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#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ‘Preparedness Framework’, campaigning voice clone

#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ‘Preparedness Framework’, campaigning voice clone

Our 148th 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: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:43) Google Deepmind unveils its most advanced AI image generator, Imagen 2 (00:08:21) Anthropic will help users if they get sued for copyright infringement (00:13:50) Midjourney Alpha is here with AI image generations on the web (00:16:34) Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool (00:17:09) Microsoft drastically expands Azure AI Studio to include Llama 2 Model-as-a-Service, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision (00:18:54) ChatGPT Is Apparently Becoming Lazy as It Has Started Asking Users to Solve Their Own Problems (00:22:17) You can create your own AI songs with this new Copilot extension (00:23:57) Stability AI announces paid membership for commercial use of its models Applications & Business (00:25:42) ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor (00:31:55) Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD (00:36:36) Chinese chip-related companies shutting down with record speed — 10,900, or around 30 per day, shut down in 2023 (00:40:11) TSMC mentions 1.4nm process tech for the first time, says 2nm remains on track (00:42:57) Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration (00:46:17) Nvidia rushes to deliver modified AI GPU chips to China customers, allegedly places 'Super Hot Run' priority order with TSMC (00:49:17) Sam Altman’s OpenAI agrees to pay German media giant Axel Springer for using its content to train AI models Projects & Open Source (00:52:20) Introducing DeciLM-7B: The Fastest and Most Accurate 7 Billion-Parameter LLM to Date (00:57:27) Introducing Stable Zero123: Quality 3D Object Generation from Single Images Research & Advancements (01:00:42) FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models (01:09:12) OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI (01:16:41) Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests (01:18:13) SwitchHead: Accelerating Transformers with Mixture-of-Experts Attention (01:20:04) CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents (01:21:10) Limits to the Energy Efficiency of CMOS Microprocessors Policy & Safety (01:24:24) OpenAI announces ‘Preparedness Framework’ to track and mitigate AI risks (01:32:08) Pro-China YouTube Network Used A.I. to Malign U.S., Report Finds (01:37:07) AI is a danger to the financial system, regulators warn for the first time (01:38:42) Anonymous Sudan hacking group sets sights on ChatGPT (01:40:33) Scenario planning for an AGI future (01:42:51) The widening web of effective altruism in AI security Synthetic Media & Art (01:49:22) Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (01:52:34) Pakistan’s former prime minister is using an AI voice clone to campaign from prison See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

24 Des 20231h 55min

#147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s  ‘Seamless’ translator

#147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’ translator

Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Correction: Gemini also supports audio Also 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. 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: (00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read Tools & Apps (00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT (00:14:15) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked  (00:19:33) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great (00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini (00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano (00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds (00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT (00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke" (00:34:51) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years (00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache Applications & Business (00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s (00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions (00:46:44) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions (00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side (00:51:46)  Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (00:54:08) Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts (00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models (00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M Projects & Open Source (00:59:20) Mixtral of experts (01:05:50) Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages (01:07:07) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers (01:10:15) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development Research & Advancements (01:13:21) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image — you have to see it to believe it (01:14:20) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1 (01:17:40) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning (01:19:04) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders (01:21:20) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models (01:23:40) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research Policy & Safety (01:26:41) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules (01:33:58) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment (01:39:12) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (01:41:22)  US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China (01:44:12) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI (01:47:25) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:49:03) High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed (01:52:55) Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle (01:55:57) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

17 Des 20231h 56min

#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME,  Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream

#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME, Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream

Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: this one is coming out a bit late, sorry! We'll have a new ep with coverage of the big news about Gemini and the EU AI Act out soon though. 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: (00:00:00) Intro/Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:03) ChatGPT’s 1-year anniversary: how it changed the world (00:06:15) Perplexity AI Introduces New Online LLMs for Real-Time Information Access  (00:11:45) Intuit Adds Generative AI-Powered Tax Prep to TurboTax (00:12:57) Microsoft Paint’s DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out on Windows 11 (00:13:56) Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift (00:14:54) Voicemod will now let you create and share your own AI voices (00:16:15) Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator Applications & Business (00:17:48) Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit (00:20:39) Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (00:25:48) Google is reportedly pushing the launch of its Gemini AI to 2024 (00:27:38) OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (00:29:03) US Compels Saudi Fund to Exit AI Chip Startup Backed by Altman (00:30:15) OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2 Billion Valuation With Andreessen Horowitz Backing (00:31:57) US artificial intelligence leader OpenAI applies for GPT-6, GPT-7 trademarks in China (00:32:59) CoreWeave backed by Fidelity and Jane Street at $7 billion valuation as cloud provider bolsters status as one of AI’s hottest startups (00:34:14) AWS debuts next-generation Graviton4 and Trainium2 chips for cloud and AI workloads (00:35:08) Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI (00:36:09) Indian AI Video Startup Rephrase.ai Announces Acquisition by Adobe (00:36:40) Report: Stability AI Positioning Itself for Acquisition Projects & Open Source (00:39:31) ChatGPT's One-year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching up? (00:43:50) China Open Sources DeepSeek LLM, Outperforms Llama 2 and Claude-2 Research & Advancements (00:48:37) Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for thousands of new materials (00:54:11) Researchers quantify the carbon footprint of generating AI images (00:56:40) Adopting and expanding ethical principles for generative artificial intelligence from military to healthcare (00:57:51) White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction: Compression Is All There Is? (01:00:09) Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? Case Study in Medicine (01:02:30) MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI Policy & Safety (01:05:19) ChatGPT can leak training data, violate privacy, says Google's DeepMind (01:12:45) UK to invest £500M more in AI compute capacity, launch five new quantum projects (01:13:39) Microsoft's $3.2 bln UK investment to drive AI growth (01:14:35) A new Pentagon program aims to speed up decisions on what AI tech is trustworthy enough to deploy (01:16:06) US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day' (01:19:13) The UAE’s leading AI CEO addresses bombshell New York Times report alleging China ties, says he didn’t finish reading the story (01:21:07) Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos Synthetic Media & Art (01:22:34) AnyDream: Secretive AI Platform Broke Stripe Rules to Rake in Money from Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfakes (01:25:02) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

