Navigating AI Innovations and Audience Engagement

This chapter shifts the focus from major AI players to a broader discussion of industry trends and audience feedback. The hosts humorously engage with listener comments while diving into exciting developments, such as Odyssey's new AI startup and updates on AI chatbot technology. They also analyze the implications of recent advancements in AI applications, including video production, prompt engineering, and music generation.

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Our 174rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00:00) Intro AI Song
(00:00:41) Pre News Banter
Tools & Apps
- (00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha
- (00:10:28) Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps
- (00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy
- (00:18:30) Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps
- (00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the go
Applications & Business
Research & Advancements
Policy & Safety
- (01:26:49) Covert Malicious Finetuning
- (01:31:23) OpenAI’s week of security issues
- (01:36:39) Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are
- (01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs
- (01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab
- (01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub
- (01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sell
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:52:46) Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels
- (01:54:50) Tech Startup Aims to Help Media License Content for AI Training
- (01:57:23) Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy
- (01:59:44) Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos
(02:02:05) Outro + AI Song

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