#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks
02/11/24 • 97 min
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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 154th 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] and/or [email protected]
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...
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Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Tools & Apps
- (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool
- (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
- (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant
- (00:23:47) ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade
- (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
- (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones
- Applications & Business
- (00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report
- (00:34:25) Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
- (00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development
- (00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI
- (00:47:22) AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
Next Episode
#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit
Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.
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] and/or [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
- (00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei
- (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
- (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes
- (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
- (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models
- (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model
- (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
- (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need
- (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
- Policy & Safety
- (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers
- (01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill
- (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation
- (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI
- (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit
- (01:42:25)
Last Week in AI - #154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks
Transcript
Hello and welcome to the Last Week in AI podcast, where you can hear chat about what's going on with AI. As usual, in this episode, we will summarize and discuss some of last week's most interesting AI news. You can also check out our last week in our newsletter, lastweekin.AI for articles we did not cover in this episode. I'm one of your host, Andrey Kurenkov. I finished my PhD, focused on AI at Stanford last year, and I now work at a generative AI
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