OpenAI's Flirty New Assistant + Google Guts the Web + We Play HatGPT

Hard Fork

May 17 2024 • 1 hr 6 mins

This week, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o, its newest A.I. model. It has an uncannily emotive voice that everybody is talking about. Then, we break down the biggest announcements from Google IO, including the launch of A.I. overviews, a major change to search that threatens the way the entire web functions. And finally, Kevin and Casey discuss the weirdest headlines from the week in another round of HatGPT.

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