#117 - Google’s Bard Rush, BloombergGPT, ChatGPT King, Balenciaga Harry Potter

Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business
  • Google's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AI
    • Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI
  • February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 Million
    • With Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up
  • Lighting Round
    • Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads
    • Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies
    • Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub
    • Birth of a Salesman: OpenAI Sheds Its Lab Coat to Seek Big Deals

 

• Research & Advancements
  • Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance
  • The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI
  • Lighting Round
    • Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons

• Policy & Societal Impacts

  • The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be
  • The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained
  • Lighting Round
    • How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images go mainstream
    • FTC Is Reviewing Competition in Artificial Intelligence
    • Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse

• Art & Fun Stuff
  • Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography”
  • Artificial intelligence deepfake video of Harry Potter characters in faux-Balenciaga fashion show goes viral