Last Week in AI

Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Jessica Dai. Check out her Reboot publication! 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 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. Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro  (01:37) SuperDataScience podcast ad Tools & Apps (02:32) Salesforce launches AI assistant across its apps including Slack and Tableau (06:06) Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds (09:22) Bybit debuts AI-powered ‘TradeGPT’ for market analysis and data driven Q&A (11:14) China’s Ant Group unveils finance AI model as race heats up Applications & Business (13:24) TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months (16:50) Even AI Hasn’t Helped Microsoft’s Bing Chip Away at Google’s Search Dominance (20:05) OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6 (22:54) AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy (25:71) Nasdaq gets SEC nod for first exchange AI-driven order type (27:17) NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance Projects & Open Source (30:10) Meta Platforms reportedly building open-source generative AI system to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT (34:13) Indian Developers Top Hugging Face Leaderboard with GenZ 70B (38:31) Supporting the Open Source AI Community Research & Advancements (40:31) Artificial intelligence allows paralysis patient to speak for first time in 18 years (45:42) Efficient Benchmarking (of Language Models) (49:31) Online AI-based test for Parkinson’s disease severity shows promising results (52:52) Scientists used machine learning to perform quantum error correction Policy & Safety (56:18) Tech leaders including Musk, Zuckerberg call for government action on AI (01:01:32) US court rules that artificial intelligence generated artwork cannot be copyrighted (01:04:00) 2 Senators Propose Bipartisan Framework for A.I. Laws (01:05:47) Transcript: US Senate Judiciary Hearing on Oversight of A.I. (01:06:02) U.S. Copyright Office Invites Public To Comment On AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:09:10) Venice Film Festival 2023 Is Cinematic AI’s Coming Out Party (01:13:52) Revolution Software is using their own AI technology to remake Broken Sword (01:16:24) As his Kickstarter passes $1.3M, publisher defends Terraforming Mars’ generative AI art: ‘It’s too powerful a technology’ (01:17:23) Outro

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! 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 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. 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

Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being late again... -Andrey 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 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. 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

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

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

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

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

Our 131th 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 (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

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

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

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

Our 127th 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 (02:50) 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

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! 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 (02:35) 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

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

Our 124th 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 (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

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

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

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

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

Our 118th 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: Applications & Business(04:15) Stability AI announces new open-source large language model + OpenAssistant RELEASED! The world's best open-source Chat AI! (15:00) Stability AI is on shaky ground as it burns through cash and looks at a management overhaul Lighting Round(23:12) Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI (28:40) Google’s big AI push will combine Brain and DeepMind into one team (30:36) Amazon AWS expands generative AI efforts with Bedrock and CodeWhisperer updates (34:00) Samsung wants to release EX1, a human assistant robot, this year Research & Advancements(36:32) The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT (44:00) Auto-GPT and BabyAGI: How ‘autonomous agents’ are bringing generative AI to the masses Lighting Round(52:15) Researchers used machine learning to improve the first photo of a black hole (53:42) Tennis Robot Could Pave Way for Advancement in Fast-Movement Robotics (55:16) OpenAI Surprises Open-Source Community, Unveils Consistency Models  (58:28) Model that uses machine learning methods and patient data at hospital arrival predicts strokes more accurately than current system Policy & Safety & Societal Impacts   (01:00:50) Finally, a realistic roadmap for getting AI companies in check (01:07:00) China proposes measures to manage generative AI services Lighting Round(01:13:00) A.I. could lead to a ‘nuclear-level catastrophe’ according to a third of researchers, a new Stanford report finds (01:16:00) Inside the AI talent wars: Tech companies are ransacking university AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in search of rare talent  (01:20:00) Photographer admits prize-winning image was AI-generated Art & Fun Stuff(01:23:13) Exploring Creativity in Large Language Models: From GPT-2 to GPT-4 (01:27:32) AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song goes viral (01:30:30) Adobe launches AI-powered text-based video editing (01:33:47) Meta has open-sourced an AI project that turns your doodles into animations  (01:35:15) Outro