Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections
- (03:20) News Preview
- Tools & Apps
- (04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed
- (06:02) A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves
- Lighting round
- (12:04) Google says Gmail on your phone just got a lot faster thanks to A.I.
- (13:00) Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article
- (15:06) Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT
- (17:17) Microsoft Has Launched “Jugalbandi”—A New Generative AI App for India
- (18:34) Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool
- Applications & Business
- (19:55) Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance
- (22:25) AI Market Set To Break The Trillion-Dollar Barrier: Surging Toward $1.06 Trillion By 2028 Whether You Trust It Or Not
- (26:07) The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report
- (30:15) AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem.
- Lighting round
- (34:00) Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally
- (35:16) ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog
- (37:14) Microsoft signs deal for A.I. computing power with Nvidia-backed CoreWeave that could be worth billions
- (39:40) Apple is looking for engineers to work with Generative AI in a mixed reality environment
- (41:15) Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding
- (43:05) Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (53:10) QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- (58:05) OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations'
- (01:02:20) Do You Really Need Reinforcement Learning (RL) in RLHF? A New Stanford Research Proposes DPO (Direct Preference Optimization)
- (01:06:50) Reward Collapse in Aligning Large Language Models
- Lighting round
- (01:11:15) How Should We Maximize the Planning Ability of LLMs While Reducing the Computation Cost? Meet SwiftSage : A Novel Generative Agent for Complex Interactive Reasoning Tasks, Inspired by the Dual-Process Theory of Human Cognition
- (01:15:15) How to Keep Scaling Large Language Models when Data Runs Out? A New AI Research Trains 400 Models with up to 9B Parameters and 900B Tokens to Create an Extension of Chinchilla Scaling Laws for Repeated Data
- (01:17:58) This AI Research Dives Into The Limitations and Capabilities of Transformer Large Language Models (LLMs), Empirically and Theoretically, on Compositional Tasks"
- Policy & Safety
- (01:20:55) ChatGPT Plugins Open Security Holes From PDFs, Websites and More
- (01:25:02) US, Europe Working on Voluntary AI Code of Conduct as Calls Grow for Regulation
- Lighting round
- (01:27:58) With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation
- (01:30:34) Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”
- (01:33:13) Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training
- (01:36:48) China warns of ‘complicated and challenging circumstances’ posed by AI risk
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:43:20) Outro
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