Last Week in AI
#141 - Adobe AI upgrades, Ernie 4.0, TimeGPT, No Fakes Act, AI drones
Episode 180 October 26, 2023 1h 48m
Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00) Intro / Banter
- (01:00) SuperDataScience podcast ad
- Tools & Apps
- (02:55) Adobe is upgrading Photoshop’s generative AI model — and releasing more for Illustrator and Express
- (07:52) Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other
- (14:15) Kendall Jenner becomes "Billie": Meta's AI celebrities face more resistance than enthusiasm
- (18:22) Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta
- Applications & Business
- (20:22) Google Cloud pledges a ‘shared fate,’ offering legal indemnification for customers
- (25:00) Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4
- (31:05) Key Arm China Staff Quit to Create Government-Backed Startup
- (33:30) AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia
- (34:47) Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails
- (37:20) ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing
- (38:46) TSMC: ecosystem for 2nm chip development is nearing completion
- (41:50) OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut
- Research & Advancements
- (46:35) LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music
- (50:20) TimeGPT-1
- (55:25) How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?
- (01:00:17) HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time
- (01:04:33) PaLI-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger
- (01:05:42) A Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF
- (01:08:20) Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity
- Policy & Safety
- (01:12:05) No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas
- (01:15:03) Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight
- (01:19:59) How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington
- (01:28:38) China targets 50% boost in computing power as AI race with U.S. ramps up
- (01:31:03) China proposes blacklist of sources used to train generative AI models
- (01:34:44) Biden to cut China off from more Nvidia chips, expand curbs to more countries
- (01:37:51) TSMC expects permanent U.S. approval to supply chip tools to its China factory
- (01:40:34) Southeast Asia eyes hands-off AI rules, defying EU ambitions
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:47:03) Outro
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