Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Synthetic Media & Art
- (00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
- (00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads
- (00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead
- (00:12:20) Guns N’ Roses share AI-generated video for ‘The General’
Tools & Apps
- (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool
- (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
- (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant
- (00:23:47) ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade
- (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
- (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
- (00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode
- (00:53:00) Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4
- (00:54:30) DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence
- Lighting round
Research & Advancements
- (00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding
- (01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty
- (01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems?
- (01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models
- (01:20:30) A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
Policy & Safety
(01:45:15) Outro

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