#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME,  Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream

#146 - ChatGPT’s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME, Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream

Author: Skynet Today December 12, 2023 Duration: 1:25:27
Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: this one is coming out a bit late, sorry! We'll have a new ep with coverage of the big news about Gemini and the EU AI Act out soon though. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro/Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:03) ChatGPT’s 1-year anniversary: how it changed the world (00:06:15) Perplexity AI Introduces New Online LLMs for Real-Time Information Access  (00:11:45) Intuit Adds Generative AI-Powered Tax Prep to TurboTax (00:12:57) Microsoft Paint’s DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out on Windows 11 (00:13:56) Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift (00:14:54) Voicemod will now let you create and share your own AI voices (00:16:15) Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator Applications & Business (00:17:48) Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit (00:20:39) Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (00:25:48) Google is reportedly pushing the launch of its Gemini AI to 2024 (00:27:38) OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (00:29:03) US Compels Saudi Fund to Exit AI Chip Startup Backed by Altman (00:30:15) OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2 Billion Valuation With Andreessen Horowitz Backing (00:31:57) US artificial intelligence leader OpenAI applies for GPT-6, GPT-7 trademarks in China (00:32:59) CoreWeave backed by Fidelity and Jane Street at $7 billion valuation as cloud provider bolsters status as one of AI’s hottest startups (00:34:14) AWS debuts next-generation Graviton4 and Trainium2 chips for cloud and AI workloads (00:35:08) Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI (00:36:09) Indian AI Video Startup Rephrase.ai Announces Acquisition by Adobe (00:36:40) Report: Stability AI Positioning Itself for Acquisition Projects & Open Source (00:39:31) ChatGPT's One-year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching up? (00:43:50) China Open Sources DeepSeek LLM, Outperforms Llama 2 and Claude-2 Research & Advancements (00:48:37) Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for thousands of new materials (00:54:11) Researchers quantify the carbon footprint of generating AI images (00:56:40) Adopting and expanding ethical principles for generative artificial intelligence from military to healthcare (00:57:51) White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction: Compression Is All There Is? (01:00:09) Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? Case Study in Medicine (01:02:30) MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI Policy & Safety (01:05:19) ChatGPT can leak training data, violate privacy, says Google's DeepMind (01:12:45) UK to invest £500M more in AI compute capacity, launch five new quantum projects (01:13:39) Microsoft's $3.2 bln UK investment to drive AI growth (01:14:35) A new Pentagon program aims to speed up decisions on what AI tech is trustworthy enough to deploy (01:16:06) US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day' (01:19:13) The UAE’s leading AI CEO addresses bombshell New York Times report alleging China ties, says he didn’t finish reading the story (01:21:07) Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos Synthetic Media & Art (01:22:34) AnyDream: Secretive AI Platform Broke Stripe Rules to Rake in Money from Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfakes (01:25:02) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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