Ever chatted with a robot who's better at conversation than your last date?

As AI keeps getting better, how do we keep up? AI's big year and how it's already

changing our day to day.

I'm Nailaboodoo and from Axios, this is one big thing.

Happy Thanksgiving.

I hope you're listening to this while getting ready for a delicious meal with family

and friends or finding rest to enjoy some other way. to this you in that case too. This week there's been a lot of news about leadership at

open AI, just one tech company that's leading the way in this space. But even

amidst that chaos, the technology keeps marching ahead. So today for the holiday

we're bringing you a special episode featuring one of our own leaders, Axio's

chief technology correspondent and co-author of the AI Plus newsletter, Ena Freed.

She's been covering tech for 20 years and is keeping close tabs as AI evolves.

She's got the latest and is going to walk us through a handful of AI tools already available today

that could make our lives easier but they also have some downsides.

So let's catch you up quick on how AI has exploded in the last year.

So in the last year alone, we went from pretty pixelated photos with hands that had seven

fingers.

Now we have photorealistic images generated by AI that you can control with precision.

We have chatbots that once didn't know anything past middle of 2021, augmenting that training

with input from voice images and current events.

To keep up with all this change, Ena has been testing out and writing about AI tools as they emerge and improve. from one that lets you create your own personal

deep fake to an AI assistant that lets you attend multiple meetings at once.

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