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The Daily AI Drop - Morning Edition, October 17, 2026
Alex and Jordan cover three overnight videos: Nate B. Jones on asking AI to assess your intelligence, Matthew Berman on Gemini 4 Argon building an Excel clone in twenty minutes, and Fahd Mirza testing Fish Audio Drama 3 voice cloning locally.
Three overnight videos: a fun prompt that turns your AI assistant into a mirror for how you think, Gemini 4 Argon building a working spreadsheet in about twenty minutes, and a new voice-cloning model you can run entirely on your own machine.
Nate B. Jones — "I asked AI how smart I am. You should too"
Nate shares a prompt for the AI assistant you use most: ask it to tell you your intelligence in percentile terms, even your IQ percentile, based on your history of conversations. The number itself is entertainment, but asking "why" produces a detailed read on how you reason, how you handle abstraction, and where you make mistakes. Worth trying: your assistant holds a surprisingly honest record of your thinking patterns, and the behavioral profile is grounded in real data even if the percentile deserves a grain of salt.
Matthew Berman — "Gemini 4 Argon Built an Excel Clone in 20 Minutes"
Matthew tests Google's newest model, Gemini 4 Argon, by having it build a working spreadsheet application from scratch in about twenty minutes — a functional grid with formulas, the core of Excel, written entirely by the model. You wouldn't ship this to a company on Monday, but going from zero to an interactive app in twenty minutes of prompting shows how much the prototype bar has dropped. The bottleneck is increasingly your judgment about what to build, not the building itself.
Fahd Mirza — "Fish Audio Drama 3: Is This Me or My Cloned Voice? Run Locally"
Fahd installs and tests Fish Audio Drama 3, a new text-to-speech model built specifically for scenes and long-form content — dialogue, emotional range, and narration that stays consistent across minutes, which is the hard part of synthetic audio. The video's hook: is the cloned voice convincing enough that even he can't tell it apart from himself? Running it locally matters — voice cloning keeps your voice samples on your own machine instead of a cloud server. The cost of producing professional-sounding audio just fell to nearly zero.
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