LWiAI Podcast #168 - OpenAI vs Scar Jo + its safety researchers, MS AI updates, exciting Anthropic research

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!

You can listen along to the episode with a transcript here.

Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections

• Tools & Apps

  • (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson

  • (00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs

  • (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App

  • (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive

  • (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US

  • (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles

• Applications & Business

  • (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit

  • (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million

  • (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push

  • (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors.

  • (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots

  • (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B

• Projects & Open Source

  • (00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo

  • (00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts

  • (00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures

• Research & Advancements

  • (00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box'

  • (01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models

  • (01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model

  • (01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models

  • (01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning

  • (01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models

• Policy & Safety

  • (01:15:01) World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light

  • (01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill

  • (01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation

  • (01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models

  • (01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risks

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI

  • (01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses

  • (01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?

• (01:42:01) Outro + AI Song