stuff, I'm a little less confident is going to end up making things easier. Actually, the applying sound or dialogue could speed some things up for folks, but if I'm only going to get DVD quality from VO3, you know there's a limited use case for that it's not it's not like it won't be useful for anything but i'm not going to be using it for a lot although you know they always seem to start somewhere and then yeah give themselves runway or the ability to upgrade so you you have to imagine that at some point that upgrades to 720 or exactly again it's a like that's a cool feature that i uh can't wait to take advantage of when i'm 60 and it's finally mature yeah that that That won't stop people from using it, though.

12:21I guarantee you this means more generative AI content on YouTube.

12:26Dr Niki: I don't see that much generative AI content. I think it depends on your algorithm. Totally does. I say this to myself all the time. This is not me being preachy. If you're seeing something you don't like in your algorithm, it might be because of you. Yeah, that's a hard truth, Tom. But I think you're absolutely spot on. And then finally, podcasts, which is very near and dear to our heart, turning episodes into video clips and YouTube shorts. That includes audio-only shows. So video podcasts will get AI-assisted clip suggestions. It's very similar to a service I use called Opus Clip. I think maybe you use it as well for determining which pieces of long-form content and podcasts we should break out into little shorts and everything.

13:13And it does a good job half the time, three quarters of the time. It's never perfect. Again, it's a nice assist where it gets you pointed in the right direction. It doesn't always just do things 100 % the way they want you to believe in their promotional. So YouTube is Sherlocking Opus. Got it. I mean, that's exactly what's happening here, which I'm kind of surprised they haven't done sooner because so often I use the YouTube studio tools and everything. I'm like, why can't I just do that over here instead of there? So it turns out it's coming soon. Also, audio podcasts, like I said, being able to generate customizable videos with the tools.

13:49Again, a tool like Opus Clip allows you to take an audio podcast and just say, generate B-roll for this, and it either matches it with actual B-roll that exists in the library, or it generates with generative AI B-roll to match. It's always weird and wonky, in my opinion, but maybe these systems get better over time, and maybe YouTube's the one to do it right.

14:12Dr Niki: I can't wait to see what it does with DTNS audio only. Yes. Yeah, totally. When we're not talking, the thing where this falls apart is when you're not talking about something very identifiable. Yeah. You know, like that last sentence that I said, what the heck would you cover with B-roll on that? It's going to be a fever dream. I just, I know it. And I'm kind of there for it. I don't think it's what YouTube intends me to use it for, but I'm like, I can't wait to see what it does. I'm very curious. If I'm not saying words like brown dumpster or arcade cabinet in dingy arcades from the 80s. Yeah, exactly.

14:51That it has no idea what to generate.

14:53Dr Niki: We could just start messing with it by sprinkling those kinds of imagery into our discussions. I love it. So that's it. That's what I turned up. All right. Well, DTNS is made possible by human listeners, at least so far. That we are. Big thanks to alleged humans, Michelle Sergiu, Kirk Stephenson, Miranda Janelle, and new human patrons, TM, Joe, Kenton, and Kirstie. And a big thanks to G. James B. for the raise. You know, we love it when somebody who's already supporting us goes, you know what? I'm getting even more value. I'm going to give a little more value back. So thanks, everybody, for that.

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18:41Dr Niki: Plenty more we need to know today, so let's get to the briefs. You know, this is like handing in your homework assignment at the beginning of class. ahead of testifying to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, OpenAI announced that it will soon launch new user policies aimed specifically for those between 13 and 18. OpenAI says if you're younger than 13, we don't want you to use ChatGPT. If you're younger than 18, we're going to put in some new policies meant to address mental health and legal concerns tied to the use of chatbots by minors. So by the end of the year, OpenAI is going to have an age prediction system.

19:16Dr Niki: this is their words, an age prediction system to estimate age based on how people use ChatGPT. It will default if it can't tell. If it's like, I don't know, I don't know if you're a teen or not, it'll default to team protections. And then they will, quote, give adults ways to prove their age to unlock adult capabilities. In some places, that'll be an ID, but OpenAI seems to not love that idea. So there's going to be some other way for you to prove your age. And they didn't detail that. Also, I think more nuts and bolts for folks, enhanced parental controls are coming soon. So when a teen links their account to a parent and the teen has to do that, the parent can then control chat history storage, a few other settings like that, a few privacy settings.

20:04Dr Niki: It can set blackout hours and get alerts when distress is detected. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote, we prioritize safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens. This is a new and powerful technology, and we believe miners need significant protections. So how are they going to estimate the age? Are they going to use their AI algorithm or their AI model to take a picture of the user? I don't even think they need to do that. I think just based on responses, you know, and he kind of alluded to that in the post. These systems are really good at being able to say, like, that is the kind of response that generally a person who's 16 would get versus a person who's 22.

