#123 - Delete your info from ChatGPT, Google’s AI plans, EU act targets OSS, PaLM 2, writers’ strike
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Our 123rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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