Last Week in AI

#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec

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Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

  • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
  • Tools & Apps
    • (00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model
    • (00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts
    • (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices
    • (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan
    • (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
    • (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand
    • Applications & Business
      • (00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT
      • (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini
      • (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion
      • (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring
      • (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI
      • Projects & Open Source
        • (00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models
        • (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model
        • (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities
        • (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
        • (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library
        • (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models
        • Research & Advancements
          • (00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA
          • (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
          • (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation
          • (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems
          • (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
          • Policy & Safety
            • (01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models
            • (01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI
            • (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
            • (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers
            • Synthetic Media & Art
              • (01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles
              • (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3
              • (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala
              • (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam 
              • (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men
              • (01:40:18) AI Outro Song

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