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Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast!
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro
(01:15) SuperDataScience Ad
(01:51) Response to listeners
Tools & Apps(02:47) Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot gets a paid plan for heavy users
(04:36) Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography
(06:37) Intuit launches generative AI–powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers
(07:17) Zoom Is Jumping on the AI Chatbot Bandwagon
Applications & Business(08:47) China lets Baidu, others launch ChatGPT-like bots to public, tech shares jump
(11:23) Tencent releases AI model for businesses as competition in China heats up
(12:00) Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI users get sued
(14:52) How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI
(17:30) ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month
(19:16) AI chip startup d-Matrix raises $110 mln with backing from Microsoft
(21:00) ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to ID and fight money laundering
(22:18) Sapeon raises $46m for AI chips
(23:20) Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’
Projects & Open Source(25:48) Announcing the commercial relicensing and expansion of DINOv2, plus the introduction of FACET
(27:02) UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI
(29:23) New Open-Source ‘Falcon’ AI Language Model Overtakes Meta and Google
Research & Advancements(31:01) Qwen-VL: A Frontier Large Vision-Language Model with Versatile Abilities
(33:57) RLAIF: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback
(36:22) Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses
(39:28) SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image
Policy & Safety(41:00) US curbs AI chip exports from Nvidia and AMD to some Middle East countries
(42:55) China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters, Microsoft says
(46:37) Trusting A.I.-written mushroom hunting guides sold on Amazon could get you killed. But like deadly fungi, identifying them is tricky
(48:25) Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok
(50:30) The UK releases key ambitions for global AI summit
Synthetic Media & Art(51:55) AI Took the Stage at the World's Largest Arts Festival. Here's What Happened
(54:12) Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies
(56:17) Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually
(58:57) The latest canvas for Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art? The new Sphere in Las Vegas
(01:01:20) Outro
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for pod being late again... -Andrey
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:07) SuperDataScience podcast ad
(04:00) Shout out to listener comments & reviews
(05:43) News Preview
Tools & Apps(06:32) Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more for $30 a month
(10:51) Poe’s new desktop app lets you use all the AI chatbots in one place
(13:47) Developers are now using AI for text-to-music apps
(15:50) Yahoo Mail Debuts AI Enhancements for a Smarter Inbox
(18:05) South Korea's Naver launches generative AI services
Applications & Business(21:19) Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise
(25:25) We Analyzed Millions of ChatGPT User Sessions: Visits are Down 29% since May, Programming Assistance is 30% of Use
(29:50) Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT
(31:32) Nvidia’s Q2 earnings prove it’s the big winner in the generative AI boom
(33:30) How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips
(37:03) Nvidia's $25 billion buyback 'a head-scratcher' for some shareholders
(40:25) Chinese AI Company Claims Huawei AI GPUs Are On Par With NVIDIA A100, Will Compete With GPT-4 LLM In 2024
(44:08) AI’s Share Of US Startup Funding Doubled In 2023
(45:42) Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
(48:13) AI21 Labs Raises $155M in Series C Funding; Valued at $1.4 Billion
(50:32) DP Technology Raises 100 million US dollars, Achieves AI Milestones in Science
Projects & Open Source(52:15) Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages
(56:01) Line Open-Sources ‘japanese-large-lm’: A Japanese Language Model With 3.6 Billion Parameters
Research & Advancements(58:55) Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
(01:05:18) Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling
(01:08:27) Hoodwinked: Deception and Cooperation in a Text-Based Game for Language Models
(01:11:47) Head-to-Tail: How Knowledgeable are Large Language Models (LLM)? A.K.A. Will LLMs Replace Knowledge Graphs?
