Strategic Alliances in AI

Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00)  Intro / Banter
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
  • (00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads
  • (00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead
  • (00:12:20) Guns N’ Roses share AI-generated video for ‘The General’
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool
  • (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
  • (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant
  • (00:23:47)  ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade
  • (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
  • (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones
• Applications & Business
  • (00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report
  • (00:34:25) Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
  • (00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development
  • (00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI
  • (00:47:22)  AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode
  • (00:53:00) Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4
  • (00:54:30) DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence
  • Lighting round
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding
  • (01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty
  • (01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems?
  • (01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models
  • (01:20:30) A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes
  • (01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models
  • (01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order
  • (01:33:06) Rep. Jeff Jackson Introduces Bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to Stop China from Remotely Using American Technology to Build AI Tools
  • (01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake
  • (01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation
• (01:45:15) Outro