#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

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.

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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
  • (00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit
  • (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3
  • (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
  • (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture
• Policy & Safety
  • (00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes
  • (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety
  • (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It
• 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