Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Outline:

Article picks:

(00:00) Intro
Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
- (43:50) OpenAI Threatens Popular GitHub Project With Lawsuit Over API Use
- (48:27) Stability AI Launches DeepFloyd IF: A High-Performance Text-to-Image Model with Advanced Integration Capabilities
- (52:10) Stability AI releases StableVicuna, the AI World’s First Open Source RLHF LLM Chatbot
- (57:32) Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
Research & Advancements
Policy & Safety
- (01:19:25) ChatGPT-3.5 Generates More Disinformation in Chinese than in English
- (01:23:27) The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective
- (01:29:28) Former OpenAI Researcher: There’s a 50% Chance AI Ends in 'Catastrophe'
- (01:33:30) Lawmakers propose banning AI from singlehandedly launching nuclear weapons
- (01:35:35) Republicans counter Biden announcement with dystopian, AI-aided video
- (01:37:42) The UK will spend £100 million to develop its own ‘sovereign’ AI
- (01:41:25) Kamala Harris to discuss A.I. in meeting with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs
Art & Fun Stuff

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