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Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!!
Note: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward!
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (04:30) Preview of news
- Tools & Apps
- (05:40) DALLE-3
- (12:47) YouAgent (Richard Socher thread)
- Applications & Business
- (20:03) Google's Gemini AI surpasses Chat GPT-4 fivefold: Report
- (25:16) Google begins external testing of its GPT-4 competitor "Gemini"
- (26:30) From sanctions to silicon: China’s semiconductor breakthrough
- (35:41) AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the U.S.
- (41:19) SoftBank planning OpenAI investment: Financial Times
- (44:30) OpenAI Hustles to Beat Google to Launch ‘Multimodal’ LLM
- (46:40) The AI Detection Arms Race Is On
- (51:30) Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups
- (55:15) AI chip startup Enfabrica raises $125 mln, with backing from Nvidia
- (56:41) Databricks raises over $500 mln at $43 bln valuation
- Projects & Open Source
- (01:01:15) Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates
- Research & Advancements
- (01:10:19) NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM
- (01:15:35) On measuring situational awareness in LLMs
- (01:22:50) Language Modeling Is Compression
- (01:26:22) How AI can Revolutionize Science (Jeremie’s gift link)
- Policy & Safety
- (01:33:33) Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites
- (01:36:08) Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy
- (01:41:45) Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit
- (01:43:48) EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers
- (01:44:26) Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI
- (01:45:23) Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist to testify in Senate AI hearings
- (01:46:40) AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
- (01:47:27) Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI
- (01:50:18) Gary Gensler confirms SEC’s use of AI for financial surveillance
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:50:55) Self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon’s site is AI-generated
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