Our 124th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:30) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
(08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop
(12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT
(14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos
(16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries
(18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI


Applications & Business
(19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom
(22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think  
(25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster 
(28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot
(30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis
(32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters
(33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work


Projects & Open Source
(35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly  +  Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio
(38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents 
(41:37) Bard API
(43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face
(44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source


Research & Advancements
(45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning
(49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds
(51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans 
(54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages
(56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models
(59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes
(01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment


Policy & Safety 
(01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI
(01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?
(01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare 
(01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud
(01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives



Synthetic Media & Art

(01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media



(01:28:44) Outro