Navigating AI Expertise: Amazon's New Board Appointment

Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey

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Timestamps + links:

• Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available
  • (00:14:01) Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4V
  • (00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus
  • (00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model
  • (00:23:48) Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists
  • (00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools
• Applications & Business
  • (00:25:52) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use
  • (00:30:32) TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle
  • (00:36:30) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China — three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military
  • (00:38:37) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train
  • (00:40:22) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors
  • (00:41:55) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise Big
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:44:08) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models
  • (00:50:03) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need
  • (00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts
  • (01:03:20) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt
  • (01:07:18) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans
  • (01:10:45) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:13:44) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team
  • (01:17:18) NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security
  • (01:19:19) Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models
  • (01:24:11) Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies
  • (01:27:35) SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:30:25) Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program