Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business

  • Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I.

  • Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers 

  • Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff

  • Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots 

  • Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials

  • Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it

  • Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up

• Research & Advancements

  • Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

  • Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space

  • RT-1: Robotics Transformer

  • Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model

  • MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions

  • Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible 

  • How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction

• Policy & Societal Impacts

  • "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI

  • What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security

  • How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

  • AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning

  • Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like 

  • Planning for AGI and beyond

• Art & Fun Stuff

  • Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

  • ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon 

  • ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking

  • Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers 

  • The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place