Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00) Intro / Banter
(02:07) SuperDataScience podcast ad
(04:00) Shout out to listener comments & reviews
(05:43) News Preview
Tools & Apps(06:32) Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more for $30 a month
(10:51) Poe’s new desktop app lets you use all the AI chatbots in one place
(13:47) Developers are now using AI for text-to-music apps
(15:50) Yahoo Mail Debuts AI Enhancements for a Smarter Inbox
(18:05) South Korea's Naver launches generative AI services


Applications & Business(21:19) Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise
(25:25) We Analyzed Millions of ChatGPT User Sessions: Visits are Down 29% since May, Programming Assistance is 30% of Use
(29:50) Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT
(31:32) Nvidia’s Q2 earnings prove it’s the big winner in the generative AI boom
(33:30) How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips
(37:03) Nvidia's $25 billion buyback 'a head-scratcher' for some shareholders
(40:25) Chinese AI Company Claims Huawei AI GPUs Are On Par With NVIDIA A100, Will Compete With GPT-4 LLM In 2024
(44:08) AI’s Share Of US Startup Funding Doubled In 2023
(45:42) Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
(48:13) AI21 Labs Raises $155M in Series C Funding; Valued at $1.4 Billion
(50:32) DP Technology Raises 100 million US dollars, Achieves AI Milestones in Science


Projects & Open Source(52:15) Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages
(56:01) Line Open-Sources ‘japanese-large-lm’: A Japanese Language Model With 3.6 Billion Parameters


Research & Advancements(58:55) Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
(01:05:18) Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling
(01:08:27) Hoodwinked: Deception and Cooperation in a Text-Based Game for Language Models
(01:11:47) Head-to-Tail: How Knowledgeable are Large Language Models (LLM)? A.K.A. Will LLMs Replace Knowledge Graphs?
(01:14:14) Nvidia AI Image Generator Fits on a Floppy Disk and Takes 4 Minutes to Train
(01:16:18) MagicEdit: High-Fidelity and Temporally Coherent Video Editing
(01:17:44) A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agents


Policy & Safety(01:19:00) UK to spend £100m in global race to produce AI chips
(01:22:03) Meta confirms AI ‘off-switch’ incoming to Facebook, Instagram in Europe
(01:25:44) Beijing to restrict use of generative AI in online healthcare activities
(01:28:04) Schumer to host AI forum with CEOs including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
(01:32:52) Bletchley Park to host AI safety talks in November
(01:34:47) Spain launches AI regulation agency in bid to become industry leader


Synthetic Media & Art(01:36:11) Google made a watermark for AI images that you can’t edit out


(01:39:20) Outro