Last Week in AI
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Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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!
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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
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Our 127th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:50) Listener comments / corrections
(05:33) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(06:38) Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot
(11:38) LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy
(14:26) Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for Flashy Fliers, Social Videos
(15:33) WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you
(17:00) Google’s Bard AI can now write and execute code to answer a question
Applications & Business
(19:00) AI at Work: What People Are Saying
(22:15) Doctors Are Using Chatbots in an Unexpected Way
(26:05) Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report
(28:15) OpenAI chief executive does not plan to take company public
(29:49) The $500 million robot pizza startup you never heard of has shut down, report says
(31:16) Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses
(32:32) Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings
(33:50) A new important Generative A.I. startup has come out of stealth
Projects & Open Source
(36:05) RedPajama 7B now available, instruct model outperforms all open 7B models on HELM benchmarks
(40:23) LlamaIndex adds private data to large language models
Research & Advancements
(42:20) Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning
(47:17) ControlVideo: Adding Conditional Control for One Shot Text-to-Video Editing
(49:50) The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget
(51:20) InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models
(52:55) Simple and Controllable Music Generation
(54:28) Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation?
(57:24) Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model
(01:01:22) Scaling audio-visual learning without labels
(01:02:34) Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust
(01:03:59) Shining a light on neuromorphic computing
(01:05:34) Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4
(01:07:20) From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces
(01:09:00) Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web
Policy & Safety
(01:11:25) ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.
(01:14:04) These are the American workers most worried that A.I. will soon make their jobs obsolete
(01:17:02) A.I. poses new threats to newsrooms, and they're taking action
(01:19:18) City of Yokosuka adopts ChatGPT after favorable trial results
(01:20:35) AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova says
(01:23:35) OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement Lawsuit
(01:27:12) Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law
(01:30:16) U.S. Congress to consider two new bills on artificial intelligence
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:31:46) Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video
(01:34:30) Blush, the AI lover from the same team as Replika, is more than just a sexbot
(01:37:47) Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
(01:38:53) Runway’s Gen-2 shows the limitations of today’s text-to-video tech
(01:42:17) Outro
Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections
(03:20) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed
(06:02) A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves
Lighting round
(12:04) Google says Gmail on your phone just got a lot faster thanks to A.I.
(13:00) Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article
(15:06) Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT
(17:17) Microsoft Has Launched “Jugalbandi”—A New Generative AI App for India
(18:34) Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool
Applications & Business
(19:55) Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance
(22:25) AI Market Set To Break The Trillion-Dollar Barrier: Surging Toward $1.06 Trillion By 2028 Whether You Trust It Or Not
(26:07) The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report
(30:15) AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem.
Lighting round
(34:00) Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally
(35:16) ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog
(37:14) Microsoft signs deal for A.I. computing power with Nvidia-backed CoreWeave that could be worth billions
(39:40) Apple is looking for engineers to work with Generative AI in a mixed reality environment
(41:15) Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding
(43:05) Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week
Projects & Open Source
(45:21) UAE’s Falcon 40B AI model is now royalty free for commercial, research use
(47:45) Evaluating and uncovering open LLMs
Research & Advancements
(53:10) QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
(58:05) OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations'
(01:02:20) Do You Really Need Reinforcement Learning (RL) in RLHF? A New Stanford Research Proposes DPO (Direct Preference Optimization)
(01:06:50) Reward Collapse in Aligning Large Language Models
Lighting round
(01:11:15) How Should We Maximize the Planning Ability of LLMs While Reducing the Computation Cost? Meet SwiftSage : A Novel Generative Agent for Complex Interactive Reasoning Tasks, Inspired by the Dual-Process Theory of Human Cognition
(01:15:15) How to Keep Scaling Large Language Models when Data Runs Out? A New AI Research Trains 400 Models with up to 9B Parameters and 900B Tokens to Create an Extension of Chinchilla Scaling Laws for Repeated Data
(01:17:58) This AI Research Dives Into The Limitations and Capabilities of Transformer Large Language Models (LLMs), Empirically and Theoretically, on Compositional Tasks"
Policy & Safety
(01:20:55) ChatGPT Plugins Open Security Holes From PDFs, Websites and More
(01:25:02) US, Europe Working on Voluntary AI Code of Conduct as Calls Grow for Regulation
Lighting round
(01:27:58) With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation
(01:30:34) Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”
(01:33:13) Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training
(01:36:48) China warns of ‘complicated and challenging circumstances’ posed by AI risk
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:39:39) Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film.