20:48Dr Niki: When you get to, like, that line of 18, telling a 19-year-old from an 18-year-old gets dicier. And I think that's when they're going to have a few more false positives. Saying, well, default to teen protections in those cases is going to be annoying to 19 - and 20-year-olds. But it's the right thing to do, quote unquote, when you're in this atmosphere. So it won't be 100 % accurate, but they're better than I think a lot of people give them credit for. Whether that's 90 % good or 80 % good or 95 % good, I guess we're going to find out. Yeah, and something better than nothing. This is a conversation that Jeff Jarvis and I have on AI Inside a lot around guardrails.

21:31Put that in air quotes, guardrails is the terminology that they jump to around like, well, we've got a program in there that there's protections for this thing. And Jeff's argument is often like, you could throw all the guardrails you want. This is AI systems and it really doesn't matter at the end of the day. They get these things wrong. And I'm firmly of the opinion of like, that may be true, but I also want them caring enough to try. And I see this as that. They're caring enough, whether compelled to or ahead of being compelled to or not, to try. And I think ultimately that's good to have, but it doesn't solve all the problems.

22:10And I think that's important.

22:11Dr Niki: We didn't even mention that even if it gets the age protection 100 % right every time, it also has to get the guardrails right. That you're talking about. And teens are really good at figuring out how to get around guardrails. Yeah, they are. At least, you know, I was, and it seems like the teens these days are even better. And the teens these days are growing up with these tools. So they're more adept in ways that, you know, you and I, we're having to learn them and override our own knowledge and understanding around technology. We were adept with growing up with the tools that were new for our parents, the way these teens are growing up with these.

22:46Dr Niki: Yeah, exactly. you put a converse 64 in front of me bam peek and poke all day long that's right well meta connect 2025 begins tomorrow september 17th at the time of this recording anyways this guy named jason howell wrote about it for zed net um and what to expect at the event and i'm not going to refer to myself in the third person oh come on ricky henderson this thing the whole way through let's do it so so here's the thing though i wrote about the rumors and my article went up yesterday morning And then Meta went and leaked a video on its YouTube channel confirming a bunch of them. That just makes you look smart.

23:22I suppose so. See? I was right for like a few minutes before Meta said, yeah, you know, they didn't call me by a name.

23:28Dr Niki: But they didn't disprove you. They just confirmed you. That's true. Hey, I like the way you think. The now removed video that they leaked, whether intentional or not, I'll leave that up to everyone else to decide, showed off an assortment of glasses, including, yes, the Ray-Bans that we know and love, The Oakley Houston's that I actually already have, the Houston limited edition. Beyond that, Oakley's Metasphera frames that have added eye protection. They're a wider kind of eye protection style. I don't know what you call it. And a centered camera above the nose. So instead of the camera off to the side, it's above the nose.

24:07I really like that. That's perfect for sports scenarios and first-person video, that sort of stuff. But the big leak is Meta's monocular frames in a partnership with SLR Luxottica, black frames that feature a fixed HUD, so heads-up display, that can show Meta AI content, it can show navigation, maps, that sort of stuff, a whole lot of other stuff. also teased in that video that, by the way, like I said, is now removed, was the SEMG wristband. This has been highly rumored. It's meant for interactivity and control of those specific glasses and the display that's on those glasses. So you'd wear them and it would pick up on muscle twitches and other things.

24:50Yeah.

24:50Dr Niki: And they've showed off that wristband before. They just didn't say yet for sure what it was going to be used for. It looks like we'll find out tomorrow. Yes, indeed. And beyond that, no new Quest hardware expected. So if you're really hoping for new VR hardware coming from Meta, you're probably not going to get it. It is possible that Asus may show off its long-rumored ROG, I can never remember how to pronounce that, Tarius headset. This is a premium alternative to Meta's VR hardware. I think some are putting it in the price range of somewhere around$1 ,000, if you had to guess. The event begins tomorrow, 5 p.m.

25:27Pacific. Keynote by Mark Zuckerberg kicks it off.

25:31Dr Niki: Yeah, evening keynote. Yes. Pour yourself a whiskey or a hot toddy. A scotch. Scotch and VR. Warm milk and honey. Yeah, enjoy. So this is Hypernova, right? That's what the rumor has been or the code name has been for this heads-up display. and it's not going to be like Apple Vision Pro from what we've heard. It's just going to be small notifications, right? Yes. Yeah. As far as we know. And I mean, I have a little bit of insight into this from my trip that seems to come up time and time again, because it's all relevant. Last year, last December, I think it was to Google's campus to check out their Project Astro Glasses.

