#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning
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Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new.
Apologies for this one coming out after a pause, episodes will resume being released regularly as of this week.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (03:00) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API
- (07:15) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI
- (09:23) Sick of meetings? Microsoft’s new AI assistant will go in your place
- (11:54) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)
- Applications & Business
- (14:55) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots
- (18:40) Figure 01 humanoid takes first public steps
- (22:31) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
- (23:35) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi’s G42 in Middle East AI Push
- (25:00) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs
- (26:38) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China’s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding
- (30:35) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds
- (32:13) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation
- Projects & Open Source
- (35:00) Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B)
- (39:35) Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents
- (42:03) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning
- (44:53) Meta’s Habitat 3.0 simulates real-world environments for intelligent AI robot training
- (48:22) DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters
- (49:13) Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI
- (51:13) Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics
- Research & Advancements
- (53:22) Eliciting Human Preferences with Language Models
- (57:23) New Nvidia AI agent, powered by GPT-4, can train robots
- (01:01:38) Unveiling the General Intelligence Factor in Language Models: A Psychometric Approach
- (01:04:48) AgentTuning: Enabling Generalized Agent Abilities for LLMs
- (01:09:51) Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL
- (01:11:25) ‘Mind-blowing’ IBM chip speeds up AI
- Policy & Safety
- (01:14:57) GM Cruise unit suspends all driverless operations after California ban
- (01:18:52) AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets
- (01:22:22) AI Safety Summit: day 1 and 2 programme
- (01:25:23) Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is posting lyrics to popular songs, lawsuit claims
- (01:26:38) Mike Huckabee says Microsoft and Meta stole his books to train AI
- (01:27:10) Clearview AI Successfully Appeals $9 Million Fine in the U.K.
- (01:28:11) North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official
- (01:30:17) OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI
- UK poised to establish global advisory group on AI
- Synthetic Media & Art
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