(01:41:02) ‘Those who hate AI are insecure’: inside Hollywood’s battle over artificial intelligence"
(01:43:20) Outro
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Our 125th 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) Intro / Banter
(02:33) Response to listener comments / corrections
(05:30) News Preview
Tools & Apps(06:21) A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character
(12:16) Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters + Nvidia unveils Avatar Cloud Engine for Games at Computex
(15:27) JPMorgan is developing a ChatGPT-like A.I. service that gives investment advice
(16:40) TikTok is testing an AI chatbot called Tako
(18:32) Zoo, a playground for text to image models
Applications & Business(20:10) Insights from American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace
(24:29) The A.I. chip boom is pushing Nvidia toward $1 trillion, but it won't help Intel and AMD
(29:12) Hoffman and Suleyman's AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot
(31:31) Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization
(33:51) AI startup Figure raises $70 million to build humanoid robots
Projects & Open Source(35:21) PandaGPT: One Model to Instruction-Follow Them All
(41:50) Uncensored Models
(47:30) Guanaco
(50:50) 🦍 Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs
(52:17) BLOOMChat: a New Open Multilingual Chat LLM
(53:27) GirlfriendGPT - Your personal AI companion
Research & Advancements(55:45) Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
(01:02:55) A Pretrainer's Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity
(01:07:33) RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
(01:09:35) Enabling Large Language Models to Generate Text with Citations
(01:11:12) Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
Policy & Safety
(01:14:43) PM meeting with leading CEOs in AI: 24 May 2023
(01:18:05) An early warning system for novel AI risks
[3 min] Lighting Round(01:22:07) How Rogue AIs may Arise
(01:24:30) Democratic Inputs to AI
(01:26:20) Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in 22-word statement
(01:29:30) Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:31:48) Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. + I used Grimes’ AI vocals to make a hit – here’s how I did it
(01:34:27) As a lifelong Beatles fan, this AI-generated Beatles music is blowing my mind
(01:36:00) Outro
Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
Our 124th 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
Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:30) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
(08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop
(12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT
(14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos
(16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries
(18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI
Applications & Business
(19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom
(22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think
(25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster
(28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot
(30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis
(32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters
(33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work
Projects & Open Source
(35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly + Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio
(38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents
(41:37) Bard API
(43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face
(44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source
Research & Advancements
(45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning
(49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds
(51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans
(54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages
(56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models
(59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes
(01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
Policy & Safety
(01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI
(01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?
(01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare
(01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud
(01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media
(01:28:44) Outro
Sunday May 21, 2023
Sunday May 21, 2023
Our 123rd 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
Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(04:30) News Preview
(05:40) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps(07:07) OpenAI rolls out more than 70 ChatGPT plugins including Internet access
(11:56) How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
(17:45) Google is throwing generative AI at everything
(23:12) Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes
(25:20) Google develops tool to spot fake AI images after puffer jacket Pope went viral
(26:48) Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-Style Search to Its Online Store
(27:35) W&B Prompts
Applications & Business (28:55) Generative AI Breaks The Data Center: Data Center Infrastructure And Operating Costs Projected To Increase To Over $76 Billion By 2028
(31:31) OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million for Global Crypto Worldcoin
(33:33) OpenAI Confirms ChatGPT Data Breach
(35:15) Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers
(36:50) AI Startup Rewind Gets 170 Offers—and $350 Million Valuation in Unusual Fundraising
(38:43) Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare
Projects & Open Source(40:22) EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software
(44:53) Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models
(47:15) Stability AI releases an open source text-to-animation tool
(49:19) Listener submission - PandasAI
Research & Advancements(50:53) PaLM 2 Technical Report
(56:48) Microsoft AI Research Introduces Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): A Simple and General-Purpose Framework for the Automatic Optimization of LLM Prompts
(59:51) Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence
(01:05:05) Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector
(01:08:45) An Inverse Scaling Law for CLIP Training
(01:11:13) Active Retrieval Augmented Generation
(01:12:53) Professional Certification Benchmark Dataset: The First 500 Jobs For Large Language Models
(01:16:17) FrugalGPT: How to Use Large Language Models While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance
Policy & Safety
(01:18:37) A.I. ‘controls humanity’ in the worst-case scenario but will probably just find us boring, says Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque
(01:20:37) Hinton issues another AI warning: World needs to find a way to control artificial intelligence
(01:26:48) Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion
(01:30:08) The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK
(01:32:00) AI voice scams: Report shares 77% of victims lose money, how common it is, and how to protect yourself
(01:34:19) Police near Seattle issue warning about AI phone scammers impersonating family members
(01:36:01) How to spot AI-generated text
AI-Generated Media & Art
(01:37:32) Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers' strike
(01:39:15) China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral
(01:42:16) Hybe uses AI voice technology for Midnatt's multilingual single
(01:43:18) Trump shares fake video of Anderson Cooper reacting to CNN town hall
(01:46:30) Not even NYT bestsellers are safe from AI cover art
(01:48:35) Listener Question - more on the writer’s strike(?)
(01:54:48) Outro
Saturday May 13, 2023
Saturday May 13, 2023
Our 122nd 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
Check out the No Priors podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/lastweekinainopriors
Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections
(07:20) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(07:50) Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access
(11:26) Informatica goes all in on generative AI with Claire GPT
(15:11) LinkedIn’s new AI will write messages to hiring managers
(17:30) Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix and continues growing in San Francisco
Applications & Business
(20:58) "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
(27:30) AI will create ‘a serious number of losers’, DeepMind co-founder warns
(31:37) IBM takes another shot at Watson as A.I. boom picks up steam
(34:11) IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do
(36:30) Peter Thiel’s Palantir is seeing ‘unprecedented’ demand for its military A.I. that its CEO calls ‘a weapon that will allow you to win’
(38:42) Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It
(40:42) Chegg CEO calls 48% stock plunge over ChatGPT fears 'extraordinarily overblown'
(43:03) Microsoft Working With AMD on Expansion Into AI Processors
(45:35) Generative AI startup Runway just raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from a cloud service provider
(47:50) Top ex-Google AI researchers raise funding from Thrive Capital
Projects & Open Source
(51:22) Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data
(54:45) No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs
(57:15) Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model
Research & Advancements
(59:27) Meet LLaVA: A Large Language Multimodal Model and Vision Assistant that Connects a Vision Encoder and Vicuna for General-Purpose Visual and Language Understanding
(01:04:29) Language models can explain neurons in language models
(01:11:55) A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading
(01:14:27) AI could run a million microbial experiments per year
(01:15:54) Scurrying centipedes inspire many-legged robots that can traverse difficult landscapes
(01:17:38) Little Robots Learn to Drive Fast in the Real World
(01:20:03) Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots
Policy & Safety
(01:21:47) China's AI industry barely slowed by US chip export rules
(01:26:10) Anthropic thinks ‘constitutional AI’ is the best way to train models + Claude’s Constitution
(01:32:45) An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic
(01:36:16) ‘Mom, these bad men have me’: She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping
(01:39:18) Bill would require disclosure of AI-generated content in political ads
Art & Fun Stuff
(01:40:46) Unions Representing Hollywood Writers and Actors Seek Limits on A.I. and Chatbots
(01:44:56) Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music
(01:46:45) Spotify removes thousands of AI-generated songs
(01:49:19) Amnesty International Uses AI-Generated Images of Colombian Human Rights Abuses
(01:53:20) Midjourney 5.1 Arrives - And It’s Another Leap Forward For AI Art
Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first 25 minutes
(01:55:20) Listener Question - AI as a career + what to do in college
Sunday May 07, 2023
Sunday May 07, 2023
Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/
Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience
You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:
UK ver;sion | Canadian version | US version
Outline:
Article picks:
(00:00) Intro
Tools & Apps(04:20) Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview
(08:27) Visual Studio IntelliCode AI Assistant Gets Deep Learning Upgrade
(12:36) GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers
(16:25) TikTok is testing a new option to create AI-generated avatars for profile pictures
Applications & Business (19:11) ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
(26:52) Machine Learning as a Service Market Size Growing at 37.9% CAGR Set to Reach USD 173.5 Billion By 2032
(29:40) Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI + After the Death of BuzzFeed News, Journalists Should Treat AI as an Existential Threat
(35:57) PricewaterhouseCoopers announces multiyear $1B investment into generative AI
(38:07) Walmart turns to warehouse robots, suggests a boost in profit is possible
(40:23) “GPT” may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way
