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#131 - ChatGPT+ instructions, Microsoft reveals pricing for AI, is ChatGPT getting worse over time?
Last Week in AI
08/01/23 • 111 min
Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (04:18) Listener feedback/comments
- Tools & Apps
- 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
- (01:17:15) The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity
- (01:22:32) 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House
- (01:27:35) The Illus...
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#119 - Open Source GPTs, X.AI, Auto-GPT, China’s Censorship of AI, Fake Drake+The Weeknd Colab
Last Week in AI
04/23/23 • 96 min
Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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
- (01:07:00) China proposes measures to manage generative AI services
- Lighting Round
#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks
Last Week in AI
02/11/24 • 97 min
Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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
- (01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
- (01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design
- (01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
- (01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:22) EU’s AI Act passes last big hurd...
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06/03/24 • 126 min
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online
- (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot
- (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser
- (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price
- (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them
- (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled
- Applications & Business
- (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user
- (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
- (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits
- (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions
- (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits
- (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains
- (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release
- (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model
- (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
- Research & Advancements
- (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled
- (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year
- (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws
- (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI
- (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important
- (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says
- Policy & Safety
- (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
- (01:46:36)
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#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates
Last Week in AI
11/24/23 • 98 min
Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro/Banter
- Applications & Business
- (01:30) Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
- (20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns
- (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
- Projects & 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
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#132 - FraudGPT, Apple GPT, unlimited jailbreaks, RT-2, Frontier Model Forum, PhotoGuard
Last Week in AI
08/08/23 • 104 min
Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]
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
- 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: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity
- Policy & Safety
- (01:23:48) Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum
- (01:29:14)
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#133 - ChatGPT multi-document chat, CoreWeave raises $2.3B, AudioCraft, ToolLLM, Autonomous Warfare
Last Week in AI
08/18/23 • 88 min
Our 133rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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 [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- 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
- 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) Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of new regulations
- (01:16:40) Experience: scammers used AI to fake my daughter’s kidnap
- (01:19:22) The Stanford University ‘boot camp’ teaching Congress about AI
- (01:22:23)
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Mini Episode: Police Surveillance, Productivity, and Calls for Regulation and Cooperation
Last Week in AI
06/07/20 • 4 min
Our third audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the how the police are using surveillance against civil rights protesters, AI for productivity, and recent calls from AI researchers for regulation and cooperation.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause
Last Week in AI
07/09/23 • 72 min
Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- 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
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
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10/17/23 • 117 min
Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]
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
- 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 Evolution
- (01:11:45) China's First 28nm Lithography Tool to Be Delivered This Year
- (01:15:03) LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- (01:18:07)
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The average episode length on Last Week in AI is 56 minutes.
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@hamishniven
Jun 14
Great current content delivered with intelligence, humour and wit. Easy to follow and highly recommended if you want a light but informative look at all things AI
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