Topics include Google's Duet AI, AI chatbots, text-to-music apps, Yahoo Mail's AI enhancements, ChatGPT Enterprise, Nvidia's Q2 earnings, Nvidia's competitive moat, Chinese AI company claims, Meta AI's Seamless M4T model, text-guided video editing, UK's AI chip race, government investments in AI, AI off switches, and Google's Synth ID for watermarking AI-generated images.

In this podcast, Andrey and Jeremie discuss various topics related to AI and existential risk. They cover definitions of terms, AI X-Risk scenarios, pathways to extinction, relevant assumptions, and their own positions on AI X-Risk. They also debate positive/negative transfer, X-Risk within 5 years, and whether we can control an AGI. Other interesting topics include AI safety aesthetics, outer vs inner alignment, AI safety and policy today, and the plausibility of a superintelligent AI causing harm. They explore different viewpoints on AI risk, including the potential for malicious use, timeline and risks of AI development, comparison of GPT3 and GPT4, and the trade-off between generality and capability in AI.

Chapters discuss challenges in training multilingual speech synthesis models, the development of generative AI tools like Lily, the launch of new features in Runway and Adobe Express, Snapchat's Dreams feature and selfie-to-headshot apps, the economics of image generation and Gartner's hype cycle for generative AI, funding trends in the AI industry, the development of AI2 OLMo and Edy Thix, generative assessment and model training, and the impact of China's new AI regulations on global AI development.

ChatGPT, an AI model with multi-document chat feature, is discussed. Other interesting topics include Tinder testing AI photo selection, CoreWeave raising $2.3B in debt, NVIDIA GPU shortage, AudioCraft generative AI tool for audio, and AI chip developments.

Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:36) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(05:05) OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (07:45) New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks (10:55) JetBrains IDE update previews “deeply integrated” AI Assistant (14:35) No More Paperwork? Amazon AI Tool Transcribes Patient Visits for Doctors (16:11) Photoshop’s new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop’ images (19:11) Wayfair’s AI tool can redraw your living room and sell you furniture Applications & Business(21:25) Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI (28:10) Facing more nimble rivals, OpenAI won’t bend … yet (32:00) OpenAI's head of trust and safety steps down (33:15) Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube (35:28) Samsung extends cut in memory chip production, will focus on high-end AI chips instead (36:50) Microsoft to supply AI tech to Japan government, Nikkei reports (38:20) Protect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools Projects & Open Source(41:56) Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model (49:25) Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source (52:15) Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation Research & Advancements(55:45) AI researchers say they've found 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rules (01:03:48) RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action (01:09:50) (Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs (01:13:26) Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models (01:18:50) STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft (01:20:42) Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity Policy & Safety(01:23:48) Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum (01:29:14) Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers (01:32:46) America Already Has an AI Underclass (01:35:04) AI leaders warn Senate of twin risks: moving too slow and moving too fast (01:38:35) The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here  Synthetic Media & Art(01:42:30) This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation (01:44:16) Outro

Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:18) Listener feedback/comments Tools & Apps (07:00) ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave (09:20) GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta (12:38) Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts (15:32) Google Bard is now available in the EU Applications & Business (17:15) An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips (20:35) Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription (23:00) Elon Musk threw nine-figure promises at top AI researchers (26:28) Machine Learning Market to Hit $419.94 Billion by 2030: Grand View Research, Inc. (28:31) Jasper, Mutiny AI Startups Cut Workers As Chatbot Rivalry Grows (31:50) Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop (34:34) China’s OpenAI challenger Zhipu AI gets Meituan funding Projects & Open Source Lighting round Research & Advancements (36:50) A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis (43:20) Is ChatGPT getting worse over time? Study claims yes, but others aren’t sure (48:36) A simple yet effective design, coupled with remarkable durability and low cost, make this robotic gripper a promising option for many industries (51:24) Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants (55:16) Researchers From Tsinghua University Introduce A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm Under The Meta-Learning Paradigm (58:47) MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models Policy & Safety (01:02:20) Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons (01:11:55) Frontier Model Security (01:17:15) The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity (01:22:32) 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House (01:27:35) The Illusion Of AI’s Existential Risk (01:35:05) Large majority of Americans have strong reservations about A.I. emergence, CNBC survey shows Synthetic Media & Art (01:38:12) You’re going to see more AI-written articles whether you like it or not (01:41:13) ‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (01:41:49) Google says AI tools meant to help journalists and not to replace them (01:45:12) Actors decry 'existential crisis' over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors (01:47:49) AI tool creates South Park episodes with user in starring role (01:50:51) Outro

Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast. Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (08:30) Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM (14:38) Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that's found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance. Applications & Business (18:20) Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2, an AI language model for commercial use (33:24) U.S. companies are on a hiring spree for A.I. jobs—and they pay an average of $146,000 +  San Francisco Companies Got Half the World’s AI Funding So Far This Year (35:42) 65% Of Top AI Companies Have Immigrant Founders (36:50) Elon Musk unveils his AI company, X.AI Spotify CEO’s startup for AI-powered preventive healthcare raises €60M (44:25) OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI (46:03) Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools Projects & Open Source (47:20) WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch Business Email Compromise Attacks Research & Advancements (50:53) Meet LongLLaMA: A Large Language Model Capable of Handling Long Contexts of 256k Tokens (56:37) Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models (01:03:50) AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine (01:08:25) Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation (01:12:57) Patch n' Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution (01:14:20) Scientists just used A.I. to map a fruit fly’s brain. Here’s why it’s a ‘turning point in neuroscience’ Policy & Safety (01:25:40) What are the chances of an AI apocalypse? (01:35:40) China finalizes first-of-its-kind rules governing generative A.I. services like ChatGPT (01:38:57) US senators to get classified White House AI briefing Tuesday (01:40:08) US FTC opens investigation into OpenAI (01:41:55) UK universities draw up guiding principles on generative AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:42:57) Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 + Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare (01:44:20) Outro

Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time (00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11 (00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in Applications & Business(00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads (00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23 (00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports (00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US (00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace (00:22:40) Fundings Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A (00:26:45) AcquisitionsDatabricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io Nvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models Projects & Open Source(00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms Research & Advancements(00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos (00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up (00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning (00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent (00:45:05) NVIDIA H100 GPUs Set Standard for Generative AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark  Policy & Safety(00:46:50) From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI (00:53:50) US considering new restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Wall Street Journal reports (00:57:10) 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot (01:00:32) European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’ Synthetic Media and Art(01:04:22) Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool (01:08:27) Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art (01:12:17) Outro

Our 128th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:00) Google extends generative AI search to places, products and virtual models Applications & Business(00:05:52) China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year (00:10:33) Inside China's underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips (00:14:20) OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports (00:16:22) AI human-voice clones are coming for the Amazon, Apple, Google audiobook (00:18:45) Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU and GPU platforms (00:22:20) Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs Projects & Open Source(00:25:05) Imitation Models and the Open-Source LLM Revolution Research & Advancements(00:29:52) AIs trained on other AI output will start producing junk within a few generations, scientists warn (00:34:42) GPT-4's Secret Has Been Revealed (00:42:00) We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work Policy & Safety(00:44:10) Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers (00:50:25) Five big takeaways from Europe’s AI Act (00:54:44) President Biden meets with AI tech leaders in San Francisco (00:56:25) AI-generated child sex images spawn new nightmare for the web Synthetic Media & Art(01:00:00) LinkedIn Reveals AI Image Hunter That Catches Fake Profiles (01:03:42) The Reddit API Blackout and the Generative AI Connection (01:07:23) Grammys approve new rules on use of artificial intelligence

Our 127th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:50) Listener comments / corrections (05:33) News Preview Tools & Apps (06:38) Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot (11:38) LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy (14:26) Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for Flashy Fliers, Social Videos (15:33) WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you (17:00) Google’s Bard AI can now write and execute code to answer a question Applications & Business (19:00) AI at Work: What People Are Saying (22:15) Doctors Are Using Chatbots in an Unexpected Way (26:05) Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report (28:15) OpenAI chief executive does not plan to take company public (29:49) The $500 million robot pizza startup you never heard of has shut down, report says (31:16) Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses (32:32) Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings (33:50) A new important Generative A.I. startup has come out of stealth Projects & Open Source (36:05) RedPajama 7B now available, instruct model outperforms all open 7B models on HELM benchmarks (40:23) LlamaIndex adds private data to large language models Research & Advancements (42:20) Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning (47:17) ControlVideo: Adding Conditional Control for One Shot Text-to-Video Editing (49:50) The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (51:20) InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models (52:55) Simple and Controllable Music Generation (54:28) Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation? (57:24) Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model (01:01:22) Scaling audio-visual learning without labels (01:02:34) Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust (01:03:59) Shining a light on neuromorphic computing (01:05:34) Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4 (01:07:20) From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces (01:09:00) Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web Policy & Safety (01:11:25) ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. (01:14:04) These are the American workers most worried that A.I. will soon make their jobs obsolete (01:17:02) A.I. poses new threats to newsrooms, and they're taking action (01:19:18) City of Yokosuka adopts ChatGPT after favorable trial results (01:20:35) AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova says (01:23:35) OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement Lawsuit (01:27:12) Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law (01:30:16) U.S. Congress to consider two new bills on artificial intelligence Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:46) Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video (01:34:30) Blush, the AI lover from the same team as Replika, is more than just a sexbot (01:37:47) Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion (01:38:53) Runway’s Gen-2 shows the limitations of today’s text-to-video tech (01:42:17) Outro