Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week! 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 (02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections (03:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed (06:02) A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves Lighting round (12:04) Google says Gmail on your phone just got a lot faster thanks to A.I. (13:00) Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article (15:06) Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT (17:17) Microsoft Has Launched “Jugalbandi”—A New Generative AI App for India (18:34) Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool Applications & Business (19:55) Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance (22:25) AI Market Set To Break The Trillion-Dollar Barrier: Surging Toward $1.06 Trillion By 2028 Whether You Trust It Or Not (26:07) The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report (30:15) AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem. Lighting round (34:00) Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally (35:16) ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog (37:14) Microsoft signs deal for A.I. computing power with Nvidia-backed CoreWeave that could be worth billions (39:40) Apple is looking for engineers to work with Generative AI in a mixed reality environment (41:15) Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding (43:05) Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week Projects & Open Source (45:21) UAE’s Falcon 40B AI model is now royalty free for commercial, research use (47:45) Evaluating and uncovering open LLMs Research & Advancements (53:10) QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs (58:05) OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations' (01:02:20) Do You Really Need Reinforcement Learning (RL) in RLHF? A New Stanford Research Proposes DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) (01:06:50) Reward Collapse in Aligning Large Language Models Lighting round (01:11:15) How Should We Maximize the Planning Ability of LLMs While Reducing the Computation Cost? Meet SwiftSage : A Novel Generative Agent for Complex Interactive Reasoning Tasks, Inspired by the Dual-Process Theory of Human Cognition (01:15:15) How to Keep Scaling Large Language Models when Data Runs Out? A New AI Research Trains 400 Models with up to 9B Parameters and 900B Tokens to Create an Extension of Chinchilla Scaling Laws for Repeated Data (01:17:58) This AI Research Dives Into The Limitations and Capabilities of Transformer Large Language Models (LLMs), Empirically and Theoretically, on Compositional Tasks" Policy & Safety (01:20:55) ChatGPT Plugins Open Security Holes From PDFs, Websites and More (01:25:02) US, Europe Working on Voluntary AI Code of Conduct as Calls Grow for Regulation Lighting round (01:27:58) With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation (01:30:34) Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented” (01:33:13) Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training (01:36:48) China warns of ‘complicated and challenging circumstances’ posed by AI risk Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:39) Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film. (01:41:02) ‘Those who hate AI are insecure’: inside Hollywood’s battle over artificial intelligence" (01:43:20) Outro

Our 125th 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 (02:33) Response to listener comments / corrections (05:30) News Preview Tools & Apps(06:21) A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character (12:16) Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters + Nvidia unveils Avatar Cloud Engine for Games at Computex (15:27) JPMorgan is developing a ChatGPT-like A.I. service that gives investment advice (16:40) TikTok is testing an AI chatbot called Tako (18:32) Zoo, a playground for text to image models Applications & Business(20:10) Insights from American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace (24:29) The A.I. chip boom is pushing Nvidia toward $1 trillion, but it won't help Intel and AMD (29:12) Hoffman and Suleyman's AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot (31:31) Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization (33:51) AI startup Figure raises $70 million to build humanoid robots Projects & Open Source(35:21) PandaGPT: One Model to Instruction-Follow Them All (41:50) Uncensored Models (47:30) Guanaco (50:50) 🦍 Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs (52:17) BLOOMChat: a New Open Multilingual Chat LLM (53:27) GirlfriendGPT - Your personal AI companion Research & Advancements(55:45) Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models (01:02:55) A Pretrainer's Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity (01:07:33) RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era (01:09:35) Enabling Large Language Models to Generate Text with Citations (01:11:12)  Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning Policy & Safety  (01:14:43) PM meeting with leading CEOs in AI: 24 May 2023 (01:18:05) An early warning system for novel AI risks [3 min] Lighting Round(01:22:07) How Rogue AIs may Arise (01:24:30) Democratic Inputs to AI (01:26:20) Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in 22-word statement (01:29:30) Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I. Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:48) Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. + I used Grimes’ AI vocals to make a hit – here’s how I did it (01:34:27) As a lifelong Beatles fan, this AI-generated Beatles music is blowing my mind (01:36:00) Outro

Our 124th 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 Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:30) News Preview Tools & Apps (03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 (08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop (12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT (14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos (16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries (18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI Applications & Business (19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom (22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think   (25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster  (28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot (30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis (32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters (33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work Projects & Open Source (35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly  +  Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio (38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents  (41:37) Bard API (43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face (44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source Research & Advancements (45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning (49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds (51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans  (54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages (56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models (59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes (01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment Policy & Safety  (01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI (01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI? (01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare  (01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud (01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives Synthetic Media & Art (01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media (01:28:44) Outro

