Last Week in AI
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Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Our 162nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Tools & Apps
(00:02:50) AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
(00:07:42) Anthropic launches external tool use for Claude AI, enabling stock ticker integrations and more
(00:11:51) Building LLMs for Code Repair
(00:14:16) Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed
(00:16:23) Microsoft 365’s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation
(00:18:41) AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users
Applications & Business
(00:19:21) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet
(00:23:32) Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up
(00:27:27) Intel Unveils New AI Accelerator in Bid to Challenge Nvidia
(00:30:46) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model
(00:32:55) OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4
(00:36:23) Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday
(00:37:23) OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund
Projects & Open Source
(00:39:51) Mistral AI Stuns With Surprise Launch of New Mixtral 8x22B Model
(00:43:54) Google updates its Gemma AI model family with variants for coding and research
(00:47:04) Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order
Research & Advancements
(00:52:08) Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models
(00:57:41) Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention
(01:03:31) Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent
(01:07:54) Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models
(01:09:54) Many-shot Jailbreaking
Policy & Safety
(01:15:08) Schiff unveils AI training transparency measure
(01:20:25) Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. He was also a prolific thief of trade secrets, say prosecutors.
(01:26:11) Responsible Reporting for Frontier AI Development
(01:30:08) US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands — eyes nuclear fusion and fission
(01:32:39) Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling
(01:36:45) Trudeau announces $2.4 billion for AI-related investments
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:39:26) Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices
Fun!
(01:41:52) OpenAI's Sora just made its first music video and it's like a psychedelic trip
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface
(00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers
(00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference
(00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features
(00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones
(00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week
Applications & Business
(00:22:36) Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’
(00:26:43) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
(00:31:16) Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerators Showcase Competitive Performance Per Dollar Against NVIDIA H100 In MLPerf 4.0 GenAI Benchmarks
(00:33:43) Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M Series C
(00:36:10) Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans
(00:37:44) Humanoid robots are joining the Mercedes-Benz workforce
Projects & Open Source
(00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
(00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs
(00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
(00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report
Research & Advancements
(00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics
(00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development
(01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse
(01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference
(01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction
Policy & Safety
(01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence
(01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza
(01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS
(01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network
(01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis — but only with safety drivers
(01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:31:17) BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints
Sunday Mar 24, 2024
Sunday Mar 24, 2024
Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
Tools & Apps
(00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures
(00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam
(00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI
Applications & Business
(00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
(00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff
(00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!
(00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June
(00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture
(00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
Projects & Open Source
(00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1
(00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D
(00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation
(00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes
Research & Advancements
(00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition
(00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
(00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
(01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent
(01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding
Policy & Safety
(01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning
(01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says
(01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities
(01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks
(01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content
(01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:30:17) AI-Generated Science
(01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool
Fun!
(01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts)
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world's best personal AI
(00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
(00:11:00) DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse
(00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability
(00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos — here’s how it sounds
(00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors
Applications & Business
(00:17:33) Sam Altman Rejoins OpenAI Board Along With Three New Directors
(00:21:15) Cohere releases powerful ‘Command-R’ language model for enterprise use
(00:23:16) Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
(00:25:53) Baidu Launches China's First 24/7 Robotaxi Service
Projects & Open Source
(00:26:54) Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets
(00:29:40) SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law
(00:31:45) Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Company “01.AI” Announces the Open Source of the Yi-9B Model
Research & Advancements
(00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
(00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
(00:42:01) Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science
(00:43:54) ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect
(00:44:55) PixArt-Σ: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation
Policy & Safety
(00:46:24) World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers
(00:48:57) US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access
(00:51:27) Google restricts election-related queries for its Gemini chatbot
Synthetic Media & Art
(00:52:43) Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst
(00:55:27) Nvidia Says NeMo AI Platform Complies With Copyright After Authors’ Complaint
(00:57:23) Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered
Fun!
