Are AI Glasses Over?, Big Technology Audience Questions, Alex Stamos on AI Cybersecurity
6/19/202658 min
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news LIVE from Big Technology AI Summit. We cover: 1) Do Snapchat Specs signal the end of AR glasses 2) What should an AI device do? 3) Audience questions from the Big Technology AI Summit! 4) How should companies plan for such fast moving technology? 5) What's the ideal AI device form factor? 6) Can AI models be more useful for biology? 7) Can the U.S. and China get along on AI? 8) What responsibility do AI companies have to society? 9) Ex-Meta CSO Alex Stamos joins us to talk Fable's cyber-risks 10) Is it marketing or is it material?
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First 90 secondsAlex Kantrowitz· Host0:00
Though for many of you he needs no introduction, let me introduce Ranjan Roy. I first started reading Ranjan Roy's writing in 2021. Um, he had write- written this newsletter called Margins, and I thought it was a terrific newsletter. I saved it. I spent my winter break reading it. I DM'd him. By that January, uh, we had decided to do an emergency podcast about a crazy financial situation, and then Ranjan and I kept talking more and more. Uh, and then by January 2023, I wrote to him and said, "Hey, don't you wanna just come and do this every week?" And lucky for me and lucky for us on, uh, with, with a- anyone involved with Big Technology Podcast, uh, Ranjan said yes. And so getting a chance to speak with Ranjan every Friday is an absolute joy. It's definitely one of the highlights of my week, and today we're thrilled to be able to do our Friday show live here with you, with your, with your audience questions. Um, and then we'll just run it tomorrow like a normal podcast. So I hope you're ready. Uh, we definitely need your participation, and please join me in welcoming Ranjan Roy.
Ranjan Roy· Host1:01
[clapping] I got 'em on. I'm gonna take these off, though. Uh, we'll get into the Snap Spectacles. This is, this is a medium risk maneuver because I have this microphone on, so...
Alex Kantrowitz· Host1:18
Those are the Snapchat Spectacles.
Ranjan Roy· Host1:21
These are the- But not the new ones ... Snapchat Sp- Spectacles. They're the original developer beta edition, though, so they're not the new ones. But I had them- [laughs] ... in 2021.
Alex Kantrowitz· Host1:29
Now everyone knows how