About this episode
Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast . You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface (00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers (00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference (00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features (00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones (00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week Applications & Business (00:22:36) Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’ (00:26:43) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (00:31:16) Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerators Showcase Competitive Performance Per Dollar Against NVIDIA H100 In MLPerf 4.0 GenAI Benchmarks (00:33:43) Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M Series C (00:36:10) Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans (00:37:44) Humanoid robots are joining the Mercedes-Benz workforce Projects & Open Source (00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM (00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs (00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset (00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report Research & Advancements (00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics (00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial (00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development (01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse (01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference (01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction Policy & Safety (01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence (01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza (01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS (01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network (01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis — but only with safety drivers (01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:17) BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .