#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI

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Reflecting on 2023 and a Chat About the Past Year

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The hosts introduce the podcast and its host, John Krohn, as a valuable resource for learning about data science and AI. They discuss receiving a Christmas card from Krohn and reflect on the idea of not having one's life together. They also mention a retrospective on the past year and the publication of a text newsletter highlighting AI news from 2023.

Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:08:13) Reflections on 2023
Tools & Apps
- (00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text!
- (00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users
- (00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI
- (00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked
- (00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android
Applications & Business
Research & Advancements
- (00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action
- (00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore
- (01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks
- (01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones
- (01:09:47) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
- (01:10:41) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation
Policy & Safety
(01:23:40) Outro

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