Intro

Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business
  • Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I.
  • Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers 
  • Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff
  • Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots 
  • Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials
  • Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it
  • Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up
• Research & Advancements
  • Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
  • Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space
  • RT-1: Robotics Transformer
  • Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model
  • MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions
  • Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible 
  • How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction
• Policy & Societal Impacts
  • "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI
  • What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security
  • How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
  • AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning
  • Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like 
  • Planning for AGI and beyond
• Art & Fun Stuff
  • Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 
  • ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon 
  • ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
  • Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers 
  • The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place