Last Week in AI
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Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I.
Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers
Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials
Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it
Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up
Research & Advancements
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space
RT-1: Robotics Transformer
Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model
MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions
Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible
How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction
Policy & Societal Impacts
"AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI
What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security
How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning
Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like
Planning for AGI and beyond
Art & Fun Stuff
Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers
The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Our 112th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Stories this week:
Applications & BusinessMicrosoft's Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It
Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈
Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar
Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets
Roblox is working on generative AI tools
Research & Advancements
BioGPT: Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining
MarioGPT - A new way to encode and generate Super Mario Bros levels
Machine learning techniques identify thousands of new cosmic objects
AI analyzes cell movement under the microscope
Accelerating Prime Editing: Machine Learning Helps Design the Best Fix for a Given Genetic Flaw
Enhance! Deep learning tool boosts X-ray imaging resolution and hydrogen fuel cell performance
Policy & Societal Impacts
Beijing to support key firms in building ChatGPT-like AI models
Only you can stop an AI apocalypse
South Korea aims to join AI race as startup Rebellions launches new chip
GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets
U.S., China, other nations urge 'responsible' use of military AI
Art & Fun Stuff
Voice Actors are Having Their Voices Stolen by AI
Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack
Keanu Reeves Says Deepfakes Are ‘Scary,’ Confirms His Film Contracts Ban Digital Edits to His Acting: ‘They Added a Tear to My Face! Huh?’
TikTokers are roasting McDonald's hilarious drive-thru AI order fails — and it shows that robots won't take over restaurants any time soon
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot
Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard
Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad
Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public
You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future
Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine
Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot
Lighting Round
Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI
AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation
OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee
Instagram’s founders are back with a new app
Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |…
Research & Advancements
Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT
A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected
Lighting Round
Whispers of AI’s modular future
AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find
AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art
Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning
Policy & Societal Impacts
Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards
Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death
Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word
Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat
The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning
Lighting Round
Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI
A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision
Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed
Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears
U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement
Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified
Art & Fun Stuff
AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Our 110th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
After a 4 month break, we're back with a new co-host, and will resume our regular weekly upload schedule.
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content
related : CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI
CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy
CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories
Who owns the generative AI platform?
Lighting Round
Here’s Why ChatGPT is just the start of the generative AI boom
Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT
Generative AI funding exploded over the past 2 years
After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts
Research & Advancements
ChatGPT’s creator made a free tool for detecting AI-generated text
New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
Related: Stanford introduces DetectGPT to help educators fight back against ChatGPT generated papers
Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it
Lighting Round
Versatile robo-dog runs through the sandy beach at 3 mile/sec
AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they work
GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text
Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit
Policy & Societal Impacts
4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech
AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse
Educator considerations for ChatGPT
Lighting Round
Scores of Stanford students used ChatGPT on final exams, survey suggests - “Stanford students and professors alike are grappling with the rise of ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, and the technology’s implications for education.”
When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy Tries to Clarify
AI-generated art a concern for local artists who say there’s still a need for human creativity
Robot Cars Are Causing 911 False Alarms in San Francisco
Art & Fun Stuff
I wrote a short story! - I Think I Am Starting to Fear Death
Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro(03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day
(07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city
(10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC
(10:52) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions
(11:50) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas
(13:00) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework
(13:45) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video
(19:05) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system
(23:00) Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents? Cues from moving eyes could help pedestrians anticipate vehicle's intentions
(24:00) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp
(25:00) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain
(25:30) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds
(26:45) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition
(30:30) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
(33:14) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges
(34:00) A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat
(34:50) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI
(35:45) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development
(36:25) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine
(39:40) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
(43:00) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions
(43:55) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI
(45:35) Outro
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline
(00:00) Intro
(03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers
(08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps
(14:30) French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools
(15:12) AI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the moon
(15:40) Artificial intelligence can be used to better monitor Maine's forests
(16:34) Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes
(17:45) Using AI to decode speech from brain activity
(23:20) Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests
(27:50) Canadian researchers using machine learning to mitigate effects of climate change
(29:25) Researchers Develop ‘TiCoder’ Framework For Code Generation Using User Feedback With 90.4% Consistency To User Intent
(31:12) Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment in Women with Heart Attacks
(31:41) MIT Researchers use Machine Learning to Expedite Research on New Battery Materials
(32:48) Review finds ‘paucity of robust evidence’ on impact of AI clinical outcomes
(36:00) France puts healthcare at heart of $1.8B AI strategy
(39:00) Clearview: Glasses With Facial Recognition Are Here—And The Air Force Is Buying
(40:00) New York City AI Bias Law Charts New Territory for Employers
(40:37) U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China
(42:00) UK Government Releases New AI Security Guidance
(43:31) Everything Everything's AI-Derived 'Raw Data Feel' Tackles Mental Health, Conspiracy TheoriesEverything Everything - I Want A Love Like This
(47:05) Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice Holly Herndon - Eternal
(50:17) A LinkedIn Marketing Agency Acquired an AI That Writes Mega-Cringe LinkedIn Posts
(53:24) An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
(57:00) Outro
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy...
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(01:25) Machine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery Duration
(05:30) Sanas, the buzzy Silicon Valley startup that wants to make the world sound whiter
(10:50) AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others
(14:12) AI-based method for dating archeological remains
(18:33) You just hired a deepfake. Get ready for the rise of imposter employees.
(22:43) Deepfakes for all: Uncensored AI art model prompts ethics questions , This AI Tool Is Being Used To Make Freaky, Machine-Generated Porn
(29:00) Here's how the best AI art generators compare
(35:03) The Great FIlter Button
(39:11) Outro
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Our 106th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy...
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro(01: 32) Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals?(06:13) How rangers are using AI to help protect India’s tigers(09:13) Meta Starts Testing Its Latest AI Chatbot, BlenderBot 3 (10:35) AI startup Cerebras celebrated for chip triumph where others tried and failed (11:35) You can (sort of) generate art like Dall-E with TikTok’s latest filter (13:10) Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card (16:00) Wearable AI Sensor Supports Personalized Health Data Processing, Analysis(20:15) AI pilot can navigate crowded airspace(24:18) Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics(25:30) In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice(26:26) New algorithm aces university math course questions (27:28) The AI-powered swimmer is able to switch between different locomotory gaits adaptively to navigate toward any target location on its own(28:25) Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK(32:30) Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him (35:35) AI Contractors Eyeing Bigger Role Backed by Chips Bill Funds (37:26) China drafts rules on use of self-driving vehicles for public transport (38:30) Baidu's robotaxis don't need any human staff in these parts of China (39:35) U.S. appeals court says artificial intelligence can’t be patent inventor (41:45) Robot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants In The Round (44:20) Think Your Street Needs a Redesign? Ask an AI(50:09) Outro
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: there was again a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago.
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro(01:30) AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths(05:05) Inside Midjourney, The Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E (09:20) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system(10:30) Amazon-owned self driving firm Zoox seeks to test robotaxi in California(12:10) Baidu unveils latest autonomous electric vehicle: Apollo RT6(13:10) Neural Sleeve is a bionic leg wrap that uses AI to correct walking patterns (14:05) Novel method allows robots to learn in the wild(18:45) Clinicians can build trust with machine learning through experience(24:00) Machine learning identifies gun buyers at risk of suicide(24:36) Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems(24:50) Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning (25:17) DeepMind & UCL’s Stochastic MuZero Achieves SOTA Results in Complex Stochastic Environments(26:15) Meet the startups using AI to help doctors fight burnout(30:22) Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?(36:15) Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2(40:05) If A.I. Generated Book Jackets Based on Literary Titles…
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago.
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
(05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage
(07:12) FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
(08:30) Words matter: AI can predict salaries based on the text of online job postings
(09:12) Photographer Successfully Uses Dall-E 2 AI to Edit his Photos
(09:10) Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition
(10:00)Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model That Solves Mathematical Questions
(13:16) A year in the making, BigScience’s AI language model is finally available
(15:55) Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages
(16:18) Computer scientists' interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles
(16:48)Microsoft AI Researchers Open-Source ‘GODEL’: A Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Model For Dialog
(17:35) Fake Friends and the Real Threat of AI-Generated Influencers
(22:05) The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
(25:10) Waymo, UPS, others pressure Gov. Newsom to allow autonomous trucking in California
(26:10) More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers
(27:03) US safety regulators open special investigation into Cruise AV crash
(27:46) People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO
(29:10) Experiments & Explorations: Robots as Musical Instruments
(31:17) Cute desktop robot designed to keep armchair engineers engaged
(33:33) Outro