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Weekly summaries and discussion about the most interesting developments in AI, deep learning, robotics, and more!
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#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2
16 december 2024 |
118 min
Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's
Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
- The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
- The AI safety book “Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today!
In this episode:
- OpenAI launches a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription with advanced capabilities, while Amazon unveils cost-effective Nova multimodal models at the re:Invent conference.
- Meta releases LLAMA 3.3 70B model, showing significant gains through post-training techniques, and Alibaba introduces QWQ, a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI's O1.
- Amazon collaborates with Anthropic on a massive AI supercomputer project, and Black Forest Labs eyes a $200 million funding round for growth in AI tools.
- New research from DeepMind's Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from text and images, progressing AI's understanding of world models and interactive environments.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:34) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:19) OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model
- (00:10:40) Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models
- (00:17:13) ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts
- (00:20:21) Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
- Applications & Business
- (00:23:56) Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
- (00:29:40) Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
- (00:34:15) It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT
- (00:38:23) A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind AI Images on Grok
- (00:41:10) Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Vying With Nvidia at $2.6 Billion Value
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:45:25) Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model
- (00:50:00) Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
- (00:55:21) DeMo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization
- (00:57:01) PRIME Intellect Releases INTELLECT-1 (Instruct + Base): The First 10B Parameter Language Model Collaboratively Trained Across the Globe
- (01:03:03) Tencent Launches HunyuanVideo, an Open-Source AI Video Model
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:30:56) Commerce Strengthens Export Controls to Restrict China’s Capability to Produce Advanced Semiconductors for Military Applications
- (01:37:33) China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions
- (01:40:52) OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI
- (01:43:24) On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback
- (01:47:52) AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her
- (01:51:52) Meta Claims AI Content Was Less than 1% of Election Misinformation
- (01:55:05) Outro
#191 - Sora leak, Pixtral Large, OpenAI email archives
5 december 2024 |
102 min
Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
- The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:55) Response to listener comments
- (00:09:30) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- (00:10:52) OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked
- (00:21:11) Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor
- (00:26:39) Ignite 2024 introduces new AI agents and more for Microsoft 365 Copilot
- (00:28:50) H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications
- (00:31:20) Anthropic bets on personalization in the AI arms race with new ‘styles’ feature
- (00:33:42) ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents
- (00:37:08) Perplexity introduces a shopping feature for Pro users in the U.S.
- (00:38:49) Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory
- (00:43:03) Suno V4 Ai Music Generator Is Out Now And It’s Very Impressive
- (00:46:28) Introducing FLUX.1 Tools
- (00:49:51) OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a major 'creativity' upgrade
- (00:51:26) Runway launches Frames — a new AI image generator that creates custom worlds
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:33:07) How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?
- (01:38:27) Outro
#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights
28 november 2024 |
97 min
Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
- The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence
In this episode:
* OpenAI's pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity.
* Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements.
* DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts.
* Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:44) News Preview
- (00:03:34) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:36) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
- (00:16:22) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users
- (00:19:14) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard
- (00:19:14) Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch
- (00:20:04) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference
- Applications & Business
- (00:23:47) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion
- (00:26:48) Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently
- (00:29:34) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training
- (00:34:45) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape
- (00:34:45) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:45:38) The Super Weight in Large Language Models
- (00:55:42) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task
- (01:03:47) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models
- (01:08:14) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations
- Policy & Safety
- (01:11:14) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU
- (01:15:38) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components
- (01:23:05) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA
- (01:26:21) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China
- (01:30:42) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng
- (01:33:00) Outro
#189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI
17 november 2024 |
103 min
Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
In this episode:
* OpenAI's acquisition of chat.com and internal shifts, including hardware lead hire and hardware model leaks, signal significant strategy pivots and challenges with model scaling and security.
* Saudi Arabia plans a $100 billion AI initiative aiming to rival UAE's tech hub, highlighting the region's escalating AI investments.
* U.S. penalties on GlobalFoundries for violating sanctions against SMIC underline ongoing challenges in enforcing AI-chip export controls.
* Anthropic collaborates with Palantir and AWS to integrate CLAWD into defense environments, marking a significant policy shift for the company.
Sponsors:
- The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
- The AI safety book “Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today!
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:01:28) News Preview
- (00:02:10) Response to listener comments
- (00:05:02) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- (00:07:31) OpenAI Introduces ‘Predicted Outputs’ Feature: Speeding Up GPT-4o by ~5x for Tasks like Editing Docs or Refactoring Code
- (00:11:55) Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase
- (00:17:10) Introducing FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra and Raw Modes
- (00:19:11) X is testing a free version of Grok AI chatbot in select regions
- Applications & Business
- (00:21:39) OpenAI acquired Chat.com
- (00:23:40) Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub
- (00:28:28) Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI
- (00:31:38) OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address
- (00:35:50) Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as World’s Largest Company
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:49:55) Applying “Golden Gate Claude” mechanistic interpretability techniques to protein language models.
- (00:58:3) Relaxed Recursive Transformers: Effective Parameter Sharing with Layer-wise LoRA
- (01:05:55) From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code
- (01:10:22) OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown
- Policy & Safety
- (01:39:23) Outro
#188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π0
8 november 2024 |
112 min
Our 188th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
This episode was sponsored by The Generator.
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
In this episode:
* Meta's open-source models utilized by China's military prompt regulatory adjustments; US agencies gain access to counterbalance.
* OpenAI partners with Broadcom and AMD to develop custom AI hardware, aiming for profitability and reducing inference costs.
* Physical Intelligence unveils a generalist robot control policy with a $400M funding boost, showcasing significant advancements in zero-shot task performance.
* New U.S. regulation mandates quarterly reporting for large AI model training and computing cluster acquisitions, aiming to bolster national security.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:16) News Preview
- (00:03:05) Response to listener comments / corrections
- (00:05:00) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- (00:06:28) OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT
- (00:12:18) Image Playground, ChatGPT, and more Apple Intelligence features roll out in beta
- (00:14:34) GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI
- (00:19:00) Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
- (00:21:34) ElevenLabs Introduces Voice Design: A New AI Feature that Generates a Unique Voice from a Text Prompt Alone
- (00:24:18) Midjourney's new web editor lets you tweak images uploaded from your PC
- (00:26:02) Watch out, Midjourney — Recraft just announced new AI image generator model
- Applications & Business
- (00:29:57) Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
- (00:33:15) OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026
- (00:40:47) Elon Musk's xAI in talks to raise funding valuing it at $40 billion, WSJ reports
- (00:46:07) Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos
- (00:48:32) Waymo ramps up robotaxi push with $5.6 bn in funding
- (00:49:11) Alphabet's Waymo Serving Over 150,000 Paid Robotaxi Rides Every Week Now, Surging 50% In 2 Months
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:08:19) This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robot
- (01:15:06) Can Language Models Replace Programmers? REPOCOD Says 'Not Yet'
- (01:19:01) Brain-like Functional Organization within Large Language Models
- (01:21:20) Decart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft
- (01:25:39) Raising the bar on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- Policy & Safety
- (01:29:06) Commerce just proposed the most significant federal AI regulation to date – and no one noticed
- (01:35:04)Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don't regulate in 18 months
- (01:39:32) Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta AI
- (01:46:35) Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications
- (01:48:16) Outro
#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen
28 oktober 2024 |
130 min
Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
This episode was sponsored by The Generator.
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections
- (00:05:13) Sponsor Read)
- Tools & Apps
- (00:06:22) Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own
- (00:18:09) AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others
- (00:20:37) Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator
- (00:23:35) Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users
- (00:26:16) StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5
- (00:28:27) Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for Enterprise
- Applications & Business
- (00:32:35) Crusoe’s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs
- (00:39:08) Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation
- (00:45:47) Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI
- (00:49:53) NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December
- (00:52:41) Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say
- (00:55:27) xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:13:21) OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X
- (01:17:54) How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it?
- (01:25:28) Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning
- (01:33:30) Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Policy & Safety
- (01:41:50) Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy
- (01:48:52) Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage
- (01:56:30) OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says
- (02:00:05) US Probes TSMC’s Dealings with Huawei
- (02:03:03) TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs
- (02:06:37) Outro
#186 - Adobe AI Tools, Tesla's Cybercab, Nobel Prizes
20 oktober 2024 |
94 min
Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn from the SuperDataScience Podcast.
Check out Jon’s upcoming agent-focused event here - AI Catalyst: Agentic Artificial Intelligence
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:04:14) News Preview
- (00:05:28) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:07:10) Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro
- (00:11:52) Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear
- (00:15:43) Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos
- (00:17:05) YouTube expands AI audio generation tool to all U.S. creators
- (00:20:29) All Gemini users can now generate images with Imagen 3
- (00:22:27) Meta AI will launch in six more countries today, including the UK
- (00:24:27) OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt—And It’s Very Different From Anthropic's Approach
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:47:59) OpenR: An Open-Source AI Framework Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models
- (00:49:54) MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
- (00:56:29) OpenAI Releases Swarm: An Experimental AI Framework for Building, Orchestrating, and Deploying Multi-Agent Systems
- Research & Advancements
- (00:59:23) Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists
- (01:05:22) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins
- (01:09:09) LLMs can’t perform “genuine logical reasoning,” Apple researchers suggest
- (01:13:05) GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:29:13) Outro
#185 - Movie Gen, ChatGPT Canvas, OpenAI's VC Round, SB 1047 Vetoed
12 oktober 2024 |
90 min
Our 185th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Gavin Purcell from the AI for Humans podcast.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
In this episode:
- Meta's MovieGen introduces innovative features in AI video generation, alongside OpenAI's real-time speech API and expanded ChatGPT capabilities.
- Mio's foundation model and Apple's Depth Pro enhance multimodal AI inputs and precise 3D imaging for AR, VR, and robotics.
- Microsoft and OpenAI's strategic advancements highlight significant financial moves and AI enhancements, including Microsoft's enhanced Copilot.
- AI policy discussions intensify as California's vetoed bill sparks debates on regulation, alongside Google's $1 billion investment to expand AI infrastructure in Thailand.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:51) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:48) Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator
- (00:14:28) OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects
- (00:19:31) OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers
- (00:24:43) Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API
- (00:28:30) Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet
- (00:32:36) Pika 1.5 is now live — AI video generator just got major upgrades
- Applications & Business
- (00:37:49) OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time
- (00:45:23) Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search
- (00:51:05) Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
- (00:51:49) OpenAI’s newest creation is raising shock, alarm, and horror among staffers: a new logo
- (00:53:45) Waymo to add Hyundai EVs to robotaxi fleet under new multiyear deal
- (00:57:28) Cerebras, an A.I. Chipmaker Trying to Take On Nvidia, Files for an I.P.O.
- (00:59:18) Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:25:13) Outro
#184 - OpenAI's Voice 2.0 + execs quitting, Llama 3.2, To CoT or not to CoT?
2 oktober 2024 |
90 min
Our 184th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
In this episode:
- OpenAI, Meta, and Google are enhancing their AI assistants with advanced voice modes, while Meta released Llama 3.2, an open-source model capable of processing both images and text.
- Significant AI infrastructure developments include Grok's partnership with Aramco for a massive data center in Saudi Arabia, and Microsoft's plan to power data centers using a reopened Three Mile Island nuclear plant.
- Recent research shows chain-of-thought prompting is most effective for math and symbolic reasoning, while OpenAI's GPT-4 with vision capabilities is being integrated into Perplexity AI's search platform.
- AI is being rapidly integrated into various sectors, with examples including ChartWatch reducing unexpected hospital deaths, Snapchat and YouTube introducing AI video generation tools, and Lionsgate partnering with Runway for AI-assisted film production.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:04:45) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:07:46) OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look
- (00:13:32) Meta’s AI can now talk to you in the voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench
- (00:17:11) Gemini’s chatty voice mode is out now for free on Android
- (00:21:30) AI video rivalry intensifies as Luma announces Dream Machine API hours after Runway
- (00:23:35) Copilot Wave 2 supercharges productivity with AI across all your Microsoft 365 apps
- (00:25:56) Perplexity introduces new 'Reasoning' focus powered by OpenAI's o1
- Applications & Business
- (00:33:47) OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman
- (00:41:46) Sam Altman departs OpenAI’s safety committee
- (00:43:04) Chip Startup Groq Backs Saudi AI Ambitions With Aramco Deal
- (00:46:29) Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources
- (00:48:05) Pudu unveils super semi-humanoid robot with 8-hour battery, 10kg lift power
- (00:50:56) Amazon introduces Amelia, an AI assistant for third-party sellers
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:00:35) To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
- (01:06:14) LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 on PlanBench
- (01:10:15) Norwegian Startup 1X Unveils AI World Model for Robot Training
- (01:12:44) AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds
- Policy & Safety
- (01:15:47) Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers
- (01:18:23) Governor Newsom signs bills to combat deepfake election content
- (01:20:12) Governor Newsom signs bills to protect digital likeness of performers
- (01:22:20) Startup behind “world’s first robot lawyer” to pay $193K for false ads, FTC says
- Synthetic Media & Art
(01:28:01) Outro
#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo
26 september 2024 |
108 min
Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule.
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In this episode:
- OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses.
- Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise.
- LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel.
- New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:38) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
- (00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year
- (00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls
- (00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You
- Applications & Business
- (00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion
- (00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT
- (00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report
- (00:45:14) Japan’s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100M
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins
- (01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining
- (01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
- (01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:45:08) Outro
# 182 - Alexa 2.0, MiniMax, Surskever raises $1B, SB 1047 approved
17 september 2024 |
99 min
Our 182nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
- OpenAI's move into hardware production and Amazon's strategic acquisition in AI robotics.
- Advances in training language models with long-context capabilities and California's pending AI regulation bill.
- Strategies for safeguarding open weight LLMs against adversarial attacks and China's rise in chip manufacturing.
- Sam Altman's infrastructure investment plan and debates on AI-generated art by Ted Chiang.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:05:15) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- (00:14:56) Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B
- (00:22:20) TSMC’s A16 Process Creates a Buzz Before Mass Production, as OpenAI Reportedly Secures Capacity
- (00:29:13) Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant
- (00:33:33) OpenAI weighs changes to corporate structure amid latest funding talks
- (00:37:43) Chinese GPU-maker XCT, once valued at $2.1B, is on the verge of collapse — shareholders now suing founder
- (00:40:34) TSMC aims to ready next-gen silicon photonics for AI in 5 years
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:48:32) Fire-Flyer AI-HPC: A Cost-Effective Software-Hardware Co-Design for Deep Learning
- (00:55:52) 100M Token Context Windows
- (01:03:50) Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling
- (01:06:16) AnyGraph : An Effective and Efficient Graph Foundation Model Designed to Address the Multifaceted Challenges of Structure and Feature Heterogeneity Across Diverse Graph Datasets
- Policy & Safety
- (01:08:16) California Legislature Approves Bill Proposing Sweeping A.I. Restrictions
- (01:11:14) Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs
- (01:17:12) China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows
- (01:20:50) China Threatens to Cut Off ASML Over New US Chip Curbs
- (01:23:22) Altman Infrastructure Plan Aims to Spend Tens of Billions in US
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:34:28) Outro
#181 - Google Chatbots, Cerebras vs Nvidia, AI Doom, ElevenLabs Controversy
15 september 2024 |
137 min
Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris
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In this episode:
- Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress.
- Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia.
- Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer.
