#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over

Our 143rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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Applications & Business(02:53) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

(12:00) Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event

(16:05) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes

(18:30) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van

(20:55) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU

(21:35) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota

(22:38) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe’s third-largest AI round ever

(23:22) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others

(24:16) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation

Tools & Apps(25:00) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others

(27:38) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot

(30:03) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat

(31:01) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job

(32:07) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss

(33:33) Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable

Projects & Open Source(36:06) Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model

Research & Advancements(40:03) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence

(42:35) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ‘Mirasol3B’ for advanced video analysis

(45:15) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products

(46:06) Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation

(47:54) Title:One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion

(49:12) Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models

Policy & Safety(51:37) Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards

(56:10) Amy Klobuchar and John Thune introduce legislation for creating generative AI framework

(57:55) Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues

(01:00:19) At UK's AI Summit developers and govts agree on testing to help manage risks

(01:02:15) White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey

Synthetic Media & Art(01:04:12) Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal

(01:07:46) Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music

(01:10:10) YouTube previews AI tool that clones famous singers — with their permission

(01:11:08) Microsoft is bringing AI characters to Xbox

(01:11:49) CBS News Launches New Venture To Identify AI Deepfakes And Misinformation