#140 - Yasa vs ChatGPT, Waymo expands, scaling robot learning, AI watermarks
10/17/23 • 117 min
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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)
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)
Previous Episode
#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal
Our 139th 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]
Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube.
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 publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data
- Projects & Open Source
- (56:11) Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone
- (01:01:12)
Next Episode
#141 - Adobe AI upgrades, Ernie 4.0, TimeGPT, No Fakes Act, AI drones
Our 141st 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]
Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube.
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 Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF
- (01:08:20) Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity
- Policy & Safety
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