June 13, 2023

#126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI grant program

1 hour 43 minutes

Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week!

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/

Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro / Banter

(02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections

(03:20) News Preview

Tools & Apps

(04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed

(06:02) A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves

Lighting round

(12:04) Google says Gmail on your phone just got a lot faster thanks to A.I.

(13:00) Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article

(15:06) Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT

(17:17) Microsoft Has Launched “Jugalbandi”—A New Generative AI App for India

(18:34) Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool

Applications & Business

(19:55) Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance

(22:25) AI Market Set To Break The Trillion-Dollar Barrier: Surging Toward $1.06 Trillion By 2028 Whether You Trust It Or Not

(26:07) The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report

(30:15) AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem.

Lighting round

(34:00) Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally

(35:16) ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog

(37:14) Microsoft signs deal for A.I. computing power with Nvidia-backed CoreWeave that could be worth billions

(39:40) Apple is looking for engineers to work with Generative AI in a mixed reality environment

(41:15) Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding

(43:05) Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week

Projects & Open Source

(45:21) UAE’s Falcon 40B AI model is now royalty free for commercial, research use

(47:45) Evaluating and uncovering open LLMs

Research & Advancements

(53:10) QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

(58:05) OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations'

(01:02:20) Do You Really Need Reinforcement Learning (RL) in RLHF? A New Stanford Research Proposes DPO (Direct Preference Optimization)

(01:06:50) Reward Collapse in Aligning Large Language Models

Lighting round

(01:11:15) How Should We Maximize the Planning Ability of LLMs While Reducing the Computation Cost? Meet SwiftSage : A Novel Generative Agent for Complex Interactive Reasoning Tasks, Inspired by the Dual-Process Theory of Human Cognition

(01:15:15) How to Keep Scaling Large Language Models when Data Runs Out? A New AI Research Trains 400 Models with up to 9B Parameters and 900B Tokens to Create an Extension of Chinchilla Scaling Laws for Repeated Data

(01:17:58) This AI Research Dives Into The Limitations and Capabilities of Transformer Large Language Models (LLMs), Empirically and Theoretically, on Compositional Tasks"

Policy & Safety

(01:20:55) ChatGPT Plugins Open Security Holes From PDFs, Websites and More

(01:25:02) US, Europe Working on Voluntary AI Code of Conduct as Calls Grow for Regulation

Lighting round

(01:27:58) With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation

(01:30:34) Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”

(01:33:13) Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training

(01:36:48) China warns of ‘complicated and challenging circumstances’ posed by AI risk

Synthetic Media & Art

(01:39:39) Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film.

(01:41:02) ‘Those who hate AI are insecure’: inside Hollywood’s battle over artificial intelligence"

(01:43:20) Outro

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June 13, 2023

#126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI grant program

1 hour 43 minutes

Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week!

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/

Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected]

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro / Banter

(02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections

(03:20) News Preview

Tools & Apps

(04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed

(06:02) A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves

Lighting round

(12:04) Google says Gmail on your phone just got a lot faster thanks to A.I.

(13:00) Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article

(15:06) Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT

(17:17) Microsoft Has Launched “Jugalbandi”—A New Generative AI App for India

(18:34) Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool

Applications & Business

(19:55) Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance

(22:25) AI Market Set To Break The Trillion-Dollar Barrier: Surging Toward $1.06 Trillion By 2028 Whether You Trust It Or Not

(26:07) The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report

(30:15) AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem.

Lighting round

(34:00) Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally

(35:16) ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog

(37:14) Microsoft signs deal for A.I. computing power with Nvidia-backed CoreWeave that could be worth billions

(39:40) Apple is looking for engineers to work with Generative AI in a mixed reality environment

(41:15) Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding

(43:05) Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week

Projects & Open Source

(45:21) UAE’s Falcon 40B AI model is now royalty free for commercial, research use

(47:45) Evaluating and uncovering open LLMs

Research & Advancements

(53:10) QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

(58:05) OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations'

(01:02:20) Do You Really Need Reinforcement Learning (RL) in RLHF? A New Stanford Research Proposes DPO (Direct Preference Optimization)

(01:06:50) Reward Collapse in Aligning Large Language Models

Lighting round

(01:11:15) How Should We Maximize the Planning Ability of LLMs While Reducing the Computation Cost? Meet SwiftSage : A Novel Generative Agent for Complex Interactive Reasoning Tasks, Inspired by the Dual-Process Theory of Human Cognition

(01:17:58) This AI Research Dives Into The Limitations and Capabilities of Transformer Large Language Models (LLMs), Empirically and Theoretically, on Compositional Tasks"

Policy & Safety

(01:20:55) ChatGPT Plugins Open Security Holes From PDFs, Websites and More

(01:25:02) US, Europe Working on Voluntary AI Code of Conduct as Calls Grow for Regulation

Lighting round

(01:27:58) With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation

(01:30:34) Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”

(01:33:13) Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training

(01:36:48) China warns of ‘complicated and challenging circumstances’ posed by AI risk

Synthetic Media & Art

(01:39:39) Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film.

(01:41:02) ‘Those who hate AI are insecure’: inside Hollywood’s battle over artificial intelligence"

(01:43:20) Outro

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