Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:00) SuperDataScience podcast ad
Tools & Apps (02:55) Adobe is upgrading Photoshop’s generative AI model — and releasing more for Illustrator and Express)
(07:52) Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other)
(14:15) Kendall Jenner becomes "Billie": Meta's AI celebrities face more resistance than enthusiasm)
(18:22) Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta)
Applications & Business (20:22) Google Cloud pledges a ‘shared fate,’ offering legal indemnification for customers)
(25:00) Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4)
(31:05) Key Arm China Staff Quit to Create Government-Backed Startup)
(33:30) AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia)
(34:47) Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails)
(37:20) ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing)
(38:46) TSMC: ecosystem for 2nm chip development is nearing completion)
(41:50) OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut)
Research & Advancements (46:35) LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music)
(50:20) TimeGPT-1)
(55:25) How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?)
(01:00:17) HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time)
(01:04:33) PaLI-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger)
(01:05:42) A Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF)
(01:08:20) Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity)
Policy & Safety (01:12:05) No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas)
(01:15:03) Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight)
(01:19:59) How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington)
(01:28:38) China targets 50% boost in computing power as AI race with U.S. ramps up)
(01:31:03) China proposes blacklist of sources used to train generative AI models)
(01:34:44) Biden to cut China off from more Nvidia chips, expand curbs to more countries)
(01:37:51) TSMC expects permanent U.S. approval to supply chip tools to its China factory)
(01:40:34) Southeast Asia eyes hands-off AI rules, defying EU ambitions)
Synthetic Media & Art (01:44:05) AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War)
(01:47:03) Outro