Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant
(00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images
(00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
(00:12:40) Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
(00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
(00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model
(00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5
(00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
(00:53:20) Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing
Research & Advancements
(00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors
(01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks
(01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
(01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design
(01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
(01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data
Policy & Safety
(01:13:22) EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption
(01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
(01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
(01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute
(01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
(01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
(01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
(01:34:38) Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written
(01:36:20) Outro
LWiAI Podcast #154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks