#127 - chatbot dating app, AI at work, RedPajama 7B, tons of research, workers most worried that A.I.
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Our 127th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro / Banter

(02:50) Listener comments / corrections

(05:33) News Preview

Tools & Apps

(06:38) Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot)

(11:38) LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy)

(14:26) Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for Flashy Fliers, Social Videos)

(15:33) WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you)

(17:00) Google’s Bard AI can now write and execute code to answer a question)

Applications & Business

(19:00) AI at Work: What People Are Saying)

(22:15) Doctors Are Using Chatbots in an Unexpected Way)

(26:05) Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report)

(28:15) OpenAI chief executive does not plan to take company public)

(29:49) The $500 million robot pizza startup you never heard of has shut down, report says)

(31:16) Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses)

(32:32) Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings)

(33:50) A new important Generative A.I. startup has come out of stealth)

Projects & Open Source

(36:05) RedPajama 7B now available, instruct model outperforms all open 7B models on HELM benchmarks)

(40:23) LlamaIndex adds private data to large language models)

Research & Advancements

(42:20) Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning)

(47:17) ControlVideo: Adding Conditional Control for One Shot Text-to-Video Editing)

(49:50) The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget)

(51:20) InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models)

(52:55) Simple and Controllable Music Generation)

(54:28) Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation?)

(57:24) Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model)

(01:01:22) Scaling audio-visual learning without labels)

(01:02:34) Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust)

(01:03:59) Shining a light on neuromorphic computing)

(01:05:34) Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4)

(01:07:20) From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces)

(01:09:00) Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web)

Policy & Safety

(01:11:25) ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.)

(01:14:04) These are the American workers most worried that A.I. will soon make their jobs obsolete)

(01:17:02) A.I. poses new threats to newsrooms, and they're taking action)

(01:19:18) City of Yokosuka adopts ChatGPT after favorable trial results)

(01:20:35) AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova says)

(01:23:35) OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement Lawsuit)

(01:27:12) Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law)

(01:30:16) U.S. Congress to consider two new bills on artificial intelligence)

Synthetic Media & Art

(01:31:46) Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video)

(01:34:30) Blush, the AI lover from the same team as Replika, is more than just a sexbot)

(01:37:47) Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion)

(01:38:53) Runway’s Gen-2 shows the limitations of today’s text-to-video tech)

(01:42:17) Outro