AI’s Role in Politics and New Frontiers in Video Understanding

Explore the impact of AI on politics as Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump, and delve into Meta AI's groundbreaking Apollo models for video understanding. Discover Cohere's strategic partnership with Palantir and YouTube's new feature empowering creators in AI training. This episode unravels the ethical and technological challenges shaping the future of AI in media and enterprise.

Sources:
https://apnews.com/article/midjourney-ai-imagegenerator-biden-trump-deepfakes-bc6c254ddb20e36c5e750b4570889ce1
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/16/meta-ai-releases-apollo-a-new-family-of-video-lmms-large-multimodal-models-for-video-understanding/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/cohere-is-quietly-working-with-palantir-to-deploy-its-ai-models/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/youtube-will-let-creators-opt-out-into-third-party-ai-training/

Outline:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:39) AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden, Trump
(00:03:32) Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video Understanding
(00:06:53) Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models
(00:10:11) YouTube will now let creators opt in to third-party AI training