#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards
06/03/24 • 126 min
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Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online
- (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot
- (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser
- (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price
- (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them
- (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled
- Applications & Business
- (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user
- (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
- (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits
- (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions
- (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits
- (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains
- (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release
- (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model
- (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
- Research & Advancements
- (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled
- (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year
- (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws
- (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI
- (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important
- (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says
- Policy & Safety
- (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
- (01:46:36)
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Feel free to leave us feedback here: https://forms.gle/ngXvXZpNJxaAprDv6
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
- (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online
- (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot
- (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser
- (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price
- (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them
- (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled
- Applications & Business
- (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user
- (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
- (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits
- (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions
- (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits
- (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains
- (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release
- (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model
- (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
- Research & Advancements
- (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled
- (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year
- (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws
- (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI
- (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important
- (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says
- Policy & Safety
- (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
- (01:46:36)
Previous Episode
#168 - OpenAI vs Scar Jo + safety researchers, MS AI updates, cool Anthropic research
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!
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 + Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson
- (00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
- (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App
- (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive
- (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US
- (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles
- Applications & Business
- (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit
- (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million
- (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push
- (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors.
- (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots
- (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box'
- (01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models
- (01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model
- (01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models
- (01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning
- (01:12:10)
Next Episode
#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?
Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
Feel free to leave us feedback here.
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:
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora
- (00:09:16) ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI
- (00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features
- (00:14:38) Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
- (00:16:35) ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt
- (00:18:37) Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group
- (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI
- (00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals
- (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami
- (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave"
- (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M
- (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores
- (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv
- (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design
- Research & Advancements
- (00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders
- (01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting
- (01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach
- (01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile
- Policy & Safety
- (01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027
- (01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘...
Last Week in AI - #169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards
Transcript
Hello and welcome to a new episode of Last Week in AI, where we will summarize and discuss some of last week's most interesting AI news. And as always, I want to mention we also have a text newsletter last weekend that I where we have even more news for you to read about and one of your co-hosts Andrey Kurenkov.
AndreyI graduated from Stanford, where I learned about AI supposedly last year, and I now work
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