LWiAI Podcast #115 - GPT4, Bard, AGI, Alpaca, Anthropic, Midjourney V5

Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business

  • GPT-4

    • GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why 

    • GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired

  • Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions

  • Lighting Round

    • Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4

    • Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses

    • Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You

    • Introducing Claude

• Research & Advancements

  • Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI

  • Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model

  • Lighting Round

    • Our latest health AI research updates

    • Machine learning takes starring role in exploring the universe 

    • A new method to boost the speed of online databases

    • MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks

• Policy & Societal Impacts

  • Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How

  • Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams

  • Lighting Round

    • Some high-level thoughts on the DeepMind alignment team's strategy

    • Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now?

    • AI Scams and Influencers

    • AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office 

    • I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients 

• Art & Fun Stuff

  • Midjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art

  • Illustration competitions grapple with generative AI

  • Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display