#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

Author: Skynet Today May 19, 2024 Duration: 1:43:02
Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show! And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast. 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: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console Applications & Business (00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes (00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps Projects & Open Source (00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3 (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 Research & Advancements (00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture Policy & Safety (00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It Synthetic Media & Art (00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright (01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech (01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey (01:42:00) 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.

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