Innovations in AI and the Competitive Landscape

Our 150th 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
  • (00:02:49) OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open for business
  • (00:06:52) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams
  • Lighting round
    • (00:09:18) The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you
    • (00:11:18) Amazon’s Alexa gets new generative AI-powered experiences
    • (00:12:55) Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for
• Applications & Business
  • (00:14:24) Nvidia's newest chips are designed to run AI at home as competition from Intel, AMD looms
  • (00:16:52) Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI
  • Lighting round
    • (00:19:16) AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M
    • (00:21:33) Waymo will start testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways
    • (00:23:24) Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:25:10) DeepMind is trying to train robots for real-world activities
  • (00:29:03) MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts
  • Lighting round
    • (00:33:18) PIXART-δ: Fast and Controllable Image Generation with Latent Consistency Models
    • (00:35:20)  InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes
    • (00:37:06) The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models
    • (00:39:33) Mixtral of Experts
• Policy & Safety
  • (00:40:38) Meta and OpenAI have spawned a wave of AI sex companions—and some of them are children
  • (00:46:30) ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
  • Lighting round
    • (00:49:52) Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions
    • (00:51:43) Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (00:55:09) A list going viral reveals famous artists whose work was used to train AI generator
  • (00:58:28) YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated true crime deepfakes
  • Lighting round
    • (01:00:27) AI-Generated George Carlin Comedy Special Slammed by Comedian’s Daughter
    • (01:01:56) SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games
    • (01:03:26) Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case