#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills

Our 153rd 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 Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Synthetic Media & Art (00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes (00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads (00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead (00:12:20) Guns N’ Roses share AI-generated video for ‘The General’ Tools & Apps (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant (00:23:47) ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones Applications & Business (00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report (00:34:25) Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet (00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development (00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI (00:47:22) AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia Projects & Open Source (00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode (00:53:00) Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4 (00:54:30) DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence Lighting round Research & Advancements (00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding (01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty (01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems? (01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models (01:20:30) A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine Policy & Safety (01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models (01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order (01:33:06) Rep. Jeff Jackson Introduces Bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to Stop China from Remotely Using American Technology to Build AI Tools (01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake (01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation (01:45:15) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .