Last Week in AI21 Jan 2024

#151 - Copilot Pro, LLama.cpp, conversational diagnostic AI, secret AI diplomacy

Our 151st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
- (00:47:52) Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI
- (00:51:50) Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
- (00:56:27) LLM Augmented LLMs: Expanding Capabilities through Composition
- (01:02:23) Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models
- (01:05:16) Clinical predictive models created by AI are accurate but study-specific, researchers find
- (01:09:01) Secure, Governable Chips
Policy & Safety
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:27:20) Musicians Set to Begin Contract Negotiations With Studios On AI, Streaming Priorities
- (01:29:26) Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon
- (01:33:15) Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube
(01:35:15) Outro

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