89 | The (AI) World Changed This Week! Everything You Need To Know About the Announcements from OpenAI, and Google

0:00Hello and welcome to a weekend news edition of Leveraging AI, the podcast that shares practical ethical ways to improve efficiency, grow your business, and advance your career. This is Isar Maitis, your host, and we're going to do something a little different today. Some of you may know that I'm running the Multiply AI Friday Hangouts every single Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern. There's a really cool group of people that are now getting together every single week, and we're just discussing AI at businesses. People bring stuff from their work, things they have questions about. Other people help them solve it.

0:36I bring my own capabilities and knowledge. We just discuss progress in AI and different questions. And it's just a really cool and loose and great environment to share AI capabilities. This particular weekend was a little different because everything that happened with the news from both Chachi PT and Google on Monday and Tuesday of this week. So what I'm going to do in this episode, I'm going to give you a glimpse into the conversation we had this Friday on these news, because a lot of it is news related. These are the biggest news of the week. So it's going to be in a little different format than you used to.

1:10But I think it's going to provide a lot more depth into some of my thoughts on some of these topics with some participation from the audience. We had a lot of tangents that I removed by editing them out so you don't have to listen to them. but the core that stayed is directly related to the news that was shared by OpenAI and Google this week and some of the ideas and questions that people had from the audience of us doing the Hangouts. At the end of the recording from this week, I will add some big news that happened in a very short format so you don't miss some of the unique and interesting things that happened.

1:46I hope you enjoy this format. I would actually really like to know your opinion about this once this goes live. So if you like it, let me know and I can do more of this. As I mentioned, we're doing these Hangouts every single Friday. And if you want to join these Hangouts and be a part of the cool gang that actually participates in the conversation, if you have something to share, or if you just want to learn how people are implementing AI in their businesses, just send me a direct message on LinkedIn. I will gladly send you a link to join this. This is nothing secretive or it's not paid. We're just getting together to learn AI together.

2:17So as I mentioned, ping me on LinkedIn. And now let's dive to the recording and this week's news.

2:28I'll give you a quick recap of what happened this week, and then we can talk a little bit about the implications of what's coming. There were two big announcements, right? So Google announced that they're doing Google I.O. event on Tuesday, which shortly after they did that, OpenAI said they're going to do a big announcement on Monday. They didn't tell anybody what that's going to be. And there were a lot of rumors. The biggest rumor was that they're coming up with a search engine of their own because they bought a subdomain or they bought the certificate for the subdomain search.openai.com. So then they're like, oh, so they're doing a search thing.

3:08So everybody thought that's going to be the big announcement. Some people thought maybe it's going to be the announcement of GPT 4.5, GPT 5. There were a lot of rumors across every channel you're on in the AI space. And then on like Friday, before the Monday, Sam Altman tweeted that not chat GPT-5, not a search engine, but something we think you'll find really magical. And that was it. And then on Monday, they've announced a lot of things. But the main thing they announced is a new model that they called GPT-40 that stands for Omnichannel. So if you see GPT-40, it's not 40. It's 4.0 and omni-channel.

3:53And it's a model that was really trained completely multi-modal. And they started releasing it in like chunks and steps. So the main thing is it understands speech regularly, like better than it did before. It can speak back with almost no delay. So you can have a real conversation like you're having with other people or with multiple people with it in the loop. So think about inviting it to company meetings and have it take notes and participate and give ideas and so on, literally as a person. Like it talks like a regular person. You can interrupt it in the middle and it understands that you're starting to speak and it's going to listen.

4:31The ability to have an actual voice conversation with no interaction is incredible. That is already released, I think, to everyone. They think that they demoed that they did not release yet, at least not to me. So if somebody has it, please don't tell me because I'm going to be really pissed. But no, tell me if you did get it, is the ability to actually engage with the video. So you can open the video and show it the world around you and it understands what it's seeing and it can engage with it. And the use cases for that are basically endless because now it understands the world. Anything from what's going on in traffic to things you need to fix in your house or your car to how to install things to code on your computer that you can literally show it.

5:20I help your kids solve math problems in their notebook, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Like literally arts and crafts things, whatever you can think of, it can look at together with you in real time and have a communication with you about it. And this is a complete game changer from everything that we've seen. They've also announced a desktop app for Mac. So if you're lucky like me and you're a Mac user, there's a Mac native platform right now, which is interesting for two reasons. One is they have a very serious partnership with Microsoft that is paying the bills for them. and they chose to go with a Mac application first.

6:05So that's an interesting number one. Interesting number two is the usability of that. You can share the screen with the desktop app so it can work with you on anything that you're working. So it's the same vision concept that you can do with your phone, but just with anything that you have on your computer. So you can ask it to help you with - Do you have that? Do you have that already on your Mac? Yeah, so I installed it this morning. I didn't get a chance to play with it yet, but I have it installed on my computer. That doesn't introduce any security concerns? No, none whatsoever. I'll say something.

6:41My next sentence was, and they, for the good of their hearts, opened all these capabilities for free. So all the stuff that was paid, including creating GPTs, including using the new model, including creating images, data analysis, like all the stuff that used to be in the paid version is now available for free, only with a very limited bandwidth. And when I say very limited, if you're actually using it like a business user, it's not relevant to you, so keep on paying. You get like whatever, six messages every three hours or something ridiculous like that. So it's like a try before you buy more than anything.

7:22But to me, the real reason that I think that they did it is data. if everybody's going to start sharing their screens on their desktop apps and everybody start opening their cameras on their phones, this is the most incredible access to the real universe any AI company has other than Tesla. And because Tesla has been recording videos from whatever, nine cameras in each car for three years. But Tesla's world interface is limited to what you can see from the road. So they know how the universe around the world behaves more than any other company on the planet by a very big spread. I think the number they shared when they, the only number they ever shared is I think they get 3 billion frames every day.

8:14So that's Tesla. But again, that's limited to what you can see from a car. Chachupiti, once you start using your camera and you start sharing your screen, will have access to everything. And so I think the play that they're telling, yes, we want everybody to have access to free ChatGPT is awesome. I'm not saying they don't mean that, but I think the real play is they will start collecting stupid amounts of data on the real universe, how people are using it, how the model is working, what data can they collect, how to analyze it. That's the play. and you get to hear it first. I'm going to talk about it in my podcast, but the podcast only goes live tomorrow.

8:57So you get to hear what I think first. I think it's a brilliant data play, the fact that they open it all for free. As I mentioned, the use cases are literally endless. Now, the really crazy thing is that they didn't mention at all something that they just released. I got it on my phone yesterday. No, actually even two days ago. I'm like, okay, that's interesting. So I have an Android phone. And in the ChatGPT app, which I use all the time, there's now a button that looks like a little library. I'm like, oh, I wonder what this is doing. So you click on that. It's connecting because I'm already on Android and it has access to all my Google stuff already on the phone.

9:37It opens your Google Drive. So you can upload any file from Google Drive straight into ChatGPT. So as of today, they started rolling it out to ChatGPT on the web. Now, not everybody has it yet. I have two accounts. I have one that is a Teams account. And over there, I have it. And I have my regular business account that is just me. And over there, I don't have it yet. And I've seen a lot of people and chattering about whether you have it or not. But the cool thing is you can connect to Google Drive and you can connect to Microsoft OneDrive. So depending on which universe you're in. So in the little in your chat line where it has the paperclip thing to upload a file, if you click on that it will open a menu that has three different options if you have the feature already option number one is to connect google drive option number two is to connect one drive and option number three is what we had before which is the ability to upload stuff from your computer but just that seamless connection to where we have all our files anyway is amazing to me the obvious next step which i was really hoping it's doing when i saw that little folder icon, it's not there yet, but I'm sure it's coming, is just talk to the folder.

10:51Like I want to create a project folder about my project and I want to have my Excel. I want to have my proposal. I want to have all the analysis. I want to have all my product file. I want to have all of that in a Google folder and just be able to talk to the folder. There is zero doubt in my mind that's the next step. And so it's not there yet, but this is rolling out and it's again, mind-blowing. Now, to add on top of that, you can now upload an Excel file into ChatGPT and use ChatGPT within an Excel file. So it looks like, I don't know if you've seen Copilot in Excel, where you have the actual Excel file and Copilot window on the side.

11:35It's the same thing, just within ChatGPT. So you can use it to analyze data. it creates amazing graphs that you can actually now manipulate the graphs with a chat on the side. I want to change this to blue. I want this to be in the... It's like everything that Microsoft is doing on the co-pilot side, they just built into ChatGPT itself. And you can just upload files straight from your folders and start manipulating them there. It's absolutely mind-blowing. Like my head spinning with ideas and things that I have to try this weekend. And I can't because I have three kids' birthday parties, Israeli Dependence Day party, and there's so many things happening.

12:15But I'm like, I'm not going to be sleeping a lot in the next three days. I'll tell you this. Lots and lots of new stuff to play with. So this, all this craziness. So everything is free, but limited, free, new model that does amazing things as far as engaging with the real universe, including the capability to actually have human-like conversations with it on anything, video access from your phones to this, which I haven't seen anybody that has yet, desktop, a desktop application that I already have that can see your screen and share and learn and help you with anything you're doing, and the ability to connect to Google Drive.

12:53All of that was announced on Monday.

12:58Tuesday was Google I.O., right? So this is when Google released all their stuff. And same kind of thing, right? It's like the amount of stuff they announced is insane. So they're changing everything to be AI focused. So search, I don't know how many of you signed up to have the AI-based search in Google. I've done that as soon as it was possible. So I've had it since, I don't know, probably late last year when they announced Gemini, maybe. No, I think it was even before they announced Gemini. So I've been using it for a while, but it's getting better. So now I think it's built in for everybody.

13:35You don't have to sign in for anything. And you get like the AI result first before you get all the search results, which basically means you don't have to click on anything because instead of giving you a thousand different options to go research on yourself, it gives you the answer. and you can follow up with follow-up questions and so on. So very similar to what Perplexity is doing on their platform. And it's working well. I've been using it for a while and it's very helpful. The other thing that they've announced is they're going to embed this into Android phones to be able to chat with everything, going back to the question, oh, what about security?

14:14Do everything on Android. So they're adding the AI layer, the Gemini layer, not as an app, but as an OS feature, meaning it can work with regardless of what you have. You can open Gemini and it can interact with what's on the screen at that moment. So the same concept that we've seen from ChatGPT doing to desktop and the same thing that Microsoft is going to do with everything Windows, Android is going to have built into Android. again, security, different question. From my perspective, Google knows everything about me anyway, because I'm in the Google universe for business. I'm in the Google universe in my personal life.

14:56I have an Android phone. I've got a Google home thing. They know which underwear I wear every day. I think it's at that level. So I really don't care at that point because they know everything that I do. And I use Google login for probably 50 % of the stuff that I'm logging into. so they know everything about me anyway so if there's anybody i'm going to give access to it's them because i at that point it doesn't really matter anymore so that's another very interesting thing they announced they have a similar thing so they announced project astra which is the ability to open your camera and walk around and show it stuff and have a conversation with it and it will respond then remember and in the demo i highly recommend you go and watch some of the demos both from ChatGPT and from Google.

