Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter

Tools & Apps(00:02:43) Google Deepmind unveils its most advanced AI image generator, Imagen 2
(00:08:21) Anthropic will help users if they get sued for copyright infringement
(00:13:50) Midjourney Alpha is here with AI image generations on the web
(00:16:34) Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool
(00:17:09) Microsoft drastically expands Azure AI Studio to include Llama 2 Model-as-a-Service, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision
(00:18:54) ChatGPT Is Apparently Becoming Lazy as It Has Started Asking Users to Solve Their Own Problems
(00:22:17) You can create your own AI songs with this new Copilot extension
(00:23:57) Stability AI announces paid membership for commercial use of its models


Applications & Business(00:25:42) ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor
(00:31:55) Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD
(00:36:36) Chinese chip-related companies shutting down with record speed — 10,900, or around 30 per day, shut down in 2023
(00:40:11) TSMC mentions 1.4nm process tech for the first time, says 2nm remains on track
(00:42:57) Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration
(00:46:17) Nvidia rushes to deliver modified AI GPU chips to China customers, allegedly places 'Super Hot Run' priority order with TSMC
(00:49:17) Sam Altman’s OpenAI agrees to pay German media giant Axel Springer for using its content to train AI models


Projects & Open Source(00:52:20) Introducing DeciLM-7B: The Fastest and Most Accurate 7 Billion-Parameter LLM to Date
(00:57:27) Introducing Stable Zero123: Quality 3D Object Generation from Single Images


Research & Advancements(01:00:42) FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models
(01:09:12) OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI
(01:16:41) Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests
(01:18:13) SwitchHead: Accelerating Transformers with Mixture-of-Experts Attention
(01:20:04) CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents
(01:21:10) Limits to the Energy Efficiency of CMOS Microprocessors


Policy & Safety(01:24:24) OpenAI announces ‘Preparedness Framework’ to track and mitigate AI risks
(01:32:08) Pro-China YouTube Network Used A.I. to Malign U.S., Report Finds
(01:37:07) AI is a danger to the financial system, regulators warn for the first time
(01:38:42) Anonymous Sudan hacking group sets sights on ChatGPT
(01:40:33) Scenario planning for an AGI future
(01:42:51) The widening web of effective altruism in AI security


Synthetic Media & Art(01:49:22) Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real
(01:52:34) Pakistan’s former prime minister is using an AI voice clone to campaign from prison