LWiAI Podcast #157 - Gemini controversy, new Mistral models, Deepmind's Genie & Griffinn, AI Warfare is here

Our 157th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• Tools & Apps

  • (00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis

  • (00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator

  • (00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant

  • (00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos

  • (00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio

  • (00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs

• Applications & Business

  • (00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI

  • (00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI

  • (00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business

  • (00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano

  • (00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report

  • (00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock

• Projects & Open Source

  • (00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM

  • (00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model

  • (00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public

  • (00:54:25) Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster

• Research & Advancements

  • (00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments

  • (00:01:07) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models

  • (01:15:16) Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor

  • (01:20:56) Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs

  • (01:22:10) Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings

• Policy & Safety

  • (01:25:45) AI Warfare Is Already Here

  • (01:29:36) Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall

  • (01:32:45) Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety

  • (01:34:53)  Facebook whistleblower, AI godfather join hundreds calling for deepfake regulation

  • US regulators investigate whether OpenAI investors were misled, say reports

  • (01:36:51)  Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:40:23) The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft

  • (01:41:15) A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI

• Fun!

  • (01:42:54) Impossible AI Food