Last Week in AI

#152 - live translation on phones, Meta aims at AGI, AlphaGeometry, political deepfakes

Jan 28, 2024

This episode covers topics such as live translation on Samsung phones, Meta's aim for AGI, AI-powered Premiere Pro features, Waymo's plan for robotaxis in LA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's pursuit of AI chips, ElevenLabs' $80M funding round and marketplace of cloned voices, and the DOJ and FTC investigating Microsoft's OpenAI partnership.

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Alpha Geometry achieves impressive performance in solving complex geometry problems.

Stability AI introduces Stable LM2 1.6B, a powerful language model for code generation.

Google's Lumiere model generates near-photorealistic videos in one pass, improving text-to-video generation.

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Alpha Geometry: Advancing AI in Geometry Problem Solving

Google DeepMind has developed Alpha Geometry, an Olympiad-level AI system for solving complex geometry problems. Alpha Geometry combines a language model with a symbolic deduction engine to achieve high-level strategy and mathematical proof generation. The neurosymbolic approach demonstrates impressive performance, outperforming even top human geometrists.

Monstrous Amount of Computing Power

01:13

Developing Conversational Question-Answering Models through Two-stage Tuning

03:04

AI smartphone gadget and AI in Google Chrome

02:57

Breaking Language Barriers with Advanced Translation Technology

00:32

Introduction

5min

Gemini Natto and Rabbit R1: On-device AI and AI smart assistant

27min

Open-sourcing Llama2 and the Rise of 11 Labs

8min

Investigation into Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI for Potential Antitrust Violations

2min

Announcement of Commercial Agreement with BMW for General Purpose Robots and Unveiling of a Smaller Language Model

5min

Releasing a Pre-training Checkpoint for Further Model Training

1min

Advancements in AI Models and Research

23min

Lawsuit Against California Public Utilities Commission

16min

Our 152nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
- (00:02:15) Samsung’s latest Galaxy phones offer live translation over phone calls, texts
- (00:06:16) The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’
- (00:10:31) Google is using AI to organize and customize your Chrome browser
- (00:12:10) Adobe’s new AI-powered Premiere Pro features eradicate boring audio editing tasks
- (00:13:16) Waymo looks to launch full fleet of robotaxis in LA
- (00:15:16) Tesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
- (00:43:28) Stability AI unveils smaller, more efficient 1.6B language model as part of ongoing innovation
Research & Advancements
- (00:48:58) AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
- (00:54:02) Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation
- (00:56:33) ChatQA: Building GPT-4 Level Conversational QA Models
- (00:59:13) Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model
- (01:01:28) VMamba: Visual State Space Model
- (01:03:40) Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data
Policy & Safety
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:20:27) Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.?
- (01:23:48) AI models that don’t violate copyright are getting a new certification label

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Last Week in AI

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Deep dives

Alpha Geometry: Advancing AI in Geometry Problem Solving

Stability AI Releases Smaller, More Efficient Language Model

Lumiere: Google's Innovative Video Generation Model

Chat QA Achieves Conversational QA Accuracy Comparable to GPT-4

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Models Show Promise in Language Modeling

Vision Mamba: A Promising State-Space Model for Visual Representation Learning

Monstrous Amount of Computing Power

Developing Conversational Question-Answering Models through Two-stage Tuning

AI smartphone gadget and AI in Google Chrome

Breaking Language Barriers with Advanced Translation Technology

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Deep dives

Alpha Geometry: Advancing AI in Geometry Problem Solving

Stability AI Releases Smaller, More Efficient Language Model

Lumiere: Google's Innovative Video Generation Model

Chat QA Achieves Conversational QA Accuracy Comparable to GPT-4

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Models Show Promise in Language Modeling

Vision Mamba: A Promising State-Space Model for Visual Representation Learning

Monstrous Amount of Computing Power

Developing Conversational Question-Answering Models through Two-stage Tuning

AI smartphone gadget and AI in Google Chrome

Breaking Language Barriers with Advanced Translation Technology

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