#127 - chatbot dating app, AI at work, RedPajama 7B, tons of research, workers most worried that A.I.

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

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