LWiAI Podcast #116 - ChatGPT plugins, AI hardware, petition to pause AI, Trump deepfakes

Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

Stories this week:

• Applications & Business

  • OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more

  • NVIDIA's big AI moment is here

  • Lighting Round

    • Former head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture

    • Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems

    • Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies

    • Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job

• Research & Advancements

  • Learning to grow machine-learning models

  • Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo

  • Lighting Round

    • New virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making 

    • Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls 

    • New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents

    • Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator

• Policy & Societal Impacts

  • OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’

  • 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months”

  • Lighting Round

    • In San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all

    • Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC

    • Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI

    • AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes

• Art & Fun Stuff
  

  • People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet)

  • WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit