Last Week in AI

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 contact@lastweekin.ai 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 (01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media (01:28:44) Outro

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 contact@lastweekin.ai 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 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 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

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 contact@lastweekin.ai 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 (51:22) Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data (54:45) No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs (57:15) Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model 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

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 sentience    You 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(01:44:09) From DrakeGPT to Infinite Grimes, AI-generated music strikes a chord + John Legend calls for regulation on AI-generated music (01:47:30) The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped (01:51:05) I’m ChatGPT, and for the Love of God, Please Don’t Make Me Do Any More Copywriting

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 sentience    You 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

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 sentience    You 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 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

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 & BusinessAnthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help Lighting RoundGoogle reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI Bing Image Creator now has a home in the Edge Sidebar, at least for now Research & AdvancementsDevelopers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AIRecursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI) Prompting: An Approach to Improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer and Reasoning Tasks  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 Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled? Lighting RoundCanada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT Art & Fun StuffThe beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney Someone keeps accusing fanfiction authors of writing their fic with AI, and nobody knows why How Will AI Transform Photography?

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 & BusinessGoogle's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AIAlphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 MillionWith Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up Lighting RoundMicrosoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub Birth of a Salesman: OpenAI Sheds Its Lab Coat to Seek Big Deals   Research & Advancements Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI Lighting Round Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons Policy & Societal Impacts The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained Lighting Round How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images go mainstream FTC Is Reviewing Competition in Artificial Intelligence Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse Art & Fun StuffChinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography” Artificial intelligence deepfake video of Harry Potter characters in faux-Balenciaga fashion show goes viral

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 & BusinessOpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more NVIDIA's big AI moment is here Lighting RoundFormer head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job Research & AdvancementsLearning 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 RoundNew 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 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 RoundIn 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 Art & Fun Stuff People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet) WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit

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 & BusinessGPT-4GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why  GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions Lighting RoundConfirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You Introducing Claude Research & AdvancementsMicrosoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model Lighting RoundOur 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 Policy & Societal Impacts Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams Lighting RoundSome 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 StuffMidjourney 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 

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 & BusinessLLM/ChatGPT roundupRadioGPT 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 BillionAnthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups Lighting RoundMicrosoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation Research & AdvancementsGoogle’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commandsPaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network? Lighting RoundScientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology Lighting Round A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son TikTok’s trendy beauty filter ushers in new tech and new problems UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI "invent ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI Art & Fun StuffAI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyoneSci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon  ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place

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 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

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 Beijing to support key firms in building ChatGPT-like AI models Only you can stop an AI apocalypse South Korea aims to join AI race as startup Rebellions launches new chip GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets U.S., China, other nations urge 'responsible' use of military AI 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

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Listen with transcript 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 Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI  AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation  OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee  Instagram’s founders are back with a new app  Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |…  Research & Advancements Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT  A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected  Lighting Round Whispers of AI’s modular future AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find  AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning Policy & Societal Impacts Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards  Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word 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 AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now

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 BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content related : CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories Who owns the generative AI platform? Lighting Round Here’s Why ChatGPT is just the start of the generative AI boom Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT  Generative AI funding exploded over the past 2 years After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts  Research & Advancements ChatGPT’s creator made a free tool for detecting AI-generated text New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text Related:  Stanford introduces DetectGPT to help educators fight back against ChatGPT generated papers Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it Lighting Round Versatile robo-dog runs through the sandy beach at 3 mile/sec  AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they work GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit  Policy & Societal Impacts 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse 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 I wrote a short story! - I Think I Am Starting to Fear Death Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics 

Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! 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 (23:00) Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents? Cues from moving eyes could help pedestrians anticipate vehicle's intentions (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

Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! 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 TheoriesEverything Everything - I Want A Love Like This (47:05) Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice Holly Herndon - Eternal (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

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... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! 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

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... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! 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

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. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! 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…