Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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(00:00) Intro / Banter
(01:30) SuperDataScience podcast ad

(03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps(05:59) ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads
(10:44) ChatGPT can now search the web in real time
(13:30) Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps
(18:26) Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
(19:32) Windows 11’s next big update is now available with Copilot, AI-powered Paint, and more
(20:21) Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools
(21:32) YouTube Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Tools For Video Creators
(23:20) Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers


Applications & Business(25:00) AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs
(29:28) Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic 
(36:24) China to Challenge ASML with a better technology than EUV
(40:00) Intel says newest laptop chips, software will handle generative AI
(43:03) Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images
(46:02) AI Startup Writer Pens $100M Round
(46:40) AI chip startup Kneron secures $49M investment
(48:45) AI startup AlphaSense valued at $2.5 billion after latest funding round
(51:01) A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device
(52:42) Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
(55:24) Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data


Projects & Open Source(56:11) Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone
(01:01:12) Adept AI Labs Open-Sources Persimmon-8B: A Powerful Fully Permissively-Licensed Language Model with <10 Billion Parameters
(01:03:20) BTLM-3B-8K: 7B Parameter Performance in a 3B Parameter Model


Research & Advancements(01:07:10) AnyMAL: An Efficient and Scalable Any-Modality Augmented Language Model
(01:09:35) DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation / Text-to-3D using Gaussian Splatting
(01:12:40)  Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential
(01:15:38) Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window
(01:17:26) John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence


Policy & Safety(01:19:46) Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill
(01:24:03) AI facial recognition tech leads to wave of lawsuits from Black plaintiffs after mistaken identities end in arrests
(01:26:20) California governor vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety drivers
(01:27:47) Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town
(01:29:00) AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency
(01:30:36) We Can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nuclear Catastrophe
 


Synthetic Media & Art(01:33:19) Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.
(01:35:10) Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness
(01:36:24) Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake
(01:37:36) Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns
(01:39:59) Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors
(01:42:17) Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy
(01:45:22) Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI
(01:48:55) OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List


(01:50:16) Outro