15:39They're both troubling and exciting at the same time, like a lot of stuff in the AI world. Both of them demoed stuff both from a phone as well as from some kind of a wearable. So that's the next thing. So we all, I assume most of Meta has a partnership with Ray-Ban. How many of you knew that? Raise your hand. Some of you. Okay, so there's Ray-Bans today that look like regular Ray-Bans, but they have a camera and a microphone and a headset. built into them. So you can basically share the world with Meta. I have very little doubt this is where the world is going, which again has so many issues and questions that I don't even know how to start addressing.

16:21Like the most simple one is privacy. Google have the same ability now to see the world and engage with it in a seamless way. So once we're going to wear glasses or Meta is now developing another news from this week meta is now developing earbuds that will have a camera in them and so even people don't wear glasses and you don't want to wear glasses all the time unless you have to and you don't want to wear sunglasses ray-bans because it could be at night or at home or it's going to be weird but half the people now have earbuds in their ears all the time so if you have that and that has a little camera on the on it and it can see the world as well then you see where this is going.

17:04And so zeroed out in my mind that this, where this is going, Google were very clear that this is going to be integrated into everything. They've already started creating a lot of really cool use cases where I think this is where it starts getting real interesting. So the whole concept of agents that understand what you're trying to do and can actually give themselves tasks and solve things on their own is we're starting to see the first sprouts of that. And it's going to get really wild later this year. But if, let's take for a second Google and Microsoft as an example, because these are very well-defined ecosystems that we engage with all the time.

17:43And think about if it has access to your emails and to your Google Drive and to all your Excel files and all your reports and all your Google Meet communications, both chat and recorded calls, it basically knows everything about your business. Everything. And then you can just ask a simple question. Say, hey, I'm getting ready for this meeting with so-and-so. Collect information for me. And it will just go and collect information for you. And that will be from all the sources because it knows everything. The other thing that they started building in Google that they shared that, again, just follows the same concept, which I think it's just humanizing it so we feel comfortable, you can create team members that are AI.

18:33And then you give them a role. And you basically say, hey, I'm going to create Tina. And Tina is going to be my project management assistant on this project. And you give her access to specific things. And you give her access to the Slack of that project. and you give it access to, you invite it to all the meetings and so on. And then it can take actions on anything you need in the project. Summarizing things, creating statuses, creating Excel files, sending invoices, like literally anything you need. This is available later this year from Google. And again, I don't see Microsoft doing anything different this year.

19:13So the way we do business, everything we do in business, is going to have an AI entity infused into it, which on one hand is incredible from an efficiency perspective. Most people need somebody to know everything that they're doing and be able to pull stuff together very quickly for them when they need it. And the direction is very clear and the speed is not something that any business is ready to deal with. because even just the announcements again this week are mind-blowing but this is this week we like they keep on developing and deploying stuff all the time gpt5 is not out yet there's the apple worldwide developer conference coming up next month i'm sure they're not going to stay silent And so we're walking into a universe where AI is going to be part of literally everything we do.

20:19And I think the spread between the people who understand it and can capitalize on it and can run fast with it to those who are still, yeah, I don't even know. I haven't tested it yet. I know it's going to grow so fast that it's going to be very hard to close. Like in three, four years, everybody's going to close the gap. But the opportunity to right now do things that are literally magic, magic. Just think about on anywhere you are on Google. I'm just a Google user, but it's going to be the same thing on Microsoft. Anywhere you are in the Google universe. You can ask any questions about anything and you will put together an amazing summary for you.

21:05They showed something like not a business, but a personal thing of it of like, oh, let's plan a trip. And she basically says, okay, we're a family of four. We're going to this and that destination. My son likes sushi and my son like art and my husband likes sushi, something like this. You can find my hotel reservations and my flight reservations in my Gmail, please plan a two and a half. No, please plan the trip for us. And then it knows it's two and a half days because it has the flights. And so it literally builds an agenda for two and a half days based on sushi and art. And then it says on the second day, we want to do this.

