#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ‘Preparedness Framework’, campaigning voice clone
Update: 2023-12-24
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Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:43 ) Google Deepmind unveils its most advanced AI image generator, Imagen 2
- (00:08:21 ) Anthropic will help users if they get sued for copyright infringement
- (00:13:50 ) Midjourney Alpha is here with AI image generations on the web
- (00:16:34 ) Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool
- (00:17:09 ) Microsoft drastically expands Azure AI Studio to include Llama 2 Model-as-a-Service, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision
- (00:18:54 ) ChatGPT Is Apparently Becoming Lazy as It Has Started Asking Users to Solve Their Own Problems
- (00:22:17 ) You can create your own AI songs with this new Copilot extension
- (00:23:57 ) Stability AI announces paid membership for commercial use of its models
- Applications & Business
- (00:25:42 ) ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor
- (00:31:55 ) Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD
- (00:36:36 ) Chinese chip-related companies shutting down with record speed — 10,900, or around 30 per day, shut down in 2023
- (00:40:11 ) TSMC mentions 1.4nm process tech for the first time, says 2nm remains on track
- (00:42:57 ) Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration
- (00:46:17 ) Nvidia rushes to deliver modified AI GPU chips to China customers, allegedly places 'Super Hot Run' priority order with TSMC
- (00:49:17 ) Sam Altman’s OpenAI agrees to pay German media giant Axel Springer for using its content to train AI models
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:52:20 ) Introducing DeciLM-7B: The Fastest and Most Accurate 7 Billion-Parameter LLM to Date
- (00:57:27 ) Introducing Stable Zero123: Quality 3D Object Generation from Single Images
- Research & Advancements
- (01:00:42 ) FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models
- (01:09:12 ) OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI
- (01:16:41 ) Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests
- (01:18:13 ) SwitchHead: Accelerating Transformers with Mixture-of-Experts Attention
- (01:20:04 ) CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents
- (01:21:10 ) Limits to the Energy Efficiency of CMOS Microprocessors
- Policy & Safety
- (01:24:24 ) OpenAI announces ‘Preparedness Framework’ to track and mitigate AI risks
- (01:32:08 ) Pro-China YouTube Network Used A.I. to Malign U.S., Report Finds
- (01:37:07 ) AI is a danger to the financial system, regulators warn for the first time
- (01:38:42 ) Anonymous Sudan hacking group sets sights on ChatGPT
- (01:40:33 ) Scenario planning for an AGI future
- (01:42:51 ) The widening web of effective altruism in AI security
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:49:22 ) Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real
- (01:52:34 ) Pakistan’s former prime minister is using an AI voice clone to campaign from prison
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