#116 - ChatGPT plugins, AI hardware, petition to pause AI, Trump deepfakes
Update: 2023-03-31
Description
Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more
- NVIDIA's big AI moment is here
- Lighting Round
- Former 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 & 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
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
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