Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(03:00) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API
(07:15) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI
(09:23) Sick of meetings? Microsoft’s new AI assistant will go in your place
(11:54) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)
Applications & Business
(14:55) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots
(22:31) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
(23:35) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi’s G42 in Middle East AI Push
(25:00) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs
(26:38) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China’s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding
(30:35) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds
(32:13) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation
Projects & Open Source
(42:03) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning
(44:53) Meta’s Habitat 3.0 simulates real-world environments for intelligent AI robot training
(48:22) DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters
(49:13) Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI
Research & Advancements
(57:23) New Nvidia AI agent, powered by GPT-4, can train robots
(01:01:38) Unveiling the General Intelligence Factor in Language Models: A Psychometric Approach
(01:04:48) AgentTuning: Enabling Generalized Agent Abilities for LLMs
(01:09:51) Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL
(01:11:25) ‘Mind-blowing’ IBM chip speeds up AI
Policy & Safety
(01:14:57) GM Cruise unit suspends all driverless operations after California ban
(01:18:52) AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets
(01:22:22) AI Safety Summit: day 1 and 2 programme
(01:25:23) Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is posting lyrics to popular songs, lawsuit claims
(01:26:38) Mike Huckabee says Microsoft and Meta stole his books to train AI
(01:27:10) Clearview AI Successfully Appeals $9 Million Fine in the U.K.
(01:28:11) North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official
(01:30:17) OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI
Synthetic Media & Art
LWiAI Podcast #142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning