
#131 - ChatGPT+ instructions, Microsoft reveals pricing for AI, is ChatGPT getting worse over time?
08/01/23 • 111 min
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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...
Our 131th 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
- (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...
Previous Episode

#130 - Llama 2, Elon Musk’s xAI, WormGPT, LongLLaMA, AI apocalypse, actors on strike
Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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 [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- 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
- 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 point in neuroscience’
- Policy & Safety
Next Episode

#132 - FraudGPT, Apple GPT, unlimited jailbreaks, RT-2, Frontier Model Forum, PhotoGuard
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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