LWiAI Podcast #136 - Claude Pro, Ideogram, Chinese ChatGPT bots, Falcon 180B, RLAIF, export restrictions, Ghostwriter

Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00) Intro 

• (01:15) SuperDataScience Ad

• (01:51) Response to listeners

• Tools & Apps

  • (02:47) Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot gets a paid plan for heavy users

  • (04:36) Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography

  • (06:37) Intuit launches generative AI–powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers

  • (07:17) Zoom Is Jumping on the AI Chatbot Bandwagon

• Applications & Business

  • (08:47) China lets Baidu, others launch ChatGPT-like bots to public, tech shares jump

  • (11:23) Tencent releases AI model for businesses as competition in China heats up

  • (12:00) Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI users get sued

  • (14:52) How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI

  • (17:30) ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month

  • (19:16) AI chip startup d-Matrix raises $110 mln with backing from Microsoft

  • (21:00) ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to ID and fight money laundering

  • (22:18) Sapeon raises $46m for AI chips

  • (23:20) Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’

• Projects & Open Source

  • (25:48) Announcing the commercial relicensing and expansion of DINOv2, plus the introduction of FACET

  • (27:02) UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI

  • (29:23) New Open-Source ‘Falcon’ AI Language Model Overtakes Meta and Google

• Research & Advancements

  • (31:01) Qwen-VL: A Frontier Large Vision-Language Model with Versatile Abilities

  • (33:57) RLAIF: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback

  • (36:22) Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses

  • (39:28) SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image

• Policy & Safety

  • (41:00) US curbs AI chip exports from Nvidia and AMD to some Middle East countries

  • (42:55) China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters, Microsoft says

  • (46:37) Trusting A.I.-written mushroom hunting guides sold on Amazon could get you killed. But like deadly fungi, identifying them is tricky

  • (48:25) Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok

  • (50:30) The UK releases key ambitions for global AI summit

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (51:55) AI Took the Stage at the World's Largest Arts Festival. Here's What Happened

  • (54:12) Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies

  • (56:17) Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually

  • (58:57) The latest canvas for Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art? The new Sphere in Las Vegas

• (01:01:20) Outro