#118 - Anthropic vs OpenAI, AutoGPT, RL at Scale, AI Safety, Memeworthy AI Videos

Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business
  • Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
  • Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help
  • Lighting Round
    • Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia
    • Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs
    • Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI
    • Bing Image Creator now has a home in the Edge Sidebar, at least for now
• Research & Advancements
  • Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI
    • Recursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI) Prompting: An Approach to Improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer and Reasoning Tasks 
  • Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators
  • Lighting Round
    • [Not an article] GPT-4 can compress and decompress prompts into non-human-readable forms
    • Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome)
    • Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
    • Another Large Language Model! Meet IGEL: An Instruction-Tuned German LLM Family
    • Meet AUDIT: An Instruction-Guided Audio Editing Model Based on Latent Diffusion Models

• Policy & Societal Impacts

  • Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI
  • AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled?
  • Lighting Round
    • Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT
    • Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
    • Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened
    • Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT
• Art & Fun Stuff
  • The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs
  • Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney
  • Someone keeps accusing fanfiction authors of writing their fic with AI, and nobody knows why
  • How Will AI Transform Photography?