#130 - Llama 2, Elon Musk’s xAI, WormGPT, LongLLaMA, AI apocalypse, actors on strike

Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast.

Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI.

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00) Intro / Banter

(07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections

Tools & Apps

(08:30) Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM

(14:38) Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that's found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance.

Applications & Business

(18:20) Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2, an AI language model for commercial use

(33:24) U.S. companies are on a hiring spree for A.I. jobs—and they pay an average of $146,000 +  San Francisco Companies Got Half the World’s AI Funding So Far This Year

(35:42) 65% Of Top AI Companies Have Immigrant Founders

(36:50) Elon Musk unveils his AI company, X.AI

Spotify CEO’s startup for AI-powered preventive healthcare raises €60M

(44:25) OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI

(46:03) Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools

Projects & Open Source

(47:20) WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch Business Email Compromise Attacks

Research & Advancements

(50:53) Meet LongLLaMA: A Large Language Model Capable of Handling Long Contexts of 256k Tokens

(56:37) Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models

(01:03:50) AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine

(01:08:25) Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation

(01:12:57) Patch n' Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution

(01:14:20) Scientists just used A.I. to map a fruit fly’s brain. Here’s why it’s a ‘turning point in neuroscience’

Policy & Safety

(01:25:40) What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?

(01:35:40) China finalizes first-of-its-kind rules governing generative A.I. services like ChatGPT

(01:38:57) US senators to get classified White House AI briefing Tuesday

(01:40:08) US FTC opens investigation into OpenAI

(01:41:55) UK universities draw up guiding principles on generative AI

Synthetic Media & Art

(01:42:57) Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 + Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare

(01:44:20) Outro