Last Week in AI - GPT-4chan, ’Sentient’ AI, Tesla Crash Probe, BIG-bench, DALL-E mini

Our 101st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week: lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy, Google saying AI chatbot has become sentient, US upgrades crash probe into Tesla Autopilot, AI program DALL-E mini prompts some truly cursed images, and more!

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Outline:

• (0:00) Intro

• (1:13) Lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy

• (8:14) Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

• (14:20) Tesla Autopilot safety faces bigger questions as US upgrades crash probe

• (18:05) Stunning Insights from James Webb Space Telescope Are Coming, Thanks to GPU-Powered Deep Learning 

• (20:31) Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts?

• (22:48) 444 Authors From 132 Institutions Release BIG-bench: A 204-Task ‘Extremely Difficult and Diverse’ Benchmark for Large Language Models 

• (26:23) ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation

• (28:52) Axon Pauses Plans for Taser Drone as Ethics Board Members Resign

• (32:42) Shield AI raises $165M at a $2.3B valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systems

• (35:38) AI program DALL-E mini prompts some truly cursed images

• (39:30) Outro