#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit

#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit

Author: Skynet Today February 16, 2024 Duration: 1:45:41
Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E. 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 Tools & Apps (00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like (00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model (00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs Applications & Business (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI (00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy Projects & Open Source (00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages (00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY (00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters (00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade Research & Advancements (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models Policy & Safety (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers (01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit (01:42:25) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits (01:44:42) 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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