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From the potential misuse of AI-generated imagery for disinformation campaigns to the use of AI chatbots to frustrate telemarketing scammers, the episode highlights the versatility of AI in addressing persistent issues. The development of Hint-ReLIC and Statler state-maintaining language models also show promising advancements in neural algorithmic reasoning and large language model-based robot reasoning.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:36 Political Satirist Slammed for Creating Deepfakes of Trump, Biden Cheating on their Wives
02:51 California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots
04:26 The industry behind the industry behind AI
05:39 Fake sponsor
07:30 Neural Algorithmic Reasoning with Causal Regularisation
09:15 Statler: State-Maintaining Language Models for Embodied Reasoning
10:40 A Survey on Generative Diffusion Model
12:46 Outro
Elon Musk blames AI companies for new paywalls on reading tweets. European VCs and tech firms warn against over-regulation of AI in EU la. GPT-4's big secret is revealed: it's a mixture of 8 smaller models using a 2-year-old technique. AI research papers discussed include Preference Ranking Optimization for Human Alignment, ChatGPT for Robotics, and Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:36 Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets
02:51 European VCs and tech firms sign open letter warning against over-regulation of AI in draft EU laws
04:43 GPT-4's Secret Has Been Revealed
06:06 Fake sponsor
08:18 Preference Ranking Optimization for Human Alignment
09:49 ChatGPT for Robotics: Design Principles and Model Abilities
11:25 Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting
13:34 Outro
From the first fully AI-generated drug entering clinical trials to a new method for improving out-of-distribution performance of visual detectors, there's plenty to pique your interest. The OBELISC dataset is also discussed, which could have important implications for training large multimodal models. Finally, the potential catastrophic risks associated with AI are explored, with practical suggestions proposed for mitigating these dangers.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:33 How AI Influences What You See on Facebook and Instagram
03:13 The first fully A.I.-generated drug enters clinical trials in human patients
05:27 Your guide to AI: July 2023
07:00 Fake sponsor
08:52 Test-time Adaptation with Slot-Centric Models
10:23 OBELISC: An Open Web-Scale Filtered Dataset of Interleaved Image-Text Documents
12:05 An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks
14:07 Outro
Amazon's AI marketplace, Stability AI's recent changes, potential biases in large language models, and the use of LLMs by crowd workers. These discussions shed light on important issues in the AI industry and highlight the need for transparency and oversight in the development and use of AI models.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:41 Amazon reveals AI strategy
03:37 Stability AI’s head of research quits
05:21 Optimize & Deploy BERT on AWS inferentia2
06:29 Fake sponsor
08:41 Towards Measuring the Representation of Subjective Global Opinions in Language Models
10:44 Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks
12:02 What Makes ImageNet Look Unlike LAION
13:52 Outro
ERNIE 3.5 has made significant improvements in efficacy, functionality, and performance, while OpenAI's work assistant may put the company at odds with Microsoft's copilots. "Learning to Rank in Generative Retrieval" proposes a novel framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance among generative retrieval methods. Finally, "System-Level Natural Language Feedback" proposes a framework for using natural language feedback to improve machine learning models at a system-level, leading to further gains in model performance.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:24 Introducing ERNIE 3.5: Baidu’s Knowledge-Enhanced Foundation Model Takes a Giant Leap Forward
02:56 Would an OpenAI work assistant put the company in conflict with Microsoft?
04:24 Fast machines, slow machines
05:46 Fake sponsor
07:56 Learning to Rank in Generative Retrieval
09:24 Extending Context Window of Large Language Models via Positional Interpolation
11:24 System-Level Natural Language Feedback
13:09 Outro
DeepMind is developing a chatbot called Gemini that will rival ChatGPT, while Reka has received $58 million in funding to advance AI research. We also explore the emerging discipline of prompt engineering and the use of large language models as weak learners in machine learning pipelines.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:34 DeepMind claims its next chatbot will rival ChatGPT
02:53 Announcing our $58M funding to Build Generative Models and Advance AI Research
04:11 Prompt Engineering Guide
05:57 Fake sponsor
07:45 Language models are weak learners
09:02 Supervised Pretraining Can Learn In-Context Reinforcement Learning
10:59 SequenceMatch: Imitation Learning for Autoregressive Sequence Modelling with Backtracking
12:51 Outro
Databricks' acquisition of MosaicML for $1.3 billion, Ramp's acquisition of Cohere.io to improve its customer service, and two research papers on self-supervised evaluation for large language models and scaling MLPs. These topics provide valuable insights into the growing demand for generative AI tools, the importance of realistic data evaluation, and the limits of MLPs' performance on vision tasks.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:31 Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML
03:33 As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io
05:36 Inside China's underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips
07:36 Fake sponsor
09:31 Bring Your Own Data! Self-Supervised Evaluation for Large Language Models
11:28 System-Level Natural Language Feedback
12:55 Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias
14:50 Outro
Stability AI's SDXL 0.9, which has potential applications in film, television, music, design, and industrial fields, to archaeologists using AI to translate 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, this episode is packed with fascinating developments. We also delve into MIT and Stanford's "From Word Models to World Models," which proposes a computational framework for language-informed thinking, and Google's AudioPaLM, a large language model that fuses text-based and speech-based language models into a unified multimodal architecture that can process and generate both text and speech.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:44 Stability AI launches SDXL 0.9: A Leap Forward in AI Image Generation
03:14 Archaeologists use artificial intelligence (AI) to translate 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets
04:50 Extending Context is Hard…but not Impossible
05:59 Fake sponsor
08:17 From Word Models to World Models: Translating from Natural Language to the Probabilistic Language of Thought
10:06 Learning from Visual Observation via Offline Pretrained State-to-Go Transformer
11:42 AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen
13:22 Outro
DeepMind's self-improving robotic agent, RoboCat, and Microsoft's new AI model, Orca. They also discuss two research papers, "RED FM" and "SqueezeLLM," that introduce new resources for multilingual relation extraction and a post-training quantization framework, respectively.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:37 DeepMind Announces RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent
03:35 Meet Orca, Microsoft’s new 13 billion parameter AI model that can imitate GPT-4
05:40 Levanter — Legible, Scalable, Reproducible Foundation Models with JAX
06:57 Fake sponsor
09:15 RED$^{\rm FM}$: a Filtered and Multilingual Relation Extraction Dataset
11:06 Fast Diffusion Model
12:38 SqueezeLLM: Dense-and-Sparse Quantization
14:25 Outro
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