#165 - Sora challenger, Astribot's S1, Med-Gemini, Refusal in LLMs
Update: 2024-05-05
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Our 165th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
- (00:01:27 ) GitHub releases an AI-powered tool aiming for a 'radically new way of building software'
- (00:07:05 ) China unveils Sora challenger able to produce videos from text similar to OpenAI tool, though much shorter
- (00:12:23 ) ChatGPT’s AI ‘memory’ can remember the preferences of paying customers
- (00:14:21 ) Rabbit R1 review: Avoid this AI gadget
- (00:18:30 ) Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available
- (00:19:54 ) Yelp’s Assistant AI bot will do all the talking to help users find service providers
- Applications & Business
- (00:21:31 ) Video of super-fast, super-smooth humanoid robot will drop your jaw
- (00:25:22 ) Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny
- (00:29:32 ) Tesla shares soar as Elon Musk returns from China with FSD 'Game Changer'
- (00:32:11 ) OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use
- (00:35:21 ) OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M
- (00:37:00 ) Huawei backs HBM memory manufacturing in China to sidestep crippling US sanctions that restrict AI development
- Research & Advancements
- (00:39:20 ) Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine
- (00:45:34 ) Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
- (00:52:20 ) NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution
- (00:55:08 ) SenseNova 5.0: China’s latest AI model surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4
- (00:57:20 ) Octopus v4: Graph of language models
- (01:00:28 ) Better & Faster Large Language Models via Multi-token Prediction
- Policy & Safety
- (01:03:15 ) Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction
- (01:09:19 ) Rishi Sunak promised to make AI safe. Big Tech’s not playing ball.
- (01:15:09 ) DOE Announces New Actions to Enhance America’s Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
- (01:18:21 ) The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects
- (01:20:50 ) Analysis-Second global AI safety summit faces tough questions, lower turnout
- (01:24:03 ) Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and more join the federal AI safety board
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:26:30 ) Air Head creators say OpenAI's Sora finicky to work with, needs hundreds of prompts, serious VFX work for under 2 minutes of cohesive story ↺
- (01:29:50 ) Eight newspaper publishers sue OpenAI over copyright infringement
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