Last Week in AI
#127 - chatbot dating app, AI at work, RedPajama 7B, tons of research, workers most worried that A.I.
Episode 165 June 21, 2023 1h 43m
Our 127th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (02:50) Listener comments / corrections
- (05:33) News Preview
- Tools & Apps
- (06:38) Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot
- (11:38) LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy
- (14:26) Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for Flashy Fliers, Social Videos
- (15:33) WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you
- (17:00) Google’s Bard AI can now write and execute code to answer a question
- Applications & Business
- (19:00) AI at Work: What People Are Saying
- (22:15) Doctors Are Using Chatbots in an Unexpected Way
- (26:05) Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report
- (28:15) OpenAI chief executive does not plan to take company public
- (29:49) The $500 million robot pizza startup you never heard of has shut down, report says
- (31:16) Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses
- (32:32) Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings
- (33:50) A new important Generative A.I. startup has come out of stealth
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (42:20) Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning
- (47:17) ControlVideo: Adding Conditional Control for One Shot Text-to-Video Editing
- (49:50) The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget
- (51:20) InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models
- (52:55) Simple and Controllable Music Generation
- (54:28) Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation?
- (57:24) Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model
- (01:01:22) Scaling audio-visual learning without labels
- (01:02:34) Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust
- (01:03:59) Shining a light on neuromorphic computing
- (01:05:34) Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4
- (01:07:20) From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces
- (01:09:00) Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web
- Policy & Safety
- (01:11:25) ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.
- (01:14:04) These are the American workers most worried that A.I. will soon make their jobs obsolete
- (01:17:02) A.I. poses new threats to newsrooms, and they're taking action
- (01:19:18) City of Yokosuka adopts ChatGPT after favorable trial results
- (01:20:35) AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova says
- (01:23:35) OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement Lawsuit
- (01:27:12) Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law
- (01:30:16) U.S. Congress to consider two new bills on artificial intelligence
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:31:46) Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video
- (01:34:30) Blush, the AI lover from the same team as Replika, is more than just a sexbot
- (01:37:47) Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
- (01:38:53) Runway’s Gen-2 shows the limitations of today’s text-to-video tech
- (01:42:17) Outro
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