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Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Tools & Apps
(00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps)
(00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet)
(00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now)
(00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022)
(00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months)
(00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgrades)
Applications & Business
(00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World’s Most Advanced Chips)
(00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.)
(00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters)
(00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams)
(00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chips)
Projects & Open Source
(00:39:03) Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device)
(00:44:12) Snowflake launches Arctic, an open ‘mixture-of-experts’ LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3)
Research & Advancements
(00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions)
(00:55:11) Groq’s breakthrough AI chip achieves blistering 800 tokens per second on Meta’s LLaMA 3)
(00:59:52) Microsoft shows off VASA-1, an AI framework that makes human headshots talk, sing)
(01:01:59) Intel Builds World’s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI)
Policy & Safety
(01:05:11) Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election)
(01:08:51) LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities)
(01:15:27) The Necessity of AI Audit Standards Boards)
(01:19:45) A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI)
(01:22:45) COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING)
(01:26:40) China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders show)
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:29:08) Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac)