#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning

Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00) Intro / Banter

Tools & Apps(03:00) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API

(07:15) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI

(09:23) Sick of meetings? Microsoft’s new AI assistant will go in your place

(11:54) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)

 Applications & Business(14:55) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots

(18:40) Figure 01 humanoid takes first public steps

(22:31) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding

(23:35) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi’s G42 in Middle East AI Push

(25:00) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs

(26:38) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China’s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding

(30:35) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds

(32:13) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation

Projects & Open Source(35:00) Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B)

(39:35) Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents

(42:03) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning

(44:53) Meta’s Habitat 3.0 simulates real-world environments for intelligent AI robot training

(48:22) DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters 

(49:13) Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI

(51:13) Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics

Research & Advancements(53:22) Eliciting Human Preferences with Language Models

(57:23) New Nvidia AI agent, powered by GPT-4, can train robots

(01:01:38) Unveiling the General Intelligence Factor in Language Models: A Psychometric Approach

(01:04:48) AgentTuning: Enabling Generalized Agent Abilities for LLMs

(01:09:51) Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL

(01:11:25) ‘Mind-blowing’ IBM chip speeds up AI 

Policy & Safety(01:14:57)  GM Cruise unit suspends all driverless operations after California ban

(01:18:52) AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets

(01:22:22) AI Safety Summit: day 1 and 2 programme

(01:25:23) Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is posting lyrics to popular songs, lawsuit claims

(01:26:38) Mike Huckabee says Microsoft and Meta stole his books to train AI

(01:27:10) Clearview AI Successfully Appeals $9 Million Fine in the U.K.

(01:28:11) North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official

(01:30:17) OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI

UK poised to establish global advisory group on AI

Synthetic Media & Art(01:32:22) This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

(01:34:32) Amazon now lets advertisers use generative AI to pretty up their product shots

(01:36:36) The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology