Last Week in AI

#122 - AI for Word and Excel, leaked Google memo, ImageBind, LLAva, robot soccer, Midjourney 5.1

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Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Outline:

  • (00:00) Intro
  • (05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections
  • (07:20) News Preview
  • Tools & Apps
    • (07:50) Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access
  • (11:26) Informatica goes all in on generative AI with Claire GPT
  • (15:11) LinkedIn’s new AI will write messages to hiring managers
  • (17:30) Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix and continues growing in San Francisco
  • Applications & Business 
    • (20:58) "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
  • (27:30) AI will create ‘a serious number of losers’, DeepMind co-founder warns
  • (31:37) IBM takes another shot at Watson as A.I. boom picks up steam 
  • (34:11) IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do
  • (36:30) Peter Thiel’s Palantir is seeing ‘unprecedented’ demand for its military A.I. that its CEO calls ‘a weapon that will allow you to win’
  • (38:42) Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It
  • (40:42) Chegg CEO calls 48% stock plunge over ChatGPT fears 'extraordinarily overblown'
  • (43:03) Microsoft Working With AMD on Expansion Into AI Processors 
  • (45:35) Generative AI startup Runway just raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from a cloud service provider
  • (47:50) Top ex-Google AI researchers raise funding from Thrive Capital
  • Projects & Open Source
    • (51:22) Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data
  • (54:45) No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs
  • (57:15) Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model
  • Research & Advancements
    • (59:27) Meet LLaVA: A Large Language Multimodal Model and Vision Assistant that Connects a Vision Encoder and Vicuna for General-Purpose Visual and Language Understanding
  • (01:04:29) Language models can explain neurons in language models
  • (01:11:55) A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading
  • (01:14:27) AI could run a million microbial experiments per year
  • (01:15:54) Scurrying centipedes inspire many-legged robots that can traverse difficult landscapes 
  • (01:17:38) Little Robots Learn to Drive Fast in the Real World
  • (01:20:03) Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots
  • Policy & Safety 
    • (01:21:47) China's AI industry barely slowed by US chip export rules
  • (01:26:10) Anthropic thinks ‘constitutional AI’ is the best way to train models + Claude’s Constitution
  • (01:32:45) An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic
  • (01:36:16) ‘Mom, these bad men have me’: She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping
  • (01:39:18) Bill would require disclosure of AI-generated content in political ads
  • Art & Fun Stuff
    • (01:40:46) Unions Representing Hollywood Writers and Actors Seek Limits on A.I. and Chatbots
  • (01:44:56) Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music
  • (01:46:45) Spotify removes thousands of AI-generated songs
  • (01:49:19) Amnesty International Uses AI-Generated Images of Colombian Human Rights Abuses
  • (01:53:20) Midjourney 5.1 Arrives - And It’s Another Leap Forward For AI Art
  • Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first 25 minutes
  • (01:55:20) Listener Question - AI as a career + what to do in college
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