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#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI
31 maart 2024 · 1 uur 36 min
Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface
(00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers
(00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference
(00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features
(00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones
(00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week
Applications & Business
(00:22:36) Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’
(00:26:43) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
(00:31:16) Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerators Showcase Competitive Performance Per Dollar Against NVIDIA H100 In MLPerf 4.0 GenAI Benchmarks
(00:33:43) Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M Series C
(00:36:10) Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans
(00:37:44) Humanoid robots are joining the Mercedes-Benz workforce
Projects & Open Source
(00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
(00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs
(00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
(00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report
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#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan
24 maart 2024 · 1 uur 40 min
Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
Tools & Apps
(00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures
(00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam
(00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI
Applications & Business
(00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
(00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff
(00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!
(00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June
(00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture
(00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
Projects & Open Source
(00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1
(00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D
(00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation
(00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes
Research & Advancements
(00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition
(00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
(00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
(01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent
(01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding
Policy & Safety
(01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning
(01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says
(01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities
(01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists…
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#159 - Inflection-2.5, Devin, OpenAI board update, SIMA, EU AI Act passed
18 maart 2024 · 1 uur
Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world's best personal AI
(00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
(00:11:00) DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse
(00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability
(00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos — here’s how it sounds
(00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors
Applications & Business
(00:17:33) Sam Altman Rejoins OpenAI Board Along With Three New Directors
(00:21:15) Cohere releases powerful ‘Command-R’ language model for enterprise use
(00:23:16) Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
(00:25:53) Baidu Launches China's First 24/7 Robotaxi Service
Projects & Open Source
(00:26:54) Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets
(00:29:40) SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law
(00:31:45) Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Company “01.AI” Announces the Open Source of the Yi-9B Model
Research & Advancements
(00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
(00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
(00:42:01) Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science
(00:43:54) ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect
(00:44:55) PixArt-Σ: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation
Policy & Safety
(00:46:24) World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers
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#158 - Claude 3, Elon Musk sues OpenAI, StarCoder 2, AI-Generated Spam
10 maart 2024 · 1 uur 49 min
Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
Tools & Apps
(00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude
(00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper
(00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini
(00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3
(00:24:25) Wix’s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts
(00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
Applications & Business
(00:27:40) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity , OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails
(00:35:42) Inside the Crisis at Google
(00:38:36) It’s official: Waymo robotaxis are now free to use freeways and leave San Francisco
(00:40:33) Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase — Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call
(00:42:43) AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence
Projects & Open Source
(00:45:13) StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
(00:49:05) Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images
(00:51:21) H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications
Research & Advancements
(00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components
(00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
(01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models
(01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms
(01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics
(01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and…
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#157 - Gemini controversy, new Mistral models, Deepmind's Genie & Griffinn, AI Warfare is here
3 maart 2024 · 1 uur 45 min
Our 157th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
(00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator
(00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
(00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
(00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio
(00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs
Applications & Business
(00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI
(00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI
(00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business
(00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano
(00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
(00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock
Projects & Open Source
(00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM
(00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model
(00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public…
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#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!
25 februari 2024 · 1 uur 45 min
Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model
(00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready
(00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok
(00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds
(00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product
(00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’
Applications & Business
(00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund
(00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
(00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs
(00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show
(00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms
(00:50:06) AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding
(00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ‘agents’ to business
Projects & Open Source
(00:51:41) BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains
(00:54:33) Nomic AI Releases the First Fully Open-Source Long Context Text Embedding Model that Surpasses OpenAI Ada-002 Performance on Various Benchmarks
Research & Advancements
(00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video
(01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
(01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agent…
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#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit
16 februari 2024 · 1 uur 46 min
Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like
(00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model
(00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs
Applications & Business
(00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
(00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei
(00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
(00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes
(00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy
Projects & Open Source
(00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages
(00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY
(00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters
(00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade
Research & Advancements
(00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
(01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models
(01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model
(01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
(01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need
(01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
Policy & Safety
(01:16:41) Debating…
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#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks
11 februari 2024 · 1 uur 37 min
Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant
(00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images
(00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
(00:12:40) Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
(00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos
(00:16:18) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro
Applications & Business
(00:19:04) A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened
(00:23:30) Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost “stamp” machine
(00:27:33) US industry group calls for multilateral chip export controls to address disadvantage over Korea, other allies
(00:30:10) U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company
(00:32:24) Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month
Projects & Open Source
(00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model
(00:42:46) Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI
(00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5
(00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
(00:53:20) Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing
Research & Advancements
(00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors
(01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks
(01…
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#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills
4 februari 2024 · 1 uur 46 min
Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Synthetic Media & Art
(00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
(00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads
(00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead
(00:12:20) Guns N’ Roses share AI-generated video for ‘The General’
Tools & Apps
(00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool
(00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
(00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant
(00:23:47) ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade
(00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
(00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones
Applications & Business
(00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report
(00:34:25) Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
(00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development
(00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI
(00:47:22) AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia
Projects & Open Source
(00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode
(00:53:00) Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4
(00:5…
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#152 - live translation on phones, Meta aims at AGI, AlphaGeometry, political deepfakes
28 januari 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
Our 152nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:15) Samsung’s latest Galaxy phones offer live translation over phone calls, texts
(00:06:16) The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’
(00:10:31) Google is using AI to organize and customize your Chrome browser
(00:12:10) Adobe’s new AI-powered Premiere Pro features eradicate boring audio editing tasks
(00:13:16) Waymo looks to launch full fleet of robotaxis in LA
(00:15:16) Tesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving
Applications & Business
(00:19:45) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips
(00:25:00) Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
(00:32:43) AI voice startup ElevenLabs lands $80M round, launches marketplace of cloned voices
(00:35:03) Anthropic’s Margins Raise Questions on AI Startups’ Long-Term Profitability
(00:38:00) Cohere in talks to raise as much as $1bn as AI arms race heats up
(00:39:40) DOJ and FTC push to investigate Microsoft's OpenAI partnership- Politico
(00:41:30) Figure announces commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to bring general purpose robots into automotive production
Projects & Open Source
(00:43:28) Stability AI unveils smaller, more efficient 1.6B language model as part of ongoing innovation
Research & Advancements
(00:48:58) AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
(00:54:02) Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation
(00:56:33) ChatQA: Building GPT-4 Level Conversational QA Models
(00:59:13) Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model
(01:01:28) VMamba: Visual State Space Model
(01:03:40) Depth Anything…
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#151 - Copilot Pro, LLama.cpp, conversational diagnostic AI, secret AI diplomacy
21 januari 2024 · 1 uur 36 min
Our 151st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:55) Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us
(00:04:43) Microsoft Copilot is now using the previously-paywalled GPT-4 Turbo, saving you $20 a month
(00:07:02) Amazon launches generative AI tool to answer shoppers’ questions
Applications & Business
(00:08:07) DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals
(00:13:16) China planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer — similar to American company Cerebras 'wafer-scale' designs
(00:17:12) ChatGPT will have video functionality and more accuracy in future versions — Sam Altman says GPT-5 will be a big improvement
(00:19:38) Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China
(00:22:15) OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year
(00:25:04) Inside AI Unicorn Anthropic’s Unusual $750 Million Fundraise
(00:28:46) Microsoft executive Dee Templeton joins OpenAI board - Bloomberg News
(00:31:33) OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots
Projects & Open Source
(00:34:25) Meet LLama.cpp: An Open-Source Machine Learning Library to Run the LLaMA Model Using 4-bit Integer Quantization on a MacBook
(00:38:06) LLAMA PRO: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion
(00:43:48) One of the world’s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ‘substantially better’
Research & Advancements
(00:47:52) Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI
(00:51:50) Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Pe…
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#150 - GPT Store, new Nvidia chips, DeepMind’s robotics progress, bad uses of AI
14 januari 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
Our 150th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:49) OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open for business
(00:06:52) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams
Lighting round
(00:09:18) The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you
(00:11:18) Amazon’s Alexa gets new generative AI-powered experiences
(00:12:55) Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for
Applications & Business
(00:14:24) Nvidia's newest chips are designed to run AI at home as competition from Intel, AMD looms
(00:16:52) Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI
Lighting round
(00:19:16) AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M
(00:21:33) Waymo will start testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways
(00:23:24) Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos
Research & Advancements
(00:25:10) DeepMind is trying to train robots for real-world activities
(00:29:03) MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts
Lighting round
(00:33:18) PIXART-δ: Fast and Controllable Image Generation with Latent Consistency Models
(00:35:20) InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes
(00:37:06) The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models
(00:39:33) Mixtral of Experts
Policy & Safety
(00:40:38) Meta and OpenAI have spawned a wave of AI sex companions—and some of them are children
(00:46:30) ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Lighting round
(00:49:52) Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions
(00:51:43) Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models a…
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#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI
8 januari 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Some recommended resources for keeping up with AI research:
Davis Summarizes Papers
AK’s Substack
Deep Learning Weekly
NLP News
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:08:13) Reflections on 2023
Tools & Apps
(00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text!
(00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users
(00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI
(00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked
(00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android
Applications & Business
(00:39:00) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end
(00:42:25) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation
(00:44:10) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion
(00:44:46) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China
(00:47:30) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions
(00:50:16) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company’s Self-Built Fabrication Plants
(00:52:36) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement
Research & Advancements
(00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action
(00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore
(01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks
(01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language…
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#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ‘Preparedness Framework’, campaigning voice clone
24 december 2023 · 1 uur 56 min
Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:43) Google Deepmind unveils its most advanced AI image generator, Imagen 2
(00:08:21) Anthropic will help users if they get sued for copyright infringement
(00:13:50) Midjourney Alpha is here with AI image generations on the web
(00:16:34) Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool
(00:17:09) Microsoft drastically expands Azure AI Studio to include Llama 2 Model-as-a-Service, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision
(00:18:54) ChatGPT Is Apparently Becoming Lazy as It Has Started Asking Users to Solve Their Own Problems
(00:22:17) You can create your own AI songs with this new Copilot extension
(00:23:57) Stability AI announces paid membership for commercial use of its models
Applications & Business
(00:25:42) ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor
(00:31:55) Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD
(00:36:36) Chinese chip-related companies shutting down with record speed — 10,900, or around 30 per day, shut down in 2023
(00:40:11) TSMC mentions 1.4nm process tech for the first time, says 2nm remains on track
(00:42:57) Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration
(00:46:17) Nvidia rushes to deliver modified AI GPU chips to China customers, allegedly places 'Super Hot Run' priority order with TSMC
(00:49:17) Sam Altman’s OpenAI agrees to pay German media giant Axel Springer for using its content to train AI models
Projects & Open Source
(00:52:20) Introducing DeciLM-7B: The Fastest and Most Accurate 7 Billion-Parameter LLM to Date
(00:57:27) Introducing Stable Zero123: Quality 3D Object Generation from…
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#147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’ translator
17 december 2023 · 1 uur 57 min
Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
Correction: Gemini also supports audio
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read
Tools & Apps
(00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT
(00:14:15) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked
(00:19:33) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great
(00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini
(00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano
(00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds
(00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT
(00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke"
(00:34:51) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years
(00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache
Applications & Business
(00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s
(00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions
(00:46:44) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions
(00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
(00:51:46) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet
(00:54:08) Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts
(00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models
(00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M
Projects & Open Sou…
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#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME, Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream
12 december 2023 · 1 uur 25 min
Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
Note: this one is coming out a bit late, sorry! We'll have a new ep with coverage of the big news about Gemini and the EU AI Act out soon though.
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro/Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:03) ChatGPT’s 1-year anniversary: how it changed the world
(00:06:15) Perplexity AI Introduces New Online LLMs for Real-Time Information Access
(00:11:45) Intuit Adds Generative AI-Powered Tax Prep to TurboTax
(00:12:57) Microsoft Paint’s DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out on Windows 11
(00:13:56) Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift
(00:14:54) Voicemod will now let you create and share your own AI voices
(00:16:15) Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator
Applications & Business
(00:17:48) Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit
(00:20:39) Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
(00:25:48) Google is reportedly pushing the launch of its Gemini AI to 2024
(00:27:38) OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
(00:29:03) US Compels Saudi Fund to Exit AI Chip Startup Backed by Altman
(00:30:15) OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2 Billion Valuation With Andreessen Horowitz Backing
(00:31:57) US artificial intelligence leader OpenAI applies for GPT-6, GPT-7 trademarks in China
(00:32:59) CoreWeave backed by Fidelity and Jane Street at $7 billion valuation as cloud provider bolsters status as one of AI’s hottest startups
(00:34:14) AWS debuts next-generation Graviton4 and Trainium2 chips for cloud and AI workloads
(00:35:08) Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI
(00:36:09) Indian AI Video Startup Rephrase.ai Announces Acquisition by Adobe
(00:36:40) Report: Stabi…
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#145 - OpenAI’s Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements
2 december 2023 · 1 uur 54 min
Our 145th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, this time around with guest co-hosts Kevin and Gavin from AI For Humans podcast Lees meer
Check out the AI For Humans episode on which Andrey and Jeremie guest co-host here.
