#159 - Inflection-2.5, Devin, OpenAI board update, SIMA, EU AI Act passed

Our 159th 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: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world's best personal AI (00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer (00:11:00) DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse (00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability (00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos — here’s how it sounds (00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors Applications & Business (00:17:33) Sam Altman Rejoins OpenAI Board Along With Three New Directors (00:21:15) Cohere releases powerful ‘Command-R’ language model for enterprise use (00:23:16) Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure (00:25:53) Baidu Launches China's First 24/7 Robotaxi Service Projects & Open Source (00:26:54) Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets (00:29:40) SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law (00:31:45) Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Company “01.AI” Announces the Open Source of the Yi-9B Model Research & Advancements (00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments (00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production Language Model (00:42:01) Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science (00:43:54) ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect (00:44:55) PixArt-Σ: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation Policy & Safety (00:46:24) World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers (00:48:57) US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access (00:51:27) Google restricts election-related queries for its Gemini chatbot Synthetic Media & Art (00:52:43) Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst (00:55:27) Nvidia Says NeMo AI Platform Complies With Copyright After Authors’ Complaint (00:57:23) Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered Fun! (00:58:12) I made by Superman action figure talk with Pika Labs’ new AI lip sync tool — watch this See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .