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Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter
• (01:36) Response to listener comments / corrections
• Tools & Apps
  • (05:05) OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
  • (07:45) New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks
  • (10:55) JetBrains IDE update previews “deeply integrated” AI Assistant
  • (14:35) No More Paperwork? Amazon AI Tool Transcribes Patient Visits for Doctors
  • (16:11) Photoshop’s new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop’ images
  • (19:11) Wayfair’s AI tool can redraw your living room and sell you furniture
• Applications & Business
  • (21:25) Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI
  • (28:10) Facing more nimble rivals, OpenAI won’t bend … yet
  • (32:00) OpenAI's head of trust and safety steps down
  • (33:15) Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube
  • (35:28) Samsung extends cut in memory chip production, will focus on high-end AI chips instead
  • (36:50) Microsoft to supply AI tech to Japan government, Nikkei reports
  • (38:20) Protect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools
• Projects & Open Source
  • (41:56) Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model
  • (49:25) Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
  • (52:15) Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation
• Research & Advancements
  • (55:45) AI researchers say they've found 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rules
  • (01:03:48) RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action
  • (01:09:50) (Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
  • (01:13:26) Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
  • (01:18:50) STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft
  • (01:20:42) Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:23:48) Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum
  • (01:29:14) Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers
  • (01:32:46) America Already Has an AI Underclass
  • (01:35:04) AI leaders warn Senate of twin risks: moving too slow and moving too fast
  • (01:38:35) The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here 
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:42:30) This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation
• (01:44:16) Outro