Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
Applications & BusinessLLM/ChatGPT roundupRadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves
Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership
Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools
Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology
Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature
Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries


Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 BillionAnthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups


Lighting RoundMicrosoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining
OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech
D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT
OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation




Research & AdvancementsGoogle’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commandsPaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model


What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network?
Lighting RoundScientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells
Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view
Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model
AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions





Policy & Societal Impacts
OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit
As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology
Lighting Round A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son
TikTok’s trendy beauty filter ushers in new tech and new problems
UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI "invent
ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI




Art & Fun StuffAI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyoneSci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers


ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon 
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place