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Timestamps + links:
Tools & Apps
(06:00) OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful
(12:33) Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview
(16:33) Generative Video Startup Pika Labs Launches Version 1.0, Raises $55 Million in Funding
(25:25) Screenshots show xAI’s chatbot Grok on X’s web app
(30:37) Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
Applications & Business
(34:28) Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model
(47:37) NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2024
(52:40) Nvidia Delays Rollout Of China-Focused AI Chip: Report
(56:31) Share sale set to test financial impact of OpenAI’s leadership turmoil
(58:55) Amazon and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Add New AI Capabilities
(59:55) AI21 takes Series C to $208 million with additional $53 million in funding
Projects & Open Source
(01:03:15) Starling-7B: Increasing LLM Helpfulness & Harmlessness with RLAIF
(01:12:10) Defending your voice against deepfakes
Research & Advancements
(01:16:07) Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason
(01:22:16) New technique can accelerate language models by 300x
(01:23:35) DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence
(01:27:00) GAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants
(01:30:45) Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologou…
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#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates
24 november 2023 · 1 uur 39 min
Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro/Banter
Applications & Business
(01:30) Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding
(20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns
GM Cruise cofounder, senior exec Dan Kan quits day after CEO exit
(22:30) GM’s Self-Driving Car Unit Skids Off Course
(24:00) Leaked email shows Amazon is cutting 'several hundred' jobs across Alexa business, including the newly launched Artificial General Intelligence team
(25:35) US Chip Ban Fallout Spreads as Alibaba Scraps Cloud Spinoff
(27:48) Tencent Stockpiled Enough NVIDIA AI GPUs To Last Them A Couple More Generations
(29:44) Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever — no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse
(31:37) US Launches $3 Billion Effort to Boost Advanced Chip Packaging
(34:50) Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team
Tools & Apps
(38:15) Meta launches AI-based video editing tools
(39:48) Discord is already killing Clyde, its experimental OpenAI chatbot
(40:50) Be My Eyes AI offers GPT-4-powered support for blind Microsoft customers
Projects & Open Source
(42:25) Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source
Research & Advancements
(45:43) Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure
(53:35) Meet JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-Task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models
(58:10) NVIDIA’s “NeMo” Model Now Tuned For Chip Development, Showing Exceptional Results
(01:00:33) UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs
Policy & Safety
(01:02:3…
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#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over
20 november 2023 · 1 uur 15 min
Our 143rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
Applications & Business
(02:53) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
(12:00) Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event
(16:05) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes
(18:30) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van
(20:55) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU
(21:35) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota
(22:38) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe’s third-largest AI round ever
(23:22) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others
(24:16) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation
Tools & Apps
(25:00) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
(27:38) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot
(30:03) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat
(31:01) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job
(32:07) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss
(33:33) Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable
Projects & Open Source
(36:06) Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model
Research & Advancements
(40:03) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
(42:35) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ‘Mirasol3B’ for advanced video analysis
(45:15) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products…
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#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning
16 november 2023 · 1 uur 39 min
Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new. Lees meer
Apologies for this one coming out after a pause, episodes will resume being released regularly as of this week.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(03:00) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API
(07:15) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI
(09:23) Sick of meetings? Microsoft’s new AI assistant will go in your place
(11:54) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)
Applications & Business
(14:55) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots
(18:40) Figure 01 humanoid takes first public steps
(22:31) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
(23:35) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi’s G42 in Middle East AI Push
(25:00) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs
(26:38) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China’s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding
(30:35) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds
(32:13) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation
Projects & Open Source
(35:00) Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B)
(39:35) Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents
(42:03) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning
(44:53) Meta’s Habitat 3.0 simulates real-world environments for intelligent AI robot training
(48:22) DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters
(49:13) Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI
(51:13) Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics
Research & Advancements
(53:22) Eliciting Human Preferences with Language Models
(57:23) Ne…
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#141 - Adobe AI upgrades, Ernie 4.0, TimeGPT, No Fakes Act, AI drones
26 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 48 min
Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Lees meer
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:00) SuperDataScience podcast ad
Tools & Apps
(02:55) Adobe is upgrading Photoshop’s generative AI model — and releasing more for Illustrator and Express
(07:52) Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other
(14:15) Kendall Jenner becomes "Billie": Meta's AI celebrities face more resistance than enthusiasm
(18:22) Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta
Applications & Business
(20:22) Google Cloud pledges a ‘shared fate,’ offering legal indemnification for customers
(25:00) Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4
(31:05) Key Arm China Staff Quit to Create Government-Backed Startup
(33:30) AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia
(34:47) Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails
(37:20) ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing
(38:46) TSMC: ecosystem for 2nm chip development is nearing completion
(41:50) OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut
Research & Advancements
(46:35) LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music
(50:20) TimeGPT-1
(55:25) How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?
