#189: Is Claude AGI?, AI Change Management, Nvidia-Groq Deal, Meta Acquires Manus, Yann LeCun Speaks Out & OpenAI Preps AI Device

**Paul Roetzer** (0:00)
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Welcome to episode 189 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We are back after, I guess, a week away. Like we were technically away for two weeks, but we did drop an episode right before Christmas. So we are recording this on Monday, January 5th. It is good to be back. This was like I tried real hard not to work a ton over break, Mike, but then you like wake up, I get up on days before the podcast, I will get up at like 5 a.m. and start prepping for the podcast. There is just like, all right, back in it. But there was so much I wanted to talk about while we were away. So many new models weren't dropping and stuff in the 10 days or so in between these episodes, but a lot happened and just a lot of conversations online and AI circles that we want to get into. So we're going to do a variation of our weekly here. Usually, so if you're new to the podcast, I'll explain the format. If you're not new, you're familiar with what we do. But basically, each week we do three main topics, the big three things that we want to talk about, and then we do rapid fire items, and usually it's about seven to 10 of those. So today is going to be a bit of a hybrid. We were going to do just all rapid fire to try and get through everything from the break. But there's one topic up front that just sort of took on a life of its own in some ways as I was prepping today. So we're going to have kind of one main topic, but you'll see throughout the episode how everything else sort of connects to this lead off topic, I guess. So that's going to be the format today. We'll have one main topic, and then a couple of the other ones will go a little bit longer. But mostly we're just going to do rapid fire style here. And it probably will run a little bit longer than our usual, you know, 110, 115, I think is what they usually run. All right, so this episode is brought to you by AI Academy by SmarterX. AI Academy helps individuals and businesses accelerate their AI literacy and transformation through personalized learning journeys and an AI powered learning platform. There are nine professional certificate course series available on demand right now, with more being added each month. There's also over 20 Gen.AI app reviews. We drop a new app review every Friday. So definitely check those out. If you're already a member, make sure you're checking out those new ones as they drop each week. This week, we want to spotlight the AI for Industries collection. So each collection is made up of series and certificates. And so there are three currently available. AI for Professional Services is, again, a certificate series, AI for Healthcare, AI for Software and Technology, and then coming very soon AI for Insurance. So again, the idea is each month we will be dropping one or two AI for Industry collection series and certificates. So check those out as we add more. If any of those sound great to you, if you are already an AI Mastery member, they are on demand for you right now. If you are not, you can buy an individual series, so you can just go get AI for Professional Services as a standalone series or just become an AI Mastery member or buy memberships for your team. And all these certificates and series are right there. So you can learn more about AI Academy and our AI Mastery membership program at academy.smarterx.ai.
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Okay. We also, each week, we do an AI Pulse survey where we ask questions of our audience. So these are informal polls to see how our audience feels about topics that we talk about. And so the questions are a prelude to a couple of the things we're going to get into today. So there is two questions this week. You can go to smarterx.ai/pulse to participate in this poll. The first question is to what extent are people problems, which we're going to talk about, fear, resistance to change, lack of buy-in, hindering your organization's AI adoption. So again, how much are people problems affecting your organization's AI adoption? And then the second question is how concerned are you about a fast takeoff in which AI begins to significantly impact jobs before society and the economy have time to adapt? That is going to be a big focus of today's conversation, Mike. So again, go to smarterx.ai/pulse if you want to participate in that poll, and then join us for episode 190 At the start of it, we will kind of give you a breakdown of how that poll plays out. All right, Mike. So like I said, not a lot of breaking news. I mean, a couple of crazy acquisitions that no one was sort of predicting at the end of the year, including one on Christmas Eve that was like, I'm sitting there like, oh, jeez, I was not ready for that one. But again, just big picture topics. So let's get into the first main topic of the day.