Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!!
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(04:30) Preview of newsTools & Apps(12:47) YouAgent (Richard Socher thread)Applications & Business- (20:03) Google's Gemini AI surpasses Chat GPT-4 fivefold: Report
(25:16) Google begins external testing of its GPT-4 competitor "Gemini"(26:30) From sanctions to silicon: China’s semiconductor breakthrough(35:41) AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the U.S.(41:19) SoftBank planning OpenAI investment: Financial Times(44:30) OpenAI Hustles to Beat Google to Launch ‘Multimodal’ LLM(46:40) The AI Detection Arms Race Is On(51:30) Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups(55:15) AI chip startup Enfabrica raises $125 mln, with backing from Nvidia(56:41) Databricks raises over $500 mln at $43 bln valuationProjects & Open Source- (01:01:15) Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates
Research & Advancements- (01:10:19) NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM
(01:15:35) On measuring situational awareness in LLMs(01:22:50) Language Modeling Is Compression(01:26:22) How AI can Revolutionize Science (Jeremie’s gift link)- (01:33:33) Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites
(01:36:08) Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy(01:41:45) Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit(01:43:48) EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers(01:44:26) Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI (01:45:23) Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist to testify in Senate AI hearings (01:46:40) AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous(01:47:27) Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI(01:50:18) Gary Gensler confirms SEC’s use of AI for financial surveillanceSynthetic Media & Art- (01:50:55) Self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon’s site is AI-generated