LWiAI Podcast #124 - AI in Windows and Photoshop, Nvidia makes $$$, DragGAN, Fake Pentagon Explosion

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Our 124th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter

• (01:30) News Preview

• Tools & Apps

  • (03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11

  • (08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop

  • (12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT

  • (14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos

  • (16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries

  • (18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI

• Applications & Business

  • (19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom

  • (22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think  

  • (25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster 

  • (28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot

  • (30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis

  • (32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters

  • (33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work

• Projects & Open Source

  • (35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly  +  Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio

  • (38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents 

  • (41:37) Bard API

  • (43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face

  • (44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source

• Research & Advancements

  • (45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning

  • (49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds

  • (51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans 

  • (54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages

  • (56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models

  • (59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes

  • (01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment

• Policy & Safety 

  • (01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI

  • (01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?

  • (01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare 

  • (01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud

  • (01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media

• (01:28:44) Outro