26:14And part of that tour, they showed me a version of their Astro Glasses that were both one of them that was binocular, exactly like these. And I think there's a lot of overlap as far as what they'll offer, exactly what you're saying. And then also a version that was, sorry, that was monocular and then binocular. And so I saw two different versions of it. This is just a single display. They say it's not like augmented reality. It's not like you can pin something to the wall and have it stay there, that sort of thing. But it is just a heads-up display that appears over your eyeball. It could show you a notification in text.

26:52Dr Niki: It could give you an arrow to turn right here. Exactly. Yeah, okay. That makes sense. And yeah, no new Quest hardware from Meta, but they're going to fill that gap with third parties because they want other people to use Horizon OS. Yeah, and we know about the third party aspect and we're just kind of waiting on the hardware. So tomorrow seems like a really prime time to hear about or see some of that. All right. We will have all the details and Jason's scorecard of what was right or wrong on Thursday's episode. The Internet Archive, along with several major music publishers, have settled a lawsuit over the Great 78 Project, which had plans to digitize three million old 78 records.

27:38Dr Niki: These are shellac records. These are rare recordings. These are not ones you're buying a lot, but music publishers are very litigious. We don't know what the details of the settlement are. So we don't know if Archive is going to be allowed to have limited storage of these or what. But they did avoid paying a lot of money. The record companies were, you know, they make these numbers to be as big as they can possibly convince a judge. So they were arguing$700 million in damages because, you know, we all know that we spend$700 million a year in this country on 78s. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Totally. Anyway, let me tell you.

28:18Dr Niki: Our archive will not have to pay that. We don't know what they'll have to pay or if they'll have to pay anything. This is similar to a case they lost with the book publishers last year, which also resulted in an undisclosed settlement. So we may not ever know. Well, at the end of the day, anything that keeps the Internet Archive rocking and rolling. Like if$700 million, which, as you say, was inflated, if that would have bankrupted the company, I would have been incredibly sad. I don't know if we can do a 78 effect on my voice, but you'll keep going, Internet Archive. You have got this. Apple issued security updates for older iPhones and iPads to patch a zero-day vulnerability that had already been fixed on newer devices.

29:01So good on you, Apple, for rolling out this fix to older devices. The flaw is related to the image IO framework. It can allow attackers to exploit memory corruption with malicious image files. That can lead to remote code execution, so no good. iOS and iPadOS versions 15.5 and 16.7.12 are now addressed with a security update.

29:26Dr Niki: Surface attack for older iPhones with this particular vulnerability is not big. Apple could have been forgiven for not patching this on older phones. A lot of companies wouldn't. So I want to give them credit for going back and doing the extra work to make it work on the older phones. 100%. TSMC is going to begin producing chips on its 2-nanometer process in Q4 this year. That's something they've announced. And China Times sources say that Apple has ordered about half of the capacity of that 2-nanometer process. Reportedly, most of that would be for the A20 and A20 Pro chipsets, which would be used in next year's iPhone.

30:06Dr Niki: Remember the A19 and A19 Pro is what's in the iPhones that are coming out this week. But also, there would possibly be a new Mac processor, a new Vision Pro co-processor. Both of those would also come in 2026. And Apple is reportedly adopting TSMC's wafer-level multi-chip module. That's the packaging. It's known as WMCM. Packaging, if you don't know, combines multiple parts together. So the wafers cut out all the CPUs and then you package your CPU, your GPU, your DRAM, et cetera. So you can integrate it. WMCM does it in a smaller package. That's going to make it more power efficient. In some cases, it'll make it easier to cool depending on the design of the product.

30:49Dr Niki: Chips made on the two nanometer process also benefit from power efficiency as well as higher performance. So you can expect any device from Apple or anyone else made on that process to have longer battery life, be more powerful, and again, depending on design, lighter and thinner. It'll also cost more, though. TSMC's 2 nanometer process is estimated to cost around$30 ,000 per wafer, and yields are in the hundreds. They're fewer than 1 ,000 chips per wafer. Depends on where you look. Sometimes it's 300, sometimes it's 700. But these chips are going to be expensive. Hmm. Two nanometer. It's the age of the 2nm right now.

31:31And that's not that bad.