(00:58:12) I made by Superman action figure talk with Pika Labs’ new AI lip sync tool — watch this
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
Tools & Apps
(00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude
(00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper
(00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini
(00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3
(00:24:25) Wix’s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts
(00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
Applications & Business
(00:27:40) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity , OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails
(00:35:42) Inside the Crisis at Google
(00:38:36) It’s official: Waymo robotaxis are now free to use freeways and leave San Francisco
(00:40:33) Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase — Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call
(00:42:43) AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence
Projects & Open Source
(00:45:13) StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
(00:49:05) Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images
(00:51:21) H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications
Research & Advancements
(00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components
(00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
(01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models
(01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms
(01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics
(01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and the Reasoning Gap
Policy & Safety
(01:15:18) India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches
(01:19:16) When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges with Partial Observability of Human Evaluators in Reward Learning
(01:24:45) OpenAI signs open letter to build AI responsibly just days after Elon Musk sued the company for putting profit ahead of people
(01:27:37) AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating
(01:29:40) Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines
(01:32:25) China offers AI computing ‘vouchers’ to its underpowered start-ups
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:34:18) Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
(01:37:10) AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon
(01:39:55) Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers
(01:43:35) Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
Fun!
(01:46:35) Man tries to steal driverless car in L.A., doesn’t get far: police
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Our 157th 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
(00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
(00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator
(00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
(00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
(00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio
(00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs
Applications & Business
(00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI
(00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI
(00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business
(00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano
(00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
(00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock
Projects & Open Source
(00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM
(00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model
(00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public
(00:54:25) Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
Research & Advancements
(00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
(01:07:08) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models
(01:15:16) Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor
(01:20:56) Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs
(01:22:10) Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings
Policy & Safety
(01:25:45) AI Warfare Is Already Here
(01:29:36) Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall
(01:32:45) Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety
(01:34:53) Facebook whistleblower, AI godfather join hundreds calling for deepfake regulation
US regulators investigate whether OpenAI investors were misled, say reports
(01:36:51) Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:40:23) The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft
(01:41:15) A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI
Fun!
(01:42:54) Impossible AI Food
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Our 156th 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(00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model
(00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready
(00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok
(00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds
(00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product
(00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’
Applications & Business(00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund
(00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
(00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs
(00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show
(00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms
(00:50:06) AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding
(00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ‘agents’ to business
Projects & Open Source(00:51:41) BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains
(00:54:33) Nomic AI Releases the First Fully Open-Source Long Context Text Embedding Model that Surpasses OpenAI Ada-002 Performance on Various Benchmarks
Research & Advancements(00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video
(01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
(01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement
(01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention
(01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities"
Policy & Safety(01:17:15) Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says
(01:21:15) House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force
(01:25:08) Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks
(01:27:05) States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week
(01:28:12) Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets
(01:30:26) The FTC warned about ‘quiet’ TOS changes for AI training. Here’s why it might not be enough
Synthetic Media & Art(01:32:13) Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissed
Fun & Miscellaneous(01:36:14) A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models
(01:38:00) Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident
(01:40:50) Helen Mirren Rips Up AI-Generated Speech at American Cinematheque Awards
(01:41:40) Microsoft's game-changing Super Bowl ad
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
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.
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like
(00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model
(00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs
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(00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages
(00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY
(00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters
(00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade
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) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits
(01:44:42) Outro
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
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 hurdle on the way to adoption
(01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
(01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
(01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute
(01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails
Synthetic Media & Art(01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
(01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
(01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
(01:34:38) Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written
(01:36:20) Outro
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
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
(00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
(00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads
(00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead
(00:12:20) Guns N’ Roses share AI-generated video for ‘The General’
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
(00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode
(00:53:00) Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4
(00:54:30) DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence
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Research & Advancements
(00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding
(01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty
(01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems?
(01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models
(01:20:30) A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
Policy & Safety
(01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes
(01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models
(01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order
(01:33:06) Rep. Jeff Jackson Introduces Bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to Stop China from Remotely Using American Technology to Build AI Tools
(01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake
(01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation
(01:45:15) Outro