#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause
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Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- (00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
- (00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23
- (00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
- (00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US
- (00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace
- (00:22:40) Fundings
- Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI
- Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M
- Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation
- Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects
- Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
- Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
- (00:26:45) Acquisitions
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos
- (00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up
- (00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
- (00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning
- (00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent
- (00:45:05) NVIDIA H100 GPUs Set Standard for Generative AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark
- Policy & Safety
- (00:46:50) From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI
- (00:53:50) US considering new restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Wall Street Journal reports
- (00:57:10) 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
- (01:00:32) European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’
- Synthetic Media and Art
- (01:12:17) Outro
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