#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec

#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec

Author: Skynet Today May 12, 2024 Duration: 1:41:24
Our 166th 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 (00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand Applications & Business (00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI Projects & Open Source (00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models Research & Advancements (00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Policy & Safety (01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models (01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3 (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam  (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men (01:40:18) AI Outro Song 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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