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

Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessOpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more NVIDIA's big AI moment is here Lighting RoundFormer head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job Research & AdvancementsLearning to grow machine-learning models Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo Lighting RoundNew virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making  Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls  New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’ 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months” Lighting RoundIn San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes Art & Fun Stuff People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet) WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit

Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessGPT-4GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why  GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions Lighting RoundConfirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You Introducing Claude Research & AdvancementsMicrosoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model Lighting RoundOur latest health AI research updates Machine learning takes starring role in exploring the universe  A new method to boost the speed of online databases MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks Policy & Societal Impacts Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams Lighting RoundSome high-level thoughts on the DeepMind alignment team's strategy Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now? AI Scams and Influencers AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office  I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients  Art & Fun StuffMidjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art Illustration competitions grapple with generative AI Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display AI and Copyright: Human Artistry Campaign Launches to Support Songwriters and Musicians’ Rights 

Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessLLM/ChatGPT roundupRadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 BillionAnthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups Lighting RoundMicrosoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation Research & AdvancementsGoogle’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commandsPaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network? Lighting RoundScientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology Lighting Round A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son TikTok’s trendy beauty filter ushers in new tech and new problems UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI "invent ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI Art & Fun StuffAI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyoneSci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon  ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place

Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I. Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers  Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots  Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up Research & Advancements Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space RT-1: Robotics Transformer Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible  How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction Policy & Societal Impacts "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like  Planning for AGI and beyond Art & Fun Stuff Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)  ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon  ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers  The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place

Our 112th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Stories this week: Applications & Business Microsoft's Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈 Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets Roblox is working on generative AI tools  Research & Advancements BioGPT: Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining MarioGPT - A new way to encode and generate Super Mario Bros levels Machine learning techniques identify thousands of new cosmic objects AI analyzes cell movement under the microscope Accelerating Prime Editing: Machine Learning Helps Design the Best Fix for a Given Genetic Flaw Enhance! Deep learning tool boosts X-ray imaging resolution and hydrogen fuel cell performance  Policy & Societal Impacts Beijing to support key firms in building ChatGPT-like AI models Only you can stop an AI apocalypse South Korea aims to join AI race as startup Rebellions launches new chip GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets U.S., China, other nations urge 'responsible' use of military AI Art & Fun Stuff Voice Actors are Having Their Voices Stolen by AI Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack Keanu Reeves Says Deepfakes Are ‘Scary,’ Confirms His Film Contracts Ban Digital Edits to His Acting: ‘They Added a Tear to My Face! Huh?’ TikTokers are roasting McDonald's hilarious drive-thru AI order fails — and it shows that robots won't take over restaurants any time soon

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Listen with transcript Stories this week: Applications & Business Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot Lighting Round Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI  AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation  OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee  Instagram’s founders are back with a new app  Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |…  Research & Advancements Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT  A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected  Lighting Round Whispers of AI’s modular future AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find  AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning Policy & Societal Impacts Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards  Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning Lighting Round Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision  Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed  Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified Art & Fun Stuff AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now

Our 110th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! After a 4 month break, we're back with a new co-host, and will resume our regular weekly upload schedule. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast. Stories this week: Applications & Business BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content related : CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories Who owns the generative AI platform? Lighting Round Here’s Why ChatGPT is just the start of the generative AI boom Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT  Generative AI funding exploded over the past 2 years After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts  Research & Advancements ChatGPT’s creator made a free tool for detecting AI-generated text New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text Related:  Stanford introduces DetectGPT to help educators fight back against ChatGPT generated papers Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it Lighting Round Versatile robo-dog runs through the sandy beach at 3 mile/sec  AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they work GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit  Policy & Societal Impacts 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse Educator considerations for ChatGPT Lighting Round Scores of Stanford students used ChatGPT on final exams, survey suggests - “Stanford students and professors alike are grappling with the rise of ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, and the technology’s implications for education.” When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy Tries to Clarify AI-generated art a concern for local artists who say there’s still a need for human creativity Robot Cars Are Causing 911 False Alarms in San Francisco  Art & Fun Stuff I wrote a short story! - I Think I Am Starting to Fear Death Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics 

Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day (07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city  (10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC (10:52) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions  (11:50) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas  (13:00) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework (13:45) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video (19:05) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system (23:00) Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents? Cues from moving eyes could help pedestrians anticipate vehicle's intentions (24:00) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp (25:00) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain  (25:30) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds (26:45) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition (30:30) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art  (33:14) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges (34:00)  A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat (34:50) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI (35:45) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development  (36:25) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine (39:40) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion (43:00) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions (43:55) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI (45:35) Outro