#243: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Opus 5.5, the New Microsoft Copilot, Jensen Huang vs. AI Doomers & Introducing AI Score

Paul Roetzer (0:00)

He's forgetting that like a large portion of the population of future workers hate AI, like want nothing to do with it. So it's wildly unpopular. And so you can't just assume that they're all just going to be AI natives and love it. And they're just going to like, it's just going to be amazing.

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Welcome to episode 243 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We are recording Monday, September 28th, 9 a.m. Definitely expecting some news this week. So timestamping is relevant here. There's all kinds of stuff like I'm waiting, Mike. I don't know if you saw anything, but like Trump and Dario Amadei were supposed to be having dinner Sunday night at 10 p.m. I haven't heard the outcome of that dinner. We've got OpenAI Dev Day this week. There's rumors of Gemini 4 potentially dropping at some point soon. So like, I think we're heading into fall or we, I guess we're technically in fall weekend now, but it's going to be a very busy fall season. It looks like in the AI world. So today's episode is brought to us by Maicon. This is the AI Conference for Marketing and Business Leaders happening October 13 to 15 in Cleveland, Ohio. This is our seventh, Mike. Does that sound right?

Mike Kaput (1:50)

Yeah.

Paul Roetzer (1:51)

Yeah. I think we launched Maicon in 2019, so the seventh run. So you've been thinking about joining us for Maicon. This is the time. We have, I guess, two weeks left, Mike, which is terrifying for me because I have like four presentations at Maicon, and I am in the midst of trying to build all of them simultaneously.

But definitely check it out. We have a special offer going on. Mike and I are actually going to be hosting a private lunch exclusively for our podcast audience. During that lunch, you're going to be able to ask Mike and myself any questions on your mind about AI, your company, your career, what's going on at Maicon because this is going to be, I think, on day two, Mike?

Mike Kaput (2:30)

Yes. Yeah.

Paul Roetzer (2:31)

Okay.

So yeah, definitely get in, use that when you register. So it's maicon.ai, maicon.ai, use pod100 as your promo code. That will automatically get you an invite to that lunch. That's the only people that are going to be coming to that lunch. So it's just an Ask Us Anything session. While you enjoy some amazing food, we actually, our team does an incredible job with the food and beverage at Maicon, especially the final day. You don't want to miss that. It's like all these amazing Cleveland foods. But you can register at maicon.ai, get that $100 off and get the invite to that private lunch.

So yeah, two weeks left. We would love to see you there. It's going to be an incredible lineup. We have Karen Howe, the best-selling author of Empire of AI. I actually just talked to Karen last week. We did a prep session for her keynote. I cannot wait for that. Andrew Yang is going to be there. Kevin Ruse is coming out with his Chronicles of AGI or AGI Chronicles book is dropping, I think, like the week before Maicon. So he'll be there doing a book signing. Can't wait for that one. It's just going to be amazing. So if you can get to Cleveland October 13th to the 15th, do it. We've got the Rock Hall rented out for the opening night party. Hopefully, the Guardians will be in the midst of round one or two of the playoffs. So Cleveland is going to be an amazing place to be. And fall in Cleveland is my absolute favorite time of the year. So check it out, maicon.ai. We would love to see you there.

Mike Kaput (3:57)

All right.

Paul Roetzer (3:57)

Every week we start off with an AI Pulse survey.

We've been running these for two weeks sprints now to get more responses. And we actually have some great feedback on this one. We had almost 300 responses this time. So the question was, how has your personal sentiment about AI shifted in the past six months? This is pretty remarkable. It is basically split. So we have more excited 25 percent, about the same 24 percent, more cautious 27 percent, more worried 25 percent. So it is like literally I'm looking at the pie chart. It is a perfect, almost a perfectly split pie.