#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!

#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!

Author: Skynet Today February 25, 2024 Duration: 1:45:06
Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 (00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model (00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready (00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok (00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds (00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product (00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’ Applications & Business (00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund (00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs (00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show (00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms (00:50:06)  AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding (00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ‘agents’ to business Projects & Open Source (00:51:41) BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains (00:54:33) Nomic AI Releases the First Fully Open-Source Long Context Text Embedding Model that Surpasses OpenAI Ada-002 Performance on Various Benchmarks Research & Advancements (00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video (01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting (01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement (01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention (01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities" Policy & Safety (01:17:15) Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says (01:21:15) House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force (01:25:08) Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks (01:27:05) States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week (01:28:12) Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets (01:30:26) The FTC warned about ‘quiet’ TOS changes for AI training. Here’s why it might not be enough Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:13) Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissed Fun & Miscellaneous (01:36:14) A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models (01:38:00) Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident (01:40:50) Helen Mirren Rips Up AI-Generated Speech at American Cinematheque Awards (01:41:40) Microsoft's game-changing Super Bowl ad See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Keeping up with artificial intelligence can feel like drinking from a firehose. Every week brings a new breakthrough, a surprising application, or an urgent ethical debate. Last Week in AI, from the team at Skynet Today, is here to turn that torrent into a clear, digestible stream. Instead of getting lost in the noise, you'll get a thoughtful rundown of the developments that actually have impact, explained without unnecessary jargon. Each episode feels like a conversation with well-informed friends who have done the homework for you, sifting through research papers, product launches, and industry announcements to highlight what's substantive. You'll hear nuanced discussions that go beyond the headlines, considering the real-world implications of new models, policy shifts, and corporate moves in the tech landscape. This podcast doesn't just tell you what happened; it provides context on why it matters for developers, businesses, and society at large. It’s an efficient way to stay informed and critically engaged with a field that is reshaping our world at a breathtaking pace. Tune in for a consistently insightful analysis that makes the complex world of AI feel accessible and relevant, week after week.
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