Our 157th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
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Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
(00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator
(00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
(00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
(00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio
(00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs
Applications & Business
(00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI
(00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI
(00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business
(00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano
(00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
(00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock
Projects & Open Source
(00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM
(00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model
(00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public
(00:54:25) Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
Research & Advancements
(00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
(00:01:07) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models
(01:15:16) Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor
(01:20:56) Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs
(01:22:10) Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings
Policy & Safety
(01:25:45) AI Warfare Is Already Here
(01:29:36) Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall
(01:32:45) Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety
(01:34:53) Facebook whistleblower, AI godfather join hundreds calling for deepfake regulation
US regulators investigate whether OpenAI investors were misled, say reports
(01:36:51) Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:40:23) The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft
(01:41:15) A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald’s is completely fake — and of course made by AI
Fun!
(01:42:54) Impossible AI Food
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