#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

Last Week in AI

Navigating Career Choices and AI Content Creation

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The chapter follows the speaker's journey from choosing a startup job over research labs to starting a podcast focused on accurate AI information. They share their passion for democratizing creativity using generative AI and reflect on balancing personal enjoyment with professional endeavors. The chapter also explores decisions to slow down podcast production for pursuing new skills and content formats while appreciating audience support.

Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!

And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.

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Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai

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Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
- (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users
- (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google
- (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
- (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models
- (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts
- (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console
Applications & Business
- (00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company
- (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer
- (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl
- (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board
- (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes
- (00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
- (00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
- (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture
Policy & Safety
- (00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes
- (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety
- (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey
(01:42:00) AI Outro Song

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