Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I.
Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers 
Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots 
Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials
Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it
Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up


Research & Advancements
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space
RT-1: Robotics Transformer

Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model
MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions
Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible 
How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction



Policy & Societal Impacts
"AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI
What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security
How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning
Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like 
Planning for AGI and beyond


Art & Fun Stuff
Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon 
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers 
The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place