Last Week in AI

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

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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
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