AI Innovations: From Language Models to Soft Robotics

Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter
• (04:18) Listener feedback/comments
• Tools & Apps
  • (07:00) ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave
  • (09:20) GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
  • (12:38) Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts
  • (15:32) Google Bard is now available in the EU
• Applications & Business
  • (17:15) An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips
  • (20:35) Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription
  • (23:00) Elon Musk threw nine-figure promises at top AI researchers
  • (26:28) Machine Learning Market to Hit $419.94 Billion by 2030: Grand View Research, Inc.
  • (28:31) Jasper, Mutiny AI Startups Cut Workers As Chatbot Rivalry Grows
  • (31:50) Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop
  • (34:34) China’s OpenAI challenger Zhipu AI gets Meituan funding
• Projects & Open Source
  • Lighting round
• Research & Advancements
  • (36:50) A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis
  • (43:20) Is ChatGPT getting worse over time? Study claims yes, but others aren’t sure
  • (48:36) A simple yet effective design, coupled with remarkable durability and low cost, make this robotic gripper a promising option for many industries
  • (51:24) Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants
  • (55:16) Researchers From Tsinghua University Introduce A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm Under The Meta-Learning Paradigm
  • (58:47) MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:02:20) Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons
  • (01:11:55) Frontier Model Security
  • (01:17:15) The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity
  • (01:22:32) 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House
  • (01:27:35) The Illusion Of AI’s Existential Risk
  • (01:35:05) Large majority of Americans have strong reservations about A.I. emergence, CNBC survey shows
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:38:12) You’re going to see more AI-written articles whether you like it or not
  • (01:41:13) ‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense
  • (01:41:49) Google says AI tools meant to help journalists and not to replace them
  • (01:45:12) Actors decry 'existential crisis' over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors
  • (01:47:49) AI tool creates South Park episodes with user in starring role
• (01:50:51) Outro