Last Week in AI
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2 days ago
2 days ago
Our 175th 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)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris explore recent AI advancements including OpenAI's release of GPT 4.0 Mini and Mistral’s open-source models, covering their impacts on affordability and performance. They delve into enterprise tools for compliance, text-to-video models like Hyper 1.5, and YouTube Music enhancements. The conversation further addresses AI research topics such as the benefits of numerous small expert models, novel benchmarking techniques, and advanced AI reasoning. Policy issues including U.S. export controls on AI technology to China and internal controversies at OpenAI are also discussed, alongside Elon Musk's supercomputer ambitions and OpenAI’s Prover-Verify Games initiative.
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) AI Song Intro
(00:00:40) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:03:57) OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a small AI model powering ChatGPT
(00:11:38) Meet Haiper 1.5, the new AI video generation model challenging Sora, Runway
(00:16:32) Anthropic releases Claude app for Android
(00:18:59) Google Vids is available to test out Gemini AI-created video presentations
(00:20:27) YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI ‘conversational radio’ in testing
Applications & Business(00:23:30) OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
(00:30:45) Inside Elon Musk’s Mad Dash To Build A Giant xAI Supercomputer In Memphis
(00:37:15) Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models
(00:41:05) After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education
(00:43:40) Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund
Projects & Open Source(00:46:27) Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation
(00:50:36) Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Mistral NeMo 12B, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model
(00:52:51) Hugging Face Releases SmoLLM, a Series of Small Language Models, Beats Qwen2 and Phi 1.5
(00:56:11) Stable Diffusion 3 License Revamped Amid Blowback, Promising Better Model
Research & Advancements(01:01:49) FlashAttention-3 unleashes the power of H100 GPUs for LLMs
(01:06:38) Mixture of A Million Experts
(01:12:51) AutoBencher: Creating Salient, Novel, Difficult Datasets for Language Models
(01:18:23) SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language >Models
Policy & Safety(01:20:50) Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs
(01:28:05) Trump allies draft AI order to launch ‘Manhattan Projects’ for defense
(01:34:40) On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs
(01:36:24) Google, Microsoft offer Nvidia chips to Chinese companies, the Information reports
(01:38:26) U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report
(01:48:47) OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
(01:44:59) Outro + AI Song
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Our 174rd 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)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro AI Song
(00:00:41) Pre News Banter
Tools & Apps(00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha
(00:10:28) Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps
(00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy
(00:18:30) Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps
(00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the go
Applications & Business(00:21:42) Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months
(00:27:03) Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny
(00:29:39) OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’
(00:33:38) AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say
(00:37:01) Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz Clash Over AI Chip Supplies Amid Gen AI Boom
(00:43:30) Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Make World’s “Most Powerful” 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Cluster
(00:46:25) AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in $665 million deal
(00:48:00) AI robotics startup raises US$300 million, including from Jeff Bezos
(00:52:11) Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections
Research & Advancements(00:55:21) Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States
(01:03:12) Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning
(01:09:11) CopyBench: Measuring Literal and Non-Literal Reproduction of Copyright-Protected Text in Language Model Generation
(01:13:25) Just read twice: closing the recall gap for recurrent language models
(01:15:25) CodeUpdateArena: Benchmarking Knowledge Editing on API Updates
(01:18:31) Composable Interventions for Language Models
(01:24:09) Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy
Policy & Safety(01:26:49) Covert Malicious Finetuning
(01:31:23) OpenAI’s week of security issues
(01:36:39) Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are
(01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs
(01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab
(01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub
(01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sell
Synthetic Media & Art(01:52:46) Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels
(01:54:50) Tech Startup Aims to Help Media License Content for AI Training
(01:57:23) Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy
(01:59:44) Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos
(02:02:05) Outro + AI Song
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Our 173rd 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)
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In this episode of Last Week in AI, we explore the latest advancements and debates in the AI field, including Google's release of Gemini 1.5, Meta's upcoming LLaMA 3, and Runway's Gen 3 Alpha video model. We discuss emerging AI features, legal disputes over data usage, and China's competition in AI. The conversation spans innovative research developments, cost considerations of AI architectures, and policy changes like the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Chevron deference. We also cover U.S. export controls on AI chips to China, workforce development in the semiconductor industry, and Bridgewater's new AI-driven financial fund, evaluating the broader financial and regulatory impacts of AI technologies.
