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#140 - Yasa vs ChatGPT, Waymo expands, scaling robot learning, AI watermarks

117 min • 17 oktober 2023

Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
- (52:10) Scaling up learning across many different robot types
- (59:35) Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components
- (01:06:54) Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution
- (01:11:45) China's First 28nm Lithography Tool to Be Delivered This Year
- (01:15:03) LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
- (01:18:07) Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To!
Policy & Safety
- (01:22:08) RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war
- (01:26:48) Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes
- (01:33:44) Five Takeaways From Bellwether AI Copyright Case
- (01:36:19) A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country
- (01:38:12) Governments race to regulate AI tools
- (01:40:09) US curbs on chip tools to China nearly finalized, government posting shows
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:45:35) WGA Ratifies Three-Year Deal With Studios, Officially Ending Hollywood Strike
- (01:47:50) AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers
- (01:50:00) Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI
- (01:51:36) How an AI deepfake ad of MrBeast ended up on TikTok
- (01:53:53) Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI

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#140 - Yasa vs ChatGPT, Waymo expands, scaling robot learning, AI watermarks

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#215 - Runway games, Meta Superintelligence, ERNIE 4.5, Adaptive Tree Search

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#213 - Midjourney video, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, LiveCodeBench Pro

#212 - o3 pro, Cursor 1.0, ProRL, Midjourney Sued

#211 - Claude Voice, Flux Kontext, wrong RL research?

#210 - Claude 4, Google I/O 2025, OpenAI+io, Gemini Diffusion

#209 - OpenAI non-profit, US diffusion rules, AlphaEvolve

#208 - Claude Integrations, ChatGPT Sycophancy, Leaderboard Cheats

#207 - GPT 4.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Ironwood, Claude Max

#206 - Llama 4, Nova Act, xAI buys X, PaperBench

#205 - Gemini 2.5, ChatGPT Image Gen, Thoughts of LLMs

#204 - OpenAI Audio, Rubin GPUs, MCP, Zochi

#203 - Gemini Image Gen, Ascend 910C, Gemma 3, Gemini Robotics

#202 - Qwen-32B, Anthropic's $3.5 billion, LLM Cognitive Behaviors

#201 - GPT 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Grok 3, Phi 4

#200 - ChatGPT Roadmap, Musk OpenAI Bid, Model Tampering

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#198 - DeepSeek R1 & Janus, Qwen2.5, OpenAI Agents

AI Computing Hardware - Past, Present, and Future

#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2

#196 - Nvidia Digits, Cosmos, PRIME, ICLR, InfAlign

#195 - OpenAI o3 & for-profit, DeepSeek-V3, Latent Space

#194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment

#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar

#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2

#191 - Sora leak, Pixtral Large, OpenAI email archives

#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights

#189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI

#188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π0

#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen

#186 - Adobe AI Tools, Tesla's Cybercab, Nobel Prizes

#185 - Movie Gen, ChatGPT Canvas, OpenAI's VC Round, SB 1047 Vetoed

#184 - OpenAI's Voice 2.0 + execs quitting, Llama 3.2, To CoT or not to CoT?

#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo

# 182 - Alexa 2.0, MiniMax, Surskever raises $1B, SB 1047 approved

#181 - Google Chatbots, Cerebras vs Nvidia, AI Doom, ElevenLabs Controversy

#180 - Ideogram v2, Imagen 3, AI in 2030, Agent Q, SB 1047

#179 - Grok 2, Gemini Live, Flux, FalconMamba, AI Scientist

#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk

#177 - Instagram AI Bots, Noam Shazeer -> Google, FLUX.1, SAM2

#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2

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#174 - Odyssey Text-to-Video, Groq LLM Engine, OpenAI Security Issues

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#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!

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

#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks

#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills

#152 - live translation on phones, Meta aims at AGI, AlphaGeometry, political deepfakes

#151 - Copilot Pro, LLama.cpp, conversational diagnostic AI, secret AI diplomacy

#150 - GPT Store, new Nvidia chips, DeepMind’s robotics progress, bad uses of AI

#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI

#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ‘Preparedness Framework’, campaigning voice clone

#147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’ translator

#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME, Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream

#145 - OpenAI’s Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements

#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates

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