#122 - AI for Word and Excel, leaked Google memo, ImageBind, LLAva, robot soccer, Midjourney 5.1
Update: 2023-05-13
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Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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
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