NVIDIA's Innovative Local Chatbot for RTX PCs

Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like
  • (00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model
  • (00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs
• Applications & Business
  • (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
  • (00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei
  • (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
  • (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes
  • (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages
  • (00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY
  • (00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters
  • (00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
  • (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models
  • (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model
  • (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
  • (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need
  • (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers
  • (01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill
  • (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation
  • (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI
  • (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit
  • (01:42:25) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits
• (01:44:42) Outro