#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills

#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills

Author: Skynet Today February 4, 2024 Duration: 1:46:06
Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00:00)  Intro / Banter Synthetic Media & Art (00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes (00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads (00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead (00:12:20) Guns N’ Roses share AI-generated video for ‘The General’ Tools & Apps (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant (00:23:47)  ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones Applications & Business (00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report (00:34:25) Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet (00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development (00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI (00:47:22)  AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia Projects & Open Source (00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode (00:53:00) Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4 (00:54:30) DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence Lighting round Research & Advancements (00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding (01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty (01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems? (01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models (01:20:30) A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine Policy & Safety (01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models (01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order (01:33:06) Rep. Jeff Jackson Introduces Bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to Stop China from Remotely Using American Technology to Build AI Tools (01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake (01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation (01:45:15) 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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