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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