#165 - Sora challenger, Astribot's S1, Med-Gemini, Refusal in LLMs

#165 - Sora challenger, Astribot's S1, Med-Gemini, Refusal in LLMs

Author: Skynet Today May 6, 2024 Duration: 1:32:46
Our 165th 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 (00:01:27) GitHub releases an AI-powered tool aiming for a 'radically new way of building software' (00:07:05) China unveils Sora challenger able to produce videos from text similar to OpenAI tool, though much shorter (00:12:23) ChatGPT’s AI ‘memory’ can remember the preferences of paying customers (00:14:21) Rabbit R1 review: Avoid this AI gadget (00:18:30) Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available (00:19:54) Yelp’s Assistant AI bot will do all the talking to help users find service providers Applications & Business (00:21:31) Video of super-fast, super-smooth humanoid robot will drop your jaw (00:25:22) Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny (00:29:32) Tesla shares soar as Elon Musk returns from China with FSD 'Game Changer' (00:32:11) OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use (00:35:21) OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M (00:37:00) Huawei backs HBM memory manufacturing in China to sidestep crippling US sanctions that restrict AI development Research & Advancements (00:39:20) Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine (00:45:34) Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models (00:52:20) NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution (00:55:08) SenseNova 5.0: China’s latest AI model surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4 (00:57:20) Octopus v4: Graph of language models (01:00:28) Better & Faster Large Language Models via Multi-token Prediction Policy & Safety (01:03:15) Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction (01:09:19) Rishi Sunak promised to make AI safe. Big Tech’s not playing ball. (01:15:09) DOE Announces New Actions to Enhance America’s Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (01:18:21) The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects (01:20:50) Analysis-Second global AI safety summit faces tough questions, lower turnout (01:24:03) Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and more join the federal AI safety board Synthetic Media & Art (01:26:30) Air Head creators say OpenAI's Sora finicky to work with, needs hundreds of prompts, serious VFX work for under 2 minutes of cohesive story ↺ (01:29:50) Eight newspaper publishers sue OpenAI over copyright infringement 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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