Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world’s best personal AI
(00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
(00:11:00) DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse
(00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability
(00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos — here’s how it sounds
(00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors
Applications & Business
(00:17:33) Sam Altman Rejoins OpenAI Board Along With Three New Directors
(00:21:15) Cohere releases powerful ‘Command-R’ language model for enterprise use
(00:23:16) Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
(00:25:53) Baidu Launches China’s First 24/7 Robotaxi Service
Projects & Open Source
(00:26:54) Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets
(00:29:40) SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law
(00:31:45) Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Company “01.AI” Announces the Open Source of the Yi-9B Model
Research & Advancements
(00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
(00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
(00:42:01) Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science
(00:43:54) ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect
(00:44:55) PixArt-Σ: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation
Policy & Safety
(00:46:24) World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers
(00:48:57) US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access
(00:51:27) Google restricts election-related queries for its Gemini chatbot
Synthetic Media & Art
(00:52:43) Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst
(00:55:27) Nvidia Says NeMo AI Platform Complies With Copyright After Authors’ Complaint
(00:57:23) Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered
Fun!
(00:58:12) I made by Superman action figure talk with Pika Labs’ new AI lip sync tool — watch this
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