- AI regulation discussions including California’s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia’s AI chips.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:03:08)Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:09:19) Google’s custom AI chatbots have arrived
- (00:12:52) Google releases three new experimental AI models
- (00:17:14) Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again
- (00:22:32) Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi
- (00:26:42:) Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pin
- Applications & Business
- (00:30:31) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service
- (00:41:06) Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback
- (00:46:24) OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value it at more than $100 billion
- (00:50:44) OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ‘Strawberry,’ in Fall
- (00:52:53) 3 Co-Founders Leave French AI Startup H Amid ‘Operational Differences’
- (00:57:29) Samsung to Adopt High-NA Lithography Alongside Intel, Ahead of TSMC
- (01:02:11) Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:47:12) U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI
- (01:50:46) China’s Views on AI Safety Are Changing—Quickly
- (01:56:27) Poll: 7 in 10 Californians Support SB1047, Will Blame Governor Newsom for AI-Enabled Catastrophe if He Vetoes
- (02:01:31) Elon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models
- (02:03:55) Chinese Engineers Reportedly Accessing NVIDIA’s High-End AI Chips Through Decentralized “GPU Rental Services”
- (02:08:25) U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component sales
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (02:14:06) Outro
#180 - Ideogram v2, Imagen 3, AI in 2030, Agent Q, SB 1047
3 september 2024 |
125 min
Our 180th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
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Episode Highlights:
- Ideogram AI's new features, Google's Imagine 3, Dream Machine 1.5, and Runway's Gen3 Alpha Turbo model advancements.
- Perplexity's integration of Flux image generation models and code interpreter updates for enhanced search results.
- Exploration of the feasibility and investment needed for scaling advanced AI models like GPT-4 and Agent Q architecture enhancements.
- Analysis of California's AI regulation bill SB1047 and legal issues related to synthetic media, copyright, and online personhood credentials.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:01:08) Response to Listener Comments / Corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:58) Ideogram AI expands its features with v2 model and color palette options
- (00:07:48) Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free
- (00:11:41) Perplexity adds Flux.1 model for Pro users alongside Playground v3 update
- (00:13:58) Luma drops Dream Machine 1.5 — here’s what’s new
- (00:17:49) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type
- (00:20:21) Perplexity’s latest update improves code interpreter, charts included
- Applications & Business
- (00:24:14) AMD buying server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as chipmakers strengthen AI capabilities
- (00:28:55) Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services
- (00:34:08) Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say
- 00:38:32 Stability AI appoints new Chief Technology Officer
- (00:41:45) Cruise’s robotaxis are coming to the Uber app in 2025
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:44:16) AI21 Introduces the Jamba Model Family: The most powerful and efficient long-context models for the enterprise
- (00:53:47) Microsoft reveals Phi-3.5 — this new small AI model outperforms Gemini and GPT-4o
- (00:57:33) Nvidia’s Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a small language model that punches above its weight
- (01:00:58) Open source Dracarys models ignite generative AI fired coding
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:38:20) California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic
- (01:48:14) Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online
- (01:52:44) Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (02:01:43) Outro
#179 - Grok 2, Gemini Live, Flux, FalconMamba, AI Scientist
20 augusti 2024 |
118 min
Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
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Episode Highlights:
- Grok 2's beta release features new image generation using Black Forest Labs' tech.
- Google introduces Gemini Voice Chat Mode available to subscribers and integrates it into Pixel Buds Pro 2.
- Huawei's Ascend 910C AI chip aims to rival NVIDIA's H100 amidst US export controls.
- Overview of potential risks of unaligned AI models and skepticism around SingularityNet's AGI supercomputer claims.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:15) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:24) Grok-2 is out in beta, now with added AI image generation
- (00:11:28) OpenAI reveals an updated GPT-4o model - but can't quite explain how it's better
- (00:13:48) Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here
- (00:16:18) Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 bring Gemini to your ears
- (00:19:55) Google’s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources
- (00:23:13) Prompt Caching is Now Available on the Anthropic API for Specific Claude Models
- Applications & Business
- (00:26:56) Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator
- (00:26:56) Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports
- (00:37:53) ASML and Imec Announce High-NA Lithography Breakthrough
- (00:43:07) Chinese startup WeRide gets nod to test robotaxis with passengers in California
- (00:45:49) Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google
- (00:51:55) Lisa Su formally welcomes Silo AI team to AMD after completing $665 million acquisition
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:54:31) FalconMamba 7B Released: The World’s First Attention-Free AI Model with 5500GT Training Data and 7 Billion Parameters
- (00:59:25) OpenAI has introduced SWE-bench Verified to evaluate AI performance
- (01:04:21) Nous Research presents Hermes 3
- (01:11:07) New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeks
- Research & Advancements
- (01:14:40) The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
- (01:30:24) Imagen 3
- (01:32:48) The Data Addition Dilemma
- (01:37:35) LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:56:21) AI Song Outro
#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk
16 augusti 2024 |
126 min
Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: this is a re-upload with fixed audio, my bad on the last one! - Andrey
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
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In this episode:
- Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible.
- OpenAI's dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk.
- Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis.
- Research advancements such as Google's compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:03:14) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Applications & Business
- (00:06:56) Google’s hiring of Character.AI’s founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode
- (00:15:12) Investors in Adept AI will be paid back after Amazon hires startup’s top talent
- (00:22:36) AI chip start-up Groq’s value rises to $2.8bn as it takes on Nvidia
- (00:29:22) OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave
- (00:36:18) Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
- (00:41:40) Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations
- (00:47:01) ASML, Tokyo Electron dodge new US chip export rules, for now
- (00:53:10) OpenAI reportedly leads $60M round for webcam startup Opal
- Tools & Apps
- Research & Advancements
- (01:06:35) Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters
- (01:16:27) Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
- (01:20:19) Self-Compressing Neural Networks
- (01:28:30) Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models
- (01:32:43) Berkeley Humanoid: A Research Platform for Learning-based Control
- Policy & Safety
- (01:33:35) METR announces results of study on comparative capabilities of humans and agents
- (01:39:35) ‘The Godmother of AI’ says California’s well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem
- (01:49:13) Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules
- (01:54:56) Amazon faces UK merger probe over $4B Anthropic AI investment
- (01:55:44) GPT-4o System Card
- (02:03:09) Outro
#177 - Instagram AI Bots, Noam Shazeer -> Google, FLUX.1, SAM2
11 augusti 2024 |
113 min
Our 177th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest co-host Jon Krohn from the super data science podcast (https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast)!
If you'd like to listen to the interview with Andrey, check out https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast
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In this episode, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jon Krohn dive into significant updates and discussions in the AI world, including Instagram's new AI features, Waymo's driverless cars rollout in San Francisco, and NVIDIA’s chip delays. They also review Meta's AI Studio, character.ai CEO Noam Shazir's return to Google, and Google's Gemini updates. Additional topics cover NVIDIA's hardware issues, advancements in humanoid robots, and new open-source AI tools like Open Devon. Policy discussions touch on the EU AI Act, the U.S. stance on open-source AI, and investigations into Google and Anthropic. The impact of misinformation via deepfakes, particularly one involving Elon Musk, is also highlighted, all emphasizing significant industry effects and regulatory implications.
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- (00:00:00) AI Song / Intro Banter
- (00:05:32) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:10:16) Apple Intelligence to Miss Initial Launch of Upcoming iOS 18 Overhaul
- (00:16:35) Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves
- Lighting round
- Applications & Business
- (00:31:44) Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google
- (00:39:41) Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations
- Lighting round
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:50:10) AI Outro
#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2
3 augusti 2024 |
86 min
Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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- (00:00:00) Intro Song
- (00:00:34) Intro Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
- (00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model
- (00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature
- (00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities
- (00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop
- (00:14:25) Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech
- (00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math
- (00:34:00) Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling
- (00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings
- Applications & Business
- (00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve
- (00:43:01) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market
- (00:46:28) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations
- (00:49:09) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:02:56) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards
- (01:06:39) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe
- (01:10:59) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning
- (01:13:08) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid
- (01:17:33) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:23:03) Outro
- (01:23:58) AI Song
#175 - GPT-4o Mini, OpenAI's Strawberry, Mixture of A Million Experts
25 juli 2024 |
107 min
Our 175th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris explore recent AI advancements including OpenAI's release of GPT 4.0 Mini and Mistral’s open-source models, covering their impacts on affordability and performance. They delve into enterprise tools for compliance, text-to-video models like Hyper 1.5, and YouTube Music enhancements. The conversation further addresses AI research topics such as the benefits of numerous small expert models, novel benchmarking techniques, and advanced AI reasoning. Policy issues including U.S. export controls on AI technology to China and internal controversies at OpenAI are also discussed, alongside Elon Musk's supercomputer ambitions and OpenAI’s Prover-Verify Games initiative.Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) AI Song Intro
- (00:00:40) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:57) OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a small AI model powering ChatGPT
- (00:11:38) Meet Haiper 1.5, the new AI video generation model challenging Sora, Runway
- (00:16:32) Anthropic releases Claude app for Android
- (00:18:59) Google Vids is available to test out Gemini AI-created video presentations
- (00:20:27) YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI ‘conversational radio’ in testing
- Applications & Business
- (00:23:30) OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
- (00:30:45) Inside Elon Musk’s Mad Dash To Build A Giant xAI Supercomputer In Memphis
- (00:37:15) Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models
- (00:41:05) After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education
- (00:43:40) Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:46:27) Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation
- (00:50:36) Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Mistral NeMo 12B, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model
- (00:52:51) Hugging Face Releases SmoLLM, a Series of Small Language Models, Beats Qwen2 and Phi 1.5
- (00:56:11) Stable Diffusion 3 License Revamped Amid Blowback, Promising Better Model
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:20:50) Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs
- (01:28:05) Trump allies draft AI order to launch ‘Manhattan Projects’ for defense
- (01:34:40) On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs
- (01:36:24) Google, Microsoft offer Nvidia chips to Chinese companies, the Information reports
- (01:38:26) U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report
- (01:48:47) OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
- (01:44:59) Outro + AI Song
#174 - Odyssey Text-to-Video, Groq LLM Engine, OpenAI Security Issues
17 juli 2024 |
124 min
Our 174rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.
See full episode notes here.
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro AI Song
- (00:00:41) Pre News Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha
- (00:10:28) Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps
- (00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy
- (00:18:30) Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps
- (00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the go
- Applications & Business
- (00:21:42) Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months
- (00:27:03) Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny
- (00:29:39) OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’
- (00:33:38) AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say
- (00:37:01) Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz Clash Over AI Chip Supplies Amid Gen AI Boom
- (00:43:30) Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Make World’s “Most Powerful” 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Cluster
- (00:46:25) AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in $665 million deal
- (00:48:00) AI robotics startup raises US$300 million, including from Jeff Bezos
- (00:52:11) Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections
- Research & Advancements
- (00:55:21) Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States
- (01:03:12) Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning
- (01:09:11) CopyBench: Measuring Literal and Non-Literal Reproduction of Copyright-Protected Text in Language Model Generation
- (01:13:25) Just read twice: closing the recall gap for recurrent language models
- (01:15:25) CodeUpdateArena: Benchmarking Knowledge Editing on API Updates
- (01:18:31) Composable Interventions for Language Models
- (01:24:09) Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy
- Policy & Safety
- (01:26:49) Covert Malicious Finetuning
- (01:31:23) OpenAI’s week of security issues
- (01:36:39) Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are
- (01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs
- (01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab
- (01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub
- (01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sell
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (02:02:05) Outro + AI Song
#173 - Gemini Pro, Llama 400B, Gen-3 Alpha, Moshi, Supreme Court
7 juli 2024 |
110 min
Our 173rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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In this episode of Last Week in AI, we explore the latest advancements and debates in the AI field, including Google's release of Gemini 1.5, Meta's upcoming LLaMA 3, and Runway's Gen 3 Alpha video model. We discuss emerging AI features, legal disputes over data usage, and China's competition in AI. The conversation spans innovative research developments, cost considerations of AI architectures, and policy changes like the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Chevron deference. We also cover U.S. export controls on AI chips to China, workforce development in the semiconductor industry, and Bridgewater's new AI-driven financial fund, evaluating the broader financial and regulatory impacts of AI technologies.Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:24) Google opens up Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro with 2M tokens to the public
- (00:08:47) Meta is about to launch its biggest Llama model yet — here’s why it’s a big deal
- (00:12:38) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch
- (00:16:28) This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9
- (00:17:30) AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates
- (00:20:06) Perplexity’s ‘Pro Search’ AI upgrade makes it better at math and research
- (00:23:12) Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims
- Applications & Business
- (00:26:38) Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
- (00:32:04) Huawei and Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips amid US restrictions
- (00:34:57) Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face
- (00:39:01) Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera
- (00:43:35) Apple’s Phil Schiller is reportedly joining OpenAI’s board
- (00:47:26) AI Video Startup Runway Looking to Raise $450 Million
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:48:10) Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Real-Time Native Multimodal Foundation AI Model that can Listen and Speak
- (00:50:44) MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation
- (00:53:47) Anthropic Pushes for Third-Party AI Model Evaluations
- (00:57:29) Mozilla Llamafile, Builders Projects Shine at AI Engineers World's Fair
- Research & Advancements
- (00:59:26) Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs
- (01:05:55) AI Agents That Matter
- (01:12:09) WARP: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Rewarded Policies
- (01:17:20) Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas
- (01:24:16) Found in the Middle: Calibrating Positional Attention Bias Improves Long Context Utilization
- Policy & Safety
- (01:26:32) With Chevron’s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water
- (01:33:40) Nvidia to make $12bn from AI chips in China this year despite US controls
- (01:37:52) Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players
- (01:40:57) U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with new program
- (01:42:42) Bridgewater starts $2 billion fund that uses machine learning for decision-making and will include models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity
- (01:47:57) Outro
#172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic
1 juli 2024 |
111 min
Our 172nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant
- (00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps
- (00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July
- (00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users
- (00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco
- (00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI
- Applications & Business
- (00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC
- (00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others
- (00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say
- (00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions
- (00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4
- (01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks
- (01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again
- (01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination
- (01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws
- Policy & Safety
- (01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep
- (01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill
- (01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools
- (01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI
- (01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models
- Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:49:12) Outro + AI Song
#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc
24 juni 2024 |
124 min
Our 171st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
Feel free to leave us feedback here.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:13) Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac
- (00:10:03) ‘We don’t need Sora anymore’: Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut
- (00:14:48) Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
- (00:18:21) Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works
- (00:22:31) Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor
- Applications & Business
- (00:28:23 ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company
- (00:31:19) Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- (00:38:53) OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)
- (00:41:44) Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months
- (00:44:30) AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft
- (00:48:55) Mistral closes €600m at €5.8bn valuation with new lead investor
- (00:53:12) Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA’s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China
- (00:56:58) Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:12:02) Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling
- (01:22:07) Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision
- (01:28:01) Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations
- (01:30:32) An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models
- (01:31:57) BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners
- (01:33:33) SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals
- Policy & Safety
- (01:35:16) Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models
- (01:42:26) Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole
- (01:45:53) Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe
- (01:46:44) Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
- Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models
- (01:51:38) Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (02:02:23) Outro + AI Song
#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?
9 juni 2024 |
109 min
Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
Feel free to leave us feedback here.
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Timestamps + Links:
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora
- (00:09:16) ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI
- (00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features
- (00:14:38) Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
- (00:16:35) ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt
- (00:18:37) Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group
- (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI
- (00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals
- (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami
- (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave"
- (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M
- (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores
- (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv
- (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design
- Research & Advancements
- (00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders
- (01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting
- (01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach
- (01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:46:25) Outro + AI Song
#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards
3 juni 2024 |
126 min
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online
- (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot
- (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser
- (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price
- (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them
- (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled
- Applications & Business
- (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user
- (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
- (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits
- (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions
- (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits
- (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains
- (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release
- (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model
- (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
- Research & Advancements
- (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled
- (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year
- (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws
- (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI
- (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important
- (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says
- Policy & Safety
- (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
- (01:46:36) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic
- (01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees
- (01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee
- (01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden’s Voice Fined $6 Million
- (01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT
- (02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation’s Firms
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (02:04:21) Outro + AI Song
#168 - OpenAI vs Scar Jo + safety researchers, MS AI updates, cool Anthropic research
28 maj 2024 |
105 min
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson
- (00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
- (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App
- (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive
- (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US
- (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles
- Applications & Business
- (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit
- (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million
- (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push
- (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors.
- (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots
- (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box'
- (01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models
- (01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model
- (01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models
- (01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning
- (01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models
- Policy & Safety
- (01:15:01) World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light
- (01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill
- (01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation
- (01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models
- (01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risks
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:42:01) Outro + AI Song
#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey
19 maj 2024 |
103 min
Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!
And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users
- (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google
- (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
- (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models
- (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts
- (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console
- Applications & Business
- (00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company
- (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer
- (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl
- (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board
- (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes
- (00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video
- (01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
- (01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'
- (01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech
- (01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey
- (01:42:00) AI Outro Song
#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec
12 maj 2024 |
101 min
Our 166th 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
- (00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model
- (00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts
- (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices
- (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan
- (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
- (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT
- (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini
- (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion
- (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring
- (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models
- (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model
- (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities
- (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
- (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library
- (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models
- Research & Advancements
- (00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA
- (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
- (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation
- (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems
- (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models
- (01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI
- (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
- (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles
- (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3
- (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala
- (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam
- (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men
- (01:40:18) AI Outro Song
#165 - Sora challenger, Astribot's S1, Med-Gemini, Refusal in LLMs
5 maj 2024 |
93 min
Our 165th 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 [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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
#164 - Meta AI, Phi-3, OpenELM, Bollywood Deepfakes
30 april 2024 |
92 min
Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
- (00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet
- (00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now
- (00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022
- (00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months
- (00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgrades
- Applications & Business
- (00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World’s Most Advanced Chips
- (00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.
- (00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters
- (00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams
- (00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chips
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
- (00:55:11) Groq’s breakthrough AI chip achieves blistering 800 tokens per second on Meta’s LLaMA 3
- (00:59:52) Microsoft shows off VASA-1, an AI framework that makes human headshots talk, sing
- (01:01:59) Intel Builds World’s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI
- Policy & Safety
- (01:05:11) Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election
- (01:08:51) LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities
- (01:15:27) The Necessity of AI Audit Standards Boards
- (01:19:45) A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI
- (01:22:45) COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING
- (01:26:40) China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders show
- Synthetic Media & Art
#163 - Llama 3, Grok-1.5 Vision, new Atlas robot, RHO-1, Medium ban
24 april 2024 |
94 min
Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey
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Timestamps + links:
- Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available
- (00:14:01) Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4V
- (00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus
- (00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model
- (00:23:48) Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists
- (00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools
- Applications & Business
- (00:25:52) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use
- (00:30:32) TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle
- (00:36:30) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China — three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military
- (00:38:37) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train
- (00:40:22) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors
- (00:41:55) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise Big
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need
- (00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts
- (01:03:20) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt
- (01:07:18) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans
- (01:10:45) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:44) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team
- (01:17:18) NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security
- (01:19:19) Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models
- (01:24:11) Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies
- (01:27:35) SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI
- Synthetic Media & Art
#162 - Udio Song AI, TPU v5, Mixtral 8x22, Mixture-of-Depths, Musicians sign open letter
15 april 2024 |
105 min
Our 162nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:50) AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
- (00:07:42) Anthropic launches external tool use for Claude AI, enabling stock ticker integrations and more
- (00:11:51) Building LLMs for Code Repair
- (00:14:16) Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed
- (00:16:23) Microsoft 365’s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation
- (00:18:41) AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:21) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet
- (00:23:32) Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up
- (00:27:27) Intel Unveils New AI Accelerator in Bid to Challenge Nvidia
- (00:30:46) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model
- (00:32:55) OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4
- (00:36:23) Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday
- (00:37:23) OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:52:08) Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models
- (00:57:41) Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention
- (01:03:31) Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent
- (01:07:54) Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models
- (01:09:54) Many-shot Jailbreaking
- Policy & Safety
- (01:15:08) Schiff unveils AI training transparency measure
- (01:20:25) Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. He was also a prolific thief of trade secrets, say prosecutors.
- (01:26:11) Responsible Reporting for Frontier AI Development
- (01:30:08) US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands — eyes nuclear fusion and fission
- (01:32:39) Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling
- (01:36:45) Trudeau announces $2.4 billion for AI-related investments
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Fun!
#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI
31 mars 2024 |
96 min
Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface
- (00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers
- (00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference
- (00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features
- (00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones
- (00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week
- Applications & Business
- (00:22:36) Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’
- (00:26:43) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
- (00:31:16) Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerators Showcase Competitive Performance Per Dollar Against NVIDIA H100 In MLPerf 4.0 GenAI Benchmarks
- (00:33:43) Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M Series C
- (00:36:10) Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans
- (00:37:44) Humanoid robots are joining the Mercedes-Benz workforce
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics
- (00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- (00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development
- (01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse
- (01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference
- (01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction
- Policy & Safety
- (01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence
- (01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza
- (01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS
- (01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network
- (01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis — but only with safety drivers
- (01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
- Synthetic Media & Art
#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan
24 mars 2024 |
100 min
Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
- (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff
- (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!
- (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June
- (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture
- (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition
- (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
- (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent
- (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding
- Policy & Safety
- (01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning
- (01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says
- (01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities
- (01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks
- (01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content
- (01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science
- (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool
- Fun!
#159 - Inflection-2.5, Devin, OpenAI board update, SIMA, EU AI Act passed
18 mars 2024 |
60 min
Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world's best personal AI
- (00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
- (00:11:00) DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse
- (00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability
- (00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos — here’s how it sounds
- (00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
- (00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
- (00:42:01) Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science
- (00:43:54) ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect
- (00:44:55) PixArt-Σ: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Fun!
#158 - Claude 3, Elon Musk sues OpenAI, StarCoder 2, AI-Generated Spam
10 mars 2024 |
109 min
Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
- (00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude
- (00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper
- (00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini
- (00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3
- (00:24:25) Wix’s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts
- (00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
- Applications & Business
- (00:27:40) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity , OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails
- (00:35:42) Inside the Crisis at Google
- (00:38:36) It’s official: Waymo robotaxis are now free to use freeways and leave San Francisco
- (00:40:33) Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase — Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call
- (00:42:43) AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components
- (00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
- (01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models
- (01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms
- (01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics
- (01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and the Reasoning Gap
- Policy & Safety
- (01:15:18) India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches
- (01:19:16) When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges with Partial Observability of Human Evaluators in Reward Learning
- (01:24:45) OpenAI signs open letter to build AI responsibly just days after Elon Musk sued the company for putting profit ahead of people
- (01:27:37) AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating
- (01:29:40) Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines
- (01:32:25) China offers AI computing ‘vouchers’ to its underpowered start-ups
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Fun!
#157 - Gemini controversy, new Mistral models, Deepmind's Genie & Griffinn, AI Warfare is here
3 mars 2024 |
105 min
Our 157th 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
- (00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
- (00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator
- (00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
- (00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
- (00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio
- (00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs
- Applications & Business
- (00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI
- (00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI
- (00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business
- (00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano
- (00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
- (00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM
- (00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model
- (00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public
- (00:54:25) Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
- Research & Advancements
- (00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
- (01:07:08) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models
- (01:15:16) Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor
- (01:20:56) Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs
- (01:22:10) Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings
- Policy & Safety
- (01:25:45) AI Warfare Is Already Here
- (01:29:36) Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall
- (01:32:45) Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety
- (01:34:53) Facebook whistleblower, AI godfather join hundreds calling for deepfake regulation
- US regulators investigate whether OpenAI investors were misled, say reports
- (01:36:51) Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Fun!
- (01:42:54) Impossible AI Food
#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!
25 februari 2024 |
105 min
Our 156th 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 [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model
- (00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready
- (00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok
- (00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds
- (00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product
- (00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’
- Applications & Business
- (00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund
- (00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
- (00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs
- (00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show
- (00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms
- (00:50:06) AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding
- (00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ‘agents’ to business
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video
- (01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
- (01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement
- (01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention
- (01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities"
- Policy & Safety
- (01:17:15) Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says
- (01:21:15) House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force
- (01:25:08) Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks
- (01:27:05) States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week
- (01:28:12) Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets
- (01:30:26) The FTC warned about ‘quiet’ TOS changes for AI training. Here’s why it might not be enough
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Fun & Miscellaneous
#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit
16 februari 2024 |
106 min
Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
- (00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei
- (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
- (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes
- (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
- (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models
- (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model
- (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
- (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need
- (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
- Policy & Safety
- (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers
- (01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill
- (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation
- (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI
- (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:44:42) Outro
#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks
11 februari 2024 |
97 min
Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant
- (00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images
- (00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
- (00:12:40) Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
- (00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos
- (00:16:18) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:04) A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened
- (00:23:30) Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost “stamp” machine
- (00:27:33) US industry group calls for multilateral chip export controls to address disadvantage over Korea, other allies
- (00:30:10) U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company
- (00:32:24) Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model
- (00:42:46) Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI
- (00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5
- (00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
- (00:53:20) Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing
- Research & Advancements
- (00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors
- (01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks
- (01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
- (01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design
- (01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
- (01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:22) EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption
- (01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
- (01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
- (01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute
- (01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
- (01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
- (01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
- (01:34:38) Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written
- (01:36:20) Outro
#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills
4 februari 2024 |
106 min
Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Tools & Apps
- (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool
- (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
- (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant
- (00:23:47) ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade
- (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
- (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones
- Applications & Business
- (00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report
- (00:34:25) Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
- (00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development
- (00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI
- (00:47:22) AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding
- (01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty
- (01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems?
- (01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models
- (01:20:30) A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
- Policy & Safety
- (01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes
- (01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models
- (01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order
- (01:33:06) Rep. Jeff Jackson Introduces Bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to Stop China from Remotely Using American Technology to Build AI Tools
- (01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake
- (01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation
- (01:45:15) Outro
#152 - live translation on phones, Meta aims at AGI, AlphaGeometry, political deepfakes
28 januari 2024 |
87 min
Our 152nd 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 [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:15) Samsung’s latest Galaxy phones offer live translation over phone calls, texts
- (00:06:16) The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’
- (00:10:31) Google is using AI to organize and customize your Chrome browser
- (00:12:10) Adobe’s new AI-powered Premiere Pro features eradicate boring audio editing tasks
- (00:13:16) Waymo looks to launch full fleet of robotaxis in LA
- (00:15:16) Tesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:45) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips
- (00:25:00) Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
- (00:32:43) AI voice startup ElevenLabs lands $80M round, launches marketplace of cloned voices
- (00:35:03) Anthropic’s Margins Raise Questions on AI Startups’ Long-Term Profitability
- (00:38:00) Cohere in talks to raise as much as $1bn as AI arms race heats up
- (00:39:40) DOJ and FTC push to investigate Microsoft's OpenAI partnership- Politico
- (00:41:30) Figure announces commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to bring general purpose robots into automotive production
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:48:58) AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
- (00:54:02) Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation
- (00:56:33) ChatQA: Building GPT-4 Level Conversational QA Models
- (00:59:13) Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model
- (01:01:28) VMamba: Visual State Space Model
- (01:03:40) Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data
- Policy & Safety
- (01:04:40) OpenAI suspends developer behind Dean Phillips bot
- (01:06:49) Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote Tuesday
- (01:09:10) Sharing Fake Nude Images Could Become a Federal Crime Under Proposed Law
- (01:11:00) San Francisco takes legal action over ‘unsafe,’ ‘disruptive’ self-driving cars
- (01:13:40) Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election
- (01:15:55) AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati
- Synthetic Media & Art
#151 - Copilot Pro, LLama.cpp, conversational diagnostic AI, secret AI diplomacy
21 januari 2024 |
96 min
Our 151st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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.
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- (00:08:07) DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals
- (00:13:16) China planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer — similar to American company Cerebras 'wafer-scale' designs
- (00:17:12) ChatGPT will have video functionality and more accuracy in future versions — Sam Altman says GPT-5 will be a big improvement
- (00:19:38) Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China
- (00:22:15) OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year
- (00:25:04) Inside AI Unicorn Anthropic’s Unusual $750 Million Fundraise
- (00:28:46) Microsoft executive Dee Templeton joins OpenAI board - Bloomberg News
- (00:31:33) OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:34:25) Meet LLama.cpp: An Open-Source Machine Learning Library to Run the LLaMA Model Using 4-bit Integer Quantization on a MacBook
- (00:38:06) LLAMA PRO: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion
- (00:43:48) One of the world’s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ‘substantially better’
- 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
- (01:14:01) US companies and Chinese experts engaged in secret diplomacy on AI safety
- (01:18:28) China Cyberspace Security Association releases first batch of Chinese basic corpus
- (01:22:33) OpenAI Bans Use of AI Tools for Campaigning, Voter Suppression
- (01:24:49) OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare”
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:35:15) Outro
#150 - GPT Store, new Nvidia chips, DeepMind’s robotics progress, bad uses of AI
14 januari 2024 |
66 min
Our 150th 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 [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:49) OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open for business
- (00:06:52) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams
- Lighting round
- Applications & Business
- (00:14:24) Nvidia's newest chips are designed to run AI at home as competition from Intel, AMD looms
- (00:16:52) Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI
- Lighting round
- Research & Advancements
- (00:25:10) DeepMind is trying to train robots for real-world activities
- (00:29:03) MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts
- Lighting round
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (00:55:09) A list going viral reveals famous artists whose work was used to train AI generator
- (00:58:28) YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated true crime deepfakes
- Lighting round
#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI
7 januari 2024 |
84 min
Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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.
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Some recommended resources for keeping up with AI research:
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:08:13) Reflections on 2023
- Tools & Apps
- (00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text!
- (00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users
- (00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI
- (00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked
- (00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android
- Applications & Business
- (00:39:00) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end
- (00:42:25) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation
- (00:44:10) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion
- (00:44:46) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China
- (00:47:30) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions
- (00:50:16) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company’s Self-Built Fabrication Plants
- (00:52:36) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement
- Research & Advancements
- (00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action
- (00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore
- (01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks
- (01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones
- (01:09:47) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
- (01:10:41) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation
- Policy & Safety
- (01:23:40) Outro
#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ‘Preparedness Framework’, campaigning voice clone
24 december 2023 |
116 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
#147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’ translator
17 december 2023 |
117 min
Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Correction: Gemini also supports audio
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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
- (01:55:57) Outro
#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME, Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream
12 december 2023 |
85 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
- (01:25:02) Outro
#145 - OpenAI’s Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements
2 december 2023 |
114 min
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.
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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
- 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
- (01:52:23) Outro
#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates
24 november 2023 |
99 min
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 [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro/Banter
- Applications & Business
- (01:30) Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
- (20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns
- (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
- Projects & 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
#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over
20 november 2023 |
75 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning
16 november 2023 |
99 min
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.
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Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]
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
#141 - Adobe AI upgrades, Ernie 4.0, TimeGPT, No Fakes Act, AI drones
26 oktober 2023 |
108 min
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 [email protected]
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
- (01:47:03) Outro
#140 - Yasa vs ChatGPT, Waymo expands, scaling robot learning, AI watermarks
17 oktober 2023 |
117 min
Our 140th 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 [email protected]
Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes "Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month"
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (03:00) Reka launches Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant to take on ChatGPT
- (06:48) Arc browser’s new AI-powered features combine OpenAI and Anthropic’s models
- (11:00) ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers for Content
- (13:11) Canva’s new AI tools automate boring, labor-intensive design tasks
- (16:32) Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh
- (20:45) Google Bard is gaining a new 'Memory' toggle to remember key details
- (22:22) Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant
- (24:14) Android 14’s AI-generated wallpapers might be its coolest new feature
- Applications & Business
- (24:50) Waymo’s robotaxi service is now available to tens of thousands of people in San Francisco
- (28:54) Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month
- (32:34) TSMC Sales Fell Less Than Feared as AI Demand Offsets Slump
- (34:54) Microsoft could debut its AI chip next month: Report
- (37:06) Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips
- (39:08) Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (52:10) Scaling up learning across many different robot types
- (59:35) Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components
- (01:06:54) Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution
- (01:11:45) China's First 28nm Lithography Tool to Be Delivered This Year
- (01:15:03) LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- (01:18:07) Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To!
