Last Week in AI

#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?

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Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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Timestamps + Links:

  • Tools & Apps
    • (00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora
    • (00:09:16) ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI
    • (00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features
    • (00:14:38) Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
    • (00:16:35) ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt
    • (00:18:37) Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries
    • Applications & Business
      • (00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group
      • (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI
      • (00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals
      • (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami 
      • (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave"
      • (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink
      • Projects & Open Source
        • (00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M
        • (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores
        • (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv
        • (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design
        • Research & Advancements
          • (00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders
          • (01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting
          • (01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach
          • (01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile
          • Policy & Safety
            • (01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027
            • (01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
            • (01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks
            • (01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
            • Synthetic Media & Art
              • (01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant
              • (01:46:25) Outro + AI Song

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