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#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit

2024/2/16
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Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter

Tools & Apps (00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like)

(00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model)

(00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs)

Applications & Business (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI)

(00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei)

(00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco)

(00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes)

(00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy)

Projects & Open Source (00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages)

(00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY)

(00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters)

(00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade)

Research & Advancements (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures)

(01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models)

(01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model)

(01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search)

(01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need)

(01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models)

Policy & Safety (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers)

(01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill)

(01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation)

(01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI)

(01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds)

Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit)

(01:42:25) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits)

(01:44:42) Outro