Google's Next Top Model + Will the Cybertruck Crash? + This Week in A.I.

<p><i>Warning: This episode contains some explicit language. </i><br /><br />Google’s new artificial intelligence model ‘Gemini’ is out. It’s advertised as America’s next top A.I. model. Kevin and Casey ask, is it really better than OpenAI’s GPT-4? Then, by some estimates millions of people pre-ordered Tesla’s Cybertruck, but has Elon Musk’s recent behavior soured people on the brand? And finally, more A.I. news you may have missed. </p><p>Additional Reading: </p><ul><li>Google is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/technology/google-ai-bard-chatbot-gemini.html">chasing</a> ChatGPT with the launch of Gemini.</li><li>Even if people cancel their Cybertruck pre-orders, it could still be <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-cybertruck-success-failure/">massively successful</a>.</li><li>A new A.I. development may help fight <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/science/bordeaux-red-wine-estate-machine-learning.html">wine fraud</a>.</li><li>Amazon’s new enterprise chatbot had a “<a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/amazons-q-has-severe-hallucinations">severe hallucinations</a>” problem.</li><li>OpenAI <a href="https://www.404media.co/asking-chatgpt-to-repeat-words-forever-is-now-a-terms-of-service-violation/">blocked a prompt</a> that would cause ChatGPT to regurgitate its training data.</li><li>Mountain Dew’s latest marketing stunt had an <a href="https://www.mountaindew.com/world/raid/">A.I. watching Twitch streams</a>.</li></ul>