#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME, Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream
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Advancements in Real-Time Language Models
This chapter explores Perplexity AI's new language models, PPLX 7B Online and PPLX 70B Online, which provide real-time internet access for accurate responses. It also clarifies terminology related to 'online LLMs' and discusses the innovative evaluation methods used to assess these models.
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Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: this one is coming out a bit late, sorry! We'll have a new ep with coverage of the big news about Gemini and the EU AI Act out soon though.
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro/Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:03) ChatGPT’s 1-year anniversary: how it changed the world
- (00:06:15) Perplexity AI Introduces New Online LLMs for Real-Time Information Access
- (00:11:45) Intuit Adds Generative AI-Powered Tax Prep to TurboTax
- (00:12:57) Microsoft Paint’s DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out on Windows 11
- (00:13:56) Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift
- (00:14:54) Voicemod will now let you create and share your own AI voices
- (00:16:15) Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator
- Applications & Business
- (00:17:48) Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit
- (00:20:39) Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
- (00:25:48) Google is reportedly pushing the launch of its Gemini AI to 2024
- (00:27:38) OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
- (00:29:03) US Compels Saudi Fund to Exit AI Chip Startup Backed by Altman
- (00:30:15) OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2 Billion Valuation With Andreessen Horowitz Backing
- (00:31:57) US artificial intelligence leader OpenAI applies for GPT-6, GPT-7 trademarks in China
- (00:32:59) CoreWeave backed by Fidelity and Jane Street at $7 billion valuation as cloud provider bolsters status as one of AI’s hottest startups
- (00:34:14) AWS debuts next-generation Graviton4 and Trainium2 chips for cloud and AI workloads
- (00:35:08) Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI
- (00:36:09) Indian AI Video Startup Rephrase.ai Announces Acquisition by Adobe
- (00:36:40) Report: Stability AI Positioning Itself for Acquisition
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:48:37) Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for thousands of new materials
- (00:54:11) Researchers quantify the carbon footprint of generating AI images
- (00:56:40) Adopting and expanding ethical principles for generative artificial intelligence from military to healthcare
- (00:57:51) White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction: Compression Is All There Is?
- (01:00:09) Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? Case Study in Medicine
- (01:02:30) MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI
- Policy & Safety
- (01:05:19) ChatGPT can leak training data, violate privacy, says Google's DeepMind
- (01:12:45) UK to invest £500M more in AI compute capacity, launch five new quantum projects
- (01:13:39) Microsoft's $3.2 bln UK investment to drive AI growth
- (01:14:35) A new Pentagon program aims to speed up decisions on what AI tech is trustworthy enough to deploy
- (01:16:06) US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day'
- (01:19:13) The UAE’s leading AI CEO addresses bombshell New York Times report alleging China ties, says he didn’t finish reading the story
- (01:21:07) Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:25:02) Outro
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