Our 134th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:30) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps(03:53) ElevenLabs Comes Out of Beta and Releases Eleven Multilingual v2 - a Foundational AI Speech Model for Nearly 30 Languages
(07:20) Meet Lilli, our generative AI tool that’s a researcher, a time saver, and an inspiration
(09:55) Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice
(11:42) Runway launches new ‘Watch’ feature as CEO says Hollywood AI discourse ‘needs to be more nuanced’ 
(12:45) The AI-powered Adobe Express is now generally available
(14:30) Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’
(17:35) NCSoft's new AI suite is trained to streamline game production


Applications & Business(19:45) Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
(28:52) State of AI Q2'23 Report
(35:45) China GPT? Tencent to Unleash Homegrown AI as Big Tech Races for Supremacy
(38:23) What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a transformer paper co-author
(43:00 )AI startup Anthropic raises $100M from Korean telco giant SK Telecom
(45:58) OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination


Projects & Open Source(48:13) Announcing AI2 OLMo, an open language model made by scientists, for scientists
(51:50) Introducing IDEFICS : An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-art Visual Langage Model
(55:45) Introducing Arthur Bench: The Most Robust Way to Evaluate LLMs


Research & Advancements(58:45) Self-Alignment with Instruction BacktranslationAutomatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the landscape of diverse self-correction strategies


(01:07:00) DeepMind’s AlphaStar Benchmark Improves RL Offline Agent With 90% Win Rate Against SOTA AlphaStar Supervised Agent
(01:12:12) RAVEN: In-Context Learning with Retrieval Augmented Encoder-Decoder Language Models
(01:14:16) BOLAA: Benchmarking and Orchestrating LLM-augmented Autonomous Agents
(01:21:40) Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster
Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models


Policy & Safety(01:24:08) China’s new AI regulations begin to take effect
(01:28:08) The Associated Press sets AI guidelines for journalists
(01:30:45) AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating – The Markup



Synthetic Media & Art
(01:32:08) Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale
(01:35:10) AI Botched Their Headshots


(01:37:52) Outro