Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes "Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month"
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00)  Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(03:00) Reka launches Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant to take on ChatGPT
(06:48) Arc browser’s new AI-powered features combine OpenAI and Anthropic’s models
(11:00) ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers for Content
(13:11) Canva’s new AI tools automate boring, labor-intensive design tasks
(16:32) Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh
(20:45) Google Bard is gaining a new 'Memory' toggle to remember key details
(22:22) Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant
(24:14) Android 14’s AI-generated wallpapers might be its coolest new feature


Applications & Business(24:50) Waymo’s robotaxi service is now available to tens of thousands of people in San Francisco
(28:54) Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month
(32:34) TSMC Sales Fell Less Than Feared as AI Demand Offsets Slump
(34:54) Microsoft could debut its AI chip next month: Report
(37:06) Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips
(39:08) Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors


Projects & Open Source(40:05) Replit’s new AI Model now available on Hugging Face
(43:46) Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices
(46:30)  Protesters Decry Meta’s “Irreversible Proliferation” of AI


Research & Advancements(52:10) Scaling up learning across many different robot types
(59:35) Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components
(01:06:54) Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution
(01:11:45) China's First 28nm Lithography Tool to Be Delivered This Year
(01:15:03) LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
(01:18:07) Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To!


Policy & Safety(01:22:08) RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war
(01:26:48) Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes
(01:33:44) Five Takeaways From Bellwether AI Copyright Case
(01:36:19) A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country
(01:38:12) Governments race to regulate AI tools
(01:40:09) US curbs on chip tools to China nearly finalized, government posting shows


Synthetic Media & Art(01:45:35) WGA Ratifies Three-Year Deal With Studios, Officially Ending Hollywood Strike
(01:47:50)  AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers
(01:50:00) Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI
(01:51:36) How an AI deepfake ad of MrBeast ended up on TikTok
(01:53:53) Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI


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