Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Synthetic Media & Art
Tools & Apps
(00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool
(00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
(00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant
(00:23:47) ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade
(00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
(00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones
Applications & Business
(00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report
(00:34:25) Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
(00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development
(00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI
(00:47:22) AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
(00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding
(01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty
(01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems?
(01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models
(01:20:30) A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
Policy & Safety
(01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes
(01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models
(01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order
(01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake
(01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation
(01:45:15) Outro
LWiAI Podcast #153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills