#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec
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Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter

Tools & Apps (00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model)

(00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts)

(00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices)

(00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan)

(00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors)

(00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand)

Applications & Business (00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT)

(00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini)

(00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion)

(00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring)

(00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI)

Projects & Open Source (00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models)

(00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model)

(00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities)

(00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence)

(00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library)

(00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models)

Research & Advancements (00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA)

(00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory)

(01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation)

(01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems)

(01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks)

Policy & Safety (01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models)

(01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI)

(01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation)

(01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers)

Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles)

(01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3)

(01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala)

(01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam) 

(01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men)

(01:40:18) AI Outro Song