(01:14:14) Nvidia AI Image Generator Fits on a Floppy Disk and Takes 4 Minutes to Train
(01:16:18) MagicEdit: High-Fidelity and Temporally Coherent Video Editing
(01:17:44) A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agents
Policy & Safety(01:19:00) UK to spend £100m in global race to produce AI chips
(01:22:03) Meta confirms AI ‘off-switch’ incoming to Facebook, Instagram in Europe
(01:25:44) Beijing to restrict use of generative AI in online healthcare activities
(01:28:04) Schumer to host AI forum with CEOs including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
(01:32:52) Bletchley Park to host AI safety talks in November
(01:34:47) Spain launches AI regulation agency in bid to become industry leader
Synthetic Media & Art(01:36:11) Google made a watermark for AI images that you can’t edit out
(01:39:20) Outro
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
A special non-news episode in which Andrey and Jeremie discussion AI X-Risk!
Please let us know if you'd like use to record more of this sort of thing by emailing contact@lastweekin.ai or commenting whether you listen.
Outline:
(00:00) Intro(03:55) Topic overview(10:22) Definitions of terms(35:25) AI X-Risk scenarios(41:00) Pathways to Extinction(52:48) Relevant assumptions(58:45) Our positions on AI X-Risk(01:08:10) General Debate(01:31:25) Positive/Negative transfer(01:37:40) X-Risk within 5 years (01:46:50) Can we control an AGI(01:55:22) AI Safety Aesthetics(02:00:53) Recap(02:02:20) Outer vs inner alignment(02:06:45) AI safety and policy today(02:15:35) Outro
Links
Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous AI
Clarifying AI X-risk
Existential Risks and Global Governance Issues Around AI and Robotics
Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor
AI x-risk, approximately ordered by embarrassment
Classification of Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Artificial Intelligence
X-Risk Analysis for AI Research
The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Our 134th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for pod being a bit late this week!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:30) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps(03:53) ElevenLabs Comes Out of Beta and Releases Eleven Multilingual v2 - a Foundational AI Speech Model for Nearly 30 Languages
(07:20) Meet Lilli, our generative AI tool that’s a researcher, a time saver, and an inspiration
(09:55) Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice
(11:42) Runway launches new ‘Watch’ feature as CEO says Hollywood AI discourse ‘needs to be more nuanced’
(12:45) The AI-powered Adobe Express is now generally available
(14:30) Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’
(17:35) NCSoft's new AI suite is trained to streamline game production
Applications & Business(19:45) Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
(28:52) State of AI Q2'23 Report
(35:45) China GPT? Tencent to Unleash Homegrown AI as Big Tech Races for Supremacy
(38:23) What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a transformer paper co-author
(43:00 )AI startup Anthropic raises $100M from Korean telco giant SK Telecom
(45:58) OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination
Projects & Open Source(48:13) Announcing AI2 OLMo, an open language model made by scientists, for scientists
(51:50) Introducing IDEFICS : An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-art Visual Langage Model
(55:45) Introducing Arthur Bench: The Most Robust Way to Evaluate LLMs
Research & Advancements(58:45) Self-Alignment with Instruction BacktranslationAutomatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the landscape of diverse self-correction strategies
(01:07:00) DeepMind’s AlphaStar Benchmark Improves RL Offline Agent With 90% Win Rate Against SOTA AlphaStar Supervised Agent
(01:12:12) RAVEN: In-Context Learning with Retrieval Augmented Encoder-Decoder Language Models
(01:14:16) BOLAA: Benchmarking and Orchestrating LLM-augmented Autonomous Agents
(01:21:40) Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster
Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models
Policy & Safety(01:24:08) China’s new AI regulations begin to take effect
(01:28:08) The Associated Press sets AI guidelines for journalists
(01:30:45) AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating – The Markup
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:32:08) Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale
(01:35:10) AI Botched Their Headshots
(01:37:52) Outro
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Our 133rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for pod being a bit late this week!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps(05:05) ChatGPT gets several new features, including multi-document chat
(09:02) Tinder tests AI photo selection feature to help users build profiles
(12:35) GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository
Applications & Business(15:55) CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips
(20:25) Nvidia GPU shortage is ‘top gossip’ of Silicon Valley
(23:30) NVIDIA: GPU Supply Issues Involve Packaging, Not Chip Wafers
(27:06) Nvidia's AI GPUs Are Selling for up to $70,000 in China
(30:00) AMD considers making a specific A.I. chip for China to comply with export controls
(31:10) AI chip firm Tenstorrent raises $100 mln from Hyundai, Samsung
(33:22) Cruise begins testing self-driving vehicles in Atlanta
(35:45) Toyota, Pony.ai plan to mass produce robotaxis in China
Projects & Open Source(38:08) Alibaba rolls out open-sourced AI model to take on Meta's Llama 2
Research & Advancements(42:00) Introducing AudioCraft: A Generative AI Tool For Audio and Music
(46:25) ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs
(52:03) Tool Documentation Enables Zero-Shot Tool-Usage with Large Language Models
(54:54) Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
(01:00:05) Towards Generalist Biomedical AI
(01:03:53) Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions
Policy & Safety
(01:05:55) The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
(01:12:37) ‘So important’: UK minister endorses Google’s training drive in AI arms race
(01:15:10) Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of new regulations
(01:16:40) Experience: scammers used AI to fake my daughter’s kidnap
(01:19:22) The Stanford University ‘boot camp’ teaching Congress about AI
(01:22:23) Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:24:37) Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back
(01:25:48) An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white, with lighter skin and blue eyes.
(01:26:47) Outro
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:36) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps(05:05) OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
(07:45) New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks
(10:55) JetBrains IDE update previews “deeply integrated” AI Assistant
(14:35) No More Paperwork? Amazon AI Tool Transcribes Patient Visits for Doctors
(16:11) Photoshop’s new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop’ images
(19:11) Wayfair’s AI tool can redraw your living room and sell you furniture
Applications & Business(21:25) Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI
(28:10) Facing more nimble rivals, OpenAI won’t bend … yet
(32:00) OpenAI's head of trust and safety steps down
(33:15) Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube
(35:28) Samsung extends cut in memory chip production, will focus on high-end AI chips instead
(36:50) Microsoft to supply AI tech to Japan government, Nikkei reports
(38:20) Protect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools
Projects & Open Source(41:56) Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model
(49:25) Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
(52:15) Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation
Research & Advancements(55:45) AI researchers say they've found 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rules
(01:03:48) RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action
(01:09:50) (Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
(01:13:26) Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
(01:18:50) STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft
(01:20:42) Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity
Policy & Safety(01:23:48) Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum
(01:29:14) Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers
(01:32:46) America Already Has an AI Underclass
(01:35:04) AI leaders warn Senate of twin risks: moving too slow and moving too fast
(01:38:35) The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here
Synthetic Media & Art(01:42:30) This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation
(01:44:16) Outro
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(04:18) Listener feedback/comments
Tools & Apps
(07:00) ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave
(09:20) GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
(12:38) Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts
(15:32) Google Bard is now available in the EU
Applications & Business
(17:15) An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips
(20:35) Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription
(23:00) Elon Musk threw nine-figure promises at top AI researchers
(26:28) Machine Learning Market to Hit $419.94 Billion by 2030: Grand View Research, Inc.
(28:31) Jasper, Mutiny AI Startups Cut Workers As Chatbot Rivalry Grows
(31:50) Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop
(34:34) China’s OpenAI challenger Zhipu AI gets Meituan funding
Projects & Open Source
Lighting round
Research & Advancements
(36:50) A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis
(43:20) Is ChatGPT getting worse over time? Study claims yes, but others aren’t sure
(48:36) A simple yet effective design, coupled with remarkable durability and low cost, make this robotic gripper a promising option for many industries
(51:24) Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants
(55:16) Researchers From Tsinghua University Introduce A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm Under The Meta-Learning Paradigm
(58:47) MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models
Policy & Safety
(01:02:20) Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons
(01:11:55) Frontier Model Security
(01:17:15) The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity
(01:22:32) 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House
(01:27:35) The Illusion Of AI’s Existential Risk
(01:35:05) Large majority of Americans have strong reservations about A.I. emergence, CNBC survey shows
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:38:12) You’re going to see more AI-written articles whether you like it or not
(01:41:13) ‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense
(01:41:49) Google says AI tools meant to help journalists and not to replace them
(01:45:12) Actors decry 'existential crisis' over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors
(01:47:49) AI tool creates South Park episodes with user in starring role
(01:50:51) Outro
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast.
Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(08:30) Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM
(14:38) Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that's found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance.
Applications & Business
(18:20) Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2, an AI language model for commercial use
(33:24) U.S. companies are on a hiring spree for A.I. jobs—and they pay an average of $146,000 + San Francisco Companies Got Half the World’s AI Funding So Far This Year
(35:42) 65% Of Top AI Companies Have Immigrant Founders
(36:50) Elon Musk unveils his AI company, X.AI
Spotify CEO’s startup for AI-powered preventive healthcare raises €60M
(44:25) OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI
(46:03) Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools
Projects & Open Source
(47:20) WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch Business Email Compromise Attacks
Research & Advancements
(50:53) Meet LongLLaMA: A Large Language Model Capable of Handling Long Contexts of 256k Tokens
(56:37) Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models
(01:03:50) AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
(01:08:25) Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation
(01:12:57) Patch n' Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution
(01:14:20) Scientists just used A.I. to map a fruit fly’s brain. Here’s why it’s a ‘turning point in neuroscience’
Policy & Safety
(01:25:40) What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?
(01:35:40) China finalizes first-of-its-kind rules governing generative A.I. services like ChatGPT
(01:38:57) US senators to get classified White House AI briefing Tuesday
(01:40:08) US FTC opens investigation into OpenAI
(01:41:55) UK universities draw up guiding principles on generative AI
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:42:57) Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 + Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare
(01:44:20) Outro
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time
(00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11
(00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in
Applications & Business(00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
(00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23
(00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
(00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US
(00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace
(00:22:40) Fundings Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI
Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M
Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation
Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects
Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
(00:26:45) AcquisitionsDatabricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML
Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M
As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io
Nvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models
Projects & Open Source(00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms
Research & Advancements(00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos
(00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up
(00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
(00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning
(00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent
(00:45:05) NVIDIA H100 GPUs Set Standard for Generative AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark
Policy & Safety(00:46:50) From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI
(00:53:50) US considering new restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Wall Street Journal reports
(00:57:10) 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
(01:00:32) European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’
Synthetic Media and Art(01:04:22) Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool
(01:08:27) Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art
(01:12:17) Outro
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Our 128th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:02:00) Google extends generative AI search to places, products and virtual models
Applications & Business(00:05:52) China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year
(00:10:33) Inside China's underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips
(00:14:20) OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports
(00:16:22) AI human-voice clones are coming for the Amazon, Apple, Google audiobook
(00:18:45) Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU and GPU platforms
(00:22:20) Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs
Projects & Open Source(00:25:05) Imitation Models and the Open-Source LLM Revolution
Research & Advancements(00:29:52) AIs trained on other AI output will start producing junk within a few generations, scientists warn
(00:34:42) GPT-4's Secret Has Been Revealed
(00:42:00) We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work
Policy & Safety(00:44:10) Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers
(00:50:25) Five big takeaways from Europe’s AI Act
(00:54:44) President Biden meets with AI tech leaders in San Francisco
(00:56:25) AI-generated child sex images spawn new nightmare for the web
Synthetic Media & Art(01:00:00) LinkedIn Reveals AI Image Hunter That Catches Fake Profiles
(01:03:42) The Reddit API Blackout and the Generative AI Connection
(01:07:23) Grammys approve new rules on use of artificial intelligence