AI Strategies and Market Shifts

Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter
• (01:00) SuperDataScience podcast ad
• Tools & Apps
  • (02:55) Adobe is upgrading Photoshop’s generative AI model — and releasing more for Illustrator and Express
  • (07:52) Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other
  • (14:15) Kendall Jenner becomes "Billie": Meta's AI celebrities face more resistance than enthusiasm
  • (18:22) Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta
• Applications & Business
  • (20:22) Google Cloud pledges a ‘shared fate,’ offering legal indemnification for customers
  • (25:00) Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4
  • (31:05) Key Arm China Staff Quit to Create Government-Backed Startup
  • (33:30) AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia
  • (34:47) Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails
  • (37:20) ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing
  • (38:46) TSMC: ecosystem for 2nm chip development is nearing completion
  • (41:50) OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut
• Research & Advancements
  • (46:35) LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music
  • (50:20) TimeGPT-1
  • (55:25) How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?
  • (01:00:17) HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time
  • (01:04:33) PaLI-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger
  • (01:05:42) A Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF
  • (01:08:20) Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:12:05) No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas
  • (01:15:03) Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight
  • (01:19:59) How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington
  • (01:28:38) China targets 50% boost in computing power as AI race with U.S. ramps up
  • (01:31:03) China proposes blacklist of sources used to train generative AI models
  • (01:34:44) Biden to cut China off from more Nvidia chips, expand curbs to more countries
  • (01:37:51) TSMC expects permanent U.S. approval to supply chip tools to its China factory
  • (01:40:34) Southeast Asia eyes hands-off AI rules, defying EU ambitions
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:44:05) AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War
• (01:47:03) Outro