Our 139th 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
(01:30) SuperDataScience podcast ad
(03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
Policy & Safety
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:33:19) Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.
- (01:35:10) Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness
- (01:36:24) Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake
- (01:37:36) Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns
- (01:39:59) Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors
- (01:42:17) Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy
- (01:45:22) Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI
- (01:48:55) OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List
(01:50:16) Outro

#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal 01:51:20 Share

Last Week in AI

What's new in AI this week?

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Listener comments and corrections

ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads

Can ChatGPT now search the web in real time?

Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps

Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts

What's new in Windows 11's big update with AI features?

Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools

YouTube Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Tools For Video Creators

Is Google opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers?

AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs

Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic

China to Challenge ASML with a better technology than EUV

Intel says newest laptop chips, software will handle generative AI

Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images

AI Startup Writer Pens $100M Round

AI chip startup Kneron secures $49M investment

AI startup AlphaSense valued at $2.5 billion after latest funding round

A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device

Microsoft Cloud hiring to implement global small modular reactor and microreactor strategy to power data centers

Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data

Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone

Adept AI Labs Open-Sources Persimmon-8B: A Powerful Fully Permissively-Licensed Language Model with <10 Billion Parameters

BTLM-3B-8K: 7B Parameter Performance in a 3B Parameter Model

AnyMAL: An Efficient and Scalable Any-Modality Augmented Language Model

DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation

Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential

Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window

John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence

Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill

AI facial recognition tech leads to wave of lawsuits from Black plaintiffs after mistaken identities end in arrests

California governor vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety drivers

Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town

AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency

We Can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nuclear Catastrophe

Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.

Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness

Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake

Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns

Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors

Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy

Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI

OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List

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#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal