#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over
Update: 2023-11-20
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Our 143rd 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:
- Applications & Business
- (02:53 ) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
- (12:00 ) Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event
- (16:05 ) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes
- (18:30 ) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van
- (20:55 ) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU
- (21:35 ) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota
- (22:38 ) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe’s third-largest AI round ever
- (23:22 ) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others
- (24:16 ) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation
- (02:53 ) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
- Tools & Apps
- (25:00 ) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
- (27:38 ) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot
- (30:03 ) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat
- (31:01 ) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job
- (32:07 ) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss
- (33:33 ) Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable
- (25:00 ) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (40:03 ) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
- (42:35 ) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ‘Mirasol3B’ for advanced video analysis
- (45:15 ) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products
- (46:06 ) Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation
- (47:54 ) Title:One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion
- (49:12 ) Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models
- (40:03 ) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
- Policy & Safety
- (51:37 ) Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards
- (56:10 ) Amy Klobuchar and John Thune introduce legislation for creating generative AI framework
- (57:55 ) Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues
- (01:00:19 ) At UK's AI Summit developers and govts agree on testing to help manage risks
- (01:02:15 ) White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey
- (51:37 ) Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:04:12 ) Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal
- (01:07:46 ) Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music
- (01:10:10 ) YouTube previews AI tool that clones famous singers — with their permission
- (01:11:08 ) Microsoft is bringing AI characters to Xbox
- (01:11:49 ) CBS News Launches New Venture To Identify AI Deepfakes And Misinformation
- (01:04:12 ) Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal
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