Our 123rd 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 Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:30) News Preview (05:40) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(07:07) OpenAI rolls out more than 70 ChatGPT plugins including Internet access (11:56) How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT (17:45) Google is throwing generative AI at everything (23:12) Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes (25:20) Google develops tool to spot fake AI images after puffer jacket Pope went viral (26:48) Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-Style Search to Its Online Store (27:35) W&B Prompts Applications & Business (28:55) Generative AI Breaks The Data Center: Data Center Infrastructure And Operating Costs Projected To Increase To Over $76 Billion By 2028    (31:31) OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million for Global Crypto Worldcoin  (33:33) OpenAI Confirms ChatGPT Data Breach (35:15) Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers (36:50) AI Startup Rewind Gets 170 Offers—and $350 Million Valuation in Unusual Fundraising (38:43) Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare Projects & Open Source(40:22) EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software (44:53) Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models (47:15) Stability AI releases an open source text-to-animation tool (49:19) Listener submission - PandasAI Research & Advancements(50:53) PaLM 2 Technical Report (56:48) Microsoft AI Research Introduces Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): A Simple and General-Purpose Framework for the Automatic Optimization of LLM Prompts (59:51) Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence (01:05:05) Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector (01:08:45) An Inverse Scaling Law for CLIP Training (01:11:13) Active Retrieval Augmented Generation (01:12:53) Professional Certification Benchmark Dataset: The First 500 Jobs For Large Language Models (01:16:17) FrugalGPT: How to Use Large Language Models While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance Policy & Safety  (01:18:37) A.I. ‘controls humanity’ in the worst-case scenario but will probably just find us boring, says Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque (01:20:37) Hinton issues another AI warning: World needs to find a way to control artificial intelligence (01:26:48) Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion (01:30:08) The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK (01:32:00) AI voice scams: Report shares 77% of victims lose money, how common it is, and how to protect yourself (01:34:19) Police near Seattle issue warning about AI phone scammers impersonating family members (01:36:01) How to spot AI-generated text AI-Generated Media & Art  (01:37:32) Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers' strike (01:39:15) China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral (01:42:16) Hybe uses AI voice technology for Midnatt's multilingual single (01:43:18) Trump shares fake video of Anderson Cooper reacting to CNN town hall (01:46:30) Not even NYT bestsellers are safe from AI cover art (01:48:35) Listener Question - more on the writer’s strike(?) (01:54:48) Outro

Our 122nd 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 Check out the No Priors podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/lastweekinainopriors Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Outline: (00:00) Intro (05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections (07:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (07:50) Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access (11:26) Informatica goes all in on generative AI with Claire GPT (15:11) LinkedIn’s new AI will write messages to hiring managers (17:30) Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix and continues growing in San Francisco Applications & Business  (20:58) "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" (27:30) AI will create ‘a serious number of losers’, DeepMind co-founder warns (31:37) IBM takes another shot at Watson as A.I. boom picks up steam  (34:11) IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do (36:30) Peter Thiel’s Palantir is seeing ‘unprecedented’ demand for its military A.I. that its CEO calls ‘a weapon that will allow you to win’ (38:42) Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It (40:42) Chegg CEO calls 48% stock plunge over ChatGPT fears 'extraordinarily overblown' (43:03) Microsoft Working With AMD on Expansion Into AI Processors  (45:35) Generative AI startup Runway just raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from a cloud service provider (47:50) Top ex-Google AI researchers raise funding from Thrive Capital Projects & Open Source (51:22) Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data (54:45) No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs (57:15) Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model Research & Advancements (59:27) Meet LLaVA: A Large Language Multimodal Model and Vision Assistant that Connects a Vision Encoder and Vicuna for General-Purpose Visual and Language Understanding (01:04:29) Language models can explain neurons in language models (01:11:55) A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading (01:14:27) AI could run a million microbial experiments per year (01:15:54) Scurrying centipedes inspire many-legged robots that can traverse difficult landscapes  (01:17:38) Little Robots Learn to Drive Fast in the Real World (01:20:03) Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots Policy & Safety  (01:21:47) China's AI industry barely slowed by US chip export rules (01:26:10) Anthropic thinks ‘constitutional AI’ is the best way to train models + Claude’s Constitution (01:32:45) An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic (01:36:16) ‘Mom, these bad men have me’: She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping (01:39:18) Bill would require disclosure of AI-generated content in political ads Art & Fun Stuff (01:40:46) Unions Representing Hollywood Writers and Actors Seek Limits on A.I. and Chatbots (01:44:56) Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music (01:46:45) Spotify removes thousands of AI-generated songs (01:49:19) Amnesty International Uses AI-Generated Images of Colombian Human Rights Abuses (01:53:20) Midjourney 5.1 Arrives - And It’s Another Leap Forward For AI Art Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first 25 minutes (01:55:20) Listener Question - AI as a career + what to do in college

Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It 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: UK ver;sion | Canadian version | US version    Outline: Article picks: (00:00) Intro Tools & Apps(04:20) Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview (08:27) Visual Studio IntelliCode AI Assistant Gets Deep Learning Upgrade (12:36) GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers (16:25) TikTok is testing a new option to create AI-generated avatars for profile pictures Applications & Business (19:11) ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead (26:52) Machine Learning as a Service Market Size Growing at 37.9% CAGR Set to Reach USD 173.5 Billion By 2032 (29:40) Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI + After the Death of BuzzFeed News, Journalists Should Treat AI as an Existential Threat (35:57) PricewaterhouseCoopers announces multiyear $1B investment into generative AI (38:07) Walmart turns to warehouse robots, suggests a boost in profit is possible (40:23) “GPT” may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way 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(59:44) First Real-World Study Showed Generative AI Boosted Worker Productivity by 14% (01:03:50) LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions (01:08:50) AI has better 'bedside manner' than some doctors, study finds + Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum (01:13:50) Machine Learning and Metabolite Analysis Can Predict Individual Body Clock Timing  (01:13:15) Image generation AI for predicting the deformation of splashing drops (01:18:10) Drones can fly themselves with worm-inspired AI software 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(01:44:09) From DrakeGPT to Infinite Grimes, AI-generated music strikes a chord + John Legend calls for regulation on AI-generated music (01:47:30) The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped (01:51:05) I’m ChatGPT, and for the Love of God, Please Don’t Make Me Do Any More Copywriting

Our 120th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It 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: UK version | Canadian version | US version    Outline: (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

Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It 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: UK version | Canadian version | US version    Outline: Applications & Business(04:15) Stability AI announces new open-source large language model + OpenAssistant RELEASED! The world's best open-source Chat AI! (15:00) Stability AI is on shaky ground as it burns through cash and looks at a management overhaul Lighting Round(23:12) Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI (28:40) Google’s big AI push will combine Brain and DeepMind into one team (30:36) Amazon AWS expands generative AI efforts with Bedrock and CodeWhisperer updates (34:00) Samsung wants to release EX1, a human assistant robot, this year Research & Advancements(36:32) The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT (44:00) Auto-GPT and BabyAGI: How ‘autonomous agents’ are bringing generative AI to the masses Lighting Round(52:15) Researchers used machine learning to improve the first photo of a black hole (53:42) Tennis Robot Could Pave Way for Advancement in Fast-Movement Robotics (55:16) OpenAI Surprises Open-Source Community, Unveils Consistency Models  (58:28) Model that uses machine learning methods and patient data at hospital arrival predicts strokes more accurately than current system Policy & Safety & Societal Impacts   (01:00:50) Finally, a realistic roadmap for getting AI companies in check (01:07:00) China proposes measures to manage generative AI services Lighting Round(01:13:00) A.I. could lead to a ‘nuclear-level catastrophe’ according to a third of researchers, a new Stanford report finds (01:16:00) Inside the AI talent wars: Tech companies are ransacking university AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in search of rare talent  (01:20:00) Photographer admits prize-winning image was AI-generated Art & Fun Stuff(01:23:13) Exploring Creativity in Large Language Models: From GPT-2 to GPT-4 (01:27:32) AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song goes viral (01:30:30) Adobe launches AI-powered text-based video editing (01:33:47) Meta has open-sourced an AI project that turns your doodles into animations  (01:35:15) Outro

Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessAnthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help Lighting RoundGoogle reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI Bing Image Creator now has a home in the Edge Sidebar, at least for now Research & AdvancementsDevelopers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AIRecursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI) Prompting: An Approach to Improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer and Reasoning Tasks  Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators Lighting Round[Not an article] GPT-4 can compress and decompress prompts into non-human-readable forms Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome) Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images Another Large Language Model! Meet IGEL: An Instruction-Tuned German LLM Family Meet AUDIT: An Instruction-Guided Audio Editing Model Based on Latent Diffusion Models Policy & Societal Impacts Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled? Lighting RoundCanada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT Art & Fun StuffThe beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney Someone keeps accusing fanfiction authors of writing their fic with AI, and nobody knows why How Will AI Transform Photography?

Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessGoogle's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AIAlphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 MillionWith Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up Lighting RoundMicrosoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub Birth of a Salesman: OpenAI Sheds Its Lab Coat to Seek Big Deals   Research & Advancements Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI Lighting Round Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons Policy & Societal Impacts The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained Lighting Round How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images go mainstream FTC Is Reviewing Competition in Artificial Intelligence Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse Art & Fun StuffChinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography” Artificial intelligence deepfake video of Harry Potter characters in faux-Balenciaga fashion show goes viral