Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot
Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard
Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad
Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public
You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future
Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine


Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot
Lighting Round
Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI 
AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation 


OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee 
Instagram’s founders are back with a new app 
Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |… 




Research & Advancements
Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT 
A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected 
Lighting Round
Whispers of AI’s modular future
AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find 
AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art
Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning





Policy & Societal Impacts
Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards 
Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death
Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word


Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat
The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning
Lighting Round
Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI
A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision 
Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed 
Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears
U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement
Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified




Art & Fun Stuff
AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now