(01:00:17) HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time
(01:04:33) PaLI-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger
(01:05:42) A Lon…
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#140 - Yasa vs ChatGPT, Waymo expands, scaling robot learning, AI watermarks
17 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 57 min
Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes "Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month"
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(03:00) Reka launches Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant to take on ChatGPT
(06:48) Arc browser’s new AI-powered features combine OpenAI and Anthropic’s models
(11:00) ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers for Content
(13:11) Canva’s new AI tools automate boring, labor-intensive design tasks
(16:32) Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh
(20:45) Google Bard is gaining a new 'Memory' toggle to remember key details
(22:22) Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant
(24:14) Android 14’s AI-generated wallpapers might be its coolest new feature
Applications & Business
(24:50) Waymo’s robotaxi service is now available to tens of thousands of people in San Francisco
(28:54) Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month
(32:34) TSMC Sales Fell Less Than Feared as AI Demand Offsets Slump
(34:54) Microsoft could debut its AI chip next month: Report
(37:06) Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips
(39:08) Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors
Projects & Open Source
(40:05) Replit’s new AI Model now available on Hugging Face
(43:46) Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices
(46:30) Protesters Decry Meta’s “Irreversible Proliferation” of AI
Research & Advancements
(52:10) Scaling up learning across many different robot types
(59:35) Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components
(01:06:54) Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt E…
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#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal
10 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 51 min
Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Lees meer
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:30) SuperDataScience podcast ad
(03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(05:59) ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads
(10:44) ChatGPT can now search the web in real time
(13:30) Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps
(18:26) Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
(19:32) Windows 11’s next big update is now available with Copilot, AI-powered Paint, and more
(20:21) Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools
(21:32) YouTube Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Tools For Video Creators
(23:20) Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers
Applications & Business
(25:00) AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs
(29:28) Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic
(36:24) China to Challenge ASML with a better technology than EUV
(40:00) Intel says newest laptop chips, software will handle generative AI
(43:03) Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images
(46:02) AI Startup Writer Pens $100M Round
(46:40) AI chip startup Kneron secures $49M investment
(48:45) AI startup AlphaSense valued at $2.5 billion after latest funding round
(51:01) A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device
(52:42) Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
(55:24) Google adds a switch for publ…
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#138 - DALLE-3, YouAgent, Gemini, NExT-GPT, AI book labeling
3 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 56 min
Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!! Lees meer
Note: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward!
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(04:30) Preview of news
Tools & Apps
(05:40) DALLE-3
(12:47) YouAgent (Richard Socher thread)
Applications & Business
(20:03) Google's Gemini AI surpasses Chat GPT-4 fivefold: Report
(25:16) Google begins external testing of its GPT-4 competitor "Gemini"
(26:30) From sanctions to silicon: China’s semiconductor breakthrough
(35:41) AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the U.S.
(41:19) SoftBank planning OpenAI investment: Financial Times
(44:30) OpenAI Hustles to Beat Google to Launch ‘Multimodal’ LLM
(46:40) The AI Detection Arms Race Is On
(51:30) Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups
(55:15) AI chip startup Enfabrica raises $125 mln, with backing from Nvidia
(56:41) Databricks raises over $500 mln at $43 bln valuation
Projects & Open Source
(01:01:15) Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates
Research & Advancements
(01:10:19) NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM
(01:15:35) On measuring situational awareness in LLMs
(01:22:50) Language Modeling Is Compression
(01:26:22) How AI can Revolutionize Science (Jeremie’s gift link)
Policy & Safety
(01:33:33) Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites
(01:36:08) Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy
(01:41:45) Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit
(01:43:48) EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers
(01:44:26) Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Ma…
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#137 - Salesforce Copilot, Chip Crunch, Meta Rival to ChatGPT, AI for paralysis patients
20 september 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
With guest host Jessica Dai. Check out her Reboot publication!
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00) Intro
(01:37) SuperDataScience podcast ad
Tools & Apps
(02:32) Salesforce launches AI assistant across its apps including Slack and Tableau
(06:06) Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds
(09:22) Bybit debuts AI-powered ‘TradeGPT’ for market analysis and data driven Q&A
(11:14) China’s Ant Group unveils finance AI model as race heats up
Applications & Business
(13:24) TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months
(16:50) Even AI Hasn’t Helped Microsoft’s Bing Chip Away at Google’s Search Dominance
(20:05) OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6
(22:54) AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy
(25:71) Nasdaq gets SEC nod for first exchange AI-driven order type
(27:17) NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance
Projects & Open Source
(30:10) Meta Platforms reportedly building open-source generative AI system to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT
(34:13) Indian Developers Top Hugging Face Leaderboard with GenZ 70B
(38:31) Supporting the Open Source AI Community
Research & Advancements
(40:31) Artificial intelligence allows paralysis patient to speak for first time in 18 years
(45:42) Efficient Benchmarking (of Language Models)
(49:31) Online AI-based test for Parkinson’s disease severity shows promising results
(52:52) Scientists used machine learning to perform quantum error correction
Policy & Safety
(56:18) Tech leaders including Musk, Zuckerbe…
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#136 - Claude Pro, Ideogram, Chinese ChatGPT bots, Falcon 180B, RLAIF, export restrictions, Ghostwriter
11 september 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast!
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro
(01:15) SuperDataScience Ad
(01:51) Response to listeners
Tools & Apps
(02:47) Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot gets a paid plan for heavy users
(04:36) Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography
(06:37) Intuit launches generative AI–powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers
(07:17) Zoom Is Jumping on the AI Chatbot Bandwagon
Applications & Business
(08:47) China lets Baidu, others launch ChatGPT-like bots to public, tech shares jump
(11:23) Tencent releases AI model for businesses as competition in China heats up
(12:00) Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI users get sued
(14:52) How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI
(17:30) ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month
(19:16) AI chip startup d-Matrix raises $110 mln with backing from Microsoft
(21:00) ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to ID and fight money laundering
(22:18) Sapeon raises $46m for AI chips
(23:20) Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’
Projects & Open Source
(25:48) Announcing the commercial relicensing and expansion of DINOv2, plus the introduction of FACET
(27:02) UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI
(29:23) New Open-Source ‘Falcon’ AI Language Model Overtakes Meta and Google
Research & Advancements
(31:01) Qwen-VL: A Frontier Large Vision-Language Model with Versatile Abilities
(33:57) RLA…
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#135 - Google AI Subscription, ChatGPT Enterprise, Nvidia’s Q2, Consciousness, DeepFake watermark
6 september 2023 · 1 uur 40 min
Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
Apologies for pod being late again... -Andrey
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:07) SuperDataScience podcast ad
(04:00) Shout out to listener comments & reviews
(05:43) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(06:32) Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more for $30 a month
(10:51) Poe’s new desktop app lets you use all the AI chatbots in one place
(13:47) Developers are now using AI for text-to-music apps
(15:50) Yahoo Mail Debuts AI Enhancements for a Smarter Inbox
(18:05) South Korea's Naver launches generative AI services
Applications & Business
(21:19) Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise
(25:25) We Analyzed Millions of ChatGPT User Sessions: Visits are Down 29% since May, Programming Assistance is 30% of Use
(29:50) Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT
(31:32) Nvidia’s Q2 earnings prove it’s the big winner in the generative AI boom
(33:30) How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips
(37:03) Nvidia's $25 billion buyback 'a head-scratcher' for some shareholders
(40:25) Chinese AI Company Claims Huawei AI GPUs Are On Par With NVIDIA A100, Will Compete With GPT-4 LLM In 2024
(44:08) AI’s Share Of US Startup Funding Doubled In 2023
(45:42) Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
(48:13) AI21 Labs Raises $155M in Series C Funding; Valued at $1.4 Billion
(50:32) DP Technology Raises 100 million US dollars, Achieves AI Milestones in Science
Projects & Open Source
(52:15) Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 1…
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AI and Existential Risk - Overview and Discussion
30 augustus 2023 · 2 uur 16 min
A special non-news episode in which Andrey and Jeremie discussion AI X-Risk! Lees meer
Please let us know if you'd like use to record more of this sort of thing by emailing contact@lastweekin.ai or commenting whether you listen.
Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(03:55) Topic overview
(10:22) Definitions of terms
(35:25) AI X-Risk scenarios
(41:00) Pathways to Extinction
(52:48) Relevant assumptions
(58:45) Our positions on AI X-Risk
(01:08:10) General Debate
(01:31:25) Positive/Negative transfer
(01:37:40) X-Risk within 5 years
(01:46:50) Can we control an AGI
(01:55:22) AI Safety Aesthetics
(02:00:53) Recap
(02:02:20) Outer vs inner alignment
(02:06:45) AI safety and policy today
(02:15:35) Outro
Links
Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous AI
Clarifying AI X-risk
Existential Risks and Global Governance Issues Around AI and Robotics
Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor
AI x-risk, approximately ordered by embarrassment
Classification of Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Artificial Intelligence
X-Risk Analysis for AI Research
The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective
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#134 - Text-to-Speech, Gartner Hype Cycle, AI2 OLMo, AlphaStar Unplugged, China Regulations, AI Porn Marketplace
26 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 39 min
Our 134th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
Apologies for pod being a bit late this week!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:30) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(03:53) ElevenLabs Comes Out of Beta and Releases Eleven Multilingual v2 - a Foundational AI Speech Model for Nearly 30 Languages
(07:20) Meet Lilli, our generative AI tool that’s a researcher, a time saver, and an inspiration
(09:55) Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice
(11:42) Runway launches new ‘Watch’ feature as CEO says Hollywood AI discourse ‘needs to be more nuanced’
(12:45) The AI-powered Adobe Express is now generally available
(14:30) Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’
(17:35) NCSoft's new AI suite is trained to streamline game production
Applications & Business
(19:45) Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
(28:52) State of AI Q2'23 Report
(35:45) China GPT? Tencent to Unleash Homegrown AI as Big Tech Races for Supremacy
(38:23) What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a transformer paper co-author
(43:00 )AI startup Anthropic raises $100M from Korean telco giant SK Telecom
(45:58) OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination
Projects & Open Source
(48:13) Announcing AI2 OLMo, an open language model made by scientists, for scientists
(51:50) Introducing IDEFICS : An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-art Visual Langage Model
(55:45) Introducing Arthur Bench: The Most Robust Way to Evaluate LLMs
Research & Advancements
(58:45) Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation
Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the landscape of diverse self-correction strategies
(01:07:00) DeepMind’s AlphaStar …
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#133 - ChatGPT multi-document chat, CoreWeave raises $2.3B, AudioCraft, ToolLLM, Autonomous Warfare
18 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 28 min
Our 133rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
Apologies for pod being a bit late this week!
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(05:05) ChatGPT gets several new features, including multi-document chat
(09:02) Tinder tests AI photo selection feature to help users build profiles
(12:35) GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository
Applications & Business
(15:55) CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips
(20:25) Nvidia GPU shortage is ‘top gossip’ of Silicon Valley
(23:30) NVIDIA: GPU Supply Issues Involve Packaging, Not Chip Wafers
(27:06) Nvidia's AI GPUs Are Selling for up to $70,000 in China
(30:00) AMD considers making a specific A.I. chip for China to comply with export controls
(31:10) AI chip firm Tenstorrent raises $100 mln from Hyundai, Samsung
(33:22) Cruise begins testing self-driving vehicles in Atlanta
(35:45) Toyota, Pony.ai plan to mass produce robotaxis in China
Projects & Open Source
(38:08) Alibaba rolls out open-sourced AI model to take on Meta's Llama 2
Research & Advancements
(42:00) Introducing AudioCraft: A Generative AI Tool For Audio and Music
(46:25) ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs
(52:03) Tool Documentation Enables Zero-Shot Tool-Usage with Large Language Models
(54:54) Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
(01:00:05) Towards Generalist Biomedical AI
(01:03:53) Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions
Policy & Safety
(01:05:55) The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
(01:12:37) ‘So important’: UK minister endorses Google’s training drive in AI arms race
(01:15:10…
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#132 - FraudGPT, Apple GPT, unlimited jailbreaks, RT-2, Frontier Model Forum, PhotoGuard
8 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 45 min
Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:36) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(05:05) OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
(07:45) New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks
(10:55) JetBrains IDE update previews “deeply integrated” AI Assistant
(14:35) No More Paperwork? Amazon AI Tool Transcribes Patient Visits for Doctors
(16:11) Photoshop’s new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop’ images
(19:11) Wayfair’s AI tool can redraw your living room and sell you furniture
Applications & Business
(21:25) Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI
(28:10) Facing more nimble rivals, OpenAI won’t bend … yet
(32:00) OpenAI's head of trust and safety steps down
(33:15) Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube
(35:28) Samsung extends cut in memory chip production, will focus on high-end AI chips instead
(36:50) Microsoft to supply AI tech to Japan government, Nikkei reports
(38:20) Protect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools
Projects & Open Source
(41:56) Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model
(49:25) Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
(52:15) Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation
Research & Advancements
(55:45) AI researchers say they've found 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rules
(01:03:48) RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action
(01:09:50) (Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
(01:13:26) Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
(01:18:50) STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft
(01:20:42) Brain2Music: Recons…
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#131 - ChatGPT+ instructions, Microsoft reveals pricing for AI, is ChatGPT getting worse over time?
