Last Week in AI

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
  • (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
  • (01:17:15) 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...

Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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
  • (01:04:40) 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...

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
    • (01:13:00) A.I. could lead to a ‘nuclear-level catastrophe’ according to a third of researchers, a new Stanford report finds
    • (01:16:00) Inside the AI talent wars: Tech companies are ransacking university AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in search of rare talent
    • (01:20:00)
      

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