LWiAI Podcast #172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic

Our 172nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• Tools & Apps

  • (00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant

  • (00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps

  • (00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July

  • (00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users

  • (00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco

  • (00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI

• Applications & Business

  • (00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC

  • (00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others

  • (00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say

  • (00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions

  • (00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same

• Projects & Open Source

  • (00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization

  • (00:47:54) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B

  • (00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model

• Research & Advancements

  • (00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4

  • (01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks

  • (01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again

  • (01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination

  • (01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws

• Policy & Safety

  • (01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep

  • (01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill

  • (01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools

  • (01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI

  • (01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models

  • Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement

  • (01:42:43) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels

  • (01:45:07) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool

• (01:49:12) Outro + AI Song