1 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 52 min
Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(04:18) Listener feedback/comments
Tools & Apps
(07:00) ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave
(09:20) GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
(12:38) Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts
(15:32) Google Bard is now available in the EU
Applications & Business
(17:15) An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips
(20:35) Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription
(23:00) Elon Musk threw nine-figure promises at top AI researchers
(26:28) Machine Learning Market to Hit $419.94 Billion by 2030: Grand View Research, Inc.
(28:31) Jasper, Mutiny AI Startups Cut Workers As Chatbot Rivalry Grows
(31:50) Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop
(34:34) China’s OpenAI challenger Zhipu AI gets Meituan funding
Projects & Open Source
Lighting round
Research & Advancements
(36:50) A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis
(43:20) Is ChatGPT getting worse over time? Study claims yes, but others aren’t sure
(48:36) A simple yet effective design, coupled with remarkable durability and low cost, make this robotic gripper a promising option for many industries
(51:24) Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants
(55:16) Researchers From Tsinghua University Introduce A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm Under The Meta-Learning Paradigm
(58:47) MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models
Policy & Safety
(01:02:20) Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons
(01:11:55) Frontier Model Security
(01:…
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#130 - Llama 2, Elon Musk’s xAI, WormGPT, LongLLaMA, AI apocalypse, actors on strike
25 juli 2023 · 1 uur 45 min
Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast.
Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(08:30) Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM
(14:38) Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that's found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance.
Applications & Business
(18:20) Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2, an AI language model for commercial use
(33:24) U.S. companies are on a hiring spree for A.I. jobs—and they pay an average of $146,000 + San Francisco Companies Got Half the World’s AI Funding So Far This Year
(35:42) 65% Of Top AI Companies Have Immigrant Founders
(36:50) Elon Musk unveils his AI company, X.AI
Spotify CEO’s startup for AI-powered preventive healthcare raises €60M
(44:25) OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI
(46:03) Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools
Projects & Open Source
(47:20) WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch Business Email Compromise Attacks
Research & Advancements
(50:53) Meet LongLLaMA: A Large Language Model Capable of Handling Long Contexts of 256k Tokens
(56:37) Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models
(01:03:50) AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
(01:08:25) Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation
(01:12:57) Patch n' Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution
(01:14:20) Scientists just used A.I. to map a fruit fly’s brain. Here’s why it’s a ‘turning poi…
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#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause
9 juli 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time
(00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11
(00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in
Applications & Business
(00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
(00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23
(00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
(00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US
(00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace
(00:22:40) Fundings
Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI
Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M
Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation
Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects
Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
(00:26:45) Acquisitions
Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML
Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M
As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io
Nvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models
Projects & Open Source
(00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms
Research & Advancements
(00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos
(00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot be…
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#128 - generative search, GPU black market, GPT-4’s Secret, Sam Altman’s World Tour
5 juli 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
Our 128th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:00) Google extends generative AI search to places, products and virtual models
Applications & Business
(00:05:52) China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year
(00:10:33) Inside China's underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips
(00:14:20) OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports
(00:16:22) AI human-voice clones are coming for the Amazon, Apple, Google audiobook
(00:18:45) Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU and GPU platforms
(00:22:20) Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs
Projects & Open Source
(00:25:05) Imitation Models and the Open-Source LLM Revolution
Research & Advancements
(00:29:52) AIs trained on other AI output will start producing junk within a few generations, scientists warn
(00:34:42) GPT-4's Secret Has Been Revealed
(00:42:00) We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work
Policy & Safety
(00:44:10) Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers
(00:50:25) Five big takeaways from Europe’s AI Act
(00:54:44) President Biden meets with AI tech leaders in San Francisco
(00:56:25) AI-generated child sex images spawn new nightmare for the web
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:00:00) LinkedIn Reveals AI Image Hunter That Catches Fake Profiles
(01:03:42) The Reddit API Blackout and the Generative AI Connection
(01:07:23) Grammys approve new rules on use of artificial intelligence
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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#127 - chatbot dating app, AI at work, RedPajama 7B, tons of research, workers most worried that A.I.
21 juni 2023 · 1 uur 43 min
Our 127th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:50) Listener comments / corrections
(05:33) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(06:38) Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot
(11:38) LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy
(14:26) Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for Flashy Fliers, Social Videos
(15:33) WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you
(17:00) Google’s Bard AI can now write and execute code to answer a question
Applications & Business
(19:00) AI at Work: What People Are Saying
(22:15) Doctors Are Using Chatbots in an Unexpected Way
(26:05) Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report
(28:15) OpenAI chief executive does not plan to take company public
(29:49) The $500 million robot pizza startup you never heard of has shut down, report says
(31:16) Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses
(32:32) Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings
(33:50) A new important Generative A.I. startup has come out of stealth
Projects & Open Source
(36:05) RedPajama 7B now available, instruct model outperforms all open 7B models on HELM benchmarks
(40:23) LlamaIndex adds private data to large language models
Research & Advancements
(42:20) Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning
(47:17) ControlVideo: Adding Conditional Control for One Shot Text-to-Video Editing
(49:50) The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget
(51:20) InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models
(52:55) Simple and Controllable Music Generation
(54:28) Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation?
(57:24) Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truth…
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#126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI grant program
13 juni 2023 · 1 uur 44 min
Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections
(03:20) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed
(06:02) A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves
Lighting round
(12:04) Google says Gmail on your phone just got a lot faster thanks to A.I.
(13:00) Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article
(15:06) Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT
(17:17) Microsoft Has Launched “Jugalbandi”—A New Generative AI App for India
(18:34) Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool
Applications & Business
(19:55) Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance
(22:25) AI Market Set To Break The Trillion-Dollar Barrier: Surging Toward $1.06 Trillion By 2028 Whether You Trust It Or Not
(26:07) The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report
(30:15) AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem.
Lighting round
(34:00) Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally
(35:16) ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog
(37:14) Microsoft signs deal for A.I. computing power with Nvidia-backed CoreWeave that could be worth billions
(39:40) Apple is looking for engineers to work with Generative AI in a mixed reality environment
(41:15) Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding
(43:05) Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week
Projects & Open Source
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#125 - Nvidia tools for game devs, TikTok’s Tako, PandaGPT and Gorilla, Voyager, early warning system for AI risks
6 juni 2023 · 1 uur 37 min
Our 125th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:33) Response to listener comments / corrections
(05:30) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(06:21) A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character
(12:16) Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters + Nvidia unveils Avatar Cloud Engine for Games at Computex
(15:27) JPMorgan is developing a ChatGPT-like A.I. service that gives investment advice
(16:40) TikTok is testing an AI chatbot called Tako
(18:32) Zoo, a playground for text to image models
Applications & Business
(20:10) Insights from American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace
(24:29) The A.I. chip boom is pushing Nvidia toward $1 trillion, but it won't help Intel and AMD
(29:12) Hoffman and Suleyman's AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot
(31:31) Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization
(33:51) AI startup Figure raises $70 million to build humanoid robots
Projects & Open Source
(35:21) PandaGPT: One Model to Instruction-Follow Them All
(41:50) Uncensored Models
(47:30) Guanaco
(50:50) 🦍 Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs
(52:17) BLOOMChat: a New Open Multilingual Chat LLM
(53:27) GirlfriendGPT - Your personal AI companion
Research & Advancements
(55:45) Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
(01:02:55) A Pretrainer's Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity
(01:07:33) RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
(01:09:35) Enabling Large Language Models to Generate Text with Citations
(01:11:12) Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
Policy & Safety
(01:14:43) PM meeting with leading CEOs in AI: 24 May…
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#124 - AI in Windows and Photoshop, Nvidia makes $$$, DragGAN, Fake Pentagon Explosion
29 mei 2023 · 1 uur 30 min
Our 124th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:30) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
(08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop
(12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT
(14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos
(16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries
(18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI
Applications & Business
(19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom
(22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think
(25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster
(28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot
(30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis
(32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters
(33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work
Projects & Open Source
(35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly + Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio
(38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents
(41:37) Bard API
(43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face
(44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source
Research & Advancements
(45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning
(49:05) New AI research lets you c…
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#123 - Delete your info from ChatGPT, Google’s AI plans, EU act targets OSS, PaLM 2, writers’ strike
21 mei 2023 · 1 uur 56 min
Our 123rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(04:30) News Preview
(05:40) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(07:07) OpenAI rolls out more than 70 ChatGPT plugins including Internet access
(11:56) How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
(17:45) Google is throwing generative AI at everything
(23:12) Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes
(25:20) Google develops tool to spot fake AI images after puffer jacket Pope went viral
(26:48) Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-Style Search to Its Online Store
(27:35) W&B Prompts
Applications & Business
(28:55) Generative AI Breaks The Data Center: Data Center Infrastructure And Operating Costs Projected To Increase To Over $76 Billion By 2028
(31:31) OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million for Global Crypto Worldcoin
(33:33) OpenAI Confirms ChatGPT Data Breach
(35:15) Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers
(36:50) AI Startup Rewind Gets 170 Offers—and $350 Million Valuation in Unusual Fundraising
(38:43) Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare
Projects & Open Source
(40:22) EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software
(44:53) Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models
(47:15) Stability AI releases an open source text-to-animation tool
(49:19) Listener submission - PandasAI
Research & Advancements
(50:53) PaLM 2 Technical Report
(56:48) Microsoft AI Research Introduces Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): A Simple and General-Purpose Framework for the Automatic Optimization of LLM Prompts
(59:51) Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence
(01:05:05) Steering G…
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#122 - AI for Word and Excel, leaked Google memo, ImageBind, LLAva, robot soccer, Midjourney 5.1
13 mei 2023 · 2 uur 2 min
Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections
(07:20) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(07:50) Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access
(11:26) Informatica goes all in on generative AI with Claire GPT
(15:11) LinkedIn’s new AI will write messages to hiring managers
(17:30) Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix and continues growing in San Francisco
Applications & Business
(20:58) "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
(27:30) AI will create ‘a serious number of losers’, DeepMind co-founder warns
(31:37) IBM takes another shot at Watson as A.I. boom picks up steam
(34:11) IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do
(36:30) Peter Thiel’s Palantir is seeing ‘unprecedented’ demand for its military A.I. that its CEO calls ‘a weapon that will allow you to win’
(38:42) Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It
(40:42) Chegg CEO calls 48% stock plunge over ChatGPT fears 'extraordinarily overblown'
(43:03) Microsoft Working With AMD on Expansion Into AI Processors
(45:35) Generative AI startup Runway just raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from a cloud service provider
(47:50) Top ex-Google AI researchers raise funding from Thrive Capital
Projects & Open Source
(51:22) Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data
(54:45) No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs
(57:15) Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model
Research & Advancements
(59:27) Meet LLaVA: A Large Language Multimodal Model and Vision Assis…
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#121 - Top researcher leaves Google, trademarking ”GPT”, Stability AI’s new models, 50% of AI ’Catastrophe’, DrakeGPT
8 mei 2023 · 1 uur 55 min
Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience
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Outline:
Article picks:
(00:00) Intro
Tools & Apps
(04:20) Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview
(08:27) Visual Studio IntelliCode AI Assistant Gets Deep Learning Upgrade
(12:36) GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers
(16:25) TikTok is testing a new option to create AI-generated avatars for profile pictures
Applications & Business
(19:11) ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
(26:52) Machine Learning as a Service Market Size Growing at 37.9% CAGR Set to Reach USD 173.5 Billion By 2032
(29:40) Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI + After the Death of BuzzFeed News, Journalists Should Treat AI as an Existential Threat
(35:57) PricewaterhouseCoopers announces multiyear $1B investment into generative AI
(38:07) Walmart turns to warehouse robots, suggests a boost in profit is possible
(40:23) “GPT” may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way
Projects & Open Source
(43:50) OpenAI Threatens Popular GitHub Project With Lawsuit Over API Use
(48:27) Stability AI Launches DeepFloyd IF: A High-Performance Text-to-Image Model with Advanced Integration Capabilities
(52:10) Stability AI releases StableVicuna, the AI World’s First Open Source RLHF LLM Chatbot
(57:32) Replit's new Code LLM: O…
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#120 - GigaChat + HuggingChat, a LOT of research, EU Act passed, #promptography
29 april 2023 · 1 uur 49 min
Our 120th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience
You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:
UK version | Canadian version | US version
Outline:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(04:35) Episode Preview
(06:00) Russia's Sberbank releases ChatGPT rival GigaChat + Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT + Stability AI launches StableLM, an open source ChatGPT alternative
(14:30) Stack Overflow joins Reddit and Twitter in charging AI companies for training data + Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
(24:45) Big Tech is racing to claim its share of the generative AI market
(27:42) Microsoft Building Its Own AI Chip on TSMC's 5nm Process
(30:45) Snapchat’s getting review-bombed after pinning its new AI chatbot to the top of users’ feeds
(33:30) Create generative AI video-to-video right from your phone with Runway’s iOS app
(35:50) Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
(40:30) Autonomous Agents & Agent Simulations
(46:13) Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT
(49:05) Meet MiniGPT-4: An Open-Source AI Model That Performs Complex Vision-Language Tasks Like GPT-4
(50:50) Visual Instruction Tuning
(52:25) AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head
(54:05) Performance of ChatGPT on the US Fundamentals of Engineering Exam: Comprehensive Assessment of Proficiency and Potential Implications for Professional Environmental Engi…
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#119 - Open Source GPTs, X.AI, Auto-GPT, China’s Censorship of AI, Fake Drake+The Weeknd Colab
23 april 2023 · 1 uur 36 min
Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience
You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:
UK version | Canadian version | US version
Outline:
Applications & Business
(04:15) Stability AI announces new open-source large language model + OpenAssistant RELEASED! The world's best open-source Chat AI!
