#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal
Update: 2023-10-10
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Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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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
- (56:11 ) Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone
- (01:01:12 ) Adept AI Labs Open-Sources Persimmon-8B: A Powerful Fully Permissively-Licensed Language Model with <10 Billion Parameters
- (01:03:20 ) BTLM-3B-8K: 7B Parameter Performance in a 3B Parameter Model
- 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
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