#147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’ translator
Update: 2023-12-17
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Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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- (00:00:00 ) Intro/Sponsor Read
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:00 ) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT
- (00:14:15 ) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked
- (00:19:33 ) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great
- (00:22:30 ) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini
- (00:24:50 ) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano
- (00:25:55 ) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds
- (00:29:55 ) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT
- (00:33:21 ) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke"
- (00:34:51 ) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years
- (00:35:55 ) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache
- Applications & Business
- (00:37:23 ) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s
- (00:42:02 ) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions
- (00:46:44 ) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions
- (00:50:20 ) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
- (00:51:46 ) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet
- (00:54:08 ) Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts
- (00:56:45 ) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models
- (00:57:41 ) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:59:20 ) Mixtral of experts
- (01:05:50 ) Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages
- (01:07:07 ) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers
- (01:10:15 ) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development
- Research & Advancements
- (01:13:21 ) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image — you have to see it to believe it
- (01:14:20 ) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1
- (01:17:40 ) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning
- (01:19:04 ) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders
- (01:21:20 ) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models
- (01:23:40 ) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research
- Policy & Safety
- (01:26:41 ) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules
- (01:33:58 ) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment
- (01:39:12 ) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation
- (01:41:22 ) US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China
- (01:44:12 ) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI
- (01:47:25 ) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:49:03 ) High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed
- (01:52:55 ) Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle
- (01:55:57 ) Outro
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