- Policy & Safety
- (01:22:08) RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war
- (01:26:48) Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes
- (01:33:44) Five Takeaways From Bellwether AI Copyright Case
- (01:36:19) A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country
- (01:38:12) Governments race to regulate AI tools
- (01:40:09) US curbs on chip tools to China nearly finalized, government posting shows
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:45:35) WGA Ratifies Three-Year Deal With Studios, Officially Ending Hollywood Strike
- (01:47:50) AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers
- (01:50:00) Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI
- (01:51:36) How an AI deepfake ad of MrBeast ended up on TikTok
- (01:53:53) Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI
#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal
10 oktober 2023 |
111 min
Our 139th 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 [email protected]
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
- (01:30) SuperDataScience podcast ad
- (03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (05:59) ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads
- (10:44) ChatGPT can now search the web in real time
- (13:30) Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps
- (18:26) Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
- (19:32) Windows 11’s next big update is now available with Copilot, AI-powered Paint, and more
- (20:21) Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools
- (21:32) YouTube Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Tools For Video Creators
- (23:20) Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers
- Applications & Business
- (25:00) AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs
- (29:28) Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic
- (36:24) China to Challenge ASML with a better technology than EUV
- (40:00) Intel says newest laptop chips, software will handle generative AI
- (43:03) Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images
- (46:02) AI Startup Writer Pens $100M Round
- (46:40) AI chip startup Kneron secures $49M investment
- (48:45) AI startup AlphaSense valued at $2.5 billion after latest funding round
- (51:01) A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device
- (52:42) Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
- (55:24) Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:07:10) AnyMAL: An Efficient and Scalable Any-Modality Augmented Language Model
- (01:09:35) DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation / Text-to-3D using Gaussian Splatting
- (01:12:40) Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential
- (01:15:38) Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window
- (01:17:26) John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence
- Policy & Safety
- (01:19:46) Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill
- (01:24:03) AI facial recognition tech leads to wave of lawsuits from Black plaintiffs after mistaken identities end in arrests
- (01:26:20) California governor vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety drivers
- (01:27:47) Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town
- (01:29:00) AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency
- (01:30:36) We Can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nuclear Catastrophe
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:33:19) Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.
- (01:35:10) Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness
- (01:36:24) Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake
- (01:37:36) Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns
- (01:39:59) Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors
- (01:42:17) Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy
- (01:45:22) Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI
- (01:48:55) OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List
- (01:50:16) Outro
#138 - DALLE-3, YouAgent, Gemini, NExT-GPT, AI book labeling
3 oktober 2023 |
116 min
Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!!
Note: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (04:30) Preview of news
- Tools & Apps
- (05:40) DALLE-3
- (12:47) YouAgent (Richard Socher thread)
- Applications & Business
- (20:03) Google's Gemini AI surpasses Chat GPT-4 fivefold: Report
- (25:16) Google begins external testing of its GPT-4 competitor "Gemini"
- (26:30) From sanctions to silicon: China’s semiconductor breakthrough
- (35:41) AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the U.S.
- (41:19) SoftBank planning OpenAI investment: Financial Times
- (44:30) OpenAI Hustles to Beat Google to Launch ‘Multimodal’ LLM
- (46:40) The AI Detection Arms Race Is On
- (51:30) Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups
- (55:15) AI chip startup Enfabrica raises $125 mln, with backing from Nvidia
- (56:41) Databricks raises over $500 mln at $43 bln valuation
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:10:19) NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM
- (01:15:35) On measuring situational awareness in LLMs
- (01:22:50) Language Modeling Is Compression
- (01:26:22) How AI can Revolutionize Science (Jeremie’s gift link)
- Policy & Safety
- (01:33:33) Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites
- (01:36:08) Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy
- (01:41:45) Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit
- (01:43:48) EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers
- (01:44:26) Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI
- (01:45:23) Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist to testify in Senate AI hearings
- (01:46:40) AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
- (01:47:27) Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI
- (01:50:18) Gary Gensler confirms SEC’s use of AI for financial surveillance
- Synthetic Media & Art
#137 - Salesforce Copilot, Chip Crunch, Meta Rival to ChatGPT, AI for paralysis patients
20 september 2023 |
79 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
- (01:17:23) Outro
#136 - Claude Pro, Ideogram, Chinese ChatGPT bots, Falcon 180B, RLAIF, export restrictions, Ghostwriter
10 september 2023 |
63 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
#135 - Google AI Subscription, ChatGPT Enterprise, Nvidia’s Q2, Consciousness, DeepFake watermark
6 september 2023 |
100 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
- (01:39:20) Outro
AI and Existential Risk - Overview and Discussion
30 augusti 2023 |
136 min
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 [email protected] 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
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
#134 - Text-to-Speech, Gartner Hype Cycle, AI2 OLMo, AlphaStar Unplugged, China Regulations, AI Porn Marketplace
26 augusti 2023 |
99 min
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 [email protected]
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
- Research & Advancements
- (58:45) Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation
- (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
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:37:52) Outro
#133 - ChatGPT multi-document chat, CoreWeave raises $2.3B, AudioCraft, ToolLLM, Autonomous Warfare
18 augusti 2023 |
88 min
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 [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- 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
- 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
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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
- (01:26:47) Outro
#132 - FraudGPT, Apple GPT, unlimited jailbreaks, RT-2, Frontier Model Forum, PhotoGuard
8 augusti 2023 |
105 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
- (01:44:16) Outro
#131 - ChatGPT+ instructions, Microsoft reveals pricing for AI, is ChatGPT getting worse over time?
1 augusti 2023 |
112 min
Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (04:18) Listener feedback/comments
- Tools & Apps
- 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
#130 - Llama 2, Elon Musk’s xAI, WormGPT, LongLLaMA, AI apocalypse, actors on strike
25 juli 2023 |
105 min
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 [email protected]
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- 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
- 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
- (01:44:20) Outro
#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause
9 juli 2023 |
73 min
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 [email protected]
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- 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) Acquisitions
- Projects & Open Source
- 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
- (01:12:17) Outro
#128 - generative search, GPU black market, GPT-4’s Secret, Sam Altman’s World Tour
5 juli 2023 |
71 min
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 [email protected]
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- 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
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
#127 - chatbot dating app, AI at work, RedPajama 7B, tons of research, workers most worried that A.I.
21 juni 2023 |
103 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
#126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI grant program
13 juni 2023 |
104 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
- (01:43:20) Outro
#125 - Nvidia tools for game devs, TikTok’s Tako, PandaGPT and Gorilla, Voyager, early warning system for AI risks
6 juni 2023 |
97 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
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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
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:36:00) Outro
#124 - AI in Windows and Photoshop, Nvidia makes $$$, DragGAN, Fake Pentagon Explosion
29 maj 2023 |
90 min
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 [email protected]
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
- (01:28:44) Outro
#123 - Delete your info from ChatGPT, Google’s AI plans, EU act targets OSS, PaLM 2, writers’ strike
21 maj 2023 |
116 min
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 [email protected]
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
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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
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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
#122 - AI for Word and Excel, leaked Google memo, ImageBind, LLAva, robot soccer, Midjourney 5.1
13 maj 2023 |
122 min
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 [email protected]
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
- 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
#121 - Top researcher leaves Google, trademarking ”GPT”, Stability AI’s new models, 50% of AI ’Catastrophe’, DrakeGPT
8 maj 2023 |
114 min
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 sentienceYou 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
#120 - GigaChat + HuggingChat, a LOT of research, EU Act passed, #promptography
29 april 2023 |
109 min
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 sentienceYou 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
#119 - Open Source GPTs, X.AI, Auto-GPT, China’s Censorship of AI, Fake Drake+The Weeknd Colab
23 april 2023 |
96 min
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 sentienceYou 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
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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
#118 - Anthropic vs OpenAI, AutoGPT, RL at Scale, AI Safety, Memeworthy AI Videos
14 april 2023 |
103 min
Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Research & Advancements
- Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI
- Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators
- Lighting Round
- [Not an article] GPT-4 can compress and decompress prompts into non-human-readable forms
- Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome)
- Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
- Another Large Language Model! Meet IGEL: An Instruction-Tuned German LLM Family
- Meet AUDIT: An Instruction-Guided Audio Editing Model Based on Latent Diffusion Models
- Policy & Societal Impacts
- Art & Fun Stuff
#117 - Google’s Bard Rush, BloombergGPT, ChatGPT King, Balenciaga Harry Potter
7 april 2023 |
97 min
Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Societal Impacts
#116 - ChatGPT plugins, AI hardware, petition to pause AI, Trump deepfakes
31 mars 2023 |
99 min
Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Research & Advancements
- Learning to grow machine-learning models
- Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo
- Lighting Round
- New virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making
- Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls
- New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents
- Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator
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Policy & Societal Impacts
- OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’
- 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months”
- Lighting Round
- In San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all
- Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC
- Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI
- AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes
#115 - GPT4, Bard, AGI, Alpaca, Anthropic, Midjourney V5
26 mars 2023 |
102 min
Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Research & Advancements
- Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI
- Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model
- Lighting Round
- Our latest health AI research updates
- Machine learning takes starring role in exploring the universe
- A new method to boost the speed of online databases
- MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks
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Policy & Societal Impacts
- Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How
- Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
- Lighting Round
- Some high-level thoughts on the DeepMind alignment team's strategy
- Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now?
- AI Scams and Influencers
- AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office
- I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
- Art & Fun Stuff
- Midjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art
- Illustration competitions grapple with generative AI
- Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display
- AI and Copyright: Human Artistry Campaign Launches to Support Songwriters and Musicians’ Rights
#114 - ChatGPT applications, Claude, PALM-E, OpenAI criticism, AI-generated spam
10 mars 2023 |
94 min
Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- LLM/ChatGPT roundup
- RadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves
- Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership
- Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools
- Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology
- Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature
- Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries
- Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 Billion
- Lighting Round
- LLM/ChatGPT roundup
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Societal Impacts
- Art & Fun Stuff
#113 - Nvidia’s 10k GPU, Toolformer, AI alignment, John Oliver
4 mars 2023 |
62 min
Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I.
- Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers
- Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff
- Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
- Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials
- Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it
- Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up
- Research & Advancements
- Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space
- RT-1: Robotics Transformer
- Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model
- MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions
- Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible
- How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction
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Policy & Societal Impacts
- "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI
- What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security
- How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
- AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning
- Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like
- Planning for AGI and beyond
- Art & Fun Stuff
- Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
- ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
- Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers
- The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place
#112 - Bing Chat Antics, Bio and Mario GPT, Stopping an AI Apocalypse, Stolen Voices
26 februari 2023 |
80 min
Our 112th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Microsoft's Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It
- Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
- Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈
- Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar
- Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
- GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets
- Roblox is working on generative AI tools
- Research & Advancements
- BioGPT: Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining
- MarioGPT - A new way to encode and generate Super Mario Bros levels
- Machine learning techniques identify thousands of new cosmic objects
- AI analyzes cell movement under the microscope
- Accelerating Prime Editing: Machine Learning Helps Design the Best Fix for a Given Genetic Flaw
- Enhance! Deep learning tool boosts X-ray imaging resolution and hydrogen fuel cell performance
- Policy & Societal Impacts
- Art & Fun Stuff
- Voice Actors are Having Their Voices Stolen by AI
- Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack
- Keanu Reeves Says Deepfakes Are ‘Scary,’ Confirms His Film Contracts Ban Digital Edits to His Acting: ‘They Added a Tear to My Face! Huh?’
- TikTokers are roasting McDonald's hilarious drive-thru AI order fails — and it shows that robots won't take over restaurants any time soon
#111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld
13 februari 2023 |
68 min
Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot
- Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard
- Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad
- Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public
- You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future
- Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine
- Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot
- Lighting Round
- Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot
- Research & Advancements
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Policy & Societal Impacts
- Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards
- Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat
- The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning
- Lighting Round
- Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI
- A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision
- Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed
- Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears
- U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement
- Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified
- Art & Fun Stuff
#110 - We’re back! ChatGPT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT, and some other stuff
5 februari 2023 |
73 min
Our 110th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
After a 4 month break, we're back with a new co-host, and will resume our regular weekly upload schedule.
If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast.
Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Research & Advancements
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Policy & Societal Impacts
- 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech
- Educator considerations for ChatGPT
- Lighting Round
- Scores of Stanford students used ChatGPT on final exams, survey suggests - “Stanford students and professors alike are grappling with the rise of ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, and the technology’s implications for education.”
- When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy Tries to Clarify
- AI-generated art a concern for local artists who say there’s still a need for human creativity
- Robot Cars Are Causing 911 False Alarms in San Francisco
- Art & Fun Stuff
#109 - Tesla Bot, Text-to-Video, Speech-to-Text, AI Voices Darth Vader
13 oktober 2022 |
47 min
Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day
(07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city
(10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC
(10:52) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions
(11:50) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas
(13:00) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework
(13:45) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video
(19:05) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system
(24:00) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp
(25:00) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain
(25:30) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds
(26:45) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition
(30:30) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
(33:14) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges
(34:00) A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat
(34:50) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI
(35:45) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development
(36:25) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine
(39:40) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
(43:00) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions
(43:55) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI
(45:35) Outro
#108 - Undiagnosable Cancers, Robot Sales, Decoding Brain Activity, AI Music
11 september 2022 |
58 min
Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline
- (00:00) Intro
- (03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers
- (08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps
- (14:30) French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools
- (15:12) AI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the moon
- (15:40) Artificial intelligence can be used to better monitor Maine's forests
- (16:34) Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes
- (17:45) Using AI to decode speech from brain activity
- (23:20) Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests
- (27:50) Canadian researchers using machine learning to mitigate effects of climate change
- (29:25) Researchers Develop ‘TiCoder’ Framework For Code Generation Using User Feedback With 90.4% Consistency To User Intent
- (31:12) Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment in Women with Heart Attacks
- (31:41) MIT Researchers use Machine Learning to Expedite Research on New Battery Materials
- (32:48) Review finds ‘paucity of robust evidence’ on impact of AI clinical outcomes
- (36:00) France puts healthcare at heart of $1.8B AI strategy
- (39:00) Clearview: Glasses With Facial Recognition Are Here—And The Air Force Is Buying
- (40:00) New York City AI Bias Law Charts New Territory for Employers
- (40:37) U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China
- (42:00) UK Government Releases New AI Security Guidance
- (43:31) Everything Everything's AI-Derived 'Raw Data Feel' Tackles Mental Health, Conspiracy Theories
- (47:05) Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice
- (50:17) A LinkedIn Marketing Agency Acquired an AI That Writes Mega-Cringe LinkedIn Posts
- (53:24) An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
- (57:00) Outro
#107 - Surgery Outcomes, Accent Removal, Archeological Dating, Deepfakes
3 september 2022 |
41 min
Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy...
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:25) Machine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery Duration
- (05:30) Sanas, the buzzy Silicon Valley startup that wants to make the world sound whiter
- (10:50) AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others
- (14:12) AI-based method for dating archeological remains
- (18:33) You just hired a deepfake. Get ready for the rise of imposter employees.
- (22:43) Deepfakes for all: Uncensored AI art model prompts ethics questions , This AI Tool Is Being Used To Make Freaky, Machine-Generated Porn
- (29:00) Here's how the best AI art generators compare
- (35:03) The Great FIlter Button
- (39:11) Outro
#106 - Animal Speech, AI Pilot, Wrongful Arrest, Redesigning Streets
23 augusti 2022 |
51 min
Our 106th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy...
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(01: 32) Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals?
(06:13) How rangers are using AI to help protect India’s tigers
(09:13) Meta Starts Testing Its Latest AI Chatbot, BlenderBot 3
(10:35) AI startup Cerebras celebrated for chip triumph where others tried and failed
(11:35) You can (sort of) generate art like Dall-E with TikTok’s latest filter
(13:10) Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card
(16:00) Wearable AI Sensor Supports Personalized Health Data Processing, Analysis
(20:15) AI pilot can navigate crowded airspace
(24:18) Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics
(25:30) In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice
(26:26) New algorithm aces university math course questions
(27:28) The AI-powered swimmer is able to switch between different locomotory gaits adaptively to navigate toward any target location on its own
(28:25) Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK
(32:30) Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him
(35:35) AI Contractors Eyeing Bigger Role Backed by Chips Bill Funds
(37:26) China drafts rules on use of self-driving vehicles for public transport
(38:30) Baidu's robotaxis don't need any human staff in these parts of China
(39:35) U.S. appeals court says artificial intelligence can’t be patent inventor
(41:45) Robot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants In The Round
(44:20) Think Your Street Needs a Redesign? Ask an AI
(50:09) Outro
#105 - Sepsis Detection, Midjourney, Submarines, DALL-E 2 Food
6 augusti 2022 |
44 min
Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: there was again a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago.
