Our 170th 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:

Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
- (00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group
- (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI
- (00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals
- (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami
- (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave"
- (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink
Projects & Open Source
- (00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M
- (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores
- (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv
- (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design
Research & Advancements
- (00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders
- (01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting
- (01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach
- (01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile
Policy & Safety
- (01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027
- (01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
- (01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks
- (01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant
(01:46:25) Outro + AI Song

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