31:32Dr Niki: It's going to make the battery life longer on anything made with chips from that process. That's the takeaway for anybody who's like, that was a lot of acronyms and things. So what you're saying is my battery will last longer next year without having to be a bigger battery. Cool. I like that. Is it wrong of me to get hungry every time you say wafer? No, no. Just don't try to eat a wafer-level multi-chip module. It will not taste as good as you want it to. I don't even know if I'll ever have the opportunity to try to eat one of those. So I think we're good. Arzen launched the first projector running Roku's tvOS, and it's called the D1R Cube.

32:15So this is a good projector, I'd say, if you're looking for an entry-level projector and you want Roku's tvOS and not something like Google TV on the device. It can cast images up to 150 inches, but has limited brightness, 330 ANSI lumens. So that means that it requires a very dark room. Also, maybe even a reflective screen for you to get the best output out of it, but it's possible. It can take in 4K content. It only outputs to 1080p resolution. So that's a little bit of a step down there. The projector has an automatic focus feature. That's nice, along with keystone adjustments. Also includes a pair of 5-watt speakers built into the body.

32:57And you can get it now for$169.99. Not that expensive.

33:02Dr Niki: This is not that great of a projector. It's not awful, especially for the price. Right. But it's Roku on a projector, which is bad news for Google, which has been the one area of televisions that Google has been able to dominate with its operating system. So, sorry about that. Those are the essentials for today. Let's dive a little deeper. Well, do you want to collect data on Tibetan antelopes? I mean, we all do, right? We talk about it all the time. How am I going to do that, though, Jason? Why not become one? Or better yet, make a robot that they can accept. Want to collect data on Tibetan antelopes?

33:41Dr Niki: Why not become one? Or better yet, make a robot that they can accept. Dr. Nikki, it's so great to have you back. It's great to be here with a fun story. You know we love the weird robot story, so I found a great one for us today. Yes. So tell me how we ended up with a robot antelope in a herd of antelopes. I'm not sure how, but we have one. So in the northwest of China, in a national reserve, there is a 5G ultra-low latency AI-equipped bionic antelope that roams the plains. So it's 5G in that it's getting, it's internet connection and feeding back data and update firmware updates, I suspect, possibly over wireless.

34:28Dr Niki: So it doesn't, it doesn't, it can be connected without having to go back and be plugged in. Yeah, it's not going back and forth and charging and coming back. AI equipped means, I'm guessing, again, I'm guessing here, like computer vision, so it can walk around. Exactly, computer vision. All that kind of stuff. Okay. And then Bionic? Does it have superpowers? It's an antelope that's a robot. I guess that's where they went with bionic on this. That's about it. I mean, it's just a robot. All right. So what are they using this for? All right. So the researchers in China wanted to collect real-time data on China's Tibetan antelope population.

35:06These are classified as near-endangered antelopes. And the problem is if you're a human and you go up to them, they all run away. So the data that we can collect just by walking up to them is limited. So the Chinese Academy of Science and Hangzhou based robotics firm Deep Robotics work together to develop this kind of weird looking sort of antelope looking robot.

35:31Dr Niki: Now, it looks weird to me, but apparently it doesn't look that weird. So apparently the antelopes have accepted it into their herd, which is hilarious because it looks really kind of janky. basically overall the shape and the fur color matches kind of the antelope but it's not very graceful um if you've seen the boston dynamics kind of dog-shaped robot this is deep robotics version which is called the x30 and basically they just like took a foam and open stuck it on top and then like covered it with fur the other antelopes are probably like oh this guy he has such a hard time getting around i feel bad but let's accept him into the herd he needs us so the benefit of this robot though and i guess they're okay with it but it can get way closer than a human can um and the humans are there they're just stationed up to two kilometers away from the robot where it can collect its data and send it out um so we talked about its ai capacities it can capture foot footage um it's looking at the different movements of the herd their speed and importantly whether whether or not the herd is moving towards a road if it notices that they are it can signal um employees at traffic control and uh help it's like pause the traffic so that the herd can cross the road this is why i am not involved in this because when you said uh if they head towards a road it can signal it i was imagining and then the robot antelope tries to convince them to turn around or just stands in the road and it's like beep beep yeah uh but no Maybe traffic control is a better way to go with that.

37:03When I first read that sentence, I was like, how does that work? But yeah, they just call traffic control.

37:09Dr Niki: So they're tracking important things to understand the herd, right? That makes sense. I like that. How does it get around? Because I've never been to Tibet, but I understand it is a quite mountainous and rocky place. Yeah, it's actually not super favorable to humans. It's a really rugged terrain. uh at the plateau's average altitude is around 4 600 meters um there's strong winds freezing temperatures and not necessarily terrain where you would want to send a robot there's muddy slopes and lots of rocky ground but because it has this kind of um dog type uh robot those are pretty good at scrambling over ground and so it looks silly when it's running but it actually manages pretty well and when it's running around with the herd uh the kind of ai part is using this vision recognition system um and it's live transmitting data through these 5g platforms and immediately analyzing it so researchers are trying to figure out the antelope's feeding patterns um animal growth in real time for the babies and if they have different kinds of migration routes so it's pretty cool and also like a positive thing that ai is doing which is nice yeah well no this is like Jane Goodall level, you know, research.

38:30But like Jane is spelled with AI in the middle. J-A-I-N.

38:35Dr Niki: Oh my gosh. When we get the version of this for chimpanzees and apes, that definitely has to be the name of it. This is great. It seems like, you know, it shouldn't work, but it is. So that's good. Yeah. And it's a great species that they targeted, probably because they are so accepting of it. I think maybe something like chimpanzees might break it. But this species of antelope is kind of one of those keystone species that's an indicator for the general health of the area. So if they start, you know, losing numbers, then you can think that maybe the whole ecology is getting damaged. So being able to monitor that remotely, more or less, is really cool for wildlife research.

39:19And I can imagine them adapting this to a lot of different things. Like maybe we'll get some underwater ones. Maybe, I don't know, maybe you can have an AI cow robot for cow herds. There's like a lot of options out there.

39:31Dr Niki: I could see that being useful for farmers to just kind of keep tabs on the health and activities. Let's get a tuna. Yeah. Dolphin. Yeah. More robots. Ah, Tibet, where the bots and the antelope play. Thank you so much, Dr. Nikki, for explaining this story to us. If folks want to follow you as you come across these sorts of things, where should they go? Yeah. And send me more animal robot stories over at NicoleAckermans.com, where I will try and post these and you can share them and look them up. Fantastic. Thank you. Have a good one. I had no idea antelopes were so altruistic and accepting. They're like, yeah, look, okay.

40:13We feel bad for you. We'll take you in. It's cool.

40:15Dr Niki: It looks a little weird, but you know what? You know what? Give him a chance. Just don't tell him that. Okay. Let's just welcome him in. Yeah. If you are a robot antelope that would like to tell us about your experiences in the herd, maybe it's not as nice as it sounds, or you're just a regular old human who wants to join in our conversations. we have a discord and you can become part of it by linking your patreon account at patreon.com slash gtns hey guys it's joe it's kevin and this is nick jonas from hey jonas do you remember growing up when it felt like every teacher had a favorite student everybody knew who it was well i was homeschooled so i like to think it was me a class of one congratulations but we're not here to talk about favorite students.

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42:11We end every episode of DTNS with some shared wisdom. Monday, Tom and Rob were talking about the perception that might come with a change in TikTok U.S. ownership. Now, Anand Jr. has some further thoughts along those lines.

42:26Dr Niki: Yeah, he said, if I remember correctly, someone did an experiment where they took Google search results and dressed it in a Bing results page and vice versa. And there was a strong preference for the Google results, even though they were actually Bings. I wonder if something similar could be done with TikTok and Instagram, though the biggest difference is likely in the culture of what is created, shared and consumed. e.g. would Instagram's algorithm produce TikTok-like results if the input and consumption patterns were the same? Random first cup of coffee thought, but I thought it was a good one.

42:59Yeah, and I also wonder, like TikTok has long been, and I've certainly shared the view before, so it's not at all original, but that TikTok's algorithm is just, it's supreme, it's wonderful, it absolutely knows exactly what you want, compared to the other algorithms, it's the best, or whatever the case may be. I wonder, because I feel like that's an opinion that has been around for quite a while. I wonder if things have improved on all the other ones, and they're all very kind of similar now. Because I don't recognize other algorithms being comparatively horrible now.

43:36Dr Niki: There is something magical about the TikTok algorithm, but whether that's as true as it used to be is a very good question. And it turns out, Financial Times reporting today, that China has said that part of the upcoming deal would be giving a license to the TikTok U.S. entity that would be created to use ByteDance's algorithm. So I guess we won't find out if this all goes as they're saying it is. And a few other leaks out there that Oracle would be leading the charge of the new consortium that would own it. people in the U.S. would have to get a new app, but otherwise it would interoperate with the rest of TikTok.

44:18Fascinating. Well, what are you thinking about if you have insight into this story or any of the stories that we talked about or antelopes? Shoot, send it to us. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. Big thanks to Anon Jr. Thank you to Dr. Nikki for contributing to today's show. And thank you for being along each and every day for Daily Tech News Show. You can keep us in business, and all you have to do to do that is become a patron at patreon.com slash DTNS. We'll see you tomorrow.

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