#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec
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Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model
- (00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts
- (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices
- (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan
- (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
- (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT
- (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini
- (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion
- (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring
- (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models
- (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model
- (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities
- (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
- (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library
- (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models
- Research & Advancements
- (00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA
- (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
- (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation
- (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems
- (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models
- (01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI
- (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
- (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles
- (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3
- (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala
- (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam
- (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men
- (01:40:18) AI Outro Song
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