#123 - Delete your info from ChatGPT, Google’s AI plans, EU act targets OSS, PaLM 2, writers’ strike
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Our 123rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (04:30) News Preview
- (05:40) Response to listener comments / corrections
- Tools & Apps
- (07:07) OpenAI rolls out more than 70 ChatGPT plugins including Internet access
- (11:56) How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
- (17:45) Google is throwing generative AI at everything
- (23:12) Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes
- (25:20) Google develops tool to spot fake AI images after puffer jacket Pope went viral
- (26:48) Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-Style Search to Its Online Store
- (27:35) W&B Prompts
- Applications & Business
- (28:55) Generative AI Breaks The Data Center: Data Center Infrastructure And Operating Costs Projected To Increase To Over $76 Billion By 2028
- (31:31) OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million for Global Crypto Worldcoin
- (33:33) OpenAI Confirms ChatGPT Data Breach
- (35:15) Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers
- (36:50) AI Startup Rewind Gets 170 Offers—and $350 Million Valuation in Unusual Fundraising
- (38:43) Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare
- Projects & Open Source
- (40:22) EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software
- (44:53) Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models
- (47:15) Stability AI releases an open source text-to-animation tool
- (49:19) Listener submission - PandasAI
- Research & Advancements
- (50:53) PaLM 2 Technical Report
- (56:48) Microsoft AI Research Introduces Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): A Simple and General-Purpose Framework for the Automatic Optimization of LLM Prompts
- (59:51) Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence
- (01:05:05) Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector
- (01:08:45) An Inverse Scaling Law for CLIP Training
- (01:11:13) Active Retrieval Augmented Generation
- (01:12:53) Professional Certification Benchmark Dataset: The First 500 Jobs For Large Language Models
- (01:16:17) FrugalGPT: How to Use Large Language Models While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance
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Policy & Safety
- (01:18:37) A.I. ‘controls humanity’ in the worst-case scenario but will probably just find us boring, says Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque
- (01:20:37) Hinton issues another AI warning: World needs to find a way to control artificial intelligence
- (01:26:48) Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion
- (01:30:08) The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK
- (01:32:00) AI voice scams: Report shares 77% of victims lose money, how common it is, and how to protect yourself
- (01:34:19) Police near Seattle issue warning about AI phone scammers impersonating family members
- (01:36:01) How to spot AI-generated text
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AI-Generated Media & Art
- (01:37:32) Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers' strike
- (01:39:15) China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral
- (01:42:16) Hybe uses AI voice technology for Midnatt's multilingual single
- (01:43:18) Trump shares fake video of Anderson Cooper reacting to CNN town hall
- (01:46:30) Not even NYT bestsellers are safe from AI cover art
- (01:48:35) Listener Question - more on the writer’s strike(?)
- (01:54:48) Outro
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