#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc

#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc

Author: Skynet Today June 24, 2024 Duration: 2:04:01
Our 171st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) Feel free to leave us feedback here. 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 (00:03:13) Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac (00:10:03) ‘We don’t need Sora anymore’: Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut (00:14:48) Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips (00:18:21) Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works (00:22:31) Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor Applications & Business (00:28:23 ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company (00:31:19) Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc. (00:38:53) OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO) (00:41:44) Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months (00:44:30) AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft (00:48:55) Mistral closes €600m at €5.8bn valuation with new lead investor (00:53:12) Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA’s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China (00:56:58) Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform Projects & Open Source (01:01:03) Announcing the Open Release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Our Most Sophisticated Image Generation Model to Date (01:05:53) Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking (01:09:39) ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos Research & Advancements (01:12:02) Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling (01:22:07) Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision (01:28:01) Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations (01:30:32) An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models (01:31:57) BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners (01:33:33) SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals Policy & Safety (01:35:16) Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (01:42:26) Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole (01:45:53) Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe (01:46:44) Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (01:51:38) Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools Synthetic Media & Art (01:55:07) It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop. (01:57:39) Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work (01:59:31) Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets (02:02:23) Outro + AI 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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