21:42So everything switches around and it's these kinds of things. But now you take this to the business world where it knows everything about everything. And you can ask any question and create any report and generate any email and draft any agenda and follow up. Literally, the work of business will be done by this machine way more effectively than we can ever compete with. And then the question we have to ask ourselves, two questions, is one, how do we implement it in our businesses in a way that doesn't break it? And B, what do we do with the people? Because that it's a question I was asking about like 2025 and it's becoming a 2024 question as I saw everything that's going to get deployed now.

22:37So very exciting, very scary all at the same time on steroids. Any questions? that's after this anyone talking about this yet what do we do with the people i was just thinking yesterday i can't remember what i was doing doing some ai thing and oh i watched your podcast because you that woman was talking about that product and it was things that i had already thought about like creating a gpt for hr creating gpt for program management all the documents and train things and just for our software and these kinds of things. And I was just thinking in my head, like admin roles can already be gone, essentially, with just what we already have with AI.

23:26And is anyone talking about it? Is anyone thinking? I know everybody's scared. We're all afraid of it, but who's actually talking about what we're going to do with the people? I don't think anybody has a good answer. I don't think anybody important enough is raising big enough flags. If you want to touch on news and to show you how much this is not the main focus, Jack Schumer just released a paper about where they want to take this from a legislation perspective. And it's like a high level umbrella kind of conversation right now. It's still not anything. But the safety aspect of this is number three or four on the list.

24:12and none of it talks about this. It talks about safety concerns of this can hurt our democracy because deepfakes and it can impact our elections, which is the core of how this country runs, right? Okay, and then he talks about chemical weapons and biological weapons and stuff, but he doesn't talk about what do we do if next year there's a 30 % unemployment of people who are making between$150 ,000 to$500 ,000 a year. What do we do? Nobody has a clue. Haven't we seen this before, though, with jobs being sent out over the Internet for like transcription? And there's already been so much of this with the Fiverr and being able to take jobs that would normally have a full administrative person local and just being able to be sent out over the Internet to anyone.

25:06That's going to hit those kinds of, what would you call those, offshoring of jobs pretty heavily. So, go ahead. One thing I was thinking about was when you said that, Jonathan, was just we saw in 2020 what happened when everybody stopped being able to work and the impact that had everywhere. but that was something that most economies have tried to bounce back from. This isn't something like that, where it's not like, hey, I'm just going to go away after a few years, and companies are going to start opening, and people are going to start going back to work. Yeah, I want to say two things in addition to what Danielle said, and it is one is speed.

25:55So if you think about, let's go further back in time, There were other revolutions, right? Industrial revolution, and then electricity revolution, and then the internet revolution, and then mobile. Each and every one of those took a lot of jobs away. The industrial revolution before this, we're doing everything by hand. To work a farm, you needed 60 people, and now you need one guy with a tractor, and he can do the same work. but it took 200 years. Now let's take it to, okay, that was 200 years ago, but let's look at the internet revolution, right? The last really big one that we had. I always give that example and some of you might've heard it.

26:39The first time I connected to the internet, I remember that day vividly because it was the most underwhelming experience of my life. My roommate at the time brought this device to our house and I was living in Tel Aviv and he's I brought this thing. It's going to be awesome. What is it? It's a modem. Okay. But what is it? Okay. Allow us to connect our computer to the internet. Like what's the internet? I don't know, but it's like a new exciting thing. And it's, we got to get on the front of this. I'm like, okay, we made dinner. I had dinner and then connected the thing. And we went, those of you who are old enough, remember that.

27:15And after whatever, two minutes of this, we got like a little prompt, like a DOS triangle thingy on the top left corner of the screen. There was no user interface for it yet. And we're looking at this and like, okay, so now it's, I don't know. And that was it. That was my first time connecting to the internet. And that was, I think, 93. The first time I got an email address, my first Hotmail email address, I got in 99 when I went backpacking in Latin America. That was seven years later. So in seven years, I went from connecting to the internet for the first time to having an email address. Forget about this, that I can see what satellites are doing and all over the...