#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI

#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI

Author: Skynet Today March 31, 2024 Duration: 1:36:24
Our 161st 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 Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface (00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers (00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference (00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features (00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones (00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week Applications & Business (00:22:36) Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’ (00:26:43) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (00:31:16) Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerators Showcase Competitive Performance Per Dollar Against NVIDIA H100 In MLPerf 4.0 GenAI Benchmarks (00:33:43) Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M Series C (00:36:10) Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans (00:37:44) Humanoid robots are joining the Mercedes-Benz workforce Projects & Open Source (00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM (00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs (00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset (00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report Research & Advancements (00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics (00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial (00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development (01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse (01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference (01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction Policy & Safety (01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence (01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza (01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS (01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network (01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis — but only with safety drivers (01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:17) BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints 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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