#162 - Udio Song AI, TPU v5, Mixtral 8x22, Mixture-of-Depths, Musicians sign open letter

#162 - Udio Song AI, TPU v5, Mixtral 8x22, Mixture-of-Depths, Musicians sign open letter

Author: Skynet Today April 15, 2024 Duration: 1:45:00
Our 162nd 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: Tools & Apps (00:02:50) AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music (00:07:42) Anthropic launches external tool use for Claude AI, enabling stock ticker integrations and more (00:11:51) Building LLMs for Code Repair (00:14:16) Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed (00:16:23) Microsoft 365’s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation (00:18:41) AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users Applications & Business (00:19:21) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (00:23:32) Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up (00:27:27) Intel Unveils New AI Accelerator in Bid to Challenge Nvidia (00:30:46) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (00:32:55) OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (00:36:23) Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday (00:37:23) OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund Projects & Open Source (00:39:51) Mistral AI Stuns With Surprise Launch of New Mixtral 8x22B Model (00:43:54) Google updates its Gemma AI model family with variants for coding and research (00:47:04) Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order Research & Advancements (00:52:08) Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models (00:57:41) Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention (01:03:31) Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent (01:07:54) Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models (01:09:54) Many-shot Jailbreaking Policy & Safety (01:15:08) Schiff unveils AI training transparency measure (01:20:25) Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. He was also a prolific thief of trade secrets, say prosecutors. (01:26:11) Responsible Reporting for Frontier AI Development (01:30:08) US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands — eyes nuclear fusion and fission (01:32:39) Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (01:36:45) Trudeau announces $2.4 billion for AI-related investments Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:26) Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices Fun! (01:41:52) OpenAI's Sora just made its first music video and it's like a psychedelic trip 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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