#136 - Claude Pro, Ideogram, Chinese ChatGPT bots, Falcon 180B, RLAIF, export restrictions, Ghostwriter

Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast!

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00) Intro 

(01:15) SuperDataScience Ad

(01:51) Response to listeners

Tools & Apps(02:47) Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot gets a paid plan for heavy users

(04:36) Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography

(06:37) Intuit launches generative AI–powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers

(07:17) Zoom Is Jumping on the AI Chatbot Bandwagon

Applications & Business(08:47) China lets Baidu, others launch ChatGPT-like bots to public, tech shares jump

(11:23) Tencent releases AI model for businesses as competition in China heats up

(12:00) Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI users get sued

(14:52) How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI

(17:30) ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month

(19:16) AI chip startup d-Matrix raises $110 mln with backing from Microsoft

(21:00) ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to ID and fight money laundering

(22:18) Sapeon raises $46m for AI chips

(23:20) Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’

Projects & Open Source(25:48) Announcing the commercial relicensing and expansion of DINOv2, plus the introduction of FACET

(27:02) UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI

(29:23) New Open-Source ‘Falcon’ AI Language Model Overtakes Meta and Google

Research & Advancements(31:01) Qwen-VL: A Frontier Large Vision-Language Model with Versatile Abilities

(33:57) RLAIF: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback

(36:22) Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses

(39:28) SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image

Policy & Safety(41:00) US curbs AI chip exports from Nvidia and AMD to some Middle East countries

(42:55) China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters, Microsoft says

(46:37) Trusting A.I.-written mushroom hunting guides sold on Amazon could get you killed. But like deadly fungi, identifying them is tricky

(48:25) Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok

(50:30) The UK releases key ambitions for global AI summit

Synthetic Media & Art(51:55) AI Took the Stage at the World's Largest Arts Festival. Here's What Happened

(54:12) Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies

(56:17) Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually

(58:57) The latest canvas for Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art? The new Sphere in Las Vegas

(01:01:20) Outro