#172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic

#172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic

Author: Skynet Today July 1, 2024 Duration: 1:51:04
Our 172nd 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) Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form. Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant (00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps (00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July (00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users (00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco (00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI Applications & Business (00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC (00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others (00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say (00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions (00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same Projects & Open Source (00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization (00:47:54) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B (00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model Research & Advancements (00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 (01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks (01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again (01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination (01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws Policy & Safety (01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep (01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill (01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools (01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI (01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement (01:42:43) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels (01:45:07) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool (01:49:12) 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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