12 Des 20231h 25min

#145 - OpenAI’s Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements

#145 - OpenAI’s Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements

Our 145th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, this time around with guest co-hosts Kevin and Gavin from AI For Humans podcast Check out the AI For Humans episode on which Andrey and Jeremie guest co-host here. Also 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. 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: Tools & Apps (06:00) OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful (12:33) Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview (16:33) Generative Video Startup Pika Labs Launches Version 1.0, Raises $55 Million in Funding (25:25) Screenshots show xAI’s chatbot Grok on X’s web app (30:37) Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies Applications & Business (34:28) Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model (47:37) NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2024 (52:40) Nvidia Delays Rollout Of China-Focused AI Chip: Report (56:31) Share sale set to test financial impact of OpenAI’s leadership turmoil (58:55) Amazon and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Add New AI Capabilities (59:55) AI21 takes Series C to $208 million with additional $53 million in funding Projects & Open Source (01:03:15) Starling-7B: Increasing LLM Helpfulness & Harmlessness with RLAIF (01:12:10) Defending your voice against deepfakes Research & Advancements (01:16:07) Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason (01:22:16) New technique can accelerate language models by 300x (01:23:35) DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence (01:27:00) GAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants (01:30:45) Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch Policy & Safety (01:33:42) US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design' (01:36:07) Chinese GPU recycling factories have a workaround for the US government's newly imposed export rules — modified NVIDIA RTX 4090 cards serve as great AI accelerators (01:39:00) The EU AI Act needs Foundation Model Regulation Putin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is ‘unacceptable and dangerous’ Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China (01:41:55) More than half of Americans are worried about AI than excited (01:46:10) State Dept prioritizes ‘AI-ready workforce’ in its first AI strategy US chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants yet Synthetic Media & Art (01:48:18) Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block In AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta (01:52:23) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

2 Des 20231h 54min

#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates

#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates

Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! 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 Applications & Business (01:30)  Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding (20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns GM Cruise cofounder, senior exec Dan Kan quits day after CEO exit (22:30) GM’s Self-Driving Car Unit Skids Off Course (24:00) Leaked email shows Amazon is cutting 'several hundred' jobs across Alexa business, including the newly launched Artificial General Intelligence team (25:35) US Chip Ban Fallout Spreads as Alibaba Scraps Cloud Spinoff (27:48) Tencent Stockpiled Enough NVIDIA AI GPUs To Last Them A Couple More Generations (29:44) Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever — no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse (31:37) US Launches $3 Billion Effort to Boost Advanced Chip Packaging (34:50) Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team Tools & Apps (38:15) Meta launches AI-based video editing tools (39:48) Discord is already killing Clyde, its experimental OpenAI chatbot (40:50) Be My Eyes AI offers GPT-4-powered support for blind Microsoft customers Projects & Open Source (42:25) Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source Research & Advancements (45:43) Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure (53:35) Meet JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-Task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models (58:10) NVIDIA’s “NeMo” Model Now Tuned For Chip Development, Showing Exceptional Results (01:00:33) UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs Policy & Safety (01:02:35) President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (01:12:44) Tech firms to allow vetting of AI tools, as Musk warns all human jobs threatened As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits (01:16:41) France, Germany and Italy join forces to propose unified AI regulation in the EU (01:22:02) UK will refrain from regulating AI ‘in the short term’ (01:24:31) If you get sued for an AI-generated creative work, OpenAI says it will protect you while Anthropic says you're on your own (01:29:41) China tightens rare-earth export curbs amid tension with U.S. Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:45) Microsoft AI Image Generator Blocks ‘Disney’ After Viral Movie Poster Trend See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

24 Nov 20231h 38min

#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over

#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over

Our 143rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! 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: Applications & Business (02:53) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI (12:00) Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event (16:05) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes (18:30) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van (20:55) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU (21:35) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota (22:38) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe’s third-largest AI round ever (23:22) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others (24:16) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation Tools & Apps (25:00) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others (27:38) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot (30:03) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat (31:01) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job (32:07) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss (33:33) Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable Projects & Open Source (36:06) Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model Research & Advancements (40:03) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence (42:35) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ‘Mirasol3B’ for advanced video analysis (45:15) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products (46:06) Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation (47:54) Title:One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion (49:12) Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models Policy & Safety (51:37) Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards (56:10) Amy Klobuchar and John Thune introduce legislation for creating generative AI framework (57:55) Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues (01:00:19) At UK's AI Summit developers and govts agree on testing to help manage risks (01:02:15) White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey Synthetic Media & Art (01:04:12) Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal (01:07:46) Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music (01:10:10) YouTube previews AI tool that clones famous singers — with their permission (01:11:08) Microsoft is bringing AI characters to Xbox (01:11:49) CBS News Launches New Venture To Identify AI Deepfakes And Misinformation See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

20 Nov 20231h 14min

#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning

#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning

Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new. Apologies for this one coming out after a pause, episodes will resume being released regularly as of 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 Tools & Apps (03:00) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API (07:15) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI (09:23) Sick of meetings? Microsoft’s new AI assistant will go in your place (11:54) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)  Applications & Business (14:55) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots (18:40) Figure 01 humanoid takes first public steps (22:31) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding (23:35) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi’s G42 in Middle East AI Push (25:00) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs (26:38) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China’s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding (30:35) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds (32:13) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation Projects & Open Source (35:00) Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B) (39:35) Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents (42:03) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning (44:53) Meta’s Habitat 3.0 simulates real-world environments for intelligent AI robot training (48:22) DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters  (49:13) Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI (51:13) Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics Research & Advancements (53:22) Eliciting Human Preferences with Language Models (57:23) New Nvidia AI agent, powered by GPT-4, can train robots (01:01:38) Unveiling the General Intelligence Factor in Language Models: A Psychometric Approach (01:04:48) AgentTuning: Enabling Generalized Agent Abilities for LLMs (01:09:51) Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL (01:11:25) ‘Mind-blowing’ IBM chip speeds up AI  Policy & Safety (01:14:57)  GM Cruise unit suspends all driverless operations after California ban (01:18:52) AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets (01:22:22) AI Safety Summit: day 1 and 2 programme (01:25:23) Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is posting lyrics to popular songs, lawsuit claims (01:26:38) Mike Huckabee says Microsoft and Meta stole his books to train AI (01:27:10) Clearview AI Successfully Appeals $9 Million Fine in the U.K. (01:28:11) North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official (01:30:17) OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI UK poised to establish global advisory group on AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:22) This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (01:34:32) Amazon now lets advertisers use generative AI to pretty up their product shots (01:36:36) The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

16 Nov 20231h 39min

#141 - Adobe AI upgrades, Ernie 4.0, TimeGPT, No Fakes Act, AI drones

#141 - Adobe AI upgrades, Ernie 4.0, TimeGPT, No Fakes Act, AI drones

Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! 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 (01:00) SuperDataScience podcast ad Tools & Apps (02:55) Adobe is upgrading Photoshop’s generative AI model — and releasing more for Illustrator and Express (07:52) Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other (14:15) Kendall Jenner becomes "Billie": Meta's AI celebrities face more resistance than enthusiasm (18:22) Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta Applications & Business (20:22) Google Cloud pledges a ‘shared fate,’ offering legal indemnification for customers (25:00) Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4 (31:05) Key Arm China Staff Quit to Create Government-Backed Startup (33:30) AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia (34:47) Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails (37:20) ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing (38:46) TSMC: ecosystem for 2nm chip development is nearing completion (41:50) OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut Research & Advancements (46:35) LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music (50:20) TimeGPT-1 (55:25) How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind? (01:00:17) HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time (01:04:33) PaLI-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger (01:05:42) A Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF (01:08:20) Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity Policy & Safety (01:12:05) No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas (01:15:03) Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight (01:19:59) How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington (01:28:38) China targets 50% boost in computing power as AI race with U.S. ramps up (01:31:03) China proposes blacklist of sources used to train generative AI models (01:34:44) Biden to cut China off from more Nvidia chips, expand curbs to more countries (01:37:51) TSMC expects permanent U.S. approval to supply chip tools to its China factory (01:40:34) Southeast Asia eyes hands-off AI rules, defying EU ambitions Synthetic Media & Art (01:44:05) AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War (01:47:03) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

26 Okt 20231h 48min

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