#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates
11/24/23 • 98 min
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Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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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
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
Previous Episode
#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over
Our 143rd 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:
- Applications & Business
- (02:53) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
- (12:00) Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event
- (16:05) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes
- (18:30) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van
- (20:55) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU
- (21:35) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota
- (22:38) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe’s third-largest AI round ever
- (23:22) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others
- (24:16) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation
- Tools & Apps
- (25:00) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
- (27:38) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot
- (30:03) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat
- (31:01) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job
- (32:07) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss
- (33:33) Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (40:03) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
- (42:35) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ‘Mirasol3B’ for advanced video analysis
- (45:15) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products
- (46:06) Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation
- (47:54) Title:One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion
- (49:12) Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models
- Policy & Safety
- (51:37)
Next Episode
#145 - OpenAI’s Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements
Our 145th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, this time around with guest co-hosts Kevin and Gavin from AI For Humans podcast
Check out the AI For Humans episode on which Andrey and Jeremie guest co-host here.
Also 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.
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:
- Tools & Apps
- (06:00) OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful
- (12:33) Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview
- (16:33) Generative Video Startup Pika Labs Launches Version 1.0, Raises $55 Million in Funding
- (25:25) Screenshots show xAI’s chatbot Grok on X’s web app
- (30:37) Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
- Applications & Business
- (34:28) Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model
- (47:37) NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2024
- (52:40) Nvidia Delays Rollout Of China-Focused AI Chip: Report
- (56:31) Share sale set to test financial impact of OpenAI’s leadership turmoil
- (58:55) Amazon and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Add New AI Capabilities
- (59:55) AI21 takes Series C to $208 million with additional $53 million in funding
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:16:07) Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason
- (01:22:16) New technique can accelerate language models by 300x
- (01:23:35) DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence
- (01:27:00) GAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants
- (01:30:45) Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch
- Policy & Safety
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