LWiAI Podcast #111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business

  • Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot

    • Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard

    • Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad

    • Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public

    • You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future

    • Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine

  • Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot

  • Lighting Round

    • Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI 

      • AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation 

    • OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee 

    • Instagram’s founders are back with a new app 

    • Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |… 

• Research & Advancements

  • Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT 

  • A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected 

  • Lighting Round

    • Whispers of AI’s modular future

    • AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find 

    • AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art

    • Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning

• Policy & Societal Impacts

  • Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards 

    • Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death

    • Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word

  • Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat

  • The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning

  • Lighting Round

    • Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI

    • A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision 

    • Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed 

    • Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears

    • U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement

    • Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified

• Art & Fun Stuff

  • AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now