#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning
Update: 2023-11-16
Description
Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new.
Apologies for this one coming out after a pause, episodes will resume being released regularly as of this week.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00 ) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (03:00 ) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API
- (07:15 ) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI
- (09:23 ) Sick of meetings? Microsoft’s new AI assistant will go in your place
- (11:54 ) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)
- Applications & Business
- (14:55 ) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots
- (18:40 ) Figure 01 humanoid takes first public steps
- (22:31 ) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
- (23:35 ) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi’s G42 in Middle East AI Push
- (25:00 ) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs
- (26:38 ) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China’s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding
- (30:35 ) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds
- (32:13 ) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation
- Projects & Open Source
- (35:00 ) Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B)
- (39:35 ) Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents
- (42:03 ) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning
- (44:53 ) Meta’s Habitat 3.0 simulates real-world environments for intelligent AI robot training
- (48:22 ) DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters
- (49:13 ) Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI
- (51:13 ) Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics
- Research & Advancements
- (53:22 ) Eliciting Human Preferences with Language Models
- (57:23 ) New Nvidia AI agent, powered by GPT-4, can train robots
- (01:01:38 ) Unveiling the General Intelligence Factor in Language Models: A Psychometric Approach
- (01:04:48 ) AgentTuning: Enabling Generalized Agent Abilities for LLMs
- (01:09:51 ) Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL
- (01:11:25 ) ‘Mind-blowing’ IBM chip speeds up AI
- Policy & Safety
- (01:14:57 ) GM Cruise unit suspends all driverless operations after California ban
- (01:18:52 ) AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets
- (01:22:22 ) AI Safety Summit: day 1 and 2 programme
- (01:25:23 ) Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is posting lyrics to popular songs, lawsuit claims
- (01:26:38 ) Mike Huckabee says Microsoft and Meta stole his books to train AI
- (01:27:10 ) Clearview AI Successfully Appeals $9 Million Fine in the U.K.
- (01:28:11 ) North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official
- (01:30:17 ) OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI
- UK poised to establish global advisory group on AI
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:32:22 ) This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
- (01:34:32 ) Amazon now lets advertisers use generative AI to pretty up their product shots
- (01:36:36 ) The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology
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