LWiAI Podcast #137 - Salesforce Copilot, Chip Crunch, Meta Rival to ChatGPT, AI for paralysis patients

Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Jessica Dai. Check out her Reboot publication!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00) Intro 

• (01:37) SuperDataScience podcast ad

• Tools & Apps

  • (02:32) Salesforce launches AI assistant across its apps including Slack and Tableau

  • (06:06) Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds

  • (09:22) Bybit debuts AI-powered ‘TradeGPT’ for market analysis and data driven Q&A

  • (11:14) China’s Ant Group unveils finance AI model as race heats up

• Applications & Business

  • (13:24) TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months

  • (16:50) Even AI Hasn’t Helped Microsoft’s Bing Chip Away at Google’s Search Dominance

  • (20:05) OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6

  • (22:54) AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy

  • (25:71) Nasdaq gets SEC nod for first exchange AI-driven order type

  • (27:17) NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance

• Projects & Open Source

  • (30:10) Meta Platforms reportedly building open-source generative AI system to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT

  • (34:13) Indian Developers Top Hugging Face Leaderboard with GenZ 70B

  • (38:31) Supporting the Open Source AI Community

• Research & Advancements

  • (40:31) Artificial intelligence allows paralysis patient to speak for first time in 18 years

  • (45:42) Efficient Benchmarking (of Language Models)

  • (49:31) Online AI-based test for Parkinson’s disease severity shows promising results

  • (52:52) Scientists used machine learning to perform quantum error correction

• Policy & Safety

  • (56:18) Tech leaders including Musk, Zuckerberg call for government action on AI

  • (01:01:32) US court rules that artificial intelligence generated artwork cannot be copyrighted

  • (01:04:00) 2 Senators Propose Bipartisan Framework for A.I. Laws

  • (01:05:47) Transcript: US Senate Judiciary Hearing on Oversight of A.I.

  • (01:06:02) U.S. Copyright Office Invites Public To Comment On AI

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:09:10) Venice Film Festival 2023 Is Cinematic AI’s Coming Out Party

  • (01:13:52) Revolution Software is using their own AI technology to remake Broken Sword

  • (01:16:24) As his Kickstarter passes $1.3M, publisher defends Terraforming Mars’ generative AI art: ‘It’s too powerful a technology’

• (01:17:23) Outro