#137 - Salesforce Copilot, Chip Crunch, Meta Rival to ChatGPT, AI for paralysis patients

Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Jessica Dai. Check out her Reboot publication!

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00) Intro 
• (01:37) SuperDataScience podcast ad
• Tools & Apps
  • (02:32) Salesforce launches AI assistant across its apps including Slack and Tableau
  • (06:06) Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds
  • (09:22) Bybit debuts AI-powered ‘TradeGPT’ for market analysis and data driven Q&A
  • (11:14) China’s Ant Group unveils finance AI model as race heats up
• Applications & Business
  • (13:24) TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months
  • (16:50) Even AI Hasn’t Helped Microsoft’s Bing Chip Away at Google’s Search Dominance
  • (20:05) OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6
  • (22:54) AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy
  • (25:71) Nasdaq gets SEC nod for first exchange AI-driven order type
  • (27:17) NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance
• Projects & Open Source
  • (30:10) Meta Platforms reportedly building open-source generative AI system to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT
  • (34:13) Indian Developers Top Hugging Face Leaderboard with GenZ 70B
  • (38:31) Supporting the Open Source AI Community
• Research & Advancements
  • (40:31) Artificial intelligence allows paralysis patient to speak for first time in 18 years
  • (45:42) Efficient Benchmarking (of Language Models)
  • (49:31) Online AI-based test for Parkinson’s disease severity shows promising results
  • (52:52) Scientists used machine learning to perform quantum error correction
• Policy & Safety
  • (56:18) Tech leaders including Musk, Zuckerberg call for government action on AI
  • (01:01:32) US court rules that artificial intelligence generated artwork cannot be copyrighted
  • (01:04:00) 2 Senators Propose Bipartisan Framework for A.I. Laws
  • (01:05:47) Transcript: US Senate Judiciary Hearing on Oversight of A.I.
  • (01:06:02) U.S. Copyright Office Invites Public To Comment On AI
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:09:10) Venice Film Festival 2023 Is Cinematic AI’s Coming Out Party
  • (01:13:52) Revolution Software is using their own AI technology to remake Broken Sword
  • (01:16:24) As his Kickstarter passes $1.3M, publisher defends Terraforming Mars’ generative AI art: ‘It’s too powerful a technology’
• (01:17:23) Outro

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