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(01:30) AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths
(05:05) Inside Midjourney, The Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E
(09:20) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system
(10:30) Amazon-owned self driving firm Zoox seeks to test robotaxi in California
(12:10) Baidu unveils latest autonomous electric vehicle: Apollo RT6
(13:10) Neural Sleeve is a bionic leg wrap that uses AI to correct walking patterns
(14:05) Novel method allows robots to learn in the wild
(18:45) Clinicians can build trust with machine learning through experience
(24:00) Machine learning identifies gun buyers at risk of suicide
(24:36) Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems
(24:50) Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning
(25:17) DeepMind & UCL’s Stochastic MuZero Achieves SOTA Results in Complex Stochastic Environments
(26:15) Meet the startups using AI to help doctors fight burnout
(30:22) Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?
(36:15) Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2
(40:05) If A.I. Generated Book Jackets Based on Literary Titles…
#104 - Cruise Outages, Robots for Forestry, BigScience’s BLOOM, EU AI Act
20 juli 2022 |
35 min
Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago.
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
- (05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage
- (07:12) FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
- (08:30) Words matter: AI can predict salaries based on the text of online job postings
- (09:12) Photographer Successfully Uses Dall-E 2 AI to Edit his Photos
- (09:10) Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition
- (10:00)Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model That Solves Mathematical Questions
- (13:16) A year in the making, BigScience’s AI language model is finally available
- (15:55) Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages
- (16:18) Computer scientists' interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles
- (16:48)Microsoft AI Researchers Open-Source ‘GODEL’: A Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Model For Dialog
- (17:35) Fake Friends and the Real Threat of AI-Generated Influencers
- (22:05) The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
- (25:10) Waymo, UPS, others pressure Gov. Newsom to allow autonomous trucking in California
- (26:10) More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers
- (27:03) US safety regulators open special investigation into Cruise AV crash
- (27:46) People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO
- (29:10) Experiments & Explorations: Robots as Musical Instruments
- (31:17) Cute desktop robot designed to keep armchair engineers engaged
- (33:33) Outro
#103 - Age Checks, Theft Prevention, Minecraft, Autism, Responsible AI
6 juli 2022 |
46 min
Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:10) Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face
- (6:15) Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology to crack down on theft, Choice says
- (10:13) Cruise’s driverless autonomous cars start giving rides to paying passengers
- (12:10) Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant, is now generally available
- (13:30) IRS expands AI-powered bots to set up payment plans with taxpayers over the phone
- (14:10) General Motors is using AI to speed up the vehicle inspection process
- (14:55) Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT)
- (21:10) AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages
- (25:15) Meta releases largest open source AI language model to date
- (26:05) Google's Parti Generator Relies on 20 Billion Inputs to Create Photorealistic Images
- (27:30) New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change
- (30:04) Cerebras Systems Sets Record for Largest AI Models Ever Trained on a Single Device
- (30:05) Pentagon Unveils Plan to Make 'Responsible Military AI' More Than Just a Buzzword
- (34:43) Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’
- (37:40) Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call
- (38:17) China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.
- (39:03) Earthquake tech could limit deaths. Afghanistan shows it’s not easy.
- (40:00) Alexa has a new voice — your dead relative’s
- (41:18) Wordalle is a guess-the-prompt game that combines Wordle and DALL-E
- (43:25) The King’s Swedish: AI Rewrites the Book in Scandinavia
- (45:35) Outro
#102 - Nonsense Sentience, Condemning GPT-4chan, DeepFake bans, CVPR Plagiarism
26 juni 2022 |
43 min
Our 102st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:05) LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense - Here’s Why
- (2:00) Condemning the deployment of GPT-4chan
- (7:25) Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers
- (11:20) AI maturity: Only 12% of companies are 'AI Achievers'
- (16:45) NVIDIA & UW Introduce Factory: A Set of Physics Simulation Methods and Learning Tools for Contact-Rich Robotic Assembly
- (21:50) Artificial intelligence may be the only way researchers can solve the perplexing puzzle of Long COVID. It’s already categorizing patients and even identifying them
- (25:42) Reddit Bans ‘SFW’ Deepfake Community
- (30:15) EU To Target Meta, Google, Twitter Over Deepfakes, Report Says
- (33:28) How to copy text from more than 10 previously published papers and get accepted to CVPR 2022
- (36:30) We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience
- (38:02) DALL-E2 Creates The World’s First AI-Generated Magazine Cover For Cosmopolitan
- (42:15) Outro
#101 - GPT-4chan, ’Sentient’ AI, Tesla Crash Probe, BIG-bench, DALL-E mini
17 juni 2022 |
40 min
Our 101st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (0:00) Intro
- (1:13) Lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy
- (8:14) Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient
- (14:20) Tesla Autopilot safety faces bigger questions as US upgrades crash probe
- (18:05) Stunning Insights from James Webb Space Telescope Are Coming, Thanks to GPU-Powered Deep Learning
- (20:31) Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts?
- (22:48) 444 Authors From 132 Institutions Release BIG-bench: A 204-Task ‘Extremely Difficult and Diverse’ Benchmark for Large Language Models
- (26:23) ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation
- (28:52) Axon Pauses Plans for Taser Drone as Ethics Board Members Resign
- (32:42) Shield AI raises $165M at a $2.3B valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systems
- (35:38) AI program DALL-E mini prompts some truly cursed images
- (39:30) Outro
#100 - Depression, Energy Grid, MRI, Astronomy, DALLE Logos
8 juni 2022 |
63 min
Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (03:12) Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice
- (09:38) Energy Grids Plug into AI for a Brighter, Cleaner Future
- (15:40) Meet ‘Codeball’ – A Deep Learning-based Automated Code Reviewer That Will Help Maintainers Review Github Pull Requests
- (18:23) Alimentation Couche-Tard to deploy over 10,000 AI-powered cash registers at stores
- (19:40) Machine Learning Shows That More Reptile Species May Be at Risk of Extinction Than Previously Thought
- (20:30) How AI brought Val Kilmer’s ‘Iceman’ back into Top Gun: Maverick
- (26:40) Can machine learning deliver one-minute brain MRI scans?
- (32:04) AI model’s insight helps astronomers propose new theory for observing far-off worlds
- (32:00) Caltech unit creates AI helping drones to withstand violent winds
- (32:35) UC Berkeley’s Automated Crossword Solver Achieves 99.9% Letter Accuracy, Wins Top Tournament
- (33:55) $10.5M Army Contract to CMU Lab Will Expand Use of AI in Predictive Maintenance
- (34:50) China's AI defense can reportedly predict the course of hypersonic missiles
- (35:47) US robot orders surge 40% as labor shortages, inflation persist
- (41:36) A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate
- (49:48) Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab
- (50:53) Seoul to create disaster response platform using AI
- (51:48) Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads
- (52:35) Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases
- (50:37) AI versus corporate logos
- (58:14) I asked AI to make a Music Video... the results are trippy
- (01:01:00) Outro
#99 - Drone Mail Delivery, Human-Robot Teamwork, ToxiGen, Robot Companions
2 juni 2022 |
48 min
Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account!
Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(1:50) Royal Mail is Doing the Right Thing with Drone Delivery
(6:10) Google uses AI to digitise maps in the utilities industry
(8:57) AI on the Ball: Startup Shoots Computer Vision to the Soccer Pitch
(9:26) Google Adds Machine Learning-Powered Studio Lighting To Video Calls
(12:20) Pony.ai loses permit to test autonomous vehicles with driver in California
(12:52) Researchers develop algorithm to divvy up tasks for human-robot teams
(25:17) Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
(26:12) TartanDrive dataset likely largest for off-road environments
(26:48) AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes
(27:13) Ad break
(28:25) China and Europe are leading the push to regulate A.I. — one of them could set the global playbook
(33:30) New York State Office for the Aging deploys AI robots as companions for older adults
(37:25) Oxford High School tests AI gun detection system in wake of shooting
(38:38) An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency
(40:12) U.S. firm Clearview A.I. fined for illegally collecting images of Brits' faces
(41:19) Pentagon names new chief of responsible artificial intelligence
(42:05) The Day I Became Friends with a Robot
(44:26) I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life
(46:14) Outro
#98 - Autonomous Boats, DeepMind’s General AI, Google’s DALLE-2, Cringe AI Novel
28 maj 2022 |
47 min
Our 98th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account!
Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(2:22) Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions
(6:47) Investors pull back on artificial intelligence
(9:49) Clearbot Neo autonomously clears plastic from harbors - "Open Ocean Engineering’s Clearbot Neo is a robotic boat that autonomously navigates harbors, canals and rivers to collect trash that would otherwise wash into the ocean."
(10:30) You can practice for a job interview with Google AI - "Never mind reading generic guides or practicing with friends — Google is betting that algorithms can get you ready for a job interview. The company has launched an Interview Warmup tool that uses AI to help you prepare for interviews across various roles."
(11:02) Uber Eats Dabbles With Delivering Food Via Robots - "Uber Eats is now testing autonomous food delivery in the Los Angeles area."
(12:12) Ford-backed robotaxi startup Argo AI is ditching its human safety drivers in Miami and Austin - "Robotaxi startup Argo AI said Tuesday it has begun operating its autonomous test vehicles without human safety drivers in two U.S. cities — Miami and Austin — a major milestone for the Ford- and Volkswagen-backed company. For now, those driverless vehicles won't be carrying paying customers."
(13:17) DeepMind’s new AI can perform over 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots
(20:10) Google claims its text-to-image AI delivers 'unprecedented photorealism'
(25:30) Simultaneous emulation of neuronal and synaptic properties promotes the development of brain-like artificial intelligence - "Researchers have reported a nano-sized neuromorphic memory device that emulates neurons and synapses simultaneously in a unit cell, another step toward completing the goal of neuromorphic computing designed to rigorously mimic the human brain with semiconductor devices."
(26:27) Face-to-face screening combined with machine learning model performs best at suicide risk prediction - "According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, a combination of in-person screenings and machine learning worked better than either method alone when it came to predicting suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in adults."
(27:11) Google’s Universal Pretraining Framework Unifies Language Learning Paradigms - "Their 20B parameter model surpasses the state-of-the-art 175B GPT-3 on the zero-shot SuperGLUE benchmark and triples the performance of T5-XXL on one-shot summarization tasks."
(27:49) Robotic surgery is safer and improves patient recovery time - "Robot-assisted surgery used to perform bladder cancer removal and reconstruction enables patients to recover far more quickly and spend significantly (20 per cent) less time in hospital, concludes a first-of-its kind clinical trial led by scientists at UCL and the University of Sheffield."
(28:20) Ad break
(35:09) Israeli firm hopes AI can curb drownings
(38:12) Fatal Tesla Model S Crash in California Prompts Federal Probe - "The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a fatal crash involving a 2022 Tesla Model S that may have had its automated driving system activated."
(39:10) Facebook issues $397 checks to Illinois residents as part of class-action - "More than a million Illinois residents will receive a $397 settlement payment from Facebook this week, thanks to a legal battle over the platform’s since-retired photo-tagging system that used facial recognition."
(39:50) Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tool Coming to Apps, Schools - “Clearview AI is expanding sales of its facial recognition software to companies from mainly serving the police, it told Reuters, inviting scrutiny on how the startup capitalizes on billions of photos it scrapes from social media profiles. Instead of online photo comparisons, the new private-sector offering matches people to ID photos and other data that clients collect with subjects' permission. It is meant to verify identities for access to physical or digital spaces.”
(41:00) A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read
(44:03) AI Made This Thumbnail!
(45:46) Outro
#97 - New Google AI Features, Enzyme Discovery, Clearview AI Ban, Kendric Lamar Deepfakes
18 maj 2022 |
43 min
Our 97th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account!
Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:25) Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning
- (4:30) Google ups the AI ante with new features for Voice, Assistant, Maps and more
- (09:33) How machine learning is speeding up Formula 1
- (10:02) China to build AI-powered 3D printed hydroelectric dam in Tibet
- (11:00) Intel debuts new chips for AI workloads, data center acceleration and laptops
- (11:30) $62.5M Fundraise Values Self-Checkout System Mashgin at $1.5B -
- (12:20) Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries
- (16:25) This deep learning technique solves one of the tough challenges of robotics
- (21:33) Researchers now able to predict battery lifetimes with machine learning
- (22:34) How Do Patients Feel About AI in Health Care? It Depends
- (23:22) Meta AI Introduces ‘Make-A-Scene’: A Deep Generative Technique Based On An Autoregressive Transformer For Text-To-Image Synthesis With Human Priors
- (24:32) Ad break
- (25:50) A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of
- (30:40) Clearview AI banned from selling its facial recognition software to most US companies
- (34:20) Justice Department and EEOC Warn Against Disability Discrimination
- (35:23) U.S. civil rights enforcers warn employers against biased AI
- (36:12) Kendrick Lamar uses deepfakes in latest music video
- (38:23) Humans vs. DALL·E
- (41:52) Outro
#96 - FDA Clearances, Firing at Google AI, AI for Apple Watch, Beer and Wine Reviews
13 maj 2022 |
45 min
Our 96th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:36) Wearable, AI-powered whole-breast ultrasound system cleared by the FDA + FDA plays tooth fairy, awards clearance to VideaHealth's cavity-spotting AI
- (06:40) Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord
- (12:30) AI Model Can Accurately Detect Multiple Retinal Diseases in Real Time
- (12:50) Intel wins DARPA RACER-Sim program
- (14:00) Mayo researchers use AI to detect weak heart pump via patients' Apple Watch ECGs
- (17:50) Tsinghua U & BAAI’s CogView2 Achieves SOTA Competitive Text-to-Image Generation With 10x Speedups
- (23:13) In The Latest Research From The University Of Toronto, Machine learning-Based Approach Speeds Up The Counting Of Microplastics -
- (23:52) Northeastern U & Microsoft Expand StyleGAN’s Latent Space to Surpass the SOTA on Real Face Semantic Editing
- (24:55) Microsoft AI Researchers Develop MoLeR: A Deep Learning-Based Generative Model That Enables Efficient Drug Design
- (26:50) Ad break
- (28:40) UK Regulators' Path for AI Starts with Auditing Algorithms
- (32:16) A unique machine-learning model predicts homelessness among US soldiers before their transition to civilian life
- (35:45) Researchers Taught A.I. to Write Wine and Beer Reviews and They're Pretty Convincing
- (39:33) T-SNE to view and order your Spotify tracks
- (42:40) What’s New in Spot | Boston Dynamics
- (44:17) Outro
#95 - AI Kills Cookie Pop-Ups, Models Volcanoes, Screens for Child Neglect, Paints Harry Potter
5 maj 2022 |
43 min
Our 95th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
Applications & Business
- (01:27) Meta Using AI to Create Greener Concrete for its Data Centers
- (07:00) AI can now kill those annoying cookie pop-ups
- (10:15) Lighting Round
- AI can predict missed appointments. How can hospitals use that data for better care?
- Start-up Pony.ai says it's the first self-driving company to get a taxi license in China
- VisionNav Robotics closes $80M for AGVs
- Armed with new $150 million raise, Oregon robotics startup sets its sights on Pittsburgh
- AI can predict missed appointments. How can hospitals use that data for better care?
Research & Advancements
- (13:00) Machine Learning Helps See into a Volcano’s Depths
- (17:30) Jurassic-X: Crossing the Neuro-Symbolic Chasm with the MRKL System
- Lighting Round
- Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves -
- Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out. -
- From blurry to bright: AI tech helps researchers peer into the brains of mice
- AI predicts lung cancer tumor growth after radiation : NHS study "
- Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves -
- (25:30) An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns
- (30:30) IBM research details AI skills gap across Europe
- (33:20) Lighting Round
Fun & Neat
- (35:45) Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge - "What SubT means for the future of autonomous robots"
- (39:15) This Woman Used AI To Show What "Harry Potter" Characters Would Look Like In Real Life Based On Their Book Descriptions, And My Jaw Is On The Floor - "This AI version of Draco gives me full-body chills."
(41:56) Outro
#94 - AI Driving Instructors, MASSIVE Speech Dataset, AI ’Show Stealers’, Tesla Jet Crash
29 april 2022 |
47 min
Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Warning: some curse words are used in this episode towards the end
Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (2:10) GM Patents Autonomous Tech to Train New Drivers Sans Instructor
- (6:22) Startups Join AI Acquisition Rush
- (13:20) UC Berkeley & Intel’s Photorealistic Denoising Method Boosts Video Quality on Moonless Nights
- (17:00) Amazon opens MASSIVE AI speech dataset so Alexa can speak your language
- (21:40) Ad break
- (23:20) South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid
- (29:15) Actors launch campaign against AI 'show stealers'
- (37:13) This AI clone of Reddit’s Am I The Asshole forum will give you the best bad advice
- (40:26) A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet
- (45:00) Outro
#93 - Chip Startup Funding Doubled, Google Text+Image Search, Analog AI, Criminal Robotaxi
21 april 2022 |
29 min
Our 93nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Outline:
- Intro
- Applications & Business
- (01:10) Venture funding for chip startups has doubled in the last five years thanks to AI
- (4:00) Google's multisearch feature lets you search with text and images at the same time
- (6:10) Lighting Round
- Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M - "We’ve seen robotics applied to just about every other field of late, so why not nursing — a field that will require one million new faces to keep up with demand in the U.S. alone?
- Sorry, developers: Microsoft's new tool fixes the bugs in software code written by AI - "Microsoft's Jigsaw can automate the process of checking and editing code outputted by a machine."
- Research & Advancements
- (7:50) Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations - "For centuries, mathematicians have tried to prove that Euler’s fluid equations can produce nonsensical answers. A new approach to machine learning has researchers betting that “blowup” is near."
- (11:20) Analog A.I.? It sounds crazy, but it might be the future - "Forget digital. The future of A.I. is … analog? At least, that’s the assertion of Mythic, an A.I. chip company that’s, its own words, taking “a leap forward in performance in power” by going back in time. Sort of."
- (13:55) Lighting Round
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Society & Ethics
- (15:45) The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers - "How AI and automation can make a job worse than before"
- (18:45) House lawmakers launch investigation of face-scan contractor ID.me - "The House probe marks an escalation of years of controversy over the government’s growing reliance on facial recognition, which boiled over earlier this year after the IRS said it would require Americans to scan their faces in order to access their IRS tax accounts."
- (22:10) Lighting Round
- Biden administration takes step forward on AI policy
- FDA Issues Advisory on Use of AI and Machine Learning for Large Vessel Occlusion in the Brain
- Fun & Neat
- (23:40) GM Cruise autonomous taxi pulled over by police in San Francisco without humans, ‘bolts’ off (U: Cruise responds) - "Last week, a GM Cruise-converted Chevy Bolt without a driver was pulled over by San Francisco Police. In an unexpected turn, the car “bolted” …to a safe spot. Cruise responded below."
- (26:43) How artificial intelligence helps students learn
- Outro
#92 - OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s PaLM, AI Intel in Ukraine, Hugging Robots
17 april 2022 |
37 min
Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Outline:
- (0:00) Intro
- Research & Advancements
- (01:15) OpenAI's new DALL.E model turns your words into pieces of art
- (5:45) Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance
- (10:00) Lighting Round
- Stanford Researchers Have Developed a Machine Learning-Based Algorithm To Detect Autism in Brain “Fingerprints” - "Patients with autism who are diagnosed early and definitively may benefit from earlier therapies and better results. Stanford researchers have created an algorithm that can tell if someone has autism by analyzing brain images."
- Johns Hopkins’ heart-scanning AI predicts cardiac arrests up to 10 years ahead - "Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed an artificial intelligence approach they say can help predict if and when a person could die of cardiac arrest based on imaging scans of the heart."
- AI Betting Agents Weigh In On Reproducibility Of Research Findings - "Penn State researchers have created synthetic “prediction markets” for speculating on the replicability of published studies with unparalleled accuracy."
- AI turns infrared images taken in total darkness into full colour - "The black-and-white images provided by night-vision cameras can be colourised using AI, but it must always be trained on similar images and is unlikely to ever work on unfamiliar general scenes"
- Applications & Business
- (12:15) First autonomous X-ray-analyzing AI is cleared in the EU - "An artificial intelligence tool that reads chest X-rays without oversight from a radiologist got regulatory clearance in the European Union last week — a first for a fully autonomous medical imaging AI, the company, called Oxipit, said in a statement."
- (14:45) Werner to use self-driving trucks on 600 mile lane deemed ‘unappealing’ for human truck drivers - "Werner Enterprises in partnership with autonomous vehicle tech company Aurora Innovation, Inc. launched a commercial pilot program in Texas."
- (17:00) Lighting Round
- Elon Musk says production of Tesla's robot could start next year, but A.I. experts have their doubts - "Tesla has yet to reveal a working prototype of the robot, however, and it’s unclear how sophisticated Optimus is at this stage."
- This California-based HealthTech Startup is Using Artificial Intelligence To Modernize and Personalize Fertility Care - "Alife Health, a San Francisco-based startup is using artificial intelligence to improve IVF fertility outcomes."
- Using machine learning to improve student success in higher education - "[overview of topic Deploying machine learning and advanced analytics thoughtfully and to their full potential may support improvements in student access, success, and the overall student experience."
- Microsoft and HPE put AI to the test on International Space Station … with gloves - "An image of a spacewalker’s gloves is analyzed for signs of wear using AI"
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Society & Ethics
- (20:45) California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software - "A newly proposed amendment to California's hiring discrimination laws would make AI-powered employment decision-making software a source of legal liability."
- (23:03) As Russia Plots Its Next Move, an AI Listens to the Chatter - "With vast amounts of data becoming available to intelligence analysts, new tools will help them sift and interpret it all—but they will introduce new risks, too."
- (25:22) Lightning
- Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police - “The new "consent-based" product, with aspirations of competing with Amazon and Microsoft, would use Clearview's algorithms to verify a person's face for bank transactions or commercial purposes.”
- Google Says AI Generated Content Is Against Guidelines - "Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller says content automatically generated with AI writing tools is considered spam, according to the search engine’s webmaster guidelines."
- California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software - "A newly proposed amendment to California's hiring discrimination laws would make AI-powered employment decision-making software a source of legal liability."
- What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI - "[overview of topics] To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic"
- Fun & Neat
- (27:42) The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots - "How to build a humanoid that gives perfect hugs"
- (33:00) Adding AI to Museum Exhibits Increases Learning, Keeps Kids Engaged Longer - "They used artificial intelligence (AI) to create a new genre of interactive, hands-on exhibits that includes a virtual assistant to interact with visitors."
- Outro
#91 - DeepMind Mafia, DishBrain, PRIME, ZooKeeper AI, Instant NeRF
31 mars 2022 |
50 min
Our 91st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Outline:Applications & Business
Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer
Kroger and Nvidia partner to ‘reinvent the shopping experience’ with AI and digital twin simulations
Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures
Research & AdvancementsResearchers From Cortical Labs Develop DishBrain: A Neural Network With Biological Neurons
Seeing an elusive magnetic effect through the lens of machine learning
AI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out
Society & EthicsUS-China collaboration in AI papers drops amid ongoing tech war, Stanford report shows
Banks Using AI Are Ripe for Russian Sabotage
Automation will erase 'knowledge jobs' before most blue collar jobs: Future Today Institute CEO
Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says
Software vendors are pushing "explainable A.I." that often isn't
Fun & NeatUbisoft shows off machine learning tool for modelling animals
Nvidia shows off AI model that turns a few dozen snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene#90 - AI for Algorithms, Chemical Weapons, Zelenskyy Deepfake, Border Control
24 mars 2022 |
30 min
Our 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- Applications & Business
- (1:10) Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing
- (5:50) Meet ElliQ, the robot who wants to keep Grandma company
- (10:52) Lightning Round
- Research & Advancements
- (12:24) AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
- (14:15) Meta AI’s Sparse All-MLP Model Doubles Training Efficiency Compared to Transformers
- (16:15) Lightning Round
- Society & Ethics
- Fun & Neat
- (29:15) Outro
Deepfakes for Politicians, AI Propaganda, Operation Safety Net, Understanding Pigs
17 mars 2022 |
51 min
Our 89th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- Applications & Business
- Research & Advancements
- Society & Ethics
- Fun & Neat
- (48:00) Outro
AI-Developed Drug, AI Beats Moore’s Law, Russia’s AI Army, Baidu’s Robotaxis
10 mars 2022 |
47 min
Our 88th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- Applications & Business
- Research & Advancements
- Society & Ethics
- Fun & Neat
- (46:01) Outro
AI flirts, controls a fusion reactor, unmasks Q, draws Pokémon
24 februari 2022 |
40 min
Our 87th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:30) AI Arrives for Serious Photo Editing, Not Just Smartphone Snapshots
- (05:20) Listen to an AI voice actor try and flirt with you
- (10:28) DeepMind’s AI can control superheated plasma inside a fusion reactor
- (15:55) Good News About the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training
- (21:36) Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints
- (26:18) Facial recognition firm Clearview AI tells investors it is seeking massive expansion beyond law enforcement
- (31:23) This AI Generates Fake New Pokémon, And It's Actually Pretty Good
- (34:01) AI generated this moody, entertaining animated music video
- (37:35) Outro
AI for Ancient Languages, Eye Tracking for Ads, Pulpy AI Sci Fi Covers
17 februari 2022 |
29 min
Our 86th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:22) This AI is set to help stop illegal fishing
- (04:21) An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?
- (09:40) The New CGI: Creating Neural Neighborhoods With Block-NeRF
- (12:45) MuZero’s first step from research into the real world
- (16:40) MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads
- (20:02) AI fails its job interview
- (23:58) Mad Scientist Forces AI to Make Horrific Pictures Out of BuzzFeed Headlines
- (26:18) Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
IBM Watson’s and ZIllow’s AI Failures, DeepMind’s Alphacode, GPT-NeoX-20B, AI Valentine’s Cards
10 februari 2022 |
31 min
Our 85th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:20) Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis
- (05:20) How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise
- (09:00) DeepMind claims its new code-generating system is competitive with human programmers
- (14:00) Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B
- (16:35) AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data
- (19:24) Democratic lawmakers take another stab at AI bias legislation
- (22:55) AI-generated Valentine's Cards
- (26:10) Tell this AI your story's themes, and it'll write the first paragraph for you
- (28:50) Outro
OpenAI’s InstructGPT, Meta’s New AI Supercomputer, China Regulates DeepFakes, AI Playes Tetris
6 februari 2022 |
33 min
Our 84rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: apologies for issues with sound quality in this episode!
Outline:
- Applications & Business
- Research & Advancements
- Society & Ethics
- Fun & Neat
AI for Omicron, Self-Farming Farms, AI-designed beer, Cuddly AI
22 januari 2022 |
38 min
Our 83rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Outline:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:10) This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure
- (02:48) BioNTech and London A.I. company create "early warning system" for COVID-19 variants
- (05:20) We’re one step closer to self-farming farms
- (09:55) ‘We Were Blown Away’: How New A.I. Research Is Changing the Way Conservators and Collectors Think About Attribution
- (12:42) Meta claims its AI improves speech recognition quality by reading lips
- (15:46) The Messy History of Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI
- (18:30) Feds' spending on facial recognition tech expands, despite privacy concerns
- (20:35) Great Resignation Versus Increasing Investment In AI, Robotics And Automation: A Troubling Trend
- (25:55) Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code
- (28:22) AIML machine learning students develop beer using AI
- (31:40) Robo-dogs and therapy bots: Artificial intelligence goes cuddly
- (34:55) Outro
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Looking Back at AI in 2021 with Jeremie from Towards Data Science
6 januari 2022 |
49 min
For our first episode in 2022, we are joined with our friends from the Towards Data Science podcast to discuss our thoughts about the AI-related trends and events that happened in 2021.
Some things we discuss are:
- Foundation models continue to grow, but one interesting trend is the focus on efficiency along with (instead of?) scale. For example, while DeepMind’s Gopher model has fewer than twice the parameters of GPT-3, it’s reportedly 25 times more efficient, meaning that much more value is being squeezed out of the same training data and compute. AI21Labs’ Jurrassic models are also equal to GPT-3 on a parameter count basis, but reflect a focus on architecture optimization over raw scaling that we expect to persist into 2022. (That’s not to say significant scaling won’t happen, or that it hasn’t happened already; Microsoft Turing-NLG, released a few months ago, is over half a trillion parameters in size. But it’s safe to say that scaling won’t be done without simultaneous efficiency optimizations that were less of a focus in late-2020.)
- Procedural environment generation has been a big theme in reinforcement learning. In Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents, the team at DeepMind showed how training RL agents on a wide range of environments can lead to emergent behaviour associated with generalization, like trial and error and cooperation with friendly agents.
- Open-ended learning (OEL) seems like an interesting wildcard, which some researchers think might be an important ingredient in the final AGI recipe. We spoke with OpenAI’s head of open-ended learning, Ken Stanley, about what role OEL might play in the future of AI on this episode of the TDS podcast.
- A NeurIPS spotlight paper titled Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power, and subsequent work by the same author, are showing that we should expect highly capable AI systems to engage in dangerous behaviour that’s misaligned with human values, by default. Specifically, highly competent agents will tend to search for states that are powerful, in the sense that they offer many downstream options. This finding makes a compelling case that AI alignment ought to be prioritized, particularly given the rate of progress we’re seeing in AI capabilities more broadly. If it really is the case that capable AI systems will be dangerous by default, active effort must be invested in safety research.
- 0:00 Intro
- 2:15 Rise of multi-modal models
- 7:40 Growth of hardware and compute
- 13:20 Reinforcement learning
- 20:45 Open-ended learning
- 26:15 Power seeking paper
- 32:30 Safety and assumptions
- 35:20 Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
- 42:00 Mapping natural language
- 46:20 Timnit Gebru’s research institute
- 49:20 Wrap-up
Create AI art with an app, an AI-powered game platform, the year of monster AI models, better images of AI
1 januari 2022 |
30 min
Happy new year!
Our last episode of 2021 is also our 82th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Outline:
- Intro
- This AI-powered art app lets you paint pictures with words
- AI Dungeon’s creators are launching an experimental AI-powered game platform
- Announcing the Transactions on Machine Learning Research
- Bigger’s Not Always Better: DeepMind’s New Language AI Is Small But Mighty
- 2021 was the year of monster AI models
- U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’
- Face Recognition Is Being Banned—but It’s Still Everywhere
- Better Images of AI
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AI Best Friends, The Beatles + Machine Learning, Crime Prediction Bias, Transformer Quadraped Robot
16 december 2021 |
39 min
Our 81th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Outline:
- (0:00) Intro
- (1:30) Meet your new A.I. best friend
- (6:37) The Beatles: Get Back Used High-Tech Machine Learning To Restore The Audio
- (10:26) Google, Cambridge U & Alan Turing Institute Propose PolyViT: A Universal Transformer for Image, Video, and Audio Classification
- (14:00) Deep-learning model speeds extreme weather predictions
- (18:23) How We Determined Crime Prediction Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods
- (23:44) Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars
- (27:18) Alarmed by Tesla’s public self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV
- (30:15) A Quadruped Humanoid Robot Might Be Able To Do It All
- (34:05) Forging New Pathways: Boys & Girls Clubs Teens Take AI From Idea to Application
- (38:00) Outro
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AI for Mathematicians, Timnit Gebru‘s New Research Center, No Ban on Killer Robots, Vertigo AI
10 december 2021 |
26 min
Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives
(04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users
(07:28) DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots
(11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms
(13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
(17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots
(19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo?
(25:00) Outro
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Robots at Google Offices, AI-Powered Writing, AI Polygraph, AI Art
25 november 2021 |
23 min
Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro
(01:10) Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices
(04:42) Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI / AI-powered writing assistant Writer nabs $21M
(07:03) A Leap Forward in Computer Vision: Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners
(09:27) Research Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI
(11:42) A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical
(13:45) South Korea is Selling Millions of Photos To Facial Recognition Researchers
(16:00) AWS makes AI and machine learning tangible with first major art debut at Smithsonian
(19:00) ‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words
(21:45) Outro
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Chat about Teaching AI at Stanford with Abigail See
23 november 2021 |
53 min
A special discussion episode, where we do not cover AI news but instead chat about our experiences teaching AI classes at Stanford with Abigail See, a graduate from the Stanford AI Lab and a good friend of ours.
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Record High AI Funding, AfriBERTa, Facial Recognition in the West Bank, Tesla FSD Beta Crash, AI for Stressed Dogs
19 november 2021 |
32 min
Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
(00:00) Intro
(01:40) Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business
(05:20) AI startup funding hits record high of $17.9B in Q3 / Robot orders by companies surge as labor shortages linger
(09:50) University of Waterloo AI Researchers Introduce A New NLP Model ‘AfriBERTa’ For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques
(12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study
(16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank
(22:15) Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California
(26:15) CMU opens first AI maker space to let students 'sharpen the cutting edge of AI'
(28:25) Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs
(31:05) Outro
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition, Google Wants to Work with the Pentagon, AI for Lie Detection?
11 november 2021 |
34 min
Our 77th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
- (01:06) Landing AI brings in $57M for its machine learning operations tools
- (05:13) As the Arctic Warms, AI Forecasts Scope Out Shifting Sea Ice
- (09:07) Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots
- (14:12) Google AI Introduces ‘GoEmotions’: An NLP Dataset for Fine-Grained Emotion Classification
- (18:28) Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System
- (21:40) Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns
- (25:50) Australia Ordered Clearview AI to Destroy its Database, As Its Violating Privacy Laws
- (27:54) AIBA uses AI technology to vet judges and refs at Belgrade worlds
- (30:40) Miso Introduces Second Generation Restaurant Kitchen Robot, the Flippy 2
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E
4 november 2021 |
25 min
Our 76th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:
- AI voice-acting tool xVASynth gets even better at recreating videogame voices
- Microsoft acquires AI-powered moderation platform Two Hat
- MIT’s Latest AI Research Using Deep Neural Networks Explains How The Brain Processes Language Works
- Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers
- Clearview AI finally takes part in a federal accuracy test.
- Tesla pulled the latest FSD Beta from owners’ cars today
- ruDALL-E: generating images from text descriptions, or the largest computational project in Russia
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Rephrase.ai, MuJoCo, AI in Audacity, Illegal AI Porn Unblurring, Bigoted AI Ethics Model
28 oktober 2021 |
31 min
Our 75th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai.
This week:
- This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations
- Inside Mailchimp’s push to bring AI to content marketing
- What MuJoCo’s acquisition means for DeepMind’s AI & robotics research
- Yann LeCun Team Challenges Current Beliefs on Interpolation and Extrapolation Regarding DL Model Generalization Performance
- Deep Learning Tools for Audacity
- A Harvard freshman made a social networking app called 'The FaceTag.' It's sparked a debate about the ethics of facial recognition.
- Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case
- Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking
22 oktober 2021 |
32 min
Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai.
This week:
- Applications
- Research
- Ethics
- Fun
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
DeepMind‘s Rain Nowcasting, OpenAI‘s Book Summarization, Distracted Tesla Drivers, Amazon‘s $1k robot
8 oktober 2021 |
30 min
Our 73rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
- Applications
- Research
- Ethics
- Fun
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/136
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI for climate modeling, Deepfakes are here, Boston Dynamics in a fight
15 september 2021 |
38 min
Our 72st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Article picks:
- Applications
- Research
- Ethics
- Fun
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/132
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI for lonely people, GPT-3 is toxic, Tesla investigation develops, Kiwibot
11 september 2021 |
29 min
Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Applications
- Research
- Ethics
- Fun
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/132
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI for Spreadsheets, Hospital Robots, NLP Benchmarking, AI Play
3 september 2021 |
30 min
Our 70th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Applications
- Research
- Ethics
- Fun
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/131
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Tesla Bot, AI Val Kilmer, DeepMind‘s Perceiver IO, Apple‘s NeuralHash
27 augusti 2021 |
40 min
Our 69th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Applications
Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI
AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused.
- Research 100+ Standford Researchers Publish 200+ Page Paper on the AI Paradigm Shift Introduced by Large-Scale Models DeepMind Open-Sources Perceiver IO, A General-Purpose Deep Learning Model Architecture That Handles A Wide Range of Data and Tasks
- Ethics
Reddit user reverse-engineers what they believe is Apple's solution to flag child sex abuse
How AI-powered Tech Landed Man In Jail With Scant Evidence - Fun
Philip Glass on Artificial Intelligence and Art
The Bouba/Kiki Effect And Sound Symbolism In CLIP
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/130
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
OpenAI‘s Codex Update, Boston Dynamics Parkour, Twitter AI Bias
20 augusti 2021 |
38 min
Our 68th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- publications
- Research
- Ethics
- Fun
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/129
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI Package Theft Detection
16 augusti 2021 |
32 min
Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses
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With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment
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AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
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These Algorithms Look at X-Rays' and Somehow Detect Your Race
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Tably, An AI-Powered Camera App, Give You A Deeper Understanding Of Your Cat's Health And Mood
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Man defends against package thieves using machine learning AI, flour, and very loud sirens
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/128
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Malware in AI models, Algorithmic Bias Bounty, Robot Beach-Cleaners and Beehives
11 augusti 2021 |
24 min
Our 66th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: audio is fixed on this upload.
This week:
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Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches
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Here Is A Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Beehive That Could Save Bee Colonies
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Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models
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Facebook AI Releases ‘VoxPopuli’, A Large-Scale Open Multilingual Speech Corpus For AI Translations in NLP Systems
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China built the world's largest facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy.
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Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
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Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/127
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Our 100th episode! A look back with hosts Andrey, Sharon, and Daniel
2 augusti 2021 |
16 min
AI in the US State and Federal Governments with the hosts of the AI Today Podcast
28 juli 2021 |
36 min
Check out this special crossover episode with the AI Today podcast, the hosts of which Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss pressing topics around artificial intelligence, interview guests and experts on the subject, and cut through the hype around AI.
For this crossover episode, we thought it’d be fun to chat about some of the topics that have recently been covered on the AI Today podcast, in particular what has been happening with AI in government.
Specifically, we discuss:
- Challenges in Federal AI Adoption Interview with Justin Marsico, Chief Data Officer at the Bureau Of The Fiscal Service
- AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government - Interview with Neil Chaudhry, GSA
- Data and AI at the State level, interview with Joy Bonaguro, CDO State of California
- Data and AI in the state of North Dakota, Interview with Dorman Bazzell, CDO of North Dakota
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
DeepMind‘s AlphaFold 2, Voice Cloning, Facial Recognition in Retail Stores
26 juli 2021 |
25 min
Our 65th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
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The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots
- DeepMind's AI for protein structure is coming to the masses
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Reasoning with Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering
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AI now enables robots to adapt rapidly to changing real world conditions
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Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions
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Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say
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Google CEO Still Insists AI Revolution Bigger Than Invention of Fire
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/125
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Reflecting on AI news in 2021 (so far) with the host of the Towards Data Science Podcast
21 juli 2021 |
43 min
2021 has been a bit less crazy than 2020 so far, but plenty of notable stuff has already happened. So, we decided to partner with our friends over at the Towards Data Science podcast, hosted by co-founder of ShapestMinds Jeremie Harris.
Specifically, we discuss:
This avocado armchair could be the future of AI, For Its Latest Trick
Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case
New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software
As well as the general trends these stories represent.
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI for Shaming Politicians, the New AI Art Scene, DeepFake Phishing
16 juli 2021 |
25 min
Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news
This week:
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This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet
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AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools
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What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective
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YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study
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Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns
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Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/124
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
An AI Serial Killer, Scary Good Voice AI, Robot Rock, Israel‘s AI-powered Weapons
9 juli 2021 |
26 min
Our 63rd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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This week:-
Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts
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Researchers turn to machine learning to predict when immunotherapy will be effective
- Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers
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Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks
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Google's algorithm misidentified an engineer as a serial killer
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/123
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Sean McGregor on the AI Incident Database and the AI XPRIZE
6 juli 2021 |
34 min
An interview with Sean McGregor, the ML architect at the neural accelerator startup Syntiant who also works with the XPRIZE Foundation and is the creator and maintainer of the Partnership on AI's Incident Database.
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI for COVID detection fails, GitHub's Copilot can code, GAN Theft Auto is fun
1 juli 2021 |
39 min
Our 62nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness.
This week:
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Google Survey Explores Methods for Making DL Models ‘Smaller, Faster, and Better’
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Machine learning models that detect COVID-19 on chest X-rays are not suitable for clinical use
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GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code
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How Twitter hired tech's biggest critics to build ethical AI
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LinkedIn’s job-matching AI was biased. The company’s solution? More AI.
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/122
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Jordan Harrod on being an AI researcher and educator
29 juni 2021 |
53 min
An interview with Jordan Harrod, a PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, a YouTuber who creates educational videos about AI, and an advocate for evidence-based policy.
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Check out her channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod
Detailed bio: Jordan Harrod is a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Her research focuses on using neuromodulation to understand pain and consciousness, and using neurotechnology and machine learning to develop new tools for brain stimulation. She is also a significant communicator and educator focused on AI, with her YouTube channel having many videos on how we interact with artificial intelligence in our daily lives, and she is also the Chief Operating Officer of the MIT Science Policy Review, a peer-reviewed science policy journal.
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Making AI Less Racist and Terrible, AI for Wildfires and Reading Lips, Fun AI Facts about Fun Guys
24 juni 2021 |
23 min
Our 61st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness.
Check out our interview with the creator of AI Weirdness (that we discuss as our last article) here:
https://www.letstalkai.show/e/ai-weirdness-interview/
This week:
- AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans
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The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm
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China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance software
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/121
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
DeepMind on General AI, Creepy Fake Humans, City Brains
17 juni 2021 |
28 min
Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs.
This week:
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DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI
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Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can
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Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs
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This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/120
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Is GPT-3 Dissapointing, Killer Robots (?), the AI Hall of Shame
10 juni 2021 |
25 min
Our 59th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
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Google Ventures-backed Merlin Labs is building AI that can fly planes
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Self-Driving Truck Completes 950-Mile Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver
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King County is first in the country to ban facial recognition software
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/119
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Blatant Academic Fraud, OpenAI's New Sibling, a Killer Drone?!
4 juni 2021 |
39 min
Our 58th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
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Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism
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All together now: the most trustworthy covid-19 model is an ensemble
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A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/118
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
GPT-Neo, Wav2Vec-U, Deepfake Dubs, Michelangelo AI, History of Ethical AI at Google
28 maj 2021 |
35 min
Our 57 Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
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GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about
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Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data
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Deepfake dubs could help translate film and TV without losing an actor's original performance
- Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/117
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Janelle Shane on the Weirdness of AI
25 maj 2021 |
54 min
An interview with Janelle Shane, the creator of aiweirdness.com and author of 'You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place'.
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Janelle Shane works as a research scientist in Colorado, where she makes computer-controlled holograms for studying the brain, and other light-steering devices. She is also a self-described A. I. Humorist - on aiweirdness.com, she writes about AI and the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Popular Science, and more, AND she has also given the TED talk “The danger of AI is weirder than you think” in 2019.
Her book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place” uses cartoons and humorous pop-culture experiments to look inside the minds of the algorithms that run our world, making artificial intelligence and machine learning both accessible and entertaining.
Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Elon Musk's Self Driving Claims, AI Ethics at Google, Photorealistic GTA 5
20 maj 2021 |
26 min
Our 56th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff
- Grand Theft Auto Looks Frighteningly Photorealistic With This Machine Learning Technique
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Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’
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Tesla in fatal California crash may have been in autopilot mode, officials say
DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/116
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Satellite Image Data, Moderating AI Dungeon, Consolidating Autonomous Vehicles
13 maj 2021 |
24 min
Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- China makes "world's largest satellite image database" to train AI better
- How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Rethinking Conferences, Chinese GPT-3, Farming Robots, Lyft's AV Sale
7 maj 2021 |
36 min
Our 54th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Rethinking large conferences
- Google and UC Berkeley Propose Green Strategies for Large Neural Network Training
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Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI Einstein, Medical Alexas, 1.4 Trillion Transistor AI Chip
29 april 2021 |
27 min
Our 53drd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot
- Can Medical Alexas Make Us Healthier?
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AI Pinpoints Local Pollution Hotspots Using Satellite Images
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/113
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Tesla Deaths, 2.6 Million DeepFakes, Europe AI Regulations
22 april 2021 |
28 min
Our 52nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society
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‘No one was driving’ in Tesla crash that killed two men in Spring, Texas, report says
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Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/112
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI Nirvana Song, Facebook Fairness Dataset, No-Code AI
16 april 2021 |
36 min
Our 51st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Shedding light on fairness in AI with a new data set
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Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI
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Companies are racing to bring A.I. to the masses with no code software
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New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/111
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
The Pioneers of Modern AI with Cade Metz, author of "Genius Makers"
12 april 2021 |
59 min
An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. His first book, "Genius Makers", tells the stories of the The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World.
Get the book: http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers
Follow Cade on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CadeMetz/
And on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cademetz/
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Boston Dynamics, DeepFake Amazon Workers, Systematic Labeling Errors
11 april 2021 |
32 min
Our 50th Last Week in AI episode! With some exciting news and our usual news coverage. Enjoy our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group
- MIT study finds systematic labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/110
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI Growth, OpenAI's Smart Neurons, Disease Sniffing AI
11 mars 2021 |
34 min
Our 49th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/106
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
GPT-3 NPCs, Rebel AI Startups, A Cute AI Book
9 mars 2021 |
25 min
Our 48th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
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This OpenAI GPT-3 Powered Demo Is A Glimpse of NPCs In The Future
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Band of AI startups launch ‘rebel alliance’ for interoperability
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This cute book explains AI to children, without scary Terminators
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/105
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
More Unethical AI Research, More Google Drama, More Clearview AI
26 februari 2021 |
27 min
Our 47th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
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Clearview AI’s plan for invasive facial recognition is worse than you think
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This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market
- Google reshuffles AI team leadership after researcher’s controversial departure
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/104
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI Against COVID 19, Regulating DeepFake Porn, the State of Self Driving Cars
18 februari 2021 |
24 min
Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Georgia Startup Races to Complete AI-powered Voice Screening Tool to Crush COVID-19
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New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations
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Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally end it.
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0:00 - 0:30 Intro
0:30 - 5:15 News Summary segment
5:15 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/103
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Facial Recognition and Privacy, Amazon AI Cameras, AI in Health Care
11 februari 2021 |
25 min
Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
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Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
- AI in health care creates unique data challenges
0:00 - 0:30 Intro
0:30 - 4:30 News Summary segment
4:30 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Detecting Surveillance, Autonomous Weapons, National AI Compute Needs
4 februari 2021 |
25 min
Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching
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US commission cites ‘moral imperative’ to explore AI weapons
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Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments
- An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.
0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:99 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Bad Uses of AI, Google and Margaret Mitchell, AI for Fairer Healthcare
28 januari 2021 |
37 min
Jan 20th, 2021 by Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea
0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment
5:25 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/100
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Clearview AI in the Capitol, Medical AI Regulation, DeepFake Text
21 januari 2021 |
23 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Use of Clearview AI facial recognition tech spiked as law enforcement seeks to identify Capitol mob
- FDA issues action plan for regulating AI in medical devices
- Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model
- AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government
0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 4:30 News Summary segment
4:30 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/99
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
OpenAI‘s Image Models, US‘s New Provisions for AI, NeurIPS Discussion
14 januari 2021 |
34 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- This avocado armchair could be the future of AI
- For Its Latest Trick, OpenAI’s GPT-3 Generates Images From Text Captions
- Summary of AI Provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act 2021
- AI algorithms detect diabetic eye disease inconsistently
0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 4:45 News Summary segment
4:45 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/98
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
NY‘s moratorium on facial recognition, deepfakes in 2020, and more!
7 januari 2021 |
23 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Google tolds its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research - documents
- Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case
- The year deepfakes went mainstream
- 13 acquisitions highlight Big Tech’s AI talent grab in 2020
- AI Startups Raised $9.9B in second half of 2020, a 15% Jump
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment
4:00 News Discussion segment
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A narrowing of AI research? with Juan Mateos-Garcia
12 december 2020 |
59 min
An interview with Juan Mateos-Garcia, the Director of Data Analytics at Nesta (the UK's Innovation Foundation) where he leads a team of data scientists, developers, visualisers and innovation experts who use new datasets, analytics methods and visualisation tools to inform innovation and AI policy. We focus on the recent paper A narrowing of AI research?, which he co-wrote with Joel Klinge and Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos.
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The firing of Dr.Timnit Gebru, AlphaFold, and Unions Against AI
10 december 2020 |
23 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.
- AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
- Labor Unions Work to Find Ways to Bargain With AI's Black Box
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 4:40 News Summary segment
4:40 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/94
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research with Nur Ahmed
5 december 2020 |
25 min
An interview with Nur Ahmed, a Strategy PhD candidate at Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada and a Research Fellow at the ScotiaBank Digital Banking Lab about The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research”.
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To PhD or not to PhD, AI Bias, Facial Recognition Ethics, GPT-3
3 december 2020 |
43 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?
How AI bots and voice assistants reinforce gender bias
Training AI algorithms on mostly smiling faces reduces accuracy and introduces bias, according to research -
I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”. I didn’t like its answer and neither will you.
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Machine Learning for Art with Google's Emil Wallner
28 november 2020 |
30 min
An interview with Emil Wallner, the creator of mlart.co . Emil is an internet-educated, independent machine learning researcher, and resident at the Google Arts & Culture Lab. As a resident at Google he is using machine learning to explore art and culture. Part-time, he applies machine learning to logical tasks such as programming and mathematics.
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The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed, bias, the compute divide
26 november 2020 |
31 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
- Facebook’s improved AI isn’t preventing harmful content from spreading
- When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks ‘Official.’ A Woman? ‘Smile’
- AI research finds a ‘compute divide’ concentrates power and accelerates inequality in the era of deep learning
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 4:20 News Summary segment
4:20 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/92
Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI‘s replication crisis, reddit discussions, government-sponsored medical AI
19 november 2020 |
10 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- AI is wrestling with a replication crisis
- The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms
0:00 - 1:00 Intro
1:00 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Geoff Hinton‘s Hot Take, Robots in Walmart and Art, Confidence in AI for Healthcare
13 november 2020 |
29 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”
- Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves
- 2020 AI survey: Confidence in artificial intelligence expands as health industry leaders project faster return on investment
- Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots.
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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OpenAI's "Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling"
8 november 2020 |
33 min
An interview with Tom Henighan, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI working on the safety team, about the recent paper “Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling” that he co-authored with many others at OpenAI.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Yann LeCun on GPT-3, New Google Projects, Inequality, GPT-3 on Hacker News
5 november 2020 |
32 min
NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry!
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3
- AI agreement to enhance environmental monitoring, weather prediction
- Mayo Clinic, Google Focus on AI Effort for Cancer Care
- Inequality grows in AI research
- How I used GPT-3 to hit Hacker News front page 5 times in 3 weeks
- I Asked AI to Write This Post for Me. Here Are the Results.
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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DeepNude Bot, Tesla Full Self Driving, Google AI US-Mexico Border
29 oktober 2020 |
29 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Automating Image Abuse: deepfake bots on Telegram, Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police, Tesla is putting ‘self driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready, Google AI tech will be used for virtual border wall, CBP contract shows
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment
5:40 News Discussion segment
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The Top Myths About AI
25 oktober 2020 |
36 min
An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Accessible AI, Partnership on AI, Dataset Compression, Military AI
22 oktober 2020 |
22 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI, Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies, A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data,
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment
5:40 News Discussion segment
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Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
20 oktober 2020 |
52 min
An interview with Jack Clark and Raymond Perrault about their recent paper Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
GPT-3 on reddit, Facial Recognition in Argentina, Stats on Big Tech Financing Academics
15 oktober 2020 |
22 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed , Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals, Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From Big Tech
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World
10 oktober 2020 |
29 min
An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World, co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfsson.
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DeepFake Dictators, AI Sepsis Watch, Biased Exam Monitoring
8 oktober 2020 |
17 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world, ExamSoft’s remote bar exams sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns, Deepfake Putin is here to warn American’s about their self-inflicted doom
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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DeepLearning.AI GANs for Good Panel + Q&A
4 oktober 2020 |
51 min
Courtesy of our regular host Sharon, an except from the event celebrating a new course on GANs she teaches.
See the full event here: https://youtu.be/9d4jmPmTWmc
"To celebrate the launch of GANs Specialization, we’ve assembled a panel of GANs experts. They will discuss some of their current projects and the importance and future of GANs and also provide practical career advice for ML practitioners."
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Bias in Twitter & Zoom, LAPD Facial Recognition, GPT-3 Exclusivity
1 oktober 2020 |
23 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Twitter and Zoom’s algorithmic bias issues, Despite past denials, LAPD has used facial recognition software 30,000 times in last decade, records show, We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1m AI prize, How humane is the UK’s plan to introduce robot companions in care homes?, OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Face Mask Recognition, Detecting Disinformation, Protecting Kids, and Uber‘s Crash
24 september 2020 |
24 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Face mask recognition has arrived - for better or worse, Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and disinformation, Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence, Why Wasn’t Uber Charged in a Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash?
0:00 - 0:35 Intro
0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment
5:25 News Discussion segment
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The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs
19 september 2020 |
30 min
An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
GPT-3 Clickbait, Wildfires, Heroes, Standards, Exports
17 september 2020 |
24 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe, California Utilities Hope Drones, AI Will Lower Risk of Future Wildfires, How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide, The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with media hype, *AI standards launched to help tackle the problem of overhyped studies, IBM says U.S. should adopt new export controls on facial recognition systems
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment
5:00 News Discussion segment
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Heartbeat DeepFake Detection, Robot Drug Tests, Ethics as a Service
10 september 2020 |
20 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos, This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop, Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI, Robotics, AI, and Cloud Computing Combine to Supercharge Chemical and Drug Synthesis
0:00 - 0:40 Intro
0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment
4:00 News Discussion segment
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
DeepFake Ads and Memes, New AI Ethics, and AI for Emergency Response
4 september 2020 |
29 min
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week "Hulu deepfaked its new ad. It won’t be the last.", "Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird" , "The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something", and "The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies".
Intro: 0:00 - 0:45
News Summary segment: 0:45 - 6:45
News Discussion segment: 6:45 onward
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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
U.S. Public Opinion about AI with Professor Paul Brewer and co-authors
2 september 2020 |
38 min
An interview with Professor Paul Brewer and PhD Students James Bingaman and Ashely Paintsil about their new survey paper "Media Messages and U.S. Public Opinion about Artificial Intelligence" about what the general U.S. public thinks about AI, and how popular media and interaction with new technology shapes it.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Machine Learning + Procedural Content Generation with Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi
29 augusti 2020 |
48 min
An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation", their work at modl.ai, and more!
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Hate Speech, Applied AI, NYPD, & Grades
26 augusti 2020 |
27 min
Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news!
Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts.
We are trying out this combination of formats for the first time - please fill out the listener survey to let us know what you think about it: bit.ly/ltasurvey
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
AI Setting Grades, ICE Pays Clearview, and Much More
22 augusti 2020 |
30 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
The Alexa Prize Challenge with Stanford's Abigail See and Ashwin Paranjape
20 augusti 2020 |
37 min
An interview with Stanford AI Lab PhDs Abigal See and Ashwin Paranjape about their involvement with the Alexa Prize Challenge and what it took to enable their chatbot Chirpy Cardinal to take second place.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Mini Episode: ICE/Clearview, Race Detection and Schools
16 augusti 2020 |
6 min
Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection software, and how AI is being used to assign students final grades and reopen schools.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
2020, China, Face Recognition, and DeepFakes
14 augusti 2020 |
30 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to AI's struggles in 2020, Chinese AI surveillance, tools to fight facial recognition, and more!
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Mini Episode: TikTok, Cheap Deepfakes, AI in 2020, and Deference
9 augusti 2020 |
6 min
Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are becoming cheaper, AI's struggle to adapt to 2020, and how AI is learning when to defer to humans.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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BLM, Genderify, Jobs, and AI Parody
7 augusti 2020 |
27 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to Black Lives Matter, the disaster that was Genderify, possible ways jobs will be lost, and Weird A.I. Yankovic.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Mini Episode: Two Facial Recognition Stories, A Reckoning for NLP, and ”Self-Programming Computers
2 augusti 2020 |
6 min
Our eleventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at two recent stories on facial recognition, why Natural Language Processing researchers might be chasing the wrong goal, and a clickbait headline accompanying an exciting story about automated code generation.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mini Episode: AI Fashion Models, AI for Job Hopping, Facebook Simulations, and Weird A.I. Yankovic
26 juli 2020 |
6 min
Our tenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at how AI might threaten fashion models' jobs, how AI is being used to predict job hopping, Facebook's simulations of bad user behavior, and A.I. generated parody songs.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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GPT-3, Limits of Deep Learning, Deepfakes in the Real World
26 juli 2020 |
34 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
On the State of AI Ethics Report with its authors
24 juli 2020 |
44 min
An interview with the Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute Abhishek Gupta, as well as fellow AI Ethics researchers Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fancy, Ryan Khurana, about their recent State of AI Ethics Report.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Mini Episode: Pentagon AI, Deep Learning‘s Limits, Discharging Patients, and Robust AI
20 juli 2020 |
6 min
Our ninth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, recent research on the computational limits of deep learning, how AI is being used to decide when to discharge patients, and a recent report on robust AI research.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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Therapy Chatbots, AI Ethics at Google, and Higher-Res Climate Data
19 juli 2020 |
31 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Creators of "The Gradient" on its Origins and Purpose
16 juli 2020 |
35 min
A chat among several of the founders of online AI-focused magazine The Gradient (thegradient.pub) about its origins and purpose.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Mini Episode: AI Therapists, Facial Recognition in Detroit, Decolonialism in AI, and Deepfakes for Corporate Training
12 juli 2020 |
6 min
Our eighth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the rise of AI therapy bots, the fight against facial recognition in Detroit, a paper from DeepMind and Oxford on decolonialism in AI, and how deepfakes are being used for corporate training.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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ACM on Facial Recognition, National AI Cloud, and Positive DeepFakes
10 juli 2020 |
22 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mini Episode: Redeeming AI, More Lessons in AI Bias, and a National AI Research Cloud
5 juli 2020 |
5 min
Our seventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at how an HBO documentary is using deepfake technology for good, a new system to measure AI's carbon impact, a follow-up from last week's story on Timnit Gebru and Yann LeCun, and finally the push for a national AI research cloud.
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False Facial Recognition, Biased AI Drama, and Neo-Phrenology
4 juli 2020 |
28 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mini Episode: Lessons in AI bias, Facial Recognition Policy and Effects, and Trump‘s Visa Freeze
28 juni 2020 |
5 min
Our sixth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at how one deep learning pioneer still seems to have something to learn about AI bias, how facial recognition led to a wrongful arrest and the facial recognition ban being pushed by Democratic lawmakers, and how Trump's Visa freeze could affect the US's AI prospects.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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On Shaping the Global Terrain of AI Competition with Tim Hwang
25 juni 2020 |
46 min
Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about his new report “Shaping the Terrain of AI Competition” and more.
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Mini Episode: Startup News, NeurIPS Changes, and US-China Tensions
21 juni 2020 |
4 min
Our fifth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at more news from Boston Dynamics, a new MIT startup that wants to help you do deep learning on your CPU, recent changes at NeurIPS, and Baidu's departure from the Partnership on AI.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Path to Facial Recognition Reform and Regulation
19 juni 2020 |
15 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mini Episode: More Facial Recognition, Racism in Academia, and the latest in Commercial AI
14 juni 2020 |
4 min
Our fourth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at recent progress in curtailing the development of facial recognition technology, a recent call for attention to racism in academia, and recent news from OpenAI and Boston Dynamics.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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Facial Recognition and Police, Protests, Regulation
14 juni 2020 |
24 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mini Episode: Police Surveillance, Productivity, and Calls for Regulation and Cooperation
7 juni 2020 |
4 min
Our third audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the how the police are using surveillance against civil rights protesters, AI for productivity, and recent calls from AI researchers for regulation and cooperation.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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Black Lives Matter in AI, the Peril of DeepFakes and Fake Progress
7 juni 2020 |
23 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mini Episode: Clearview, the G7, Shopping, and AI-Assisted Journalism
31 maj 2020 |
4 min
Our second audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, we look at the ACLU's lawsuit against Clearview AI, an international AI group among the G7, how small businesses might begin to use automation, and Microsoft's push towards replacing journalists with AI.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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More Ethical Quagmires, More Surveillance, and more Academia Talk
31 maj 2020 |
27 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mini Episode: Self Driving Ignorance, AI Surveillance, Nvidia‘s AI Pacman
25 maj 2020 |
4 min
Our first audio round up of last week's noteworthy AI news!
This week, a discussion of peoples' awareness of self driving technology, surveillance by iFlyTek and Clear, and Nvidia's new recreation of Pacman.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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AI Gets More Efficient, Improves Taxation, and Looks Out For Masks
17 maj 2020 |
26 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Data Science and AI for COVID-19 with Professor James Zou and Dr. Irena Fisher-Hwang
13 maj 2020 |
37 min
Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Professor James Zou and Doctor Irena Fisher-Hwang about their new class CS472: Data Science and AI for COVID-19. See more here: https://sites.google.com/view/data-science-covid-19
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Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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AI Fails to Read PDFs, OpenAI Jukebox, and more!
9 maj 2020 |
26 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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AI Fails to Diagnose COVID-19, Difficulties with AI Regulation, and more on Surveillance
2 maj 2020 |
27 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mechanisms for AI Safety, Beyond Supervised Learning, and AI for Science
26 april 2020 |
27 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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AI News Coverage, Pseudo AI Companies, and more on COVID-19
18 april 2020 |
26 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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AI for COVID-19 with Professor Matthew Lungren
15 april 2020 |
34 min
Stanford AI Lab PhD Sharon Zhou interviews Professor Matthew Lungren about the efforts to leverage AI to help with the coronavirus crisis, the promise for sharing more medical data as part of those efforts, and more.
Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Reading Brain Waves, AI Goliaths, & more on COVID-19
11 april 2020 |
44 min
Tired of constantly hearing about COVID-19? So are Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou, who mostly discuss non virus related stories this week... and then some virus related stories.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Bias in Voice Recognition, Debates in AI, and Robotics in the Time of COVID-19
4 april 2020 |
39 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover news about bias in commercial voice recognition systems, a debate about the future of AI, and more on what covid 19 shows us about robotics.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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More on AI, COVID-19, and Revised Research Practices
26 mars 2020 |
42 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover more news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis and how research is changing.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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AI‘s Role in Fighting COVID-19 and in Surveilling Us
19 mars 2020 |
41 min
Stanford AI Lab PhDs discuss news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis, and more on mass surveillance.
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Hello World, Surveillance, and New Research Practices
13 mars 2020 |
41 min
Hello World!
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss news stories related to mass-deployment of facial recognition and responsible AI research.
By the way, we get better in future episodes, we promise!
Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com
Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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