#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal
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Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (01:30) SuperDataScience podcast ad
- (03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (05:59) ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads
- (10:44) ChatGPT can now search the web in real time
- (13:30) Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps
- (18:26) Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
- (19:32) Windows 11’s next big update is now available with Copilot, AI-powered Paint, and more
- (20:21) Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools
- (21:32) YouTube Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Tools For Video Creators
- (23:20) Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers
- Applications & Business
- (25:00) AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs
- (29:28) Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic
- (36:24) China to Challenge ASML with a better technology than EUV
- (40:00) Intel says newest laptop chips, software will handle generative AI
- (43:03) Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images
- (46:02) AI Startup Writer Pens $100M Round
- (46:40) AI chip startup Kneron secures $49M investment
- (48:45) AI startup AlphaSense valued at $2.5 billion after latest funding round
- (51:01) A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device
- (52:42) Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
- (55:24) Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:07:10) AnyMAL: An Efficient and Scalable Any-Modality Augmented Language Model
- (01:09:35) DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation / Text-to-3D using Gaussian Splatting
- (01:12:40) Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential
- (01:15:38) Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window
- (01:17:26) John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence
- Policy & Safety
- (01:19:46) Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill
- (01:24:03) AI facial recognition tech leads to wave of lawsuits from Black plaintiffs after mistaken identities end in arrests
- (01:26:20) California governor vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety drivers
- (01:27:47) Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town
- (01:29:00) AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency
- (01:30:36) We Can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nuclear Catastrophe
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:33:19) Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.
- (01:35:10) Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness
- (01:36:24) Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake
- (01:37:36) Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns
- (01:39:59) Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors
- (01:42:17) Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy
- (01:45:22) Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI
- (01:48:55) OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List
- (01:50:16) Outro
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