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:03:24) Google opens up Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro with 2M tokens to the public
(00:08:47) Meta is about to launch its biggest Llama model yet — here’s why it’s a big deal
(00:12:38) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch
(00:16:28) This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9
(00:17:30) AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates
(00:20:06) Perplexity’s ‘Pro Search’ AI upgrade makes it better at math and research
(00:23:12) Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims
Applications & Business(00:26:38) Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
(00:32:04) Huawei and Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips amid US restrictions
(00:34:57) Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face
(00:39:01) Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera
(00:43:35) Apple’s Phil Schiller is reportedly joining OpenAI’s board
(00:47:26) AI Video Startup Runway Looking to Raise $450 Million
Projects & Open Source(00:48:10) Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Real-Time Native Multimodal Foundation AI Model that can Listen and Speak
(00:50:44) MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation
(00:53:47) Anthropic Pushes for Third-Party AI Model Evaluations
(00:57:29) Mozilla Llamafile, Builders Projects Shine at AI Engineers World's Fair
Research & Advancements(00:59:26) Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs
(01:05:55) AI Agents That Matter
(01:12:09) WARP: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Rewarded Policies
(01:17:20) Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas
(01:24:16) Found in the Middle: Calibrating Positional Attention Bias Improves Long Context Utilization
Policy & Safety(01:26:32) With Chevron’s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water
(01:33:40) Nvidia to make $12bn from AI chips in China this year despite US controls
(01:37:52) Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players
(01:40:57) U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with new program
(01:42:42) Bridgewater starts $2 billion fund that uses machine learning for decision-making and will include models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity
(01:47:57) Outro
Monday Jul 01, 2024
Monday Jul 01, 2024
Our 172nd 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)
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant
(00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps
(00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July
(00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users
(00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco
(00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI
Applications & Business
(00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC
(00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others
(00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say
(00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions
(00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same
Projects & Open Source
(00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization
(00:47:54) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B
(00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
Research & Advancements
(00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4
(01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks
(01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again
(01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination
(01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws
Policy & Safety
(01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep
(01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill
(01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools
(01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI
(01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models
Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement
(01:42:43) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels
(01:45:07) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool
(01:49:12) Outro + AI Song
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
Our 171st 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.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:03:13) Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac
(00:10:03) ‘We don’t need Sora anymore’: Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut
(00:14:48) Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
(00:18:21) Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works
(00:22:31) Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor
Applications & Business(00:28:23 ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company
(00:31:19) Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc.
(00:38:53) OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)
(00:41:44) Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months
(00:44:30) AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft
(00:48:55) Mistral closes €600m at €5.8bn valuation with new lead investor
(00:53:12) Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA’s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China
(00:56:58) Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform
Projects & Open Source(01:01:03) Announcing the Open Release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Our Most Sophisticated Image Generation Model to Date
(01:05:53) Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking
(01:09:39) ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos
Research & Advancements(01:12:02) Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling
(01:22:07) Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision
(01:28:01) Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations
(01:30:32) An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models
(01:31:57) BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners
(01:33:33) SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals
Policy & Safety(01:35:16) Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models
(01:42:26) Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole
(01:45:53) Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe
(01:46:44) Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models
(01:51:38) Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools
Synthetic Media & Art(01:55:07) It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.
(01:57:39) Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work
(01:59:31) Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets
(02:02:23) Outro + AI Song
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
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/
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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 ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
(01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks
(01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Synthetic Media & Art(01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant
(01:46:25) Outro + AI Song
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
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) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic
(01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees
(01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee
(01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden’s Voice Fined $6 Million
(01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT
(02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation’s Firms
Synthetic Media & Art
(02:02:23) Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI
(02:04:21) Outro + AI Song
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
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!
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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
(00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo
(00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts
(00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures
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) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models
Policy & Safety
(01:15:01) World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light
(01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill
(01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation
(01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models
(01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risks
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI
(01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses
(01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?
(01:42:01) Outro + AI Song
Sunday May 19, 2024
Sunday May 19, 2024
Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!
And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Timestamps + links:
Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users
(00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google
(00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
(00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models
(00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts
(00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console
Applications & Business
(00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company
(00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer
(00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl
(00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board
(00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes
(00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps
Projects & Open Source
(00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit
(00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3
(00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0
Research & Advancements
(00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
(00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture
Policy & Safety
(00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes
(00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety
(00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It
Synthetic Media & Art
(00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video
(01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
(01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'
(01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech
(01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey
(01:42:00) AI Outro Song
Sunday May 12, 2024
Sunday May 12, 2024
Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model
(00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts
(00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices
(00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan
(00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
(00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand
Applications & Business(00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT
(00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini
(00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion
(00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring
(00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI
Projects & Open Source(00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models
(00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model
(00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities
(00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
(00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library
(00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models
Research & Advancements(00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA
(00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
(01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation
(01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems
(01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Policy & Safety(01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models
(01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI
(01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
(01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers
Synthetic Media & Art(01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles
(01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3
(01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala
(01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam
(01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men
(01:40:18) AI Outro Song