Projects & Open Source(43:50) OpenAI Threatens Popular GitHub Project With Lawsuit Over API Use
(48:27) Stability AI Launches DeepFloyd IF: A High-Performance Text-to-Image Model with Advanced Integration Capabilities
(52:10) Stability AI releases StableVicuna, the AI World’s First Open Source RLHF LLM Chatbot
(57:32) Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
Research & Advancements(59:44) First Real-World Study Showed Generative AI Boosted Worker Productivity by 14%
(01:03:50) LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions
(01:08:50) AI has better 'bedside manner' than some doctors, study finds + Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum
(01:13:50) Machine Learning and Metabolite Analysis Can Predict Individual Body Clock Timing
(01:13:15) Image generation AI for predicting the deformation of splashing drops
(01:18:10) Drones can fly themselves with worm-inspired AI software
Policy & Safety (01:19:25) ChatGPT-3.5 Generates More Disinformation in Chinese than in English
(01:23:27) The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective
(01:29:28) Former OpenAI Researcher: There’s a 50% Chance AI Ends in 'Catastrophe'
(01:33:30) Lawmakers propose banning AI from singlehandedly launching nuclear weapons
(01:35:35) Republicans counter Biden announcement with dystopian, AI-aided video
(01:37:42) The UK will spend £100 million to develop its own ‘sovereign’ AI
(01:41:25) Kamala Harris to discuss A.I. in meeting with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs
Art & Fun Stuff(01:44:09) From DrakeGPT to Infinite Grimes, AI-generated music strikes a chord + John Legend calls for regulation on AI-generated music
(01:47:30) The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
(01:51:05) I’m ChatGPT, and for the Love of God, Please Don’t Make Me Do Any More Copywriting
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Our 120th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/
Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience
You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:
UK version | Canadian version | US version
Outline:
(00:00) Intro / Banter(04:35) Episode Preview(06:00) Russia's Sberbank releases ChatGPT rival GigaChat + Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT + Stability AI launches StableLM, an open source ChatGPT alternative(14:30) Stack Overflow joins Reddit and Twitter in charging AI companies for training data + Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart(24:45) Big Tech is racing to claim its share of the generative AI market(27:42) Microsoft Building Its Own AI Chip on TSMC's 5nm Process(30:45) Snapchat’s getting review-bombed after pinning its new AI chatbot to the top of users’ feeds(33:30) Create generative AI video-to-video right from your phone with Runway’s iOS app(35:50) Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models(40:30) Autonomous Agents & Agent Simulations(46:13) Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT(49:05) Meet MiniGPT-4: An Open-Source AI Model That Performs Complex Vision-Language Tasks Like GPT-4(50:50) Visual Instruction Tuning(52:25) AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head(54:05) Performance of ChatGPT on the US Fundamentals of Engineering Exam: Comprehensive Assessment of Proficiency and Potential Implications for Professional Environmental Engineering Practice(58:20) ChatGPT is still no match for humans when it comes to accounting(01:01:13) Large Language Models Are Human-Level Prompt Engineers(01:05:00) RedPajama, a project to create leading open-source models, starts by reproducing LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens(01:05:55) Do Embodied Agents Dream of Pixelated Sheep: Embodied Decision Making using Language Guided World Modelling(01:08:45) Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in Large Language Models(01:11:35) Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond(01:15:40) Tool Learning with Foundation Models(01:17:20) With AI Watermarking, Creators Strike Back(01:22:02) EU lawmakers pass draft of AI Act, includes copyright rules for generative AI(01:26:44) How can we build human values into AI?(01:32:20) How prompt injection can hijack autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT(01:34:30) AI Simply Needs a Kill Switch(01:39:35) Anthropic calls for $15 million in funding to boost the government’s AI risk assessment work(01:41:48) ‘AI isn’t a threat’ – Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back(01:45:20) AI Art Sites Censor Prompts About Abortion(01:48:15) Outro