AI and Scriptwriting: A New Era

Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business
  • OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more
  • NVIDIA's big AI moment is here
  • Lighting Round
    • Former head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture
    • Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems
    • Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies
    • Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job

• Research & Advancements
  • Learning to grow machine-learning models
  • Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo
  • Lighting Round
    • New virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making 
    • Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls 
    • New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents
    • Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator
• Policy & Societal Impacts
  • OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’
  • 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months”
  • Lighting Round
    • In San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all
    • Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC
    • Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI
    • AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes

• Art & Fun Stuff
  
  • People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet)
  • WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit