
#127 - chatbot dating app, AI at work, RedPajama 7B, tons of research, workers most worried that A.I.
06/21/23 • 102 min
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Our 127th 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/
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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
- 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 Truthful Answers from a Language Model
- (01:01:22) Scaling audio-visual learning without labels
- (01:02:34) Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust
- (...
Our 127th 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) 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
- 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 Truthful Answers from a Language Model
- (01:01:22) Scaling audio-visual learning without labels
- (01:02:34) Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust
- (...
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#126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI grant program
Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next 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:
- (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
- Research & Advancements
- (53:10) QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- (58:05) OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations'
- (01:02:20)
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#128 - generative search, GPU black market, GPT-4’s Secret, Sam Altman’s World Tour
Our 128th 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
- (00:05:52) 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
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
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