#120 - GigaChat + HuggingChat, a LOT of research, EU Act passed, #promptography
whatshot 47 snips
Apr 29, 2023
This week's discussion highlights the launch of GigaChat and Hugging Chat, signaling a competitive AI landscape. The hosts dive into the geopolitical implications of AI developments in Russia and address the evolving role of platforms like Stack Overflow. Innovations in AI video synthesis take center stage with new generative tools. Meanwhile, Snapchat faces backlash over its AI chatbot, and the EU's AI Act raises important regulatory questions. The conversation wraps up with insights on promptography and the challenges of bias in AI-generated art.
01:48:33
forum Ask episode
web_stories AI Snips
view_agenda Chapters
menu_book Books
auto_awesome Transcript
info_circle Episode notes
question_answer ANECDOTE
Midjourney/Stability AI Mix-up
Hosts Andrei and Jeremy admit to mistakenly associating Midjourney and Stability AI in the previous episode.
They were corrected by listeners and promise to make different, funnier mistakes in the future.
insights INSIGHT
GigaChat and Information Control
Russia's Sberbank launched GigaChat, a ChatGPT rival, likely driven by linguistic nationalism and the desire to control narratives.
This reflects a broader trend of countries like Russia and China developing their own chatbots to control information.
insights INSIGHT
AI's Impact on Online Communities
Websites like Stack Overflow, Reddit, and Twitter are charging AI companies for training data because AI can now extract and serve their value via chatbots.
This decoupling of value creation and capture makes these businesses potentially unsustainable.
Get the Snipd Podcast app to discover more snips from this episode
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It offers an engaging exploration of quantum mechanics, making complex concepts accessible to non-experts. It delves into the implications of quantum physics on our understanding of the universe, consciousness, and human existence. The book explores intriguing questions such as the possibility of parallel universes and the nature of consciousness.
Our 120th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience
You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(04:35) Episode Preview
(06:00) Russia's Sberbank releases ChatGPT rival GigaChat + Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT + Stability AI launches StableLM, an open source ChatGPT alternative
(14:30) Stack Overflow joins Reddit and Twitter in charging AI companies for training data + Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
(24:45) Big Tech is racing to claim its share of the generative AI market
(27:42) Microsoft Building Its Own AI Chip on TSMC's 5nm Process
(30:45) Snapchat’s getting review-bombed after pinning its new AI chatbot to the top of users’ feeds
(33:30) Create generative AI video-to-video right from your phone with Runway’s iOS app
(35:50) Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
(40:30) Autonomous Agents & Agent Simulations
(46:13) Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT
(49:05) Meet MiniGPT-4: An Open-Source AI Model That Performs Complex Vision-Language Tasks Like GPT-4
(50:50) Visual Instruction Tuning
(52:25) AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head
(54:05) Performance of ChatGPT on the US Fundamentals of Engineering Exam: Comprehensive Assessment of Proficiency and Potential Implications for Professional Environmental Engineering Practice
(58:20) ChatGPT is still no match for humans when it comes to accounting
(01:01:13) Large Language Models Are Human-Level Prompt Engineers
(01:05:00) RedPajama, a project to create leading open-source models, starts by reproducing LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens
(01:05:55) Do Embodied Agents Dream of Pixelated Sheep: Embodied Decision Making using Language Guided World Modelling
(01:08:45) Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in Large Language Models
(01:11:35) Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond
(01:15:40) Tool Learning with Foundation Models
(01:17:20) With AI Watermarking, Creators Strike Back
(01:22:02) EU lawmakers pass draft of AI Act, includes copyright rules for generative AI
(01:26:44) How can we build human values into AI?
(01:32:20) How prompt injection can hijack autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT
(01:34:30) AI Simply Needs a Kill Switch
(01:39:35) Anthropic calls for $15 million in funding to boost the government’s AI risk assessment work
(01:41:48) ‘AI isn’t a threat’ – Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back
(01:45:20) AI Art Sites Censor Prompts About Abortion
(01:48:15) Outro
Last Week in AI 