LWiAI Podcast #167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!

You can watch the youtube version of this here:

With a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.

You can listen along with a (flawed) transcript here

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Timestamps + links:

• Intro / Banter

• Tools & Apps

  • (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users

  • (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google

  • (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

  • (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models

  • (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts

  • (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console

• Applications & Business

  • (00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company

  • (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer

  • (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl

  • (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board

  • (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes

  • (00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps

• Projects & Open Source

  • (00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit

  • (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3

  • (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0

• Research & Advancements

  • (00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

  • (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture

• Policy & Safety

  • (00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes

  • (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety

  • (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video

  • (01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright

  • (01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'

  • (01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech

• (01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey

• (01:42:00) AI Outro Song