(15:00) Stability AI is on shaky ground as it burns through cash and looks at a management overhaul
Lighting Round
(23:12) Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI
(28:40) Google’s big AI push will combine Brain and DeepMind into one team
(30:36) Amazon AWS expands generative AI efforts with Bedrock and CodeWhisperer updates
(34:00) Samsung wants to release EX1, a human assistant robot, this year
Research & Advancements
(36:32) The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
(44:00) Auto-GPT and BabyAGI: How ‘autonomous agents’ are bringing generative AI to the masses
Lighting Round
(52:15) Researchers used machine learning to improve the first photo of a black hole
(53:42) Tennis Robot Could Pave Way for Advancement in Fast-Movement Robotics
(55:16) OpenAI Surprises Open-Source Community, Unveils Consistency Models
(58:28) Model that uses machine learning methods and patient data at hospital arrival predicts strokes more accurately than current system
Policy & Safety & Societal Impacts
(01:00:50) Finally, a realistic roadmap for getting AI companies in check
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#118 - Anthropic vs OpenAI, AutoGPT, RL at Scale, AI Safety, Memeworthy AI Videos
14 april 2023 · 1 uur 43 min
Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help
Lighting Round
Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia
Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs
Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI
Bing Image Creator now has a home in the Edge Sidebar, at least for now
Research & Advancements
Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI
Recursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI) Prompting: An Approach to Improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer and Reasoning Tasks
Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators
Lighting Round
[Not an article] GPT-4 can compress and decompress prompts into non-human-readable forms
Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome)
Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
Another Large Language Model! Meet IGEL: An Instruction-Tuned German LLM Family
Meet AUDIT: An Instruction-Guided Audio Editing Model Based on Latent Diffusion Models
Policy & Societal Impacts
Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI
AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled?
Lighting Round
Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT
Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened
Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT
Art & Fun Stuff
The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs
Once More, With …
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#117 - Google’s Bard Rush, BloombergGPT, ChatGPT King, Balenciaga Harry Potter
7 april 2023 · 1 uur 37 min
Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
Google's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AI
Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI
February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 Million
With Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up
Lighting Round
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads
Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies
Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub
Birth of a Salesman: OpenAI Sheds Its Lab Coat to Seek Big Deals
Research & Advancements
Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance
The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI
Lighting Round
Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons
Policy & Societal Impacts
The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained
Lighting Round
How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images go mainstream
FTC Is Reviewing Competition in Artificial Intelligence
Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse
Art & Fun Stuff
Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography”
Artificial intelligence deepfake video of Harry Potter characters in faux-Balenciaga fashion show goes viral
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#116 - ChatGPT plugins, AI hardware, petition to pause AI, Trump deepfakes
31 maart 2023 · 1 uur 39 min
Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more
NVIDIA's big AI moment is here
Lighting Round
Former head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture
Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems
Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies
Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job
Research & Advancements
Learning to grow machine-learning models
Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo
Lighting Round
New virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making
Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls
New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents
Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator
Policy & Societal Impacts
OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’
1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months”
Lighting Round
In San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all
Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC
Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI
AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes
Art & Fun Stuff
People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet)
WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit
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#115 - GPT4, Bard, AGI, Alpaca, Anthropic, Midjourney V5
26 maart 2023 · 1 uur 42 min
Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
GPT-4
GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why
GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired
Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions
Lighting Round
Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses
Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You
Introducing Claude
Research & Advancements
Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI
Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model
Lighting Round
Our latest health AI research updates
Machine learning takes starring role in exploring the universe
A new method to boost the speed of online databases
MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks
Policy & Societal Impacts
Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How
Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
Lighting Round
Some high-level thoughts on the DeepMind alignment team's strategy
Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now?
AI Scams and Influencers
AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office
I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
Art & Fun Stuff
Midjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art
Illustration competitions grapple with generative AI
Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display
AI and Copyright: Human Artistry Campaign Launches to Support Songwriters and Musicians’ Rights
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor…
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#114 - ChatGPT applications, Claude, PALM-E, OpenAI criticism, AI-generated spam
10 maart 2023 · 1 uur 34 min
Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
LLM/ChatGPT roundup
RadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves
Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership
Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools
Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology
Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature
Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries
Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 Billion
Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups
Lighting Round
Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining
OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech
D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT
OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation
Research & Advancements
Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network?
Lighting Round
Scientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells
Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view
Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model
AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions
Policy & Societal Impacts
OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit
As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology
Lighting Round
A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son
TikTok’s trendy beauty filter ushers in new tech and new problems
UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI "invent
ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI
Art & Fun…
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#113 - Nvidia’s 10k GPU, Toolformer, AI alignment, John Oliver
4 maart 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Lees meer
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I.
Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers
Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials
Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it
Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up
Research & Advancements
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space
RT-1: Robotics Transformer
Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model
MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions
Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible
How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction
Policy & Societal Impacts
"AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI
What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security
How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning
Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like
Planning for AGI and beyond
Art & Fun Stuff
Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers
The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place
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