About this episode
Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!! Note: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:30) Preview of news Tools & Apps (05:40) DALLE-3 (12:47) YouAgent (Richard Socher thread) Applications & Business (20:03) Google's Gemini AI surpasses Chat GPT-4 fivefold: Report (25:16) Google begins external testing of its GPT-4 competitor "Gemini" (26:30) From sanctions to silicon: China’s semiconductor breakthrough (35:41) AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the U.S. (41:19) SoftBank planning OpenAI investment: Financial Times (44:30) OpenAI Hustles to Beat Google to Launch ‘Multimodal’ LLM (46:40) The AI Detection Arms Race Is On (51:30) Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups (55:15) AI chip startup Enfabrica raises $125 mln, with backing from Nvidia (56:41) Databricks raises over $500 mln at $43 bln valuation Projects & Open Source (01:01:15) Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates Research & Advancements (01:10:19) NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM (01:15:35) On measuring situational awareness in LLMs (01:22:50) Language Modeling Is Compression (01:26:22) How AI can Revolutionize Science ( Jeremie’s gift link ) Policy & Safety (01:33:33) Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites (01:36:08) Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy (01:41:45) Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit (01:43:48) EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers (01:44:26) Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI (01:45:23) Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist to testify in Senate AI hearings (01:46:40) AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous (01:47:27) Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI (01:50:18) Gary Gensler confirms SEC’s use of AI for financial surveillance Synthetic Media & Art (01:50:55) Self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon’s site is AI-generated See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .