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2d ago

Our 228th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 12/12/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: OpenAI's latest model GPT-5.2 demonstrates improved performance and enhanced multi-modal capabilities but comes with increased costs and a different knowledge cutoff date. Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI to generate Disney character content, creating unique licensing agreements across characters from Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars franchises. The U.S. government imposes new AI chip export rules involving security reviews, while simultaneously moving to prevent states from independently regulating AI. DeepMind releases a paper outlining the challenges and findings in scaling multi-agent systems, highlighting the complexities of tool coordination and task performance. Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:19) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:01:58) GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle | The Verge (00:08:48) Runway releases its first world model, adds native audio to latest video model | TechCrunch (00:11:51) Google says it will link to more sources in AI Mode | The Verge (00:12:24) ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free | The Verge (00:13:05) Tencent releases Hunyuan 2.0 with 406B parameters Applications & Business (00:16:15) China set to limit access to Nvidia’s H200 chips despite Trump export approval (00:21:02) Disney investing $1 billion in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora (00:24:48) Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round (00:29:06) Slack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer | TechCrunch (00:31:18) The state of enterprise AI Projects & Open Source (00:33:49) [2512.10791] The FACTS Leaderboard: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Model Factuality (00:36:27) Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document Research & Advancements (00:43:49) [2512.08296] Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems (00:48:43) Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator (00:52:10) Guided Self-Evolving LLMs with Minimal Human Supervision (00:56:08) Martingale Score: An Unsupervised Metric for Bayesian Rationality in LLM Reasoning (01:00:39) [2512.07783] On the Interplay of Pre-Training, Mid-Training, and RL on Reasoning Language Models (01:04:42) Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning with LLMs: Formulation and Practices (01:09:42) Google’s AI unit DeepMind announces UK 'automated research lab' Policy & Safety (01:10:28) Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order - The New York Times (01:13:54) [2512.09742] Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs (01:17:57) Forecasting AI Time Horizon Under Compute Slowdowns (01:20:46) AI Security Institute focuses on AI measurements and evaluations (01:21:16) Nvidia AI Chips to Undergo Unusual U.S. Security Review Before Export to China (01:22:01) U.S. Authorities Shut Down Major China-Linked AI Tech Smuggling Network Synthetic Media & Art (01:24:01) RSL 1.0 has arrived, allowing publishers to ask AI companies pay to scrape content | The Verge See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 9

Our 227th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 12/05/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Deep Seek 3.2 and Flux 2 release, showcasing advancements in open-source AI models for natural language processing and image generation respectively. Amazon's new AI chips and Google's TPUs signal potential shifts in AI hardware dominance, with growing competition against Nvidia. Anthropic's potential IPO and OpenAI's declared ‘Code Red’ indicate significant moves in the AI business landscape, including high venture funding rounds for startups. Key research papers from DeepMind and Google explore advanced memory architectures and multi-agent systems, indicating ongoing efforts to enhance AI reasoning and efficiency. Timestamps: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:02:42) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:03:30) Deepseek 3.2 : New AI Model is Faster, Cheaper and Smarter (00:23:22) Black Forest Labs launches Flux.2 AI image models to challenge Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney (00:28:00) Sora and Nano Banana Pro throttled amid soaring demand | The Verge (00:29:34) Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models | TechCrunch (00:31:41) Kling's Video O1 launches as the first all-in-one video model for generation and editing (00:34:07) Runway rolls out Gen 4.5 AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI Applications & Business (00:35:18) NVIDIA’s Partners Are Beginning to Tilt Toward Google’s TPU Ecosystem, with Foxconn Reportedly Securing TPU Rack Orders (00:40:37) Amazon releases an impressive new AI chip and teases an Nvidia-friendly roadmap | TechCrunch (00:43:03) OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race | The Verge (00:46:20) Anthropic reportedly preparing for massive IPO in race with OpenAI: FT (00:48:41) Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation | TechCrunch (00:49:20) Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed | TechCrunch (00:50:10) OpenAI announced a 1 GW Stargate cluster in Abu Dhabi (00:53:22) OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal (00:55:11) OpenAI to acquire Neptune, an AI model training assistance startup (00:56:11) Anthropic acquires developer tool startup Bun to scale AI coding (00:56:55) Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas - Ars Technica Projects & Open Source (00:57:51) [2511.22570] DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning (01:01:52) Evo-Memory: Benchmarking LLM Agent Test-time Learning with Self-Evolving Memory Research & Advancements (01:05:44) Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning Architecture (01:13:30) Multi-Agent Deep Research: Training Multi-Agent Systems with M-GRPO (01:15:50) State of AI: An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter Policy & Safety (01:21:52) Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project (01:24:42) OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior | MIT Technology Review (01:29:34) US senators seek to block Nvidia sales of advanced chips to China See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 30

Our 226th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 11/24/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle Lee Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: New AI model releases include Google's Gemini 3 Pro, Anthropic's Opus 4.5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.1, each showcasing significant advancements in AI capabilities and applications. Robotics innovations feature Sunday Robotics' new robot Memo and a $600M funding round for Visual Intelligence, highlighting growth and investment in the robotics sector. AI safety and policy updates include Europe's proposed changes to GDPR and AI Act regulations, and reports of AI-assisted cyber espionage by a Chinese state-sponsored group. AI-generated content and legal highlights involve settlements between Warner Music Group and AI music platform UDIO, reflecting evolving dynamics in the field of synthetic media. Timestamps: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:01:32) News Preview (00:02:10) Response to listener comments Tools & Apps (00:02:34) Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores | TechCrunch (00:05:49) Google launches Nano Banana Pro powered by Gemini 3 (00:10:55) Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations | TechCrunch (00:15:34) OpenAI releases GPT-5.1-Codex-Max to handle engineering tasks that span twenty-four hours (00:18:26) ChatGPT launches group chats globally | TechCrunch (00:20:33) Grok Claims Elon Musk Is More Athletic Than LeBron James — and the World’s Greatest Lover Applications & Business (00:24:03) What AI bubble? Nvidia's strong earnings signal there's more room to grow (00:26:26) Alphabet stock surges on Gemini 3 AI model optimism (00:28:09) Sunday Robotics emerges from stealth with launch of ‘Memo’ humanoid house chores robot (00:32:30) Robotics Startup Physical Intelligence Valued at $5.6 Billion in New Funding - Bloomberg (00:34:22) Waymo permitted areas expanded by California DMV - CBS Los Angeles - Waymo enters 3 more cities: Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Tampa | TechCrunch Projects & Open Source (00:37:00) Meta AI Releases Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) for Promptable Concept Segmentation in Images and Videos - MarkTechPost (00:40:18) [2511.16624] SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images (00:42:51) [2511.13998] LoCoBench-Agent: An Interactive Benchmark for LLM Agents in Long-Context Software Engineering Research & Advancements (00:45:10) [2511.08544] LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics (00:50:08) [2511.13720] Back to Basics: Let Denoising Generative Models Denoise Policy & Safety (00:52:08) Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws | The Verge (00:54:13) From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking (00:58:24) [2511.15304] Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models (01:01:43) Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign (01:04:36) OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist | WIRED Synthetic Media & Art (01:07:02) Warner Music Group Settles AI Lawsuit With Udio See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 21

Our 225th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 11/16/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle Lee Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: New AI model releases include GPT-5.1 from OpenAI and Ernie 5.0 from Baidu, each with updated features and capabilities. Self-driving technology advancements from Baidu’s Apollo Go and Pony AI’s IPO highlight significant progress in the automotive sector. Startup funding updates include Incept taking $50M for diffusion models, while Cursor and Gamma secure significant valuations for coding and presentation tools respectively. AI-generated content is gaining traction with songs topping charts and new marketplaces for AI-generated voices, indicating evolving trends in synthetic media. Timestamps: (00:01:19) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:13) OpenAI says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is ‘warmer’ and has more ‘personality’ options | The Verge (00:04:51) Baidu Unveils ERNIE 5.0 and a Series of AI Applications at Baidu World 2025, Ramps Up Global Push (00:07:00) ByteDance’s Volcano Engine debuts coding agent at $1.3 promo price (00:08:04) Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI | The Verge (00:10:41) Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product | TechCrunch (00:13:30) OpenAI says it's fixed ChatGPT's em dash problem | TechCrunch Applications & Business (00:16:01) Anthropic announces $50 billion data center plan | TechCrunch (00:18:06) Baidu teases next-gen AI training, inference accelerators • The Register (00:20:50) Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up (00:24:41) Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Tool From Making Purchases - Bloomberg (00:27:32) AI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder says | TechCrunch (00:29:33) Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text | TechCrunch (00:31:14) Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3B 5 months after its previous round | TechCrunch (00:33:56) China's Baidu says it's running 250,000 robotaxi rides a week — same as Alphabet's Waymo (00:35:26) Driverless Tech Firm Pony AI Raises $863 Million in HK Listing Projects & Open Source (00:36:30) Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI Research & Advancements (00:39:22) [2510.26787] Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work (00:45:21) OpenAI Researchers Train Weight Sparse Transformers to Expose Interpretable Circuits - MarkTechPost (00:49:34) Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (00:53:33) Watch Google DeepMind’s new AI agent learn to play video games | The Verge (00:57:34) arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers Policy & Safety (00:59:35) Stability AI largely wins UK court battle against Getty Images over copyright and trademark | AP News (01:01:48) Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages | TechCrunch (01:03:48) Microsoft's $15.2B UAE investment turns Gulf State into test case for US AI diplomacy | TechCrunch Synthetic Media & Art (01:06:39) An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All | Whiskey Riff (01:10:59) Xania Monet is the first AI-powered artist to debut on a Billboard airplay chart, but she likely won’t be the last | CNN (01:13:34) ElevenLabs’ new AI marketplace lets brands use famous voices for ads | The Verge See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 5

Our 224th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 10/31/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Gavin Purcell (check out AI For Humans and AndThen !) Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: OpenAI completes its for-profit restructuring, redefining its relationship with Microsoft and securing future investments. Meanwhile, Qualcomm and other tech giants announce new AI chips aimed at competing with Nvidia and AMD, marking major advancements in AI hardware capabilities. Amazon and Google deepen their partnerships with Anthropic, providing extensive computing resources to enhance AI research and applications. These developments signal significant growth and competition in the AI industry. Major AI tools and models were released and updated, including Cursor 2.0, CLAUDE coding capabilities, and open-source options from Minimax. These new tools offer a range of functionalities for coding, design, and more. Legal battles around AI copyright issues persist, as OpenAI faces ongoing lawsuits from authors over text generation using copyrighted material. Universal Music Group settles a copyright suit with AI music startup UDO, transitioning to a licensed model for AI-generated music. This shift reflects broader challenges and adaptations in the AI-generated content space, where copyright and ethical usage remain highly contentious issues. Timestamps: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:02:44) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:03:44) Cursor 2.0 shifts to in-house AI with Composer model and parallel agents (00:07:44) Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web | TechCrunch (00:10:01) Microsoft's Mico is a 'Clippy' for the AI era | TechCrunch (00:14:20) Anthropic’s Claude catches up to ChatGPT and Gemini with upgraded memory features | The Verge (00:18:46) Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform | TechCrunch (00:21:07) Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia | The Verge Applications & Business (00:25:10) OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring — and struck a new deal with Microsoft | The Verge (00:31:25) Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia (00:34:02) Amazon launches AI infrastructure project, to power Anthropic's Claude model | Reuters (00:38:52) Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions (00:39:46) Google partners with Ambani's Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India | TechCrunch Projects & Open Source (00:41:17) MiniMax Releases MiniMax M2: A Mini Open Model Built for Max Coding and Agentic Workflows at 8% Claude Sonnet Price and ~2x Faster - MarkTechPost (00:45:22) [2510.25741] Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models (00:47:59) OpenAI’s gpt-oss-safeguard enables developers to build safer AI - Help Net Security Research & Advancements (00:49:51) [2510.15103] Continual Learning via Sparse Memory Finetuning (00:54:01) [2510.18091] Accelerating Vision Transformers with Adaptive Patch Sizes (00:57:46) [2510.18871] How Do LLMs Use Their Depth? Policy & Safety (01:01:07) AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership | The Verge (01:03:03) Synthetic Media & Art (01:09:34) Universal partners with AI startup Udio after settling copyright suit | The Verge (01:16:04) OpenAI loses bid to dismiss part of US authors' copyright lawsuit | Reuters See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 24

Our 223st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 10/17/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Erik Schnultz Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Anthropic and OpenAI have announced updates to their AI models and tools, including Haiku 4.5 and various business collaborations. Multiple companies like Slack and Salesforce are integrating AI assistants and agents into their platforms, enhancing task management and business operations. Recent research in reinforcement learning and agent memory curation highlights new methods for improving AI model performance and context management. California has passed a law to regulate AI chatbots for children and vulnerable users, and there are rising concerns over the increasing amount of AI-generated content on the internet. Timestamps: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:01:31) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:18) Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model (00:04:52) Everything OpenAI announced at DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK, ChatGPT, and more | ZDNET (00:09:11) Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work | The Verge (00:13:20) Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word | The Verge (00:17:22) Google releases Veo 3.1, adds it to Flow video editor | TechCrunch (00:19:40) Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant | The Verge (00:22:52) Salesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up | TechCrunch Applications & Business (00:24:58) Broadcom stock pops 9% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements (00:27:58) How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot | WIRED (00:30:08) Amazon's Zoox Robotaxis Have Arrived In Las Vegas - Here's What Riders Are Experiencing (00:32:43) Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to London | The Verge (00:34:14) Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek | TechCrunch (00:35:58) General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips | TechCrunch (00:38:36) Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B | TechCrunch Projects & Open Source (00:40:58) Neuphonic Open-Sources NeuTTS Air: A 748M-Parameter On-Device Speech Language Model with Instant Voice Cloning - MarkTechPost (00:43:06) Anthropic AI Releases Petri: An Open-Source Framework for Automated Auditing by Using AI Agents to Test the Behaviors of Target Models on Diverse Scenarios - MarkTechPost Research & Advancements (00:44:25) [2510.13786] The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs (00:48:51) [2510.01171] Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity (00:51:22) [2510.12635] Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks (00:54:31) [2510.07364] Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When (00:57:24) [2510.12402] Cautious Weight Decay Policy & Safety (01:02:03) California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch (01:04:13) Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds Synthetic Media & Art (01:06:31) OpenAI Reverses Stance on Use of Copyright Works in Sora - WSJ (01:08:29) Character.AI removes Disney characters from platform after studio issues warning See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 7

Our 222st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 10/03/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Jon Krohn Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: OpenAI introduced several new features, including SOA 2 for text-to-video generation, Claude Sonnet 4.5 for coding and agentic tasks, and the pulse feature for personalized morning briefs. Meta launched a new AI video creation feature called Vibes in its Meta AI app and on meta.ai, facing mixed reactions from the public regarding AI-generated content. California's SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier AI Act, has become law, requiring large AI companies to disclose safety and security processes, while SB 942 mandates AI detection tools for user-generated content. AI regulations and industry dynamics, including battles over intellectual property, startup funding, and the integration of AI into everyday tools and services like Microsoft's AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In this episode: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:03:08) News Preview (00:03:56) Response to listener comments Tools & Apps (00:04:51) ChatGPT parent company OpenAI announces Sora 2 with AI video app (00:11:35) Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy | The Verge (00:22:25) Meta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop | TechCrunch (00:26:42) OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs | TechCrunch (00:33:44) OpenAI rolls out safety routing system, parental controls on ChatGPT | TechCrunch (00:35:53) The Latest Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview is Now the Fastest Proprietary Model (External Tests) and 50% Fewer Output Tokens - MarkTechPost (00:39:54) Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them | ZDNET Applications & Business (00:42:41) OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch (00:46:01) Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product | WIRED (00:49:54) OpenAI is the world's most valuable private company after private stock sale | TechCrunch (00:53:07) Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets in new lawsuit | Technology | The Guardian (00:55:40) Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science | TechCrunch Projects & Open Source (00:58:26) [2509.16941] SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks? Research & Advancements (01:01:28) [2509.17196] Evolution of Concepts in Language Model Pre-Training (01:05:36) [2509.19284] What Characterizes Effective Reasoning? Revisiting Length, Review, and Structure of CoT Lighting round (01:09:37) [2507.02954] Advanced Financial Reasoning at Scale: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Large Language Models on CFA Level III (01:12:03) [2509.24552] Short window attention enables long-term memorization Policy & Safety (01:18:11) SB 53, the landmark AI transparency bill, is now law in California | The Verge (01:24:07) Elon Musk's xAI offers Grok to federal government for 42 cents | TechCrunch (01:25:23) Character.AI removes Disney characters from platform after studio issues warning (01:28:50) Spotify's Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 7

Our 221st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 09/19/2025 Note: we transitioned to a new RSS feed and it seems this did not make it to there, so this may be posted about 2 weeks past the release date. Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle Lee Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: OpenAI releases a new version of Codex integrated with GPT-5, enhancing coding capabilities and aiming to compete with other AI coding tools like Cloud Code. Significant updates in the robotics sector include new ventures in humanoid robots from companies like Figure AI and China’s Unitree, as well as expansions in robotaxi services from Tesla and Amazon’s Zoox. New open-source models and research advancements were discussed, including Google's DeepMind's self-improving foundation model for robotics and a physics foundation model aimed at generalizing across various physical systems. Legal battles continue to surface in the AI landscape with Warner Bros. suing MidJourney for copyright violations and Rolling Stone suing Google over AI-generated content summaries, highlighting challenges in AI governance and ethics. Timestamps: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:33) OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5 (00:04:02) Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream | WIRED (00:06:14) Anthropic’s Claude can now make you a spreadsheet or slide deck. | The Verge (00:07:12) Luma AI's New Ray3 Video Generator Can 'Think' Before Creating - CNET Applications & Business (00:08:32) OpenAI secures Microsoft's blessing to transition its for-profit arm | TechCrunch (00:10:31) Microsoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic | TechCrunch (00:12:00) Figure AI passes $1B with Series C funding toward humanoid robot development - The Robot Report (00:13:52) China’s Unitree plans $7 billion IPO valuation as humanoid robot race heats up (00:15:45) Tesla's robotaxi plans for Nevada move forward with testing permit | TechCrunch (00:17:48) Amazon's Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launch (00:19:27) Replit hits $3B valuation on $150M annualized revenue | TechCrunch (00:21:14) Perplexity reportedly raised $200M at $20B valuation | TechCrunch Projects & Open Source (00:22:08) [2509.07604] K2-Think: A Parameter-Efficient Reasoning System (00:24:31) [2509.09614] LoCoBench: A Benchmark for Long-Context Large Language Models in Complex Software Engineering Research & Advancements (00:28:17) [2509.15155] Self-Improving Embodied Foundation Models (00:31:47) [2509.13805] Towards a Physics Foundation Model (00:34:26) [2509.12129] Embodied Navigation Foundation Model Policy & Safety (00:37:49) Anthropic endorses California's AI safety bill, SB 53 | TechCrunch (00:40:12) Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney, Joins Studios' AI Copyright Battle (00:42:02) Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 1

Our 220th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 08/30/2025 Check out Andrey's work over at Astrocade , sign up to be an ambassador here Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Daniel Bashir Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Google's newly released Gemini 2.5 image editing model showcases remarkable advancements, enabling highly accurate modifications of subjects while retaining their original features. Anthropic expands Claude with an AI browser agent for Chrome and adds features to remember past conversations, enhancing the user experience and personalization. NVIDIA and AMD to share revenue from AI chip sales to China with US government, marking a notable shift in export control policies and trade practices. AI companion apps are experiencing substantial growth, with projected revenues expected to reach $120 million by 2025, raising questions about social implications and user engagement. Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps (00:02:12) Google Gemini's AI image model gets a 'bananas' upgrade | TechCrunch (00:05:32) Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome | TechCrunch (00:08:30) Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations | The Verge (00:11:46) Google Launches AI ‘Guided Learning’ Tool to Teach Users (00:14:55) Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration will use GPT-5 starting with iOS 26 | The Verge (00:15:39) OpenAI Adds New Features to Codex, Like IDE Extension and GitHub Code Reviews Applications & Business (00:16:49) Lovable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months | TechCrunch (00:18:56) Decart hits $3.1 billion valuation on $100 million raise to power real-time interacti | Ctech (00:20:19) Cohere raises $500M to beat back generative AI rivals | TechCrunch (00:21:25) Pony AI, Nearing Full-Year Robotaxi Goal, Eyes European Markets - Bloomberg (00:22:41) Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company | TechCrunch Projects & Open Source (00:24:39) Meta AI Just Released DINOv3: A State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Model Trained with Self-Supervised Learning, Generating High-Resolution Image Features - MarkTechPost (00:27:02) GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models (00:29:49) China’s DeepSeek Releases V3.1, Boosting AI Model’s Capabilities - Bloomberg (00:30:36) Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers (00:32:02) Microsoft Released VibeVoice-1.5B: An Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that can Synthesize up to 90 Minutes of Speech with Four Distinct Speakers - MarkTechPost Research & Advancements (00:33:43) Deep Think with Confidence (00:36:30) Generative AI reshapes U.S. job market, Stanford study shows Policy & Safety (00:41:42) Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety | WIRED (00:44:10) U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China - The New York Times (00:45:13) Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors (00:46:56) AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 | TechCrunch See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 11

Our 219th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 08/08/2025 Check out Andrey's work over at Astrocade , sign up to be an ambassador here Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: OpenAI reveals GPT-5, a consolidated model combining all previous versions, marking notable improvements and introducing a new infrastructure and product update. Multiple major releases from leading AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reflect the ongoing competitive landscape with significant business updates and new model capabilities. Discussions on geopolitical influences in AI development highlight China’s evolving stance on AI safety and governance, contrasting with U.S. approaches and raising concerns over export bans and international cooperation. Papers from leading AI entities such as OpenAI and Anthropic delve into the complexities of AI alignment and safety, proposing new methodologies for auditing and mitigating risks in model behaviors. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:02:14) Plug: Astrocade rolls out AI agent-powered game creation experience so anyone can create games Tools & Apps (00:03:07) OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here (00:17:02) Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.1 With Agentic, Coding and Reasoning Upgrades (00:21:06) Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel | TechCrunch (00:24:04) Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content | TechCrunch Applications & Business (00:26:35) Meta, Microsoft stocks rise on strong earnings and AI spending boom (00:29:17) OpenAI to Establish Stargate Norway With 230MW Data Center - Bloomberg (00:32:12) Anthropic Revenue Pace Nears $5 Billion in Run-Up to Mega Round — The Information (00:37:18) OpenAI Hits $12 Billion Annualized Revenue (00:40:06) Noma Security raises $100 million to defend against AI agent vulnerabilities | Ctech Projects & Open Source (00:42:13) OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 (00:53:13) Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance (00:57:39) Meta CLIP 2: A Worldwide Scaling Recipe (01:01:12) BFL and Krea release FLUX.1 Krea: Open image model designed for realism Research & Advancements (01:02:33) Google’s Newest AI Model Acts like a Satellite to Track Climate Change | WIRED (01:04:50) Google’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real time (01:10:55) AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery (01:17:22) METR evaluates Grok 4 Policy & Safety (01:20:05) Estimating Worst-Case Frontier Risks of Open-Weight LLMs (01:23:14) Anthropic's AI 'Vaccine': Train It With Evil to Make It Good - Business Insider (01:27:26) Anthropic unveils 'auditing agents' to test for AI misalignment | VentureBeat (01:28:31) Optimizing The Final Output Can Obfuscate CoT (Research Note) (01:31:23) Why China isn’t about to leap ahead of the West on compute (01:33:15) Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World | WIRED (01:38:47) Nvidia H20 GPUs reportedly caught up in U.S. Commerce Department's worst export license backlog in 30 years — billions of dollars worth of GPUs and other products in limbo due to staffing cuts, communication issues | Tom's Hardware (01:42:35) Response to listener comments See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 31

Our 218th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/25/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: GitHub introduces Vibe Coding with Spark, engaging users with natural language and visual controls to develop full-stack applications. AI coding tools from Gemin, CLI and RepleIt face significant issues, inadvertently deleting user data and highlighting the importance of careful management. US release never Award Americans, AI Action Plan outlining economic, technical, and policy strategies to maintain leadership in AI technology. Newly released Mega Science and SWE-Perf data sets evaluate AI reasoning and performance capabilities in diverse scientific and software engineering tasks. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:01:31) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:03:53) GitHub Introduces Vibe Coding with Spark: Revolutionizing Intelligent App Development in a Flash - MarkTechPost (00:07:05) Figma’s AI app building tool is now available for everyone | The Verge (00:10:18) Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes - Ars Technica (00:14:10) Google's AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India | TechCrunch Applications & Business (00:18:10) Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All (00:24:39) Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’ (00:27:07) Waymo responds to Tesla’s dick joke with a bigger Austin robotaxi map | The Verge Projects & Open Source (00:32:05) MegaScience: Pushing the Frontiers of Post-Training Datasets for Science Reasoning (00:43:09) TikTok Researchers Introduce SWE-Perf: The First Benchmark for Repository-Level Code Performance Optimization - MarkTechPost Research & Advancements (00:47:17) Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data (00:55:34) Inverse Scaling in Test-Time Compute (01:02:34) Scaling Laws for Optimal Data Mixtures Policy & Safety (01:07:35) White House Unveils America’s AI Action Plan (01:16:55) Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety (01:20:20) Self-preservation or Instruction Ambiguity? Examining the Causes of Shutdown Resistance (01:24:00) People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" (01:28:03) Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 23

Our 217th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/17/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and guest co-host Jon Krohn . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Check out Jon's workshop on Agentic AI Engineering, and find his consultancy here . Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: OpenAI's new ChatGPT agent: The episode begins with a detailed discussion on OpenAI's latest ChatGPT agent, which can control entire computers and perform a wide range of tasks, showcasing powerful performance benchmarks and potential applications in business and research. Major business moves in the AI space: Significant shifts include Google's acquisition of Windsurf's top talent after OpenAI's deal fell through, Cognition's acquisition of Windsurf, and several notable hires by Meta from OpenAI and Apple, highlighting intense competition in the AI industry. AI's ethical and societal impacts: The hosts discuss serious concerns like the rise of non-consensual explicit AI-generated images, ICE's use of facial recognition for large databases, and regulations aimed at controlling AI's potential misuse. Video game actors strike ends: The episode concludes with news that SAG-AFTRA's year-long strike for video game voice actors has ended after reaching an agreement on AI rights and wage increases, reflecting the broader impact of AI on the job market. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:02:49) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:03:29) OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you (00:07:11) Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases new Kimi AI model that beats ChatGPT, Claude in coding — and it costs less (00:09:36) Amazon targets vibe-coding chaos with new 'Kiro' AI software development tool – GeekWire (00:12:33) Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users (00:15:51) Mistral's Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research' mode | TechCrunch (00:17:46) I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend (00:21:32) Uber is close to completing its quest to become the ultimate robotaxi app | The Verge Applications & Business (00:24:02) OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google | The Verge (00:28:09) Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf | TechCrunch (00:28:46) Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor. | The Verge (00:28:46) Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta | WIRED (00:28:46) Meta Hires Two Key Apple (AAPL) AI Experts After Poaching Their Boss - Bloomberg (00:31:31) Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round | TechCrunch (00:33:20) Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch (00:34:55) SpaceX commits $2 billion to xAI as Musk steps up AI ambitions: Report | World News - Business Standard Research & Advancements (00:35:59) A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there | TechCrunch (00:38:23) Reasoning or Memorization? Unreliable Results of Reinforcement Learning Due to Data Contamination Policy & Safety (00:42:14) Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI granted up to $200 million from DoD (00:43:08) California State Senator Scott Wiener Pushes Bill to Regulate AI Companies - Bloomberg (00:43:58) AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars | WIRED (00:45:55) Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images Synthetic Media & Art (00:48:47) Video game actors' strike officially ends after AI deal See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 14

Our 216th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/11/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: xAI launches Grok 4 with breakthrough performance across benchmarks, becoming the first true frontier model outside established labs, alongside a $300/month subscription tier Grok's alignment challenges emerge with antisemitic responses, highlighting the difficulty of steering models toward "truth-seeking" without harmful biases Perplexity and OpenAI launch AI-powered browsers to compete with Google Chrome, signaling a major shift in how users interact with AI systems Meta study reveals AI tools actually slow down experienced developers by 20% on complex tasks, contradicting expectations and anecdotal reports of productivity gains Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:01:02) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:01:59) Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription | TechCrunch (00:15:28) Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is suddenly posting antisemitic tropes (00:29:52) Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch (00:32:54) OpenAI is reportedly releasing an AI browser in the coming weeks | TechCrunch (00:33:27) Replit Launches New Feature for its Agent, CEO Calls it ‘Deep Research for Coding’ (00:34:40) Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents (00:36:07) Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes that upset users | TechCrunch Applications & Business (00:39:10) Lovable on track to raise $150M at $2B valuation (00:41:11) Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far (00:46:35) Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homes (00:48:16) Microsoft's own AI chip delayed six months in major setback — in-house chip now reportedly expected in 2026, but won't hold a candle to Nvidia Blackwell (00:49:54) Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross (00:52:46) OpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars Projects & Open Source (00:58:04) Hugging Face Releases SmolLM3: A 3B Long-Context, Multilingual Reasoning Model - MarkTechPost (00:58:33) Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence (00:58:59) Kyutai Releases 2B Parameter Streaming Text-to-Speech TTS with 220ms Latency and 2.5M Hours of Training Research & Advancements (01:02:14) Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning (01:07:58) Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (01:13:03) Mitigating Goal Misgeneralization with Minimax Regret (01:17:01) Correlated Errors in Large Language Models (01:20:31) What skills does SWE-bench Verified evaluate? Policy & Safety (01:22:53) Evaluating Frontier Models for Stealth and Situational Awareness (01:25:49) When Chain of Thought is Necessary, Language Models Struggle to Evade Monitors (01:30:09) Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't? (01:34:35) Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers (01:35:40) Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews (01:36:41) The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores (01:37:30) Virology Capabilities Test (VCT): A Multimodal Virology Q&A Benchmark See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 8

Our 215th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/04/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: Cloudflare's new AI data scraper blocking feature, its potential implications, and technical challenges Meta's aggressive recruitment for its Super Intelligence Labs division is covered, highlighting key hires from OpenAI and other leaders in the field Anthropic loses significant talent to Cursor, with details on their new economic futures program focusing on AI's impact on the labor market Notable open-source AI model releases from Baidu and Tencent are also discussed, including their performance metrics and potential applications. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:11) Intro / Banter (00:01:43) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:55) Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers (00:05:44) Runway is going to let people generate video games with AI (00:11:24) Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more (00:16:23) No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead. (00:18:08) Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you (00:19:14) Google's Imagen 4 text-to-image model promises 'significantly improved' boring images Applications & Business (00:22:18) Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI ‘superintelligence’ super-group (00:29:35) Anthropic Revenue Hits $4 Billion Annual Pace as Competition With Cursor Intensifies (00:35:10) As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout (00:38:04) OpenAI says it has no plan to use Google's in-house chip (00:41:08) Nvidia stakes new startup that flips script on data center power (00:44:11) TSMC Arizona Chips Are Reportedly Being Flown Back to Taiwan For Packaging; U.S. Semiconductor Supply Chain Still Remains Dependent on Taiwan Projects & Open Source (00:46:57) Baidu releases open source model family ERNIE 4.5 (00:51:55) Tencent Open Sources Hunyuan-A13B: A 13B Active Parameter MoE Model with Dual-Mode Reasoning and 256K Context (00:57:09) Together AI Releases DeepSWE: A Fully Open-Source RL-Trained Coding Agent Based on Qwen3-32B and Achieves 59% on SWEBench (01:00:11) GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning (01:04:10) DiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation Research & Advancements (01:06:21) Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search (01:13:07) The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements (01:18:04) Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet reach 50%-time-horizon point estimates of about 80 and 65 minutes, respectively (01:21:37) Performance Prediction for Large Systems via Text-to-Text Regression (01:25:38) Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning (01:26:33) Correlated Errors in Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:29:04) Forecasting Biosecurity Risks from LLMs (01:36:06) AI Task Length Horizons in Offensive Cybersecurity (01:42:30) Inside Tech's Risky Gamble to Kill State AI Regulations for a Decade (01:52:56) Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 4

Our 214th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/27/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: Meta's hiring of key engineers from OpenAI and Thinking Machines Lab securing a $2 billion seed round with a valuation of $10 billion. DeepMind introduces Alpha Genome, significantly advancing genomic research with a model comparable to Alpha Fold but focused on gene functions. Taiwan imposes technology export controls on Huawei and SMIC, while Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI in a groundbreaking legal case. A new DeepMind research paper introduces a transformative approach to cognitive debt in AI tasks, utilizing EEG to assess cognitive load and recall in essay writing with LLMs. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:01:22) News Preview (00:02:15) Response to listener comments Tools & Apps (00:06:18) Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals (00:12:09) Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot Applications & Business (00:15:54) Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public (00:21:35) Huawei Matebook Contains Kirin X90, using SMIC 7nm (N+2) Technology (00:26:05) AMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performance (00:31:21) Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS (00:33:20) Nvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centers (00:36:18) Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation (00:41:02) Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models Research & Advancements (00:49:46) Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work (00:55:13) Direct Reasoning Optimization: LLMs Can Reward And Refine Their Own Reasoning for Open-Ended Tasks (01:01:54) Farseer: A Refined Scaling Law in Large Language Models (01:06:28) LLM-First Search: Self-Guided Exploration of the Solution Space Policy & Safety (01:11:20) Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models (01:16:04) Taiwan Imposes Technology Export Controls on Huawei, SMIC (01:18:22) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task Synthetic Media & Art (01:23:41) Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights (01:29:46) Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 26

Our 213nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/21/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, moving from text-to-image to video with a subscription model offering up to 21-second clips, highlighting the affordability and growing capabilities in AI video generation. Google's Gemini AI family updates include high-efficiency models for cost-effective workloads, and new enhancements in Google's search function now allow for voice interactions. The introduction of two new benchmarks, Live Code Bench Pro and Abstention Bench, aiming to test and improve the problem-solving and abstention capabilities of reasoning models, revealing current limitations. OpenAI wins a $200 million US defense contract to support various aspects of the Department of Defense, reflecting growing collaborations between tech companies and government for AI applications. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:01:32) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:12) Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1 (00:05:52) Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite (00:07:59) Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations (00:10:13) YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform Applications & Business (00:11:10) The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works (00:12:29) OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal (00:13:28) Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility Projects & Open Source (00:15:20) LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming? (00:19:45) AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions (00:22:49) MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention Research & Advancements (00:24:33) Scaling Laws of Motion Forecasting and Planning -- A Technical Report Policy & Safety (00:28:07) Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers (00:30:52) OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’ (00:33:25) OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 17

Our 212th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/13/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: OpenAI introduces O3 PRO for ChatGPT, highlighting significant improvements in performance and cost-efficiency. Anthropic sees an influx of talent from OpenAI and DeepMind, with significantly higher retention rates and competitive advantages in AI capabilities. New research indicates that reinforcing negative responses in LLMs significantly improves performance across all metrics, highlighting novel approaches in reinforcement learning. A security flaw in Microsoft Copilot demonstrates the growing risk of AI agents being hacked, emphasizing the need for robust protection against zero-click attacks. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:11) Intro / Banter (00:01:31) News Preview (00:02:46) Response to Listener Reviews Tools & Apps (00:04:48) OpenAI adds o3 Pro to ChatGPT and drops o3 price by 80 per cent, but open-source AI is delayed (00:09:10) Cursor AI editor hits 1.0 milestone, including BugBot and high-risk background agents (00:13:07) Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models (00:16:18) Elevenlabs' Eleven v3 lets AI voices whisper, laugh and express emotions naturally (00:19:00) ByteDance's Seedance 1.0 is trading blows with Google's Veo 3 (00:22:42) Google Reveals $20 AI Pro Plan With Veo 3 Fast Video Generator For Budget Creators Applications & Business (00:25:42) OpenAI and DeepMind are losing engineers to Anthropic in a one-sided talent war (00:34:32) OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (00:37:24) Nvidia’s Biggest Chinese Rival Huawei Struggles to Win at Home (00:43:06) Huawei Expected to Break Semiconductor Barriers with Development of High-End 3nm GAA Chips; Tape-Out by 2026 (00:45:21) TSMC’s 1.4nm Process, Also Called Angstrom, Will Make Even The Most Lucrative Clients Think Twice When Placing Orders, With An Estimate Claiming That Each Wafer Will Cost $45,000 (00:47:43) Mistral AI Launches Mistral Compute To Replace Cloud Providers from US, China Projects & Open Source (00:51:26) ProRL: Prolonged Reinforcement Learning Expands Reasoning Boundaries in Large Language Models Research & Advancements (00:57:27) Kinetics: Rethinking Test-Time Scaling Laws (01:05:12) The Surprising Effectiveness of Negative Reinforcement in LLM Reasoning (01:10:45) Predicting Empirical AI Research Outcomes with Language Models (01:15:02) EXP-Bench: Can AI Conduct AI Research Experiments? Policy & Safety (01:20:07) Large Language Models Often Know When They Are Being Evaluated (01:24:56) Beyond Induction Heads: In-Context Meta Learning Induces Multi-Phase Circuit Emergence (01:31:16) Exclusive: New Microsoft Copilot flaw signals broader risk of AI agents being hacked—‘I would be terrified’ (01:35:01) Claude Gov Models for U.S. National Security Customers Synthetic Media & Art (01:37:32) Disney And NBCUniversal Sue AI Company Midjourney For Copyright Infringement (01:40:39) AMC Networks is teaming up with AI company Runway See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 3

Our 211th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/31/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Recent AI podcast covers significant AI news: startups, new tools, applications, investments in hardware, and research advancements. Discussions include the introduction of various new tools and applications such as Flux's new image generating models and Perplexity's new spreadsheet and dashboard functionalities. A notable segment focuses on OpenAI's partnership with the UAE and discussions on potential legislation aiming to prevent states from regulating AI for a decade. Concerns around model behaviors and safety are discussed, highlighting incidents like Claude Opus 4's blackmail attempt and Palisade Research's tests showing AI models bypassing shutdown commands. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter (00:01:39) News Preview (00:02:50) Response to Listener Comments Tools & Apps (00:07:10) Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (00:10:35) Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them (00:15:30) Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more (00:18:43) xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app (00:22:42) Opera’s new AI browser promises to write code while you sleep (00:24:17) Google Photos debuts redesigned editor with new AI tools Applications & Business (00:25:13) Top Chinese memory maker expected to abandon DDR4 manufacturing at the behest of Beijing (00:30:04) Oracle to Buy $40 Billion Worth of Nvidia Chips for First Stargate Data Center (00:31:47) UAE makes ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all residents as part of deal with OpenAI (00:35:34) NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) to Launch Cheaper Blackwell AI Chip for China, Says Report (00:38:39) The New York Times and Amazon ink AI licensing deal Projects & Open Source (00:41:11) DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU (00:45:19) Google Unveils SignGemma, an AI Model That Can Translate Sign Language Into Spoken Text (00:47:08) Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools (00:49:42) Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots Research & Advancements (00:52:33) PANGU PRO MOE: MIXTURE OF GROUPED EXPERTS FOR EFFICIENT SPARSITY (00:58:55) DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation (01:05:05) Incorrect Baseline Evaluations Call into Question Recent LLM-RL Claims (01:10:17) Maximizing Confidence Alone Improves Reasoning (01:11:00) Guided by Gut: Efficient Test-Time Scaling with Reinforced Intrinsic Confidence (01:11:44) One RL to See Them All (01:15:05) Efficient Reinforcement Finetuning via Adaptive Curriculum Learning Policy & Safety (01:17:58) Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' could ban states from regulating AI for a decade (01:24:31) Researchers claim ChatGPT o3 bypassed shutdown in controlled test (01:30:10) Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (01:31:09) Anthropic Faces Backlash As Claude 4 Opus Can Autonomously Alert Authorities (01:35:37) Claude helps users make bioweapons (01:35:49) The Claude 4 System Card is a Wild Read See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 26

Our 210th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/23/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Google's Gemini diffusion technology showcases significant improvements in speed and efficiency for generating text, potentially revolutionizing the auto-regressive generation paradigm. Anthropic activates AI Safety Level 3 protections for Claude Opus 4, implementing robust measures such as bug bounties, synthetic jailbreak data, and preliminary egress bandwidth controls to mitigate bio-risk threats. OpenAI responds to the California Attorney General, refuting claims by the not-for-private-gain coalition and defending their controversial restructuring plans amidst ongoing criticism. Mistral delays the release of its Llama 4 Behemoth model due to training challenges, while Meta faces similar obstacles in rolling out its large-scale AI models, signaling difficulties in reaching frontier level performance. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:43) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:58) Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps (00:09:58) Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search (00:14:04) Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent (00:16:40) Veo 3 can generate videos — and soundtracks to go along with them (00:21:26) Imagen 4 is Google’s newest AI image generator (00:23:15) Google Meet is getting real-time speech translation (00:25:36) Google’s new Jules AI agent will help developers fix buggy code (00:26:43) GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you (00:28:50) Mistral’s new Devstral model was designed for coding Applications & Business (00:29:53) OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices (00:36:10) OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco (00:41:18) LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100M (00:45:21) Nvidia CEO says next chip after H20 for China won't be from Hopper series (00:46:39) Google’s Gemini AI app has 400M monthly active users (00:51:15) AI Servers: End demand intact, but rising gap between upstream build and system production (2025.5.18) Projects & Open Source (00:53:46) Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model Research & Advancements (00:57:53) Gemini Diffusion (01:03:07) Chain-of-Model Learning for Language Model (01:09:16) Seek in the Dark: Reasoning via Test-Time Instance-Level Policy Gradient in Latent Space (01:15:38) Two Experts Are All You Need for Steering Thinking: Reinforcing Cognitive Effort in MoE Reasoning Models Without Additional Training (01:20:16) Lessons from Defending Gemini Against Indirect Prompt Injections (01:23:35) How Fast Can Algorithms Advance Capabilities? (01:30:20) Reinforcement Learning Finetunes Small Subnetworks in Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:31:12) Exclusive: What OpenAI Told California's Attorney General (01:38:25) Activating AI Safety Level 3 Protections See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 19

Our 209th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/16/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI has decided not to transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity, instead opting to become a public benefit corporation influenced by legal and civic discussions. Trump administration meetings with Saudi Arabia and the UAE have opened floodgates for AI deals, leading to partnerships with companies like Nvidia and aiming to bolster AI infrastructure in the Middle East. DeepMind introduced Alpha Evolve, a new coding agent designed for scientific and algorithmic discovery, showing improvements in automated code generation and efficiency. OpenAI pledges greater transparency in AI safety by launching the Safety Evaluations Hub, a platform showcasing various safety test results for their models. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:41) News Preview (00:02:26) Response to listener comments Applications & Business (00:03:00) OpenAI says non-profit will remain in control after backlash (00:13:23) Microsoft Moves to Protect Its Turf as OpenAI Turns Into Rival (00:18:07) TSMC’s 2nm Process Said to Witness ‘Unprecedented’ Demand, Exceeding 3nm Due to Interest from Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, & Many Others (00:21:42) NVIDIA’s Global Headquarters Will Be In Taiwan, With CEO Huang Set To Announce Site Next Week, Says Report (00:23:58) CoreWeave in Talks for $1.5 Billion Debt Deal 6 Weeks After IPO Tools & Apps (00:26:39) The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’ (00:32:58) Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes, and marketing assets (00:36:12) Google’s bringing Gemini to your car with Android Auto (00:38:49) Google debuts an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model ahead of I/O (00:45:09) Hugging Face releases a free Operator-like agentic AI tool Projects & Open Source (00:47:42) Stability AI releases an audio-generating model that can run on smartphones (00:50:47) Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data (00:54:22) AM-Thinking-v1: Advancing the Frontier of Reasoning at 32B Scale (01:01:29) BLIP3-o: A Family of Fully Open Unified Multimodal Models-Architecture, Training and Dataset Research & Advancements (01:05:40) DeepMind claims its newest AI tool is a whiz at math and science problems (01:12:31) Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data (01:19:44) How far can reasoning models scale? (01:26:47) HealthBench: Evaluating Large Language Models Towards Improved Human Health Policy & Safety (01:34:10) Trump administration officially rescinds Biden’s AI diffusion rules (01:37:08) Trump’s Mideast Visit Opens Floodgate of AI Deals Led by Nvidia (01:44:04) Scaling Laws For Scalable Oversight (01:49:43) OpenAI pledges to publish AI safety test results more often See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 8

Our 208th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/02/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI showcases new integration capabilities in their API, enhancing the performance of LLMs and image generators with updated functionalities and improved user interfaces. Analysis of OpenAI's preparedness framework reveals updates focusing on biological and chemical risks, cybersecurity, and AI self-improvement, while tone down the emphasis on persuasion capabilities. Anthropic's research highlights potential security vulnerabilities in AI models, demonstrating various malicious use cases such as influence operations and hacking tool creation. A detailed examination of AI competition between the US and China reveals China's impending capability to match the US in AI advancement this year, emphasizing the impact of export controls and the importance of geopolitical strategy. Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps (00:02:57) Anthropic lets users connect more apps to Claude (00:08:20) OpenAI undoes its glaze-heavy ChatGPT update (00:15:16) Baidu ERNIE X1 and 4.5 Turbo boast high performance at low cost (00:19:44) Adobe adds more image generators to its growing AI family (00:24:35) OpenAI makes its upgraded image generator available to developers (00:27:01) xAI’s Grok chatbot can now ‘see’ the world around it Applications & Business: (00:28:41) Thinking Machines Lab CEO Has Unusual Control in Andreessen-Led Deal (00:33:36) Chip war heats up: Huawei 910C emerges as China’s answer to US export bans (00:34:21) Huawei to Test New AI Chip (00:40:17) ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent stockpile billions worth of Nvidia chips (00:43:59) Speculation mounts that Musk will raise tens of billions for AI supercomputer with 1 million GPUs: Report Projects & Open Source: (00:47:14) Alibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models (00:54:14) Intellect-2 (01:02:07) BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report (01:05:33) Meta AI Introduces Perception Encoder: A Large-Scale Vision Encoder that Excels Across Several Vision Tasks for Images and Video Research & Advancements: (01:06:42) The Leaderboard Illusion (01:12:08) Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model? (01:18:38) Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Large Language Models with One Training Example (01:24:40) Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time Policy & Safety: (01:28:23) Every AI Datacenter Is Vulnerable to Chinese Espionage, Report Says (01:32:27) OpenAI preparedness framework update (01:38:31) Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude: March 2025 (01:46:33) Chinese AI Will Match America's See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 18

Our 207th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/14/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI introduces GPT-4.1 with optimized coding and instruction-following capabilities, featuring variants like GPT-4.1 Mini and Nano, and a million-token context window. Concerns arise as OpenAI reduces resources for safety testing, sparking internal and external criticisms. XAI's newly launched API for Grok 3 showcases significant capabilities comparable to other leading models. Meta faces allegations of aiding China in AI development for business advantages, with potential compliances and public scrutiny looming. Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps (00:03:13) OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding (00:08:12) ChatGPT will now remember your old conversations (00:11:16) Google’s newest Gemini AI model focuses on efficiency (00:14:27) Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3 (00:18:35) Canva is now in the coding and spreadsheet business (00:20:31) Meta’s vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmark Applications & Business (00:25:46) Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference (00:34:15) Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription (00:37:17) OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32B (00:40:20) Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI advisers (00:42:52) Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup (00:44:58) Stargate developer Crusoe could spend $3.5 billion on a Texas data center. Most of it will be tax-free. Projects & Open Source (00:48:14) OpenAI Open Sources BrowseComp: A New Benchmark for Measuring the Ability for AI Agents to Browse the Web Research & Advancements (00:56:09) Sample, Don't Search: Rethinking Test-Time Alignment for Language Models (01:03:32) Concise Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning (01:09:37) Going beyond open data – increasing transparency and trust in language models with OLMoTrace (01:15:34) Independent evaluations of Grok-3 and Grok-3 mini on our suite of benchmarks Policy & Safety (01:17:58) OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, calls for enjoinment from ‘further unlawful and unfair action’ (01:24:33) OpenAI slashes AI model safety testing time (01:27:55) Ex-OpenAI staffers file amicus brief opposing the company’s for-profit transition (01:32:25) Access to future AI models in OpenAI’s API may require a verified ID (01:34:53) Meta whistleblower claims tech giant built $18 billion business by aiding China in AI race and undermining U.S. national security See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 9

Our 206th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/07/2025 Try out the Astrocade demo here ! https://www.astrocade.com/ Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Meta releases LlAMA-4, a series of advanced large language models, sparking debate on performance and release timing, with models featuring up to 2 trillion parameters for different configurations and applications. Amazon's AGI Lab debuts NOVA Act, an AI agent for web browser control, boasting competitive benchmarking against OpenAI's and Anthropic's best agents. OpenAI's image generation capabilities and ongoing financing developments, notably a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, highlight significant advancements and strategic shifts in the tech giant’s operations. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:01:46) Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models (00:13:55) Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser (00:17:06) Alibaba Preparing for Flagship AI Model Release as Soon as April (00:17:59) Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model (00:19:10) Adobe launches Premiere Pro’s generative AI video extender (00:20:54) OpenAI prepares reasoning slider and memory update for ChatGPT users Applications & Business (00:21:28) Nvidia H20 Chips: $16 Billion Orders from ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent (00:24:45) Elon Musk sells X for $33 billion to his own AI startup company xAI (00:28:00) SoftBank dethroned Microsoft as OpenAI's largest investor, pushing the ChatGPT maker's market cap to $300 billion — but reportedly buried itself in debt (00:30:48) DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge (00:34:06) SMIC Is Rumored To Complete 5nm Chip Development By 2025; Costs Could Be Up To 50 Percent Higher Than TSMC’s Version Due To The Use Of Older-Generation Equipment (00:36:04) Google-backed Isomorphic Labs raises $600m to advance AI drug discovery Research & Advancements (00:38:03) PaperBench: Evaluating AI's Ability to Replicate AI Research (00:43:50) Crossing the Reward Bridge: Expanding RL with Verifiable Rewards Across Diverse Domains (00:48:39) Inference-Time Scaling for Complex Tasks: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead (00:54:34) Overtrained Language Models Are Harder to Fine-Tune Policy & Safety (00:58:28) Taking a responsible path to AGI (01:02:32) This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead (01:06:24) The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 1

Our 205th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/28/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI's new image generation capabilities represent significant advancements in AI tools, showcasing impressive benchmarks and multimodal functionalities. OpenAI is finalizing a historic $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, and Sam Altman shifts focus to technical direction while COO Brad Lightcap takes on more operational responsibilities., Anthropic unveils groundbreaking interpretability research, introducing cross-layer tracers and showcasing deep insights into model reasoning through applications on Claude 3.5. New challenging benchmarks such as ARC AGI 2 and complex Sudoku variations aim to push the boundaries of reasoning and problem-solving capabilities in AI models. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:01) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:46) Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model (00:08:41) OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT (00:16:14) Ideogram presents version 3.0 of its AI image generation system (00:19:20) New Reve Image Generator Beats AI Art Heavyweights MidJourney and Flux at a Penny Per Image (00:21:56) Alibaba Releases Qwen2.5 Omni, Adds Voice and Video Modes to Qwen Chat (00:23:58) The official version of Tencent's Hunyuan Deep Thinking Model T1 is here, with fast articulation, instant responses, and a decoding speed increase of 2 times Applications & Business (00:25:45) OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding (00:29:26) OpenAI reshuffles leadership as Sam Altman pivots to technical focus (00:33:23) Nvidia shows off Rubin Ultra with 600,000-Watt Kyber racks and infrastructure, coming in 2027 (00:35:23) China's SiCarrier emerges as challenger to ASML, other chip tool titans (00:38:24) Pony.ai wins first permit for fully driverless taxi operation in the center of China’s Silicon Valley Projects & Open Source (00:40:27) A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models (00:45:16) Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models (00:48:13) Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models (00:50:38) DeepSeek V3-0324 tops non-reasoning AI models in open-source first (00:54:46) OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data Research & Advancements (00:55:56) Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model (01:06:00) Chain-of-Tools: Utilizing Massive Unseen Tools in the CoT Reasoning of Frozen Language Models (01:11:50) Inside-Out: Hidden Factual Knowledge in LLMs (01:15:14) Sakana AI super-powers AI reasoning using Japan’s own Sudoku Puzzles Policy & Safety (01:18:38) Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Protect AI Whistleblowers & Boost Responsible AI Development (01:21:50) NVIDIA & Other Tech Giants Demand Trump Administration To Reconsider “AI Diffusion” Policy Which Is Set To Be Effective By May 15 (01:23:17) U.S. blacklists over 50 Chinese companies in bid to curb Beijing's AI, chip capabilities (01:26:44) Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program (01:27:55) Judge allows 'New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI to go forward (01:29:48) Judge rules that AI can continue training on copyrighted lyrics, for now See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 24

Our 204th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/21/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Baidu launched two new multimodal models, Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1, boasting competitive pricing and capabilities compared to Western counterparts like GPT-4.5 and DeepSeek R1. OpenAI introduced new audio models, including impressive speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems, and added O1 Pro to their developer API at high costs, reflecting efforts for more profitability. Nvidia and Apple announced significant hardware advancements, including Nvidia's future GPU plans and Apple's new Mac Studio offering that can run DeepSeek R1. DeepSeek employees are facing travel restrictions, suggesting China is treating its AI development with increased secrecy and urgency, emphasizing a wartime footing in AI competition. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:36) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:50) Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie (00:10:46) OpenAI Unveils New Audio Models to Make AI Agents Sound More Human Than Ever (00:16:41) OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet (00:20:53) Google brings a ‘canvas’ feature to Gemini, plus Audio Overview (00:22:18) Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot (00:23:55) xAI launches an API for generating images Applications & Business (00:26:28) Nvidia announces Rubin GPUs in 2026, Rubin Ultra in 2027, Feynman also added to roadmap (00:36:25) M3 Ultra Runs DeepSeek R1 With 671 Billion Parameters Using 448GB Of Unified Memory, Delivering High Bandwidth Performance At Under 200W Power Consumption, With No Need For A Multi-GPU Setup (00:40:07) Intel reaches 'exciting milestone' for 18A 1.8nm-class wafers with first run at Arizona fab (00:42:45) Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires a generative AI video startup (00:44:44) Tencent Reportedly Makes Massive NVIDIA H20 Chip Purchase for WeChat’s DeepSeek Integration Projects & Open Source (00:46:32) Anthropic’s Not-So-Secret Weapon That’s Giving Agents a Boost (00:50:50) Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters (00:53:30) EXAONE Deep: Reasoning Enhanced Language Models Research & Advancements (00:55:58) Sample, Scrutinize and Scale: Effective Inference-Time Search by Scaling Verification (01:07:44) Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models (01:12:27) Communication-Efficient Language Model Training Scales Reliably and Robustly: Scaling Laws for DiLoCo (01:18:46) Transformers without Normalization (01:19:52) Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks (01:26:12) HCAST: Human-Calibrated Autonomy Software Tasks Policy & Safety (01:26:45) Announcing Zochi, an Intology Project (01:32:46) DeepSeek, a National Treasure in China, is Now Being Closely Guarded (01:37:02) Claude Sonnet 3.7 (often) knows when it’s in alignment evaluations Synthetic Media & Art (01:42:27) US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator (01:45:10) Trump urged by Ben Stiller, Paul McCartney and hundreds of stars to protect AI copyright rules See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 17

Our 203rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/14/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI's new 'deep research' feature has raised concerns about cybersecurity and the potential misuse of AI models for bio-weapons and autonomous capabilities, prompting new safety and governance measures. Google's extensive $3 billion investment in Anthropic is revealed, aligning with their AI strategy and reinforcing the importance of multiple technology partnerships. Huawei's advancements in the AI chip industry are highlighted, with significant progress in producing chips comparable to Nvidia's H100, despite export control challenges. China's recent directive discourages AI executives from traveling to the US, reflecting heightened security concerns and potentially signaling a more adversarial stance in the AI race. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:30) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:30) OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agents (00:08:50) You can now test Gemini 2.0 Flash’s native image output (00:13:32) Waymo is now offering 24/7 robotaxi rides in Silicon Valley (00:17:19) Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content (00:21:11) Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model (00:23:37) Sudowrite Launches Muse AI Model That Can Generate Narrative-Driven Fiction Applications & Business (00:27:48) In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave (00:30:54) Huawei’s Ascend 910C Takes on NVIDIA as China’s AI Race Heats Up: More Alleged Details (00:36:26) Huawei reportedly acquired two million Ascend 910 AI chips from TSMC last year through shell companies (00:40:27) Inside Google’s Investment in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic (00:43:26) Meta is reportedly testing in-house chips for AI training (00:46:48) Elon Musk's xAI buys 1 million sq ft site for second Memphis data center (00:50:02) Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding Projects & Open Source (00:53:11) Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU (00:58:18) Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model (01:01:13) Reka AI Open Sourced Reka Flash 3: A 21B General-Purpose Reasoning Model that was Trained from Scratch (01:04:19) Open-Sora 2.0: Training a Commercial-Level Video Generation Model in $200k Research & Advancements (01:06:25) Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World (01:14:33) Optimizing Test-Time Compute via Meta Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (01:23:29) Deep Research System Card (01:29:50) Claude 3.7 Sonnet System Card Policy & Safety (01:33:24) Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models (01:39:30) China tells its AI leaders to avoid US travel over security concerns, WSJ reports (01:43:48) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 9

Our 202nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/07/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Alibaba released Qwen-32B, their latest reasoning model, on par with leading models like DeepMind’s R1. Anthropic raised $3.5 billion in a funding round, valuing the company at $61.5 billion, solidifying its position as a key competitor to OpenAI. DeepMind introduced BigBench Extra Hard, a more challenging benchmark to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models. Reinforcement Learning pioneers Andrew Bartow and Rich Sutton were awarded the prestigious Turing Award for their contributions to the field. Timestamps + Links: cle picks: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:41) Episode Preview (00:02:50) GPT-4.5 Discussion (00:14:13) Alibaba’s New QwQ 32B Model is as Good as DeepSeek-R1 ; Outperforms OpenAI’s o1-mini (00:21:29) With Alexa Plus, Amazon finally reinvents its best product (00:26:08) Another DeepSeek moment? General AI agent Manus shows ability to handle complex tasks (00:29:14) Microsoft’s new Dragon Copilot is an AI assistant for healthcare (00:32:24) Mistral’s new OCR API turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file (00:33:19) A.I. Start-Up Anthropic Closes Deal That Values It at $61.5 Billion (00:35:49) Nvidia-Backed CoreWeave Files for IPO, Shows Growing Revenue (00:38:05) Waymo and Uber's Austin robotaxi expansion begins today (00:38:54) UK competition watchdog drops Microsoft-OpenAI probe (00:41:17) Scale AI announces multimillion-dollar defense deal, a major step in U.S. military automation (00:44:43) DeepSeek Open Source Week: A Complete Summary (00:45:25) DeepSeek AI Releases DualPipe: A Bidirectional Pipeline Parallelism Algorithm for Computation-Communication Overlap in V3/R1 Training (00:53:00) Physical Intelligence open-sources Pi0 robotics foundation model (00:54:23) BIG-Bench Extra Hard (00:56:10) Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners (01:01:49) The MASK Benchmark: Disentangling Honesty From Accuracy in AI Systems (01:05:32) Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award (01:06:56) OpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic research (01:07:25) The Nuclear-Level Risk of Superintelligent AI (01:13:34) METR’s GPT-4.5 pre-deployment evaluations (01:17:16) Chinese buyers are getting Nvidia Blackwell chips despite US export controls See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 5

Our 201st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/02/2025 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Sharon Zhou Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: - The release of GPT-4.5 from OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Grok 3 from XAI, comparing their features, costs, and capabilities. - Discussion on new tools and applications including Sesame's new voice assistant and Google's AI coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, highlighting their unique benefits. - OpenAI's continued user growth despite competition, pricing models for Google's text-to-video platform, and HP acquiring and shutting down Humane's AI pin. - Insights into new research on alignment and specification gaming in LLMs, including papers on fine-tuning causing broad misalignment and Google's multi-agent system for scientific collaboration. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:36) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:33) OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model (00:07:22) Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want (00:11:14) New Grok 3 release tops LLM leaderboards (00:16:43) Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once (00:18:30) Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps (00:20:45) Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with (00:22:23) Mistral’s Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days Applications & Business (00:24:06) OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence (00:27:37) Google’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second (00:29:52) HP is buying Humane and shutting down the AI Pin Projects & Open Source (00:31:44) Microsoft launches next-gen Phi AI models. (00:33:47) OpenAI introduces SWE-Lancer: A Benchmark for Evaluating Model Performance on Real-World Freelance Software Engineering Work (00:37:12) SWE-Bench+: Enhanced Coding Benchmark for LLMs Research & Advancements (00:40:00) Towards an AI co-scientist (00:42:52) Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents Policy & Safety (00:47:32) Demonstrating specification gaming in reasoning models (00:51:03) Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 17

Our 200th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 02/14/2025 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: OpenAI announces plans to unify their model offerings, moving away from multiple separate models (GPT-4, Claude, etc.) toward a single unified intelligence system, with free users getting "standard intelligence" and Plus subscribers accessing "higher intelligence" levels. Adobe launches their Sora-rivaling AI video generator with 1080p output and 5-second clips, emphasizing production-ready content for films and introducing new pricing tiers through Firefly subscriptions at $10-30 per month. Elon Musk and a consortium offer $97.4 billion to acquire OpenAI's nonprofit entity, potentially complicating the company's transition to a for-profit structure, though Sam Altman quickly dismissed the offer's viability. TSMC implements stricter chip sales restrictions to China, requiring government-approved third-party packaging houses for chips using 16nm and below processes, aligning with US export control measures and affecting major tech companies like Nvidia and AMD. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:25) Response to listener comments (00:02:41) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:03:58) Adobe’s Sora rivalling AI video generator is now available for everyone (00:09:45) OpenAI lays out plans for GPT-5 (00:16:42) OpenAI is rethinking how AI models handle controversial topics (00:21:28) Perplexity AI launches new ultra-fast AI search model Sonar (00:23:45) YouTube AI updates include auto dubbing expansion, age ID tech, and more Applications & Business (00:24:37) Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for control of OpenAI (00:34:32) Anthropic’s next major AI model could arrive within weeks (00:39:09) AI chip startup Groq secures $1.5 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia (00:42:15) OpenAI reportedly planning to build its first AI chip in 2026 Projects & Open Source (00:45:01) Zyphra Introduces the Beta Release of Zonos: A Highly Expressive TTS Model with High Fidelity Voice Cloning (00:51:11) Gemstones: A Model Suite for Multi-Faceted Scaling Laws (00:57:15) Hephaestus: Improving Fundamental Agent Capabilities of Large Language Models through Continual Pre-Training Research & Advancements (00:58:24) Model Tampering Attacks Enable More Rigorous Evaluations of LLM Capabilities (01:04:24) Distillation Scaling Laws (01:10:06) Matryoshka Quantization (01:17:47) How much AI compute exists globally? How rapidly is it growing? Policy & Safety (01:21:29) US and UK refuse to sign summit declaration on AI safety (01:25:43) Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs (01:34:40) xAI Risk Management Framework (Draft) (01:39:59) TSMC bans more chip sales to China due to stricter U.S. export sanctions (01:42:38) Listener requested topic Synthetic Media & Art (01:43:48) Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US (01:44:46) Scarlett Johansson calls for deepfake ban after AI video goes viral (01:45:55) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 12

Our 199th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 02/09/2025 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: - OpenAI's deep research feature capability launched, allowing models to generate detailed reports after prolonged inference periods, competing directly with Google's Gemini 2.0 reasoning models. - France and UAE jointly announce plans to build a massive AI data center in France, aiming to become a competitive player within the AI infrastructure landscape. - Mistral introduces a mobile app, broadening its consumer AI lineup amidst market skepticism about its ability to compete against larger firms like OpenAI and Google. - Anthropic unveils 'Constitutional Classifiers,' a method showing strong defenses against universal jailbreaks; they also launched a $20K challenge to find weaknesses. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:27) News Preview (00:03:28) Response to listener comments Tools & Apps (00:08:01) OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process (00:16:03) Google’s Gemini app adds access to ‘thinking’ AI models (00:21:04) OpenAI Unveils A.I. Tool That Can Do Research Online (00:31:09) Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android (00:36:17) AI music startup Riffusion launches its service in public beta (00:39:11) Pikadditions by Pika Labs lets users seamlessly insert objects into videos Applications & Business (00:41:19) Softbank set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI at $260 billion valuation, sources say (00:47:36) UAE to invest billions in France AI data centre (00:50:34) Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation (00:52:03) ASML to Ship First Second-Gen High-NA EUV Machine in the Coming Months, Aiming for 2026 Production (00:54:38) NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL 72 Shipments Not Under Threat From DeepSeek As Hyperscalers Maintain CapEx; Meanwhile, Trump Tariffs Play Havoc With TSMC’s Pricing Strategy Projects & Open Source (00:56:49) The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Releases Tülu 3 405B: Scaling Open-Weight... (01:00:06) SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model (01:03:56) PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models (01:08:26) OpenEuroLLM: Europe’s New Initiative for Open-Source AI Development Research & Advancements (01:10:34) LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning (01:16:39) s1: Simple test-time scaling (01:19:17) ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning (01:23:55) Streaming DiLoCo with overlapping communication: Towards a Distributed Free Lunch Policy & Safety (01:26:50) US sets AI safety aside in favor of 'AI dominance' (01:29:39) Almost Surely Safe Alignment of Large Language Models at Inference-Time (01:32:02) Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming (01:33:16) Anthropic offers $20,000 to whoever can jailbreak its new AI safety system See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 2

Our 198th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/31/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: - DeepSeek releases R1, a competitive AI model comparable to OpenAI’s O1, leading to market unrest and significant drops in tech stocks, including a 17% plunge in NVIDIA's stock. - OpenAI launches Operator to facilitate agentic computer use, while facing competition from new releases by DeepSeek and Quen, with applications seeing rapid adoption. - President Trump revokes the Biden administration's executive order on AI, signaling a shift in AI policy and deregulation efforts. - Taiwanese government clears TSMC to produce advanced 2-nanometer chip technology abroad, aiming to strengthen global semiconductor supply amidst geopolitical tensions. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:01) Response to listener comments Projects & Open Source (00:06:26) DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning (00:30:25) Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family (00:34:07) Qwen2.5-1M Technical Report (00:38:32) Alibaba’s Qwen team releases AI models that can control PCs and phones Tools & Apps (00:42:09) OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously (00:47:37) DeepSeek reaches No. 1 on US Play Store (00:52:17) Alibaba rolled out Qwen Chat v0.2 and Qwen2.5-1M model (00:53:50) Perplexity launches US-hosted DeepSeek R1, hints at EU hosting soon (00:55:31) Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines (00:59:00) French AI ‘Lucie’ looks très chic, but keeps getting answers wrong Applications & Business (01:02:09) DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors (01:07:49) Microsoft loses OpenAI exclusive cloud provider status to $500 billion Stargate project (01:13:00) OpenAI adds BlackRock exec Adebayo Ogunlesi to board of directors (01:15:00) ElevenLabs has raised a new round at $3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources say Policy & Safety (01:16:00) Donald Trump unveils $500 billion Stargate Project to build AI infrastructure in the US, promising over 100K jobs (01:20:36) Trump Revokes Biden AI Policy, Signs Executive Order to Strengthen AI Leadership (01:23:20) Anthropic CEO doesn’t see DeepSeek as ‘adversaries,’ but says export controls are critical (01:30:26) Taiwanese govt clears TSMC to make 2nm chips abroad — country lowers its 'Silicon Shield' (01:33:01) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 29

A special one-off episode with a deep dive into the past, present, and future of how computer hardware makes AI possible. Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms. - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant. - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars. - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:08 Historical Recap: Early AI and Hardware 00:11:51 The Rise of GPUs and Deep Learning 00:15:39 Scaling Laws and the Evolution of AI Models 00:24:05 The Bitter Lesson and the Future of AI Compute 00:25:58 Moore's Law and Huang's Law 00:30:12 Memory and Logic in AI Hardware 00:34:53 Challenges in AI Hardware: The Memory Wall 00:37:08 The Role of GPUs in Modern AI 00:42:27 Fitting Neural Nets in GPUs 00:48:04 Batch Sizes and GPU Utilization 00:52:47 Parallelism in AI Models 00:55:53 Matrix Multiplications and GPUs 00:59:57 Understanding B200 and GB200 01:05:41 Data Center Hierarchy 01:13:42 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) 01:16:45 Fabrication and Packaging 01:20:17 The Complexity of Semiconductor Fabrication 01:24:34 Understanding Process Nodes 01:28:26 The Art of Fabrication 01:33:17 The Role of Yield in Fabrication 01:35:47 The Photolithography Process 01:40:38 Deep Ultraviolet Lithography (DUV) 01:43:58 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) 01:51:46 Export Controls and Their Impact 01:54:22 The Rise of Custom AI Hardware 02:00:10 The Future of AI and Hardware See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 20

Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/17/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and guest-hosted by the folks from Latent Space Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms. - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant. - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars. - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:04:29) News Preview (00:05:09) Response to listener comments (00:05:58) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:07:01) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace (00:07:52) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents (00:12:36) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot (00:18:08) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat (00:18:45) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos Applications & Business (00:22:53) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio (00:28:36) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets (00:29:39) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI (00:32:18) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion (00:34:46) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B (00:40:14) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion Projects & Open Source (00:46:12) MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention (00:51:16) MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model with Approximately 8B Parameters for Seamless Voice Interaction (00:53:01) HALoGEN: Fantastic LLM Hallucinations and Where to Find Them Research & Advancements (00:57:03) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time (01:04:38) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs (01:08:15) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps Policy & Safety (01:11:23) Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips (01:13:56) Biden orders Energy, Defense departments to lease sites for AI data centers, clean energy generation (01:15:00) OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’ (01:16:15) More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults Synthetic Media & Art (01:17:55) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense (01:19:53) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 13

Our 196th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 01/10/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - Nvidia announced a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits, featuring the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, aiming to lower the barrier for developers working on large models. - The U.S. Department of Justice finalizes a rule restricting the transmission of specific data types to countries of concern, including China and Russia, under executive order 14117. - Meta allegedly trained Llama on pirated content from LibGen, with internal concerns about the legality confirmed through court filings. - Microsoft paused construction on a section of a large data center project in Wisconsin to reassess based on new technological changes. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:04:52) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:05:55) Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits (00:10:23) Meta removes AI character accounts after users criticize them as ‘creepy and unnecessary’ Applications & Business (00:16:16) NVIDIA Is Reportedly Focused Towards “Custom Chip” Manufacturing, Recruiting Top Taiwanese Talent (00:21:54) AI start-up Anthropic closes in on $60bn valuation (00:25:38) Why OpenAI is Taking So Long to Launch Agents (00:30:08) TSMC Set to Expand CoWoS Capacity to Record 75,000 Wafers in 2025, Doubling 2024 Output (00:33:10) Microsoft 'pauses construction' on part of data center site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin (00:37:23) Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’ Projects & Open Source (00:41:59) Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI (00:48:21) Microsoft releases Phi-4 language model on Hugging Face Research & Advancements (00:50:16) PRIME: Online Reinforcement Learning with Process Rewards (00:58:29) ICLR: In-Context Learning of Representations (01:07:38) Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of o1-Like LLMs (01:11:44) METAGENE-1: Metagenomic Foundation Model for Pandemic Monitoring (01:15:45) TransPixar: Advancing Text-to-Video Generation with Transparency (01:18:03) The amount of compute used to train frontier models has been growing at a breakneck pace of over 4x per year since 2018, resulting in an overall scale-up of more than 10,000x! But what factors are enabling this rapid growth? Policy & Safety (01:23:45) InfAlign: Inference-aware language model alignment (01:28:44) Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims (01:33:19) Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics (01:35:57) US government says companies are no longer allowed to send bulk data to these nations (01:39:10) Trump announces $20B plan to build new data centers in the US See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 5

Our 195th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 01/04/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Note: apologies for Andrey's slurred speech and the jumpy editing, will be back to normal next week! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - OpenAI teases new deliberative alignment techniques in its O3 model, showcasing major improvements in reasoning benchmarks, whilst surprising with autonomy in hacks against chess engines. - Microsoft and OpenAI continue to wrangle over the terms of their partnership, highlighting tensions amid OpenAI's shift towards a for-profit model. - Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Quen release advanced open-source models, presenting significant contributions to AI capabilities and performance optimization. - Sakana AI introduces innovative applications of AI to the search for artificial life, emphasizing the potential and curiosity-driven outcomes of open-ended learning and exploration. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:07) News Preview (00:03:54) Response to listener comments (00:05:00) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:06:11) OpenAI announces new o3 model (00:21:17) Alibaba slashes prices on large language models by up to 85% as China AI rivalry heats up (00:23:04) ElevenLabs launches Flash, its fastest text-to-speech AI yet Applications & Business (00:24:24) OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company (00:33:17) Microsoft and OpenAI Wrangle Over Terms of Their Blockbuster Partnership (00:37:36) Elon Musk’s xAI gets investment from Nvidia in recent funding round: report (00:39:43) Sam Altman’s nuclear energy startup signs one of the largest nuclear power deals to date (00:41:13) OpenAI Search Leader Departs After Less Than a Year (00:42:43) Senior OpenAI Researcher Radford Departs Projects & Open Source (00:45:21) DeepSeek-AI Just Released DeepSeek-V3: A Strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Language Model with 671B Total Parameters with 37B Activated for Each Token (00:54:14) Qwen Team Releases QvQ: An Open-Weight Model for Multimodal Reasoning (00:58:09) LightOn and Answer.ai Releases ModernBERT: A New Model Series that is a Pareto Improvement over BERT with both Speed and Accuracy Research & Advancements (01:00:31) Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation (01:05:14) Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models Policy & Safety (01:10:27) Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition (01:14:35) OpenAI Researchers Propose 'Deliberative Alignment' : A Training Approach that Teaches LLMs to Explicitly Reason through Safety Specifications before Producing an Answer (01:22:06) o1-preview autonomously hacked its environment rather than lose to Stockfish in our chess challenge. No adversarial prompting needed. (01:27:22) Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer gets 150MW power boost despite concerns over grid impact and local power stability (01:29:06) DOE: Data centers consumed 4.4% of US power in 2023, could hit 12% by 2028 Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:20) OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025 (01:36:15) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 30, 2024

Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 12/19/2024 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent. - Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions. - Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts. - Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:14) Response to listener comments (00:08:52) News Preview (00:10:01) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:10:55) Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model (00:16:52) Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research (00:21:58) Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora (00:27:50) Pika Labs releases AI video generator 2.0 with new features (00:29:51) Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you (00:34:33) X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’ Applications & Business (00:36:11) AI GPU clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027 — Broadcom says three AI supercomputers are in the works (00:43:02) Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit (00:49:36) OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted it to be for-profit in 2017 (00:56:04) EQTY Lab, Intel, and NVIDIA Unveil 'Verifiable Compute,' A Solution to Secure Trusted AI (00:59:53) Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model (01:03:19) Hundreds of OpenAI’s current and ex-employees are about to get a huge payday by cashing out up to $10 million each in a private stock sale Projects & Open Source (01:07:45) Phi-4 Technical Report (01:13:04) DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding (01:15:23) Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video Understanding Research & Advancements (01:16:34) Alignment faking in large language models (01:28:39) Meta AI Introduces Byte Latent Transformer (BLT): A Tokenizer-Free Model That Scales Efficiently (01:36:49) Frontier language models have become much smaller (01:42:28) The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking Policy & Safety (01:46:49) Homeland Security gets its very own generative AI chatbot (01:49:16) Pre-Deployment Evaluation of OpenAI’s o1 Model (01:51:35) Pricing for key chipmaking material hits 13-year high following ( 01:53:46) Chinese export restrictions — China's restrictions on Gallium exports hit hard Synthetic Media & Art Meta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos (01:55:27) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 23, 2024

Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - OpenAI launches Sora, a text-to-video model with significant capabilities, and Gemini 2.0 from Google showcasing agentic potential in AI tools. - Character.ai introduces a teen model to address safety concerns following two tragic incidents linked to addiction and harmful influence. - The U.S. government sets up a task force to support the rapid development of AI data centers, reflecting the critical need for robust infrastructure. - A paper from Anthropic reveals that frontier AI systems have reached the capability of self-replication, sparking discussions on future implications and safety protocols. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:44) News Preview (00:03:43) Response to listener comments (00:09:50) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:11:12) OpenAI has finally released Sora (00:21:16) Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant (00:28:23) ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode adding video and screen sharing input (plus a Santa mode) (00:30:43) Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI ‘Vision’ (00:32:31) Musk’s xAI has launched Grok image generation model (00:35:22) Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers (00:40:43) Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri (00:43:23) Reddit’s New AI Search Tool Helps You Find Reddit Answers Without Google Applications & Business (00:46:35) OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment (00:53:34) GM halts funding of robotaxi development by Cruise (00:57:08) Largest AI data centre in the world to be built in northwest Alberta (01:02:36) Meta announces 4 million sq ft, 2GW Louisiana data center campus (01:05:22) Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms Projects & Open Source (01:08:37) Google DeepMind Just Released PaliGemma 2: A New Family of Open-Weight Vision Language Models (3B, 10B and 28B) Research & Advancements (01:13:51) Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space (01:25:37) An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory (01:31:48) APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance (01:37:59) Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use Policy & Safety (01:39:47) Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm (01:45:22) What Trump’s New AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks Means For the Tech Industry (01:49:03) Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line (01:53:52) Chip war: China launches antitrust probe into US semiconductor giant Nvidia in sign of escalation (01:56:53) White House Creating Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure (02:00:00) US clears export of advanced AI chips to UAE under Microsoft deal, Axios says (02:02:19) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 16, 2024

Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated... Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. The AI safety book “ Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today! In this episode: OpenAI launches a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription with advanced capabilities, while Amazon unveils cost-effective Nova multimodal models at the re:Invent conference. Meta releases LLAMA 3.3 70B model, showing significant gains through post-training techniques, and Alibaba introduces QWQ, a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI's O1. Amazon collaborates with Anthropic on a massive AI supercomputer project, and Black Forest Labs eyes a $200 million funding round for growth in AI tools. New research from DeepMind's Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from text and images, progressing AI's understanding of world models and interactive environments. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:34) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:04:19) OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model (00:10:40) Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models (00:17:13) ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts (00:20:21) Google’s new generative AI video model is now available Applications & Business (00:23:56) Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit (00:29:40) Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic (00:34:15) It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT (00:38:23) A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind AI Images on Grok (00:41:10) Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Vying With Nvidia at $2.6 Billion Value Projects & Open Source (00:45:25) Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model (00:50:00) Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model (00:55:21) DeMo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization (00:57:01) PRIME Intellect Releases INTELLECT-1 (Instruct + Base): The First 10B Parameter Language Model Collaboratively Trained Across the Globe (01:03:03) Tencent Launches HunyuanVideo, an Open-Source AI Video Model Research & Advancements (01:09:23) DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games (01:16:43) Language Models are Hidden Reasoners: Unlocking Latent Reasoning Capabilities via Self-Rewarding (01:20:40) Densing Law of LLMs (01:25:59) Monet: Mixture of Monosemantic Experts for Transformers Policy & Safety (01:30:56) Commerce Strengthens Export Controls to Restrict China’s Capability to Produce Advanced Semiconductors for Military Applications (01:37:33) China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions (01:40:52) OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI (01:43:24) On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback (01:47:52) AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her (01:51:52) Meta Claims AI Content Was Less than 1% of Election Misinformation (01:55:05) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 5, 2024

Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:55) Response to listener comments (00:09:30) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:10:52) OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked (00:21:11) Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor (00:26:39) Ignite 2024 introduces new AI agents and more for Microsoft 365 Copilot (00:28:50) H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications (00:31:20) Anthropic bets on personalization in the AI arms race with new ‘styles’ feature (00:33:42) ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents (00:37:08) Perplexity introduces a shopping feature for Pro users in the U.S. (00:38:49) Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory (00:43:03) Suno V4 Ai Music Generator Is Out Now And It’s Very Impressive (00:46:28) Introducing FLUX.1 Tools (00:49:51) OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a major 'creativity' upgrade (00:51:26) Runway launches Frames — a new AI image generator that creates custom worlds Applications & Business (00:54:56) OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman) (01:02:01) Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival (01:05:41) Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers Projects & Open Source (01:11:27) DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance (01:15:30) OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research Research & Advancements (01:18:02) A statistical approach to model evaluations (01:22:08) Scaling Laws for Precision (01:25:10) Cerebras Delivers Record-Breaking Performance with Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B Model Policy & Safety (01:28:01) Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team (01:32:21) Biden’s final meeting with Xi Jinping reaps agreement on AI and nukes Synthetic Media & Art (01:33:07) How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test? (01:38:27) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 28, 2024

Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence In this episode: * OpenAI's pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity. * Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements. * DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts. * Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:44) News Preview (00:03:34) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:04:36) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI (00:16:22) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users (00:19:14) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard (00:19:14) Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch (00:20:04) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference Applications & Business (00:23:47) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion (00:26:48) Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently (00:29:34) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training (00:34:45) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape (00:34:45) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic Projects & Open Source (00:37:52) Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology (00:41:29) Near plans to build world’s largest 1.4T parameter open-source AI model Research & Advancements (00:45:38) The Super Weight in Large Language Models (00:55:42) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task (01:03:47) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models (01:08:14) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations Policy & Safety (01:11:14) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU (01:15:38) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components (01:23:05) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA (01:26:21) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China (01:30:42) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng (01:33:00) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 17, 2024

Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: * OpenAI's acquisition of chat.com and internal shifts, including hardware lead hire and hardware model leaks, signal significant strategy pivots and challenges with model scaling and security. * Saudi Arabia plans a $100 billion AI initiative aiming to rival UAE's tech hub, highlighting the region's escalating AI investments. * U.S. penalties on GlobalFoundries for violating sanctions against SMIC underline ongoing challenges in enforcing AI-chip export controls. * Anthropic collaborates with Palantir and AWS to integrate CLAWD into defense environments, marking a significant policy shift for the company. Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. The AI safety book “ Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today! If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:28) News Preview (00:02:10) Response to listener comments (00:05:02) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:07:31) OpenAI Introduces ‘Predicted Outputs’ Feature: Speeding Up GPT-4o by ~5x for Tasks like Editing Docs or Refactoring Code (00:11:55) Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase (00:17:10) Introducing FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra and Raw Modes (00:19:11) X is testing a free version of Grok AI chatbot in select regions Applications & Business (00:21:39) OpenAI acquired Chat.com (00:23:40) Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub (00:28:28) Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI (00:31:38) OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address (00:35:50) Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as World’s Largest Company Projects & Open Source (00:37:53) ‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot — with guardrails (00:41:48) FrontierMath: The Benchmark that Highlights AI’s Limits in Mathematics (00:46:29) Hunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by Tencent Research & Advancements (00:49:55) Applying “Golden Gate Claude” mechanistic interpretability techniques to protein language models. (00:58:3) Relaxed Recursive Transformers: Effective Parameter Sharing with Layer-wise LoRA (01:05:55) From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code (01:10:22) OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown Policy & Safety (01:19:52) What Donald Trump’s Win Means For AI (01:28:44) Fab Whack-A-Mole: Chinese Companies are Evading U.S. Sanctions (01:33:57) US fines GlobalFoundries for shipping chips to sanctioned Chinese firm (01:36:55) Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers (01:39:23) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 8, 2024

Our 188th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . This episode was sponsored by The Generator . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . In this episode: * Meta's open-source models utilized by China's military prompt regulatory adjustments; US agencies gain access to counterbalance. * OpenAI partners with Broadcom and AMD to develop custom AI hardware, aiming for profitability and reducing inference costs. * Physical Intelligence unveils a generalist robot control policy with a $400M funding boost, showcasing significant advancements in zero-shot task performance. * New U.S. regulation mandates quarterly reporting for large AI model training and computing cluster acquisitions, aiming to bolster national security. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:16) News Preview (00:03:05) Response to listener comments / corrections (00:05:00) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:06:28) OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT (00:12:18) Image Playground, ChatGPT, and more Apple Intelligence features roll out in beta (00:14:34) GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI (00:19:00) Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai (00:21:34) ElevenLabs Introduces Voice Design: A New AI Feature that Generates a Unique Voice from a Text Prompt Alone (00:24:18) Midjourney's new web editor lets you tweak images uploaded from your PC (00:26:02) Watch out, Midjourney — Recraft just announced new AI image generator model Applications & Business (00:29:57) Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters (00:33:15) OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026 (00:40:47) Elon Musk's xAI in talks to raise funding valuing it at $40 billion, WSJ reports (00:46:07) Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos (00:48:32) Waymo ramps up robotaxi push with $5.6 bn in funding (00:49:11) Alphabet's Waymo Serving Over 150,000 Paid Robotaxi Rides Every Week Now, Surging 50% In 2 Months Projects & Open Source (00:51:23) Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google’s NotebookLM (00:54:59) Meta Releases Quantized Llama 3.2 with 4x Inference Speed on Android Phones (00:59:16) OpenAI Releases SimpleQA: A New AI Benchmark that Measures the Factuality of Language Models Research & Advancements (01:08:19) This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robot (01:15:06) Can Language Models Replace Programmers? REPOCOD Says 'Not Yet' (01:19:01) Brain-like Functional Organization within Large Language Models (01:21:20) Decart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft (01:25:39) Raising the bar on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.5 Sonnet Policy & Safety (01:29:06) Commerce just proposed the most significant federal AI regulation to date – and no one noticed (01:35:04) Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don't regulate in 18 months (01:39:32) Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta AI (01:46:35) Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications (01:48:16) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 28, 2024

Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . This episode was sponsored by The Generator . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections (00:05:13) Sponsor Read) Tools & Apps (00:06:22) Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own (00:18:09) AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others (00:20:37) Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator (00:23:35) Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users (00:26:16) StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 (00:28:27) Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for Enterprise Applications & Business (00:32:35) Crusoe’s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs (00:39:08) Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation (00:45:47) Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI (00:49:53) NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December (00:52:41) Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say (00:55:27) xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API Projects & Open Source (00:58:32) INTELLECT-1: The First Decentralized 10-Billion-Parameter AI Model Training (01:06:34) Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community (01:10:02) Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source Research & Advancements (01:13:21) OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X (01:17:54) How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it? (01:25:28) Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning (01:33:30) Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation Policy & Safety (01:41:50) Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy (01:48:52) Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage (01:56:30) OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says (02:00:05) US Probes TSMC’s Dealings with Huawei (02:03:03) TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs (02:06:37) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 20, 2024

Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn from the SuperDataScience Podcast . Check out Jon’s upcoming agent-focused event here - AI Catalyst: Agentic Artificial Intelligence Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:04:14) News Preview (00:05:28) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:07:10) Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro (00:11:52) Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear (00:15:43) Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos (00:17:05) YouTube expands AI audio generation tool to all U.S. creators (00:20:29) All Gemini users can now generate images with Imagen 3 (00:22:27) Meta AI will launch in six more countries today, including the UK (00:24:27) OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt—And It’s Very Different From Anthropic's Approach Applications & Business (00:27:46) Tesla’s big ‘We, Robot’ event criticized for ‘parlor tricks’ and vague timelines for robots, Cybercab, Robovan (00:37:25) OpenAI announces content deal with Hearst, including content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle Projects & Open Source (00:47:59) OpenR: An Open-Source AI Framework Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models (00:49:54) MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering (00:56:29) OpenAI Releases Swarm: An Experimental AI Framework for Building, Orchestrating, and Deploying Multi-Agent Systems Research & Advancements (00:59:23) Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists (01:05:22) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins (01:09:09) LLMs can’t perform “genuine logical reasoning,” Apple researchers suggest (01:13:05) GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:14:34) Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI (01:23:04) Google will help build seven nuclear reactors to power its AI systems (01:24:11) LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations Synthetic Media & Art (01:26:26) Adobe Pushes Content Authenticity Forward With a Free Web App Designed for Creators (01:29:13) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 12, 2024

Our 185th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Gavin Purcell from the AI for Humans podcast. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode: Meta's MovieGen introduces innovative features in AI video generation, alongside OpenAI's real-time speech API and expanded ChatGPT capabilities. Mio's foundation model and Apple's Depth Pro enhance multimodal AI inputs and precise 3D imaging for AR, VR, and robotics. Microsoft and OpenAI's strategic advancements highlight significant financial moves and AI enhancements, including Microsoft's enhanced Copilot. AI policy discussions intensify as California's vetoed bill sparks debates on regulation, alongside Google's $1 billion investment to expand AI infrastructure in Thailand. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:51) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:03:48) Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator (00:14:28) OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects (00:19:31) OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers (00:24:43) Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API (00:28:30) Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet (00:32:36) Pika 1.5 is now live — AI video generator just got major upgrades Applications & Business (00:37:49) OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time (00:45:23) Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search (00:51:05) Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma (00:51:49) OpenAI’s newest creation is raising shock, alarm, and horror among staffers: a new logo (00:53:45) Waymo to add Hyundai EVs to robotaxi fleet under new multiyear deal (00:57:28) Cerebras, an A.I. Chipmaker Trying to Take On Nvidia, Files for an I.P.O. (00:59:18) Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup Research & Advancements (01:03:30) Were RNNs All We Needed? (01:06:52) MIO: A Foundation Model on Multimodal Tokens (01:09:20) Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision Policy & Safety (01:13:08) California Governor Vetoes Sweeping A.I. Legislation (01:18:02) Judge blocks California’s new AI law in case over Kamala Harris deepfake Musk reposted (01:20:41) Google to invest $1 billion in Thailand to build a data center and accelerate AI growth Synthetic Media & Art (01:21:58) AI reading coach startup Ello now lets kids create their own stories (01:25:13) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 2, 2024

Our 184th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode: OpenAI, Meta, and Google are enhancing their AI assistants with advanced voice modes, while Meta released Llama 3.2, an open-source model capable of processing both images and text. Significant AI infrastructure developments include Grok's partnership with Aramco for a massive data center in Saudi Arabia, and Microsoft's plan to power data centers using a reopened Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Recent research shows chain-of-thought prompting is most effective for math and symbolic reasoning, while OpenAI's GPT-4 with vision capabilities is being integrated into Perplexity AI's search platform. AI is being rapidly integrated into various sectors, with examples including ChartWatch reducing unexpected hospital deaths, Snapchat and YouTube introducing AI video generation tools, and Lionsgate partnering with Runway for AI-assisted film production. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:04:45) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:07:46) OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look (00:13:32) Meta’s AI can now talk to you in the voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench (00:17:11) Gemini’s chatty voice mode is out now for free on Android (00:21:30) AI video rivalry intensifies as Luma announces Dream Machine API hours after Runway (00:23:35) Copilot Wave 2 supercharges productivity with AI across all your Microsoft 365 apps (00:25:56) Perplexity introduces new 'Reasoning' focus powered by OpenAI's o1 Applications & Business (00:33:47) OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman (00:41:46) Sam Altman departs OpenAI’s safety committee (00:43:04) Chip Startup Groq Backs Saudi AI Ambitions With Aramco Deal (00:46:29) Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources (00:48:05) Pudu unveils super semi-humanoid robot with 8-hour battery, 10kg lift power (00:50:56) Amazon introduces Amelia, an AI assistant for third-party sellers Projects & Open Source (00:52:58) Meta Releases Llama 3.2—and Gives Its AI a Voice (00:56:52) Alibaba Unveils Ovis 1.6 – A New Multimodal Language Model Research & Advancements (01:00:35) To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning (01:06:14) LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 on PlanBench (01:10:15) Norwegian Startup 1X Unveils AI World Model for Robot Training (01:12:44) AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds Policy & Safety (01:15:47) Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers (01:18:23) Governor Newsom signs bills to combat deepfake election content (01:20:12) Governor Newsom signs bills to protect digital likeness of performers (01:22:20) Startup behind “world’s first robot lawyer” to pay $193K for false ads, FTC says Synthetic Media & Art (01:24:49) Snap is introducing an AI video generation tool for creators (01:25:57) YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google’s AI video model (01:26:56) Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Company Runway, Hopes That AI Can Eliminate Storyboard Artists and VFX Crews (01:28:01) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 26, 2024

Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode: - OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses. - Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise. - LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel. - New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:38) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities (00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year (00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls (00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You Applications & Business (00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion (00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT (00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report (00:45:14) Japan’s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100M Projects & Open Source (00:47:31) The fable of Reflection 70B (00:53:08) DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations (00:56:31) DeepSeek-V2.5 wins praise as the new, true open source AI model leader Research & Advancements (01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins (01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining (01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers (01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting Policy & Safety (01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card (01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China’s chip industry (01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047 (01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears' Synthetic Media & Art (01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training (01:45:08) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 17, 2024

Our 182nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Sponsors: - Agent.ai is the global marketplace and network for AI builders and fans. Hire AI agents to run routine tasks, discover new insights, and drive better results. Don't just keep up with the competition—outsmart them. And leave the boring stuff to the robots 🤖 - Pioneers of AI , is your trusted guide to this emerging technology. Host Rana el Kaliouby (RAH-nuh el Kahl-yoo-bee) is an AI scientist, entrepreneur, author and investor exploring all the opportunities and questions AI brings into our lives. Listen to Pioneers of AI, with new episodes every Wednesday, wherever you tune in. In this episode: - OpenAI's move into hardware production and Amazon's strategic acquisition in AI robotics. - Advances in training language models with long-context capabilities and California's pending AI regulation bill. - Strategies for safeguarding open weight LLMs against adversarial attacks and China's rise in chip manufacturing. - Sam Altman's infrastructure investment plan and debates on AI-generated art by Ted Chiang. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:05:15) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:07:32) Amazon Picks Anthropic to Power Alexa 2.0 (00:12:12) Forget Sora — MiniMax is a new realistic AI video generator and it’s seriously impressive Applications & Business (00:14:56) Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B (00:22:20) TSMC’s A16 Process Creates a Buzz Before Mass Production, as OpenAI Reportedly Secures Capacity (00:29:13) Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant (00:33:33) OpenAI weighs changes to corporate structure amid latest funding talks (00:37:43) Chinese GPU-maker XCT, once valued at $2.1B, is on the verge of collapse — shareholders now suing founder (00:40:34) TSMC aims to ready next-gen silicon photonics for AI in 5 years Projects & Open Source (00:44:10) Alibaba releases new AI model Qwen2-VL that can analyze videos more than 20 minutes long Research & Advancements (00:48:32) Fire-Flyer AI-HPC: A Cost-Effective Software-Hardware Co-Design for Deep Learning (00:55:52) 100M Token Context Windows (01:03:50) Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling (01:06:16) AnyGraph : An Effective and Efficient Graph Foundation Model Designed to Address the Multifaceted Challenges of Structure and Feature Heterogeneity Across Diverse Graph Datasets Policy & Safety (01:08:16) California Legislature Approves Bill Proposing Sweeping A.I. Restrictions (01:11:14) Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs (01:17:12) China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows (01:20:50) China Threatens to Cut Off ASML Over New US Chip Curbs (01:23:22) Altman Infrastructure Plan Aims to Spend Tens of Billions in US Synthetic Media & Art (01:26:23) NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools (01:28:54) Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI (01:30:48) Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art (01:34:28) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 15, 2024

Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode: - Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress. - Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia. - Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer. - AI regulation discussions including California’s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia’s AI chips. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:08)Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:09:19) Google’s custom AI chatbots have arrived (00:12:52) Google releases three new experimental AI models (00:17:14) Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again (00:22:32) Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi (00:26:42:) Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pin Applications & Business (00:30:31) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (00:41:06) Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback (00:46:24) OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value it at more than $100 billion (00:50:44) OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ‘Strawberry,’ in Fall (00:52:53) 3 Co-Founders Leave French AI Startup H Amid ‘Operational Differences’ (00:57:29) Samsung to Adopt High-NA Lithography Alongside Intel, Ahead of TSMC (01:02:11) Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot Projects & Open Source (01:04:59) Meta leads open-source AI boom, Llama downloads surge 10x year-over-year (01:09:08) A_Preliminary_Report_on_DisTrO. Research & Advancements (01:13:56) Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines (01:23:18) LLM Defenses Are Not Robust to Multi-Turn Human Jailbreaks Yet (01:32:21) Interviewing AI researchers on automation of AI R&D (01:40:33) Anthropic releases AI model system prompts, winning praise for transparency Policy & Safety (01:47:12) U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI (01:50:46) China’s Views on AI Safety Are Changing—Quickly (01:56:27) Poll: 7 in 10 Californians Support SB1047, Will Blame Governor Newsom for AI-Enabled Catastrophe if He Vetoes (02:01:31) Elon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models (02:03:55) Chinese Engineers Reportedly Accessing NVIDIA’s High-End AI Chips Through Decentralized “GPU Rental Services” (02:08:25) U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component sales Synthetic Media & Art (02:11:13) Actors Say AI Voice-Over Generator ElevenLabs Cloned Likenesses (02:14:06) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 3, 2024

Our 180th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Episode Highlights: Ideogram AI's new features, Google's Imagine 3, Dream Machine 1.5, and Runway's Gen3 Alpha Turbo model advancements. Perplexity's integration of Flux image generation models and code interpreter updates for enhanced search results. Exploration of the feasibility and investment needed for scaling advanced AI models like GPT-4 and Agent Q architecture enhancements. Analysis of California's AI regulation bill SB1047 and legal issues related to synthetic media, copyright, and online personhood credentials. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:08) Response to Listener Comments / Corrections Tools & Apps (00:03:58) Ideogram AI expands its features with v2 model and color palette options (00:07:48) Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free (00:11:41) Perplexity adds Flux.1 model for Pro users alongside Playground v3 update (00:13:58) Luma drops Dream Machine 1.5 — here’s what’s new (00:17:49) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type (00:20:21) Perplexity’s latest update improves code interpreter, charts included Applications & Business (00:24:14) AMD buying server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as chipmakers strengthen AI capabilities (00:28:55) Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services (00:34:08) Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say 00:38:32 Stability AI appoints new Chief Technology Officer (00:41:45) Cruise’s robotaxis are coming to the Uber app in 2025 Projects & Open Source (00:44:16) AI21 Introduces the Jamba Model Family: The most powerful and efficient long-context models for the enterprise (00:53:47) Microsoft reveals Phi-3.5 — this new small AI model outperforms Gemini and GPT-4o (00:57:33) Nvidia’s Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a small language model that punches above its weight (01:00:58) Open source Dracarys models ignite generative AI fired coding Research & Advancements (01:12:35) Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030? (01:15:35) Agent Q: Advanced Reasoning and Learning for Autonomous AI Agents (01:23:58) Transformers to SSMs: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge to Subquadratic Models (01:31:18) Loss of plasticity in deep continual learning Policy & Safety (01:38:20) California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic (01:48:14) Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online (01:52:44) Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs Synthetic Media & Art (01:58:33) Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement (01:59:32) Artists’ lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney gets more punch (02:01:43) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 20, 2024

Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Episode Highlights: - Grok 2's beta release features new image generation using Black Forest Labs' tech. - Google introduces Gemini Voice Chat Mode available to subscribers and integrates it into Pixel Buds Pro 2. - Huawei's Ascend 910C AI chip aims to rival NVIDIA's H100 amidst US export controls. - Overview of potential risks of unaligned AI models and skepticism around SingularityNet's AGI supercomputer claims. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:15) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:24) Grok-2 is out in beta, now with added AI image generation (00:11:28) OpenAI reveals an updated GPT-4o model - but can't quite explain how it's better (00:13:48) Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here (00:16:18) Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 bring Gemini to your ears (00:19:55) Google’s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources (00:23:13) Prompt Caching is Now Available on the Anthropic API for Specific Claude Models Applications & Business (00:26:56) Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator (00:26:56) Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports (00:37:53) ASML and Imec Announce High-NA Lithography Breakthrough (00:43:07) Chinese startup WeRide gets nod to test robotaxis with passengers in California (00:45:49) Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google (00:51:55) Lisa Su formally welcomes Silo AI team to AMD after completing $665 million acquisition Projects & Open Source (00:54:31) FalconMamba 7B Released: The World’s First Attention-Free AI Model with 5500GT Training Data and 7 Billion Parameters (00:59:25) OpenAI has introduced SWE-bench Verified to evaluate AI performance (01:04:21) Nous Research presents Hermes 3 (01:11:07) New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeks Research & Advancements (01:14:40) The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (01:30:24) Imagen 3 (01:32:48) The Data Addition Dilemma (01:37:35) LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs Policy & Safety (01:40:55) MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks (01:44:14) Elon Musk addresses power issues at xAI supercomputer facility in Memphis (01:46:52) FCC Proposes New Rules on AI-Powered Robocalls Governments Adjust Policies Amid Flood of AI Record Requests Synthetic Media & Art (01:48:21) SAG-AFTRA Strikes Groundbreaking AI Digital Voice Replica Pact With Startup Firm Narrativ (01:51:52) How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer (01:56:21) AI Song Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 16, 2024

Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: this is a re-upload with fixed audio, my bad on the last one! - Andrey With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode: - Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible. - OpenAI's dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk. - Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis. - Research advancements such as Google's compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:14) Response to listener comments / corrections Applications & Business (00:06:56) Google’s hiring of Character.AI’s founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode (00:15:12) Investors in Adept AI will be paid back after Amazon hires startup’s top talent (00:22:36) AI chip start-up Groq’s value rises to $2.8bn as it takes on Nvidia (00:29:22) OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave (00:36:18) Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman (00:41:40) Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations (00:47:01) ASML, Tokyo Electron dodge new US chip export rules, for now (00:53:10) OpenAI reportedly leads $60M round for webcam startup Opal Tools & Apps (00:55:40) OpenAI cuts GPT-4o prices, launches Structured Outputs amidst price war with Google (01:02:08) Apple Intelligence could get a $20 Plus version (01:04:05) Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature (01:05:53) Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages Research & Advancements (01:06:35) Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters (01:16:27) Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis (01:20:19) Self-Compressing Neural Networks (01:28:30) Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models (01:32:43) Berkeley Humanoid: A Research Platform for Learning-based Control Policy & Safety (01:33:35) METR announces results of study on comparative capabilities of humans and agents (01:39:35) ‘The Godmother of AI’ says California’s well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem (01:49:13) Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules (01:54:56) Amazon faces UK merger probe over $4B Anthropic AI investment (01:55:44) GPT-4o System Card (02:03:09) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 11, 2024

Our 177th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest co-host Jon Krohn from the super data science podcast ( https://www.superdatascience.com/podc ast)! If you'd like to listen to the interview with Andrey, check out https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. In this episode, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jon Krohn dive into significant updates and discussions in the AI world, including Instagram's new AI features, Waymo's driverless cars rollout in San Francisco, and NVIDIA’s chip delays. They also review Meta's AI Studio, character.ai CEO Noam Shazir's return to Google, and Google's Gemini updates. Additional topics cover NVIDIA's hardware issues, advancements in humanoid robots, and new open-source AI tools like Open Devon. Policy discussions touch on the EU AI Act, the U.S. stance on open-source AI, and investigations into Google and Anthropic. The impact of misinformation via deepfakes, particularly one involving Elon Musk, is also highlighted, all emphasizing significant industry effects and regulatory implications. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai (00:00:00) AI Song / Intro Banter (00:05:32) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:10:16) Apple Intelligence to Miss Initial Launch of Upcoming iOS 18 Overhaul (00:16:35) Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves Lighting round (00:22:49) Runway just dropped image-to-video in Gen3 (00:25:41) Midjourney drops surprise v6.1 update — now humans look more real than ever (00:28:07) AI-Powered Necklace Will Be Your Friend for $99 (00:30:06) Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results Applications & Business (00:31:44) Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google (00:39:41) Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations Lighting round (00:43:30) Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw (00:41:08) Neura shows off humanoid robot 4NE-1 (00:46:0) Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F. Here’s how busy they are (00:57:27) Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI efforts Projects & Open Source (00:59:19) Black Forest Labs Open-Source FLUX.1: A 12 Billion Parameter Rectified Flow Transformer Capable of Generating Images from Text Descriptions (01:01:59) Google releases new ‘open’ AI models with a focus on safety Lighting round (01:05:09) Stability AI releases super-fast model for 3D asset image generation (01:09:29) OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents Research & Advancements (01:12:10) Meta AI Introduces Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2): The First Unified Model for Segmenting Objects Across Images and Videos (01:19:20) MoMa: Efficient Early-Fusion Pre-training with Mixture of Modality-Aware Experts Lighting round (01:25:00) AssistantBench: Can Web Agents Solve Realistic and Time-Consuming Tasks? (01:26:19) Trust or Escalate: LLM Judges with Provable Guarantees for Human Agreement (01:31:15) Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget Policy & Safety (01:33:03) World's First-Ever AI Law Now Enforced in Europe, Targeting US Tech Giants (01:39:12) White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now Lighting round (01:41:12) With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans (01:44:03) UK antitrust body probes Google’s ties with AI rival Anthropic (01:45:20) Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy (01:50:10) AI Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 3, 2024

Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it... With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai (00:00:00) Intro Song (00:00:34) Intro Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model (00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature (00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities (00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop (00:14:25) Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature Projects & Open Source (00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech (00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math (00:34:00) Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling (00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings Applications & Business (00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve (00:43:01) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market (00:46:28) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations (00:49:09) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion Research & Advancements (00:52:01) AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (00:56:47) A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent (01:00:56) MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens Policy & Safety (01:02:56) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards (01:06:39) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe (01:10:59) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning (01:13:08) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid (01:17:33) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power Synthetic Media & Art (01:20:58) Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns (01:23:03) Outro (01:23:58) AI Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 25, 2024

Our 175th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) In this episode of Last Week in AI, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris explore recent AI advancements including OpenAI's release of GPT 4.0 Mini and Mistral’s open-source models, covering their impacts on affordability and performance. They delve into enterprise tools for compliance, text-to-video models like Hyper 1.5, and YouTube Music enhancements. The conversation further addresses AI research topics such as the benefits of numerous small expert models, novel benchmarking techniques, and advanced AI reasoning. Policy issues including U.S. export controls on AI technology to China and internal controversies at OpenAI are also discussed, alongside Elon Musk's supercomputer ambitions and OpenAI’s Prover-Verify Games initiative. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) AI Song Intro (00:00:40) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:57) OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a small AI model powering ChatGPT (00:11:38) Meet Haiper 1.5, the new AI video generation model challenging Sora, Runway (00:16:32) Anthropic releases Claude app for Android (00:18:59) Google Vids is available to test out Gemini AI-created video presentations (00:20:27) YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI ‘conversational radio’ in testing Applications & Business (00:23:30) OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ (00:30:45) Inside Elon Musk’s Mad Dash To Build A Giant xAI Supercomputer In Memphis (00:37:15) Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models (00:41:05) After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education (00:43:40) Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund Projects & Open Source (00:46:27) Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation (00:50:36) Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Mistral NeMo 12B, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model (00:52:51) Hugging Face Releases SmoLLM, a Series of Small Language Models, Beats Qwen2 and Phi 1.5 (00:56:11) Stable Diffusion 3 License Revamped Amid Blowback, Promising Better Model Research & Advancements (01:01:49) FlashAttention-3 unleashes the power of H100 GPUs for LLMs (01:06:38) Mixture of A Million Experts (01:12:51) AutoBencher: Creating Salient, Novel, Difficult Datasets for Language Models (01:18:23) SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language >Models Policy & Safety (01:20:50) Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs (01:28:05) Trump allies draft AI order to launch ‘Manhattan Projects’ for defense (01:34:40) On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs (01:36:24) Google, Microsoft offer Nvidia chips to Chinese companies, the Information reports (01:38:26) U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report (01:48:47) OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say (01:44:59) Outro + AI Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 17, 2024

Our 174rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing. See full episode notes here. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro AI Song (00:00:41) Pre News Banter Tools & Apps (00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha (00:10:28) Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps (00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy (00:18:30) Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps (00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the go Applications & Business (00:21:42) Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months (00:27:03) Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny (00:29:39) OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’ (00:33:38) AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say (00:37:01) Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz Clash Over AI Chip Supplies Amid Gen AI Boom (00:43:30) Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Make World’s “Most Powerful” 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Cluster (00:46:25) AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in $665 million deal (00:48:00) AI robotics startup raises US$300 million, including from Jeff Bezos (00:52:11) Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections Research & Advancements (00:55:21) Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States (01:03:12) Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning (01:09:11) CopyBench: Measuring Literal and Non-Literal Reproduction of Copyright-Protected Text in Language Model Generation (01:13:25) Just read twice: closing the recall gap for recurrent language models (01:15:25) CodeUpdateArena: Benchmarking Knowledge Editing on API Updates (01:18:31) Composable Interventions for Language Models (01:24:09) Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy Policy & Safety (01:26:49) Covert Malicious Finetuning (01:31:23) OpenAI’s week of security issues (01:36:39) Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are (01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs (01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab (01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub (01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sell Synthetic Media & Art (01:52:46) Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels (01:54:50) Tech Startup Aims to Help Media License Content for AI Training (01:57:23) Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy (01:59:44) Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos (02:02:05) Outro + AI Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 7, 2024

Our 173rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) See full episode notes here. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode of Last Week in AI, we explore the latest advancements and debates in the AI field, including Google's release of Gemini 1.5, Meta's upcoming LLaMA 3, and Runway's Gen 3 Alpha video model. We discuss emerging AI features, legal disputes over data usage, and China's competition in AI. The conversation spans innovative research developments, cost considerations of AI architectures, and policy changes like the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Chevron deference. We also cover U.S. export controls on AI chips to China, workforce development in the semiconductor industry, and Bridgewater's new AI-driven financial fund, evaluating the broader financial and regulatory impacts of AI technologies. Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:24) Google opens up Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro with 2M tokens to the public (00:08:47) Meta is about to launch its biggest Llama model yet — here’s why it’s a big deal (00:12:38) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch (00:16:28) This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9 (00:17:30) AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates (00:20:06) Perplexity’s ‘Pro Search’ AI upgrade makes it better at math and research (00:23:12) Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims Applications & Business (00:26:38) Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand (00:32:04) Huawei and Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips amid US restrictions (00:34:57) Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face (00:39:01) Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera (00:43:35) Apple’s Phil Schiller is reportedly joining OpenAI’s board (00:47:26) AI Video Startup Runway Looking to Raise $450 Million Projects & Open Source (00:48:10) Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Real-Time Native Multimodal Foundation AI Model that can Listen and Speak (00:50:44) MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation (00:53:47) Anthropic Pushes for Third-Party AI Model Evaluations (00:57:29) Mozilla Llamafile, Builders Projects Shine at AI Engineers World's Fair Research & Advancements (00:59:26) Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs (01:05:55) AI Agents That Matter (01:12:09) WARP: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Rewarded Policies (01:17:20) Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas (01:24:16) Found in the Middle: Calibrating Positional Attention Bias Improves Long Context Utilization Policy & Safety (01:26:32) With Chevron’s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water (01:33:40) Nvidia to make $12bn from AI chips in China this year despite US controls (01:37:52) Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players (01:40:57) U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with new program (01:42:42) Bridgewater starts $2 billion fund that uses machine learning for decision-making and will include models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity (01:47:57) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 1, 2024

Our 172nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant (00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps (00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July (00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users (00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco (00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI Applications & Business (00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC (00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others (00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say (00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions (00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same Projects & Open Source (00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization (00:47:54) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B (00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model Research & Advancements (00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 (01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks (01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again (01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination (01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws Policy & Safety (01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep (01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill (01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools (01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI (01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement (01:42:43) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels (01:45:07) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool (01:49:12) Outro + AI Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 24, 2024

Our 171st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) Feel free to leave us feedback here . 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 Tools & Apps (00:03:13) Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac (00:10:03) ‘We don’t need Sora anymore’: Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut (00:14:48) Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips (00:18:21) Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works (00:22:31) Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor Applications & Business (00:28:23 ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company (00:31:19) Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc. (00:38:53) OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO) (00:41:44) Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months (00:44:30) AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft (00:48:55) Mistral closes €600m at €5.8bn valuation with new lead investor (00:53:12) Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA’s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China (00:56:58) Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform Projects & Open Source (01:01:03) Announcing the Open Release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Our Most Sophisticated Image Generation Model to Date (01:05:53) Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking (01:09:39) ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos Research & Advancements (01:12:02) Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling (01:22:07) Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision (01:28:01) Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations (01:30:32) An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models (01:31:57) BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners (01:33:33) SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals Policy & Safety (01:35:16) Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (01:42:26) Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole (01:45:53) Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe (01:46:44) Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (01:51:38) Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools Synthetic Media & Art (01:55:07) It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop. (01:57:39) Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work (01:59:31) Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets (02:02:23) Outro + AI Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 9, 2024

Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) Feel free to leave us feedback here . 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: Tools & Apps (00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora (00:09:16) ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI (00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features (00:14:38) Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages (00:16:35) ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt (00:18:37) Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries Applications & Business (00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI (00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink Projects & Open Source (00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design Research & Advancements (00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders (01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting (01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach (01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile Policy & Safety (01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027 (01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks (01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Synthetic Media & Art (01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant (01:46:25) Outro + AI Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 3, 2024

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to leave us feedback here: https://forms.gle/ngXvXZpNJxaAprDv6 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 (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled Applications & Business (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round Projects & Open Source (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code Research & Advancements (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says Policy & Safety (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting (01:46:36) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic (01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees (01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee (01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden’s Voice Fined $6 Million (01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation’s Firms Synthetic Media & Art (02:02:23) Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI (02:04:21) Outro + AI Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 28, 2024

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast ! 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 + Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles Applications & Business (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors. (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B Projects & Open Source (00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo (00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts (00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures Research & Advancements (00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box' (01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models (01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model (01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models (01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning (01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:15:01) World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light (01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill (01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation (01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models (01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risks Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI (01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses (01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? (01:42:01) Outro + AI Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 19, 2024

Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daliana Liu ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ ) from The Data Scientist Show! And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast. 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 (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console Applications & Business (00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes (00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps Projects & Open Source (00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3 (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 Research & Advancements (00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture Policy & Safety (00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It Synthetic Media & Art (00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright (01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech (01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey (01:42:00) AI Outro Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 12, 2024

Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 Tools & Apps (00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand Applications & Business (00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI Projects & Open Source (00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models Research & Advancements (00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Policy & Safety (01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models (01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3 (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men (01:40:18) AI Outro Song See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 5, 2024

Our 165th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: Tools & Apps (00:01:27) GitHub releases an AI-powered tool aiming for a 'radically new way of building software' (00:07:05) China unveils Sora challenger able to produce videos from text similar to OpenAI tool, though much shorter (00:12:23) ChatGPT’s AI ‘memory’ can remember the preferences of paying customers (00:14:21) Rabbit R1 review: Avoid this AI gadget (00:18:30) Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available (00:19:54) Yelp’s Assistant AI bot will do all the talking to help users find service providers Applications & Business (00:21:31) Video of super-fast, super-smooth humanoid robot will drop your jaw (00:25:22) Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny (00:29:32) Tesla shares soar as Elon Musk returns from China with FSD 'Game Changer' (00:32:11) OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use (00:35:21) OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M (00:37:00) Huawei backs HBM memory manufacturing in China to sidestep crippling US sanctions that restrict AI development Research & Advancements (00:39:20) Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine (00:45:34) Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models (00:52:20) NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution (00:55:08) SenseNova 5.0: China’s latest AI model surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4 (00:57:20) Octopus v4: Graph of language models (01:00:28) Better & Faster Large Language Models via Multi-token Prediction Policy & Safety (01:03:15) Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction (01:09:19) Rishi Sunak promised to make AI safe. Big Tech’s not playing ball. (01:15:09) DOE Announces New Actions to Enhance America’s Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (01:18:21) The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects (01:20:50) Analysis-Second global AI safety summit faces tough questions, lower turnout (01:24:03) Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and more join the federal AI safety board Synthetic Media & Art (01:26:30) Air Head creators say OpenAI's Sora finicky to work with, needs hundreds of prompts, serious VFX work for under 2 minutes of cohesive story ↺ (01:29:50) Eight newspaper publishers sue OpenAI over copyright infringement See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 30, 2024

Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: Tools & Apps (00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps (00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now (00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 (00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months (00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgrades Applications & Business (00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World’s Most Advanced Chips (00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I. (00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters (00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams (00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chips Projects & Open Source (00:39:03) Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device (00:44:12) Snowflake launches Arctic, an open ‘mixture-of-experts’ LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3 Research & Advancements (00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions (00:55:11) Groq’s breakthrough AI chip achieves blistering 800 tokens per second on Meta’s LLaMA 3 (00:59:52) Microsoft shows off VASA-1, an AI framework that makes human headshots talk, sing (01:01:59) Intel Builds World’s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI Policy & Safety (01:05:11) Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election (01:08:51) LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities (01:15:27) The Necessity of AI Audit Standards Boards (01:19:45) A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI (01:22:45) COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING (01:26:40) China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders show Synthetic Media & Art (01:29:08) Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 24, 2024

Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey 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 (00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available (00:14:01) Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4V (00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus (00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model (00:23:48) Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists (00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools Applications & Business (00:25:52) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use (00:30:32) TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle (00:36:30) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China — three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military (00:38:37) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train (00:40:22) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors (00:41:55) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise Big Projects & Open Source (00:44:08) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models (00:50:03) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community Research & Advancements (00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need (00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts (01:03:20) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt (01:07:18) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans (01:10:45) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments Policy & Safety (01:13:44) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team (01:17:18) NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security (01:19:19) Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (01:24:11) Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies (01:27:35) SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:30:25) Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 15, 2024

Our 162nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: Tools & Apps (00:02:50) AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music (00:07:42) Anthropic launches external tool use for Claude AI, enabling stock ticker integrations and more (00:11:51) Building LLMs for Code Repair (00:14:16) Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed (00:16:23) Microsoft 365’s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation (00:18:41) AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users Applications & Business (00:19:21) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (00:23:32) Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up (00:27:27) Intel Unveils New AI Accelerator in Bid to Challenge Nvidia (00:30:46) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (00:32:55) OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (00:36:23) Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday (00:37:23) OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund Projects & Open Source (00:39:51) Mistral AI Stuns With Surprise Launch of New Mixtral 8x22B Model (00:43:54) Google updates its Gemma AI model family with variants for coding and research (00:47:04) Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order Research & Advancements (00:52:08) Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models (00:57:41) Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention (01:03:31) Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent (01:07:54) Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models (01:09:54) Many-shot Jailbreaking Policy & Safety (01:15:08) Schiff unveils AI training transparency measure (01:20:25) Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. He was also a prolific thief of trade secrets, say prosecutors. (01:26:11) Responsible Reporting for Frontier AI Development (01:30:08) US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands — eyes nuclear fusion and fission (01:32:39) Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (01:36:45) Trudeau announces $2.4 billion for AI-related investments Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:26) Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices Fun! (01:41:52) OpenAI's Sora just made its first music video and it's like a psychedelic trip See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 31, 2024

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 .

Mar 24, 2024

Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: Tools & Apps (00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures (00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam (00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI Applications & Business (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics! (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids Projects & Open Source (00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1 (00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D (00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation (00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes Research & Advancements (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding Policy & Safety (01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning (01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says (01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities (01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks (01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content (01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes Synthetic Media & Art (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool Fun! (01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 18, 2024

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 .

Mar 10, 2024

Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: Tools & Apps (00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude (00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper (00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini (00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3 (00:24:25) Wix’s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts (00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too Applications & Business (00:27:40) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity , OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails (00:35:42) Inside the Crisis at Google (00:38:36) It’s official: Waymo robotaxis are now free to use freeways and leave San Francisco (00:40:33) Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase — Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call (00:42:43) AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence Projects & Open Source (00:45:13) StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation (00:49:05) Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images (00:51:21) H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications Research & Advancements (00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components (00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper (01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models (01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms (01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics (01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and the Reasoning Gap Policy & Safety (01:15:18) India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches (01:19:16) When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges with Partial Observability of Human Evaluators in Reward Learning (01:24:45) OpenAI signs open letter to build AI responsibly just days after Elon Musk sued the company for putting profit ahead of people (01:27:37) AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating (01:29:40) Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines (01:32:25) China offers AI computing ‘vouchers’ to its underpowered start-ups Synthetic Media & Art (01:34:18) Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images (01:37:10) AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon (01:39:55) Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers (01:43:35) Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet Fun! (01:46:35) Man tries to steal driverless car in L.A., doesn’t get far: police See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 3, 2024

Our 157th 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. Bonus plug: also check out this new book by Stanford AI expert, bestselling author, and Last Week in AI supporter Jerry Kaplan ! Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know 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 Tools & Apps (00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator (00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant (00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos (00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio (00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs Applications & Business (00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI (00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI (00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business (00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano (00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report (00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock Projects & Open Source (00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM (00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model (00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public (00:54:25) Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster Research & Advancements (00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments (01:07:08) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models (01:15:16) Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor (01:20:56) Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs (01:22:10) Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings Policy & Safety (01:25:45) AI Warfare Is Already Here (01:29:36) Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall (01:32:45) Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety (01:34:53) Facebook whistleblower, AI godfather join hundreds calling for deepfake regulation US regulators investigate whether OpenAI investors were misled, say reports (01:36:51) Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped Synthetic Media & Art (01:40:23) The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft (01:41:15) A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI Fun! (01:42:54) Impossible AI Food See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 25, 2024

Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 Tools & Apps (00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model (00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready (00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok (00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds (00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product (00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’ Applications & Business (00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund (00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs (00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show (00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms (00:50:06) AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding (00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ‘agents’ to business Projects & Open Source (00:51:41) BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains (00:54:33) Nomic AI Releases the First Fully Open-Source Long Context Text Embedding Model that Surpasses OpenAI Ada-002 Performance on Various Benchmarks Research & Advancements (00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video (01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting (01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement (01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention (01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities" Policy & Safety (01:17:15) Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says (01:21:15) House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force (01:25:08) Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks (01:27:05) States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week (01:28:12) Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets (01:30:26) The FTC warned about ‘quiet’ TOS changes for AI training. Here’s why it might not be enough Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:13) Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissed Fun & Miscellaneous (01:36:14) A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models (01:38:00) Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident (01:40:50) Helen Mirren Rips Up AI-Generated Speech at American Cinematheque Awards (01:41:40) Microsoft's game-changing Super Bowl ad See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 16, 2024

Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E. 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 Tools & Apps (00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like (00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model (00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs Applications & Business (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI (00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy Projects & Open Source (00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages (00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY (00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters (00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade Research & Advancements (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models Policy & Safety (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers (01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit (01:42:25) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits (01:44:42) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 11, 2024

Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models" Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant (00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images (00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails (00:12:40) Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant (00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos (00:16:18) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro Applications & Business (00:19:04) A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened (00:23:30) Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost “stamp” machine (00:27:33) US industry group calls for multilateral chip export controls to address disadvantage over Korea, other allies (00:30:10) U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company (00:32:24) Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month Projects & Open Source (00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model (00:42:46) Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI (00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5 (00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs (00:53:20) Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing Research & Advancements (00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors (01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks (01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences (01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design (01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents (01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data Policy & Safety (01:13:22) EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption (01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation (01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices (01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute (01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’ (01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads (01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (01:34:38) Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written (01:36:20) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 4, 2024

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 .

Jan 28, 2024

Our 152nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 jeremie@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:15) Samsung’s latest Galaxy phones offer live translation over phone calls, texts (00:06:16) The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’ (00:10:31) Google is using AI to organize and customize your Chrome browser (00:12:10) Adobe’s new AI-powered Premiere Pro features eradicate boring audio editing tasks (00:13:16) Waymo looks to launch full fleet of robotaxis in LA (00:15:16) Tesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving Applications & Business (00:19:45) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips (00:25:00) Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence (00:32:43) AI voice startup ElevenLabs lands $80M round, launches marketplace of cloned voices (00:35:03) Anthropic’s Margins Raise Questions on AI Startups’ Long-Term Profitability (00:38:00) Cohere in talks to raise as much as $1bn as AI arms race heats up (00:39:40) DOJ and FTC push to investigate Microsoft's OpenAI partnership- Politico (00:41:30) Figure announces commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to bring general purpose robots into automotive production Projects & Open Source (00:43:28) Stability AI unveils smaller, more efficient 1.6B language model as part of ongoing innovation Research & Advancements (00:48:58) AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry (00:54:02) Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation (00:56:33) ChatQA: Building GPT-4 Level Conversational QA Models (00:59:13) Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model (01:01:28) VMamba: Visual State Space Model (01:03:40) Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data Policy & Safety (01:04:40) OpenAI suspends developer behind Dean Phillips bot (01:06:49) Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote Tuesday (01:09:10) Sharing Fake Nude Images Could Become a Federal Crime Under Proposed Law (01:11:00) San Francisco takes legal action over ‘unsafe,’ ‘disruptive’ self-driving cars (01:13:40) Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election (01:15:55) AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati Synthetic Media & Art (01:20:27) Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? (01:23:48) AI models that don’t violate copyright are getting a new certification label See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 21, 2024

Our 151st 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 Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:55) Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us (00:04:43) Microsoft Copilot is now using the previously-paywalled GPT-4 Turbo, saving you $20 a month (00:07:02) Amazon launches generative AI tool to answer shoppers’ questions Applications & Business (00:08:07) DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals (00:13:16) China planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer — similar to American company Cerebras 'wafer-scale' designs (00:17:12) ChatGPT will have video functionality and more accuracy in future versions — Sam Altman says GPT-5 will be a big improvement (00:19:38) Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China (00:22:15) OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year (00:25:04) Inside AI Unicorn Anthropic’s Unusual $750 Million Fundraise (00:28:46) Microsoft executive Dee Templeton joins OpenAI board - Bloomberg News (00:31:33) OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots Projects & Open Source (00:34:25) Meet LLama.cpp: An Open-Source Machine Learning Library to Run the LLaMA Model Using 4-bit Integer Quantization on a MacBook (00:38:06) LLAMA PRO: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion (00:43:48) One of the world’s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ‘substantially better’ Research & Advancements (00:47:52) Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI (00:51:50) Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training (00:56:27) LLM Augmented LLMs: Expanding Capabilities through Composition (01:02:23) Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models (01:05:16) Clinical predictive models created by AI are accurate but study-specific, researchers find (01:09:01) Secure, Governable Chips Policy & Safety (01:14:01) US companies and Chinese experts engaged in secret diplomacy on AI safety (01:18:28) China Cyberspace Security Association releases first batch of Chinese basic corpus (01:22:33) OpenAI Bans Use of AI Tools for Campaigning, Voter Suppression (01:24:49) OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare” Synthetic Media & Art (01:27:20) Musicians Set to Begin Contract Negotiations With Studios On AI, Streaming Priorities (01:29:26) Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon (01:33:15) Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube (01:35:15) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 14, 2024

Our 150th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:49) OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open for business (00:06:52) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams Lighting round (00:09:18) The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you (00:11:18) Amazon’s Alexa gets new generative AI-powered experiences (00:12:55) Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for Applications & Business (00:14:24) Nvidia's newest chips are designed to run AI at home as competition from Intel, AMD looms (00:16:52) Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI Lighting round (00:19:16) AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M (00:21:33) Waymo will start testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways (00:23:24) Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos Research & Advancements (00:25:10) DeepMind is trying to train robots for real-world activities (00:29:03) MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts Lighting round (00:33:18) PIXART-δ: Fast and Controllable Image Generation with Latent Consistency Models (00:35:20) InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes (00:37:06) The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models (00:39:33) Mixtral of Experts Policy & Safety (00:40:38) Meta and OpenAI have spawned a wave of AI sex companions—and some of them are children (00:46:30) ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Lighting round (00:49:52) Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions (00:51:43) Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive Synthetic Media & Art (00:55:09) A list going viral reveals famous artists whose work was used to train AI generator (00:58:28) YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated true crime deepfakes Lighting round (01:00:27) AI-Generated George Carlin Comedy Special Slammed by Comedian’s Daughter (01:01:56) SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games (01:03:26) Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 7, 2024

Our 149th 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 Some recommended resources for keeping up with AI research: Davis Summarizes Papers AK’s Substack Deep Learning Weekly NLP News Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:08:13) Reflections on 2023 Tools & Apps (00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text! (00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users (00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI (00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked (00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android Applications & Business (00:39:00) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end (00:42:25) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation (00:44:10) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion (00:44:46) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China (00:47:30) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions (00:50:16) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company’s Self-Built Fabrication Plants (00:52:36) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement Research & Advancements (00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action (00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore (01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks (01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones (01:09:47) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models (01:10:41) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation Policy & Safety (01:13:23) The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work (01:18:12) Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank (01:21:48) Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups 'Benefiting Humanity' (01:23:40) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 24, 2023

Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: (00:00:00) 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 17, 2023

Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Correction: Gemini also supports audio Also 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 Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read Tools & Apps (00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT (00:14:15) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked (00:19:33) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great (00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini (00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano (00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds (00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT (00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke" (00:34:51) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years (00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache Applications & Business (00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s (00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions (00:46:44) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions (00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side (00:51:46) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (00:54:08) Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts (00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models (00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M Projects & Open Source (00:59:20) Mixtral of experts (01:05:50) Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages (01:07:07) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers (01:10:15) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development Research & Advancements (01:13:21) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image — you have to see it to believe it (01:14:20) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1 (01:17:40) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning (01:19:04) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders (01:21:20) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models (01:23:40) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research Policy & Safety (01:26:41) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules (01:33:58) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment (01:39:12) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (01:41:22) US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China (01:44:12) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI (01:47:25) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:49:03) High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed (01:52:55) Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle (01:55:57) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 12, 2023

Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: this one is coming out a bit late, sorry! We'll have a new ep with coverage of the big news about Gemini and the EU AI Act out soon though. 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: (00:00:00) Intro/Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:03) ChatGPT’s 1-year anniversary: how it changed the world (00:06:15) Perplexity AI Introduces New Online LLMs for Real-Time Information Access (00:11:45) Intuit Adds Generative AI-Powered Tax Prep to TurboTax (00:12:57) Microsoft Paint’s DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out on Windows 11 (00:13:56) Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift (00:14:54) Voicemod will now let you create and share your own AI voices (00:16:15) Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator Applications & Business (00:17:48) Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit (00:20:39) Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (00:25:48) Google is reportedly pushing the launch of its Gemini AI to 2024 (00:27:38) OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (00:29:03) US Compels Saudi Fund to Exit AI Chip Startup Backed by Altman (00:30:15) OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2 Billion Valuation With Andreessen Horowitz Backing (00:31:57) US artificial intelligence leader OpenAI applies for GPT-6, GPT-7 trademarks in China (00:32:59) CoreWeave backed by Fidelity and Jane Street at $7 billion valuation as cloud provider bolsters status as one of AI’s hottest startups (00:34:14) AWS debuts next-generation Graviton4 and Trainium2 chips for cloud and AI workloads (00:35:08) Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI (00:36:09) Indian AI Video Startup Rephrase.ai Announces Acquisition by Adobe (00:36:40) Report: Stability AI Positioning Itself for Acquisition Projects & Open Source (00:39:31) ChatGPT's One-year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching up? (00:43:50) China Open Sources DeepSeek LLM, Outperforms Llama 2 and Claude-2 Research & Advancements (00:48:37) Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for thousands of new materials (00:54:11) Researchers quantify the carbon footprint of generating AI images (00:56:40) Adopting and expanding ethical principles for generative artificial intelligence from military to healthcare (00:57:51) White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction: Compression Is All There Is? (01:00:09) Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? Case Study in Medicine (01:02:30) MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI Policy & Safety (01:05:19) ChatGPT can leak training data, violate privacy, says Google's DeepMind (01:12:45) UK to invest £500M more in AI compute capacity, launch five new quantum projects (01:13:39) Microsoft's $3.2 bln UK investment to drive AI growth (01:14:35) A new Pentagon program aims to speed up decisions on what AI tech is trustworthy enough to deploy (01:16:06) US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day' (01:19:13) The UAE’s leading AI CEO addresses bombshell New York Times report alleging China ties, says he didn’t finish reading the story (01:21:07) Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos Synthetic Media & Art (01:22:34) AnyDream: Secretive AI Platform Broke Stripe Rules to Rake in Money from Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfakes (01:25:02) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 2, 2023

Our 145th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, this time around with guest co-hosts Kevin and Gavin from AI For Humans podcast Check out the AI For Humans episode on which Andrey and Jeremie guest co-host here. Also 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 Timestamps + links: Tools & Apps (06:00) OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful (12:33) Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview (16:33) Generative Video Startup Pika Labs Launches Version 1.0, Raises $55 Million in Funding (25:25) Screenshots show xAI’s chatbot Grok on X’s web app (30:37) Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies Applications & Business (34:28) Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model (47:37) NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2024 (52:40) Nvidia Delays Rollout Of China-Focused AI Chip: Report (56:31) Share sale set to test financial impact of OpenAI’s leadership turmoil (58:55) Amazon and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Add New AI Capabilities (59:55) AI21 takes Series C to $208 million with additional $53 million in funding Projects & Open Source (01:03:15) Starling-7B: Increasing LLM Helpfulness & Harmlessness with RLAIF (01:12:10) Defending your voice against deepfakes Research & Advancements (01:16:07) Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason (01:22:16) New technique can accelerate language models by 300x (01:23:35) DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence (01:27:00) GAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants (01:30:45) Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch Policy & Safety (01:33:42) US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design' (01:36:07) Chinese GPU recycling factories have a workaround for the US government's newly imposed export rules — modified NVIDIA RTX 4090 cards serve as great AI accelerators (01:39:00) The EU AI Act needs Foundation Model Regulation Putin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is ‘unacceptable and dangerous’ Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China (01:41:55) More than half of Americans are worried about AI than excited (01:46:10) State Dept prioritizes ‘AI-ready workforce’ in its first AI strategy US chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants yet Synthetic Media & Art (01:48:18) Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block In AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta (01:52:23) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 24, 2023

Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! 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 Applications & Business (01:30) Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding (20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns GM Cruise cofounder, senior exec Dan Kan quits day after CEO exit (22:30) GM’s Self-Driving Car Unit Skids Off Course (24:00) Leaked email shows Amazon is cutting 'several hundred' jobs across Alexa business, including the newly launched Artificial General Intelligence team (25:35) US Chip Ban Fallout Spreads as Alibaba Scraps Cloud Spinoff (27:48) Tencent Stockpiled Enough NVIDIA AI GPUs To Last Them A Couple More Generations (29:44) Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever — no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse (31:37) US Launches $3 Billion Effort to Boost Advanced Chip Packaging (34:50) Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team Tools & Apps (38:15) Meta launches AI-based video editing tools (39:48) Discord is already killing Clyde, its experimental OpenAI chatbot (40:50) Be My Eyes AI offers GPT-4-powered support for blind Microsoft customers Projects & Open Source (42:25) Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source Research & Advancements (45:43) Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure (53:35) Meet JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-Task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models (58:10) NVIDIA’s “NeMo” Model Now Tuned For Chip Development, Showing Exceptional Results (01:00:33) UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs Policy & Safety (01:02:35) President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (01:12:44) Tech firms to allow vetting of AI tools, as Musk warns all human jobs threatened As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits (01:16:41) France, Germany and Italy join forces to propose unified AI regulation in the EU (01:22:02) UK will refrain from regulating AI ‘in the short term’ (01:24:31) If you get sued for an AI-generated creative work, OpenAI says it will protect you while Anthropic says you're on your own (01:29:41) China tightens rare-earth export curbs amid tension with U.S. Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:45) Microsoft AI Image Generator Blocks ‘Disney’ After Viral Movie Poster Trend See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 20, 2023

Our 143rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai 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. Timestamps + links: Applications & Business (02:53) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI (12:00) Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event (16:05) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes (18:30) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van (20:55) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU (21:35) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota (22:38) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe’s third-largest AI round ever (23:22) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others (24:16) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation Tools & Apps (25:00) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others (27:38) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot (30:03) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat (31:01) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job (32:07) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss (33:33) Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable Projects & Open Source (36:06) Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model Research & Advancements (40:03) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence (42:35) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ‘Mirasol3B’ for advanced video analysis (45:15) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products (46:06) Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation (47:54) Title:One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion (49:12) Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models Policy & Safety (51:37) Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards (56:10) Amy Klobuchar and John Thune introduce legislation for creating generative AI framework (57:55) Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues (01:00:19) At UK's AI Summit developers and govts agree on testing to help manage risks (01:02:15) White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey Synthetic Media & Art (01:04:12) Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal (01:07:46) Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music (01:10:10) YouTube previews AI tool that clones famous singers — with their permission (01:11:08) Microsoft is bringing AI characters to Xbox (01:11:49) CBS News Launches New Venture To Identify AI Deepfakes And Misinformation See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 16, 2023

Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new. Apologies for this one coming out after a pause, episodes will resume being released regularly as of this week. 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 Tools & Apps (03:00) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API (07:15) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI (09:23) Sick of meetings? Microsoft’s new AI assistant will go in your place (11:54) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now) Applications & Business (14:55) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots (18:40) Figure 01 humanoid takes first public steps (22:31) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding (23:35) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi’s G42 in Middle East AI Push (25:00) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs (26:38) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China’s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding (30:35) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds (32:13) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation Projects & Open Source (35:00) Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B) (39:35) Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents (42:03) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning (44:53) Meta’s Habitat 3.0 simulates real-world environments for intelligent AI robot training (48:22) DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters (49:13) Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI (51:13) Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics Research & Advancements (53:22) Eliciting Human Preferences with Language Models (57:23) New Nvidia AI agent, powered by GPT-4, can train robots (01:01:38) Unveiling the General Intelligence Factor in Language Models: A Psychometric Approach (01:04:48) AgentTuning: Enabling Generalized Agent Abilities for LLMs (01:09:51) Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL (01:11:25) ‘Mind-blowing’ IBM chip speeds up AI Policy & Safety (01:14:57) GM Cruise unit suspends all driverless operations after California ban (01:18:52) AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets (01:22:22) AI Safety Summit: day 1 and 2 programme (01:25:23) Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is posting lyrics to popular songs, lawsuit claims (01:26:38) Mike Huckabee says Microsoft and Meta stole his books to train AI (01:27:10) Clearview AI Successfully Appeals $9 Million Fine in the U.K. (01:28:11) North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official (01:30:17) OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI UK poised to establish global advisory group on AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:22) This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (01:34:32) Amazon now lets advertisers use generative AI to pretty up their product shots (01:36:36) The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 26, 2023

Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai 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. Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:00) SuperDataScience podcast ad Tools & Apps (02:55) Adobe is upgrading Photoshop’s generative AI model — and releasing more for Illustrator and Express (07:52) Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other (14:15) Kendall Jenner becomes "Billie": Meta's AI celebrities face more resistance than enthusiasm (18:22) Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta Applications & Business (20:22) Google Cloud pledges a ‘shared fate,’ offering legal indemnification for customers (25:00) Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4 (31:05) Key Arm China Staff Quit to Create Government-Backed Startup (33:30) AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia (34:47) Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails (37:20) ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing (38:46) TSMC: ecosystem for 2nm chip development is nearing completion (41:50) OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut Research & Advancements (46:35) LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music (50:20) TimeGPT-1 (55:25) How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind? (01:00:17) HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time (01:04:33) PaLI-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger (01:05:42) A Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF (01:08:20) Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity Policy & Safety (01:12:05) No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas (01:15:03) Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight (01:19:59) How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington (01:28:38) China targets 50% boost in computing power as AI race with U.S. ramps up (01:31:03) China proposes blacklist of sources used to train generative AI models (01:34:44) Biden to cut China off from more Nvidia chips, expand curbs to more countries (01:37:51) TSMC expects permanent U.S. approval to supply chip tools to its China factory (01:40:34) Southeast Asia eyes hands-off AI rules, defying EU ambitions Synthetic Media & Art (01:44:05) AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War (01:47:03) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 17, 2023

Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes " Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month " Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (03:00) Reka launches Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant to take on ChatGPT (06:48) Arc browser’s new AI-powered features combine OpenAI and Anthropic’s models (11:00) ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers for Content (13:11) Canva’s new AI tools automate boring, labor-intensive design tasks (16:32) Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh (20:45) Google Bard is gaining a new 'Memory' toggle to remember key details (22:22) Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant (24:14) Android 14’s AI-generated wallpapers might be its coolest new feature Applications & Business (24:50) Waymo’s robotaxi service is now available to tens of thousands of people in San Francisco (28:54) Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month (32:34) TSMC Sales Fell Less Than Feared as AI Demand Offsets Slump (34:54) Microsoft could debut its AI chip next month: Report (37:06) Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips (39:08) Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors Projects & Open Source (40:05) Replit’s new AI Model now available on Hugging Face (43:46) Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices (46:30) Protesters Decry Meta’s “Irreversible Proliferation” of AI Research & Advancements (52:10) Scaling up learning across many different robot types (59:35) Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components (01:06:54) Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution (01:11:45) China's First 28nm Lithography Tool to Be Delivered This Year (01:15:03) LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds (01:18:07) Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To! Policy & Safety (01:22:08) RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war (01:26:48) Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes (01:33:44) Five Takeaways From Bellwether AI Copyright Case (01:36:19) A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country (01:38:12) Governments race to regulate AI tools (01:40:09) US curbs on chip tools to China nearly finalized, government posting shows Synthetic Media & Art (01:45:35) WGA Ratifies Three-Year Deal With Studios, Officially Ending Hollywood Strike (01:47:50) AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers (01:50:00) Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI (01:51:36) How an AI deepfake ad of MrBeast ended up on TikTok (01:53:53) Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 10, 2023

Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai 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. Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:30) SuperDataScience podcast ad (03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (05:59) ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads (10:44) ChatGPT can now search the web in real time (13:30) Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps (18:26) Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts (19:32) Windows 11’s next big update is now available with Copilot, AI-powered Paint, and more (20:21) Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools (21:32) YouTube Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Tools For Video Creators (23:20) Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers Applications & Business (25:00) AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs (29:28) Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic (36:24) China to Challenge ASML with a better technology than EUV (40:00) Intel says newest laptop chips, software will handle generative AI (43:03) Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images (46:02) AI Startup Writer Pens $100M Round (46:40) AI chip startup Kneron secures $49M investment (48:45) AI startup AlphaSense valued at $2.5 billion after latest funding round (51:01) A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device (52:42) Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers (55:24) Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data Projects & Open Source (56:11) Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone (01:01:12) Adept AI Labs Open-Sources Persimmon-8B: A Powerful Fully Permissively-Licensed Language Model with <10 Billion Parameters (01:03:20) BTLM-3B-8K: 7B Parameter Performance in a 3B Parameter Model Research & Advancements (01:07:10) AnyMAL: An Efficient and Scalable Any-Modality Augmented Language Model (01:09:35) DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation / Text-to-3D using Gaussian Splatting (01:12:40) Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential (01:15:38) Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window (01:17:26) John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence Policy & Safety (01:19:46) Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill (01:24:03) AI facial recognition tech leads to wave of lawsuits from Black plaintiffs after mistaken identities end in arrests (01:26:20) California governor vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety drivers (01:27:47) Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town (01:29:00) AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency (01:30:36) We Can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nuclear Catastrophe Synthetic Media & Art (01:33:19) Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I. (01:35:10) Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness (01:36:24) Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake (01:37:36) Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns (01:39:59) Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors (01:42:17) Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy (01:45:22) Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI (01:48:55) OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List (01:50:16) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 3, 2023

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 .

Sep 20, 2023

Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Jessica Da i. Check out her Reboot publication ! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcas t. 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. Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro (01:37) SuperDataScience podcast ad Tools & Apps (02:32) Salesforce launches AI assistant across its apps including Slack and Tableau (06:06) Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds (09:22) Bybit debuts AI-powered ‘TradeGPT’ for market analysis and data driven Q&A (11:14) China’s Ant Group unveils finance AI model as race heats up Applications & Business (13:24) TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months (16:50) Even AI Hasn’t Helped Microsoft’s Bing Chip Away at Google’s Search Dominance (20:05) OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6 (22:54) AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy (25:71) Nasdaq gets SEC nod for first exchange AI-driven order type (27:17) NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance Projects & Open Source (30:10) Meta Platforms reportedly building open-source generative AI system to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT (34:13) Indian Developers Top Hugging Face Leaderboard with GenZ 70B (38:31) Supporting the Open Source AI Community Research & Advancements (40:31) Artificial intelligence allows paralysis patient to speak for first time in 18 years (45:42) Efficient Benchmarking (of Language Models) (49:31) Online AI-based test for Parkinson’s disease severity shows promising results (52:52) Scientists used machine learning to perform quantum error correction Policy & Safety (56:18) Tech leaders including Musk, Zuckerberg call for government action on AI (01:01:32) US court rules that artificial intelligence generated artwork cannot be copyrighted (01:04:00) 2 Senators Propose Bipartisan Framework for A.I. Laws (01:05:47) Transcript: US Senate Judiciary Hearing on Oversight of A.I. (01:06:02) U.S. Copyright Office Invites Public To Comment On AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:09:10) Venice Film Festival 2023 Is Cinematic AI’s Coming Out Party (01:13:52) Revolution Software is using their own AI technology to remake Broken Sword (01:16:24) As his Kickstarter passes $1.3M, publisher defends Terraforming Mars’ generative AI art: ‘It’s too powerful a technology’ (01:17:23) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 10, 2023

Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast ! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcas t. 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. Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro (01:15) SuperDataScience Ad (01:51) Response to listeners Tools & Apps (02:47) Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot gets a paid plan for heavy users (04:36) Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography (06:37) Intuit launches generative AI–powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers (07:17) Zoom Is Jumping on the AI Chatbot Bandwagon Applications & Business (08:47) China lets Baidu, others launch ChatGPT-like bots to public, tech shares jump (11:23) Tencent releases AI model for businesses as competition in China heats up (12:00) Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI users get sued (14:52) How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI (17:30) ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month (19:16) AI chip startup d-Matrix raises $110 mln with backing from Microsoft (21:00) ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to ID and fight money laundering (22:18) Sapeon raises $46m for AI chips (23:20) Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’ Projects & Open Source (25:48) Announcing the commercial relicensing and expansion of DINOv2, plus the introduction of FACET (27:02) UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI (29:23) New Open-Source ‘Falcon’ AI Language Model Overtakes Meta and Google Research & Advancements (31:01) Qwen-VL: A Frontier Large Vision-Language Model with Versatile Abilities (33:57) RLAIF: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback (36:22) Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses (39:28) SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image Policy & Safety (41:00) US curbs AI chip exports from Nvidia and AMD to some Middle East countries (42:55) China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters, Microsoft says (46:37) Trusting A.I.-written mushroom hunting guides sold on Amazon could get you killed. But like deadly fungi, identifying them is tricky (48:25) Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok (50:30) The UK releases key ambitions for global AI summit Synthetic Media & Art (51:55) AI Took the Stage at the World's Largest Arts Festival. Here's What Happened (54:12) Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies (56:17) Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually (58:57) The latest canvas for Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art? The new Sphere in Las Vegas (01:01:20) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 6, 2023

Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being late again... -Andrey Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcas t. 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. Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:07) SuperDataScience podcast ad (04:00) Shout out to listener comments & reviews (05:43) News Preview Tools & Apps (06:32) Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more for $30 a month (10:51) Poe’s new desktop app lets you use all the AI chatbots in one place (13:47) Developers are now using AI for text-to-music apps (15:50) Yahoo Mail Debuts AI Enhancements for a Smarter Inbox (18:05) South Korea's Naver launches generative AI services Applications & Business (21:19) Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise (25:25) We Analyzed Millions of ChatGPT User Sessions: Visits are Down 29% since May, Programming Assistance is 30% of Use (29:50) Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT (31:32) Nvidia’s Q2 earnings prove it’s the big winner in the generative AI boom (33:30) How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips (37:03) Nvidia's $25 billion buyback 'a head-scratcher' for some shareholders (40:25) Chinese AI Company Claims Huawei AI GPUs Are On Par With NVIDIA A100, Will Compete With GPT-4 LLM In 2024 (44:08) AI’s Share Of US Startup Funding Doubled In 2023 (45:42) Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia (48:13) AI21 Labs Raises $155M in Series C Funding; Valued at $1.4 Billion (50:32) DP Technology Raises 100 million US dollars, Achieves AI Milestones in Science Projects & Open Source (52:15) Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages (56:01) Line Open-Sources ‘japanese-large-lm’: A Japanese Language Model With 3.6 Billion Parameters Research & Advancements (58:55) Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness (01:05:18) Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling (01:08:27) Hoodwinked: Deception and Cooperation in a Text-Based Game for Language Models (01:11:47) Head-to-Tail: How Knowledgeable are Large Language Models (LLM)? A.K.A. Will LLMs Replace Knowledge Graphs? (01:14:14) Nvidia AI Image Generator Fits on a Floppy Disk and Takes 4 Minutes to Train (01:16:18) MagicEdit: High-Fidelity and Temporally Coherent Video Editing (01:17:44) A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agents Policy & Safety (01:19:00) UK to spend £100m in global race to produce AI chips (01:22:03) Meta confirms AI ‘off-switch’ incoming to Facebook, Instagram in Europe (01:25:44) Beijing to restrict use of generative AI in online healthcare activities (01:28:04) Schumer to host AI forum with CEOs including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (01:32:52) Bletchley Park to host AI safety talks in November (01:34:47) Spain launches AI regulation agency in bid to become industry leader Synthetic Media & Art (01:36:11) Google made a watermark for AI images that you can’t edit out (01:39:20) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 30, 2023

A special non-news episode in which Andrey and Jeremie discussion AI X-Risk! Please let us know if you'd like use to record more of this sort of thing by emailing contact@lastweekin.ai or commenting whether you listen. Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:55) Topic overview (10:22) Definitions of terms (35:25) AI X-Risk scenarios (41:00) Pathways to Extinction (52:48) Relevant assumptions (58:45) Our positions on AI X-Risk (01:08:10) General Debate (01:31:25) Positive/Negative transfer (01:37:40) X-Risk within 5 years (01:46:50) Can we control an AGI (01:55:22) AI Safety Aesthetics (02:00:53) Recap (02:02:20) Outer vs inner alignment (02:06:45) AI safety and policy today (02:15:35) Outro Links Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous AI Clarifying AI X-risk Existential Risks and Global Governance Issues Around AI and Robotics Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor AI x-risk, approximately ordered by embarrassment Classification of Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Artificial Intelligence X-Risk Analysis for AI Research The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 26, 2023

Our 134th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being a bit late this week! 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 (02:30) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (03:53) ElevenLabs Comes Out of Beta and Releases Eleven Multilingual v2 - a Foundational AI Speech Model for Nearly 30 Languages (07:20) Meet Lilli, our generative AI tool that’s a researcher, a time saver, and an inspiration (09:55) Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice (11:42) Runway launches new ‘Watch’ feature as CEO says Hollywood AI discourse ‘needs to be more nuanced’ (12:45) The AI-powered Adobe Express is now generally available (14:30) Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’ (17:35) NCSoft's new AI suite is trained to streamline game production Applications & Business (19:45) Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies (28:52) State of AI Q2'23 Report (35:45) China GPT? Tencent to Unleash Homegrown AI as Big Tech Races for Supremacy (38:23) What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a transformer paper co-author (43:00 ) AI startup Anthropic raises $100M from Korean telco giant SK Telecom (45:58) OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination Projects & Open Source (48:13) Announcing AI2 OLMo, an open language model made by scientists, for scientists (51:50) Introducing IDEFICS : An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-art Visual Langage Model (55:45) Introducing Arthur Bench: The Most Robust Way to Evaluate LLMs Research & Advancements (58:45) Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the landscape of diverse self-correction strategies (01:07:00) DeepMind’s AlphaStar Benchmark Improves RL Offline Agent With 90% Win Rate Against SOTA AlphaStar Supervised Agent (01:12:12) RAVEN: In-Context Learning with Retrieval Augmented Encoder-Decoder Language Models (01:14:16) BOLAA: Benchmarking and Orchestrating LLM-augmented Autonomous Agents (01:21:40) Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:24:08) China’s new AI regulations begin to take effect (01:28:08) The Associated Press sets AI guidelines for journalists (01:30:45) AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating – The Markup Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:08) Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (01:35:10) AI Botched Their Headshots (01:37:52) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 18, 2023

Our 133rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being a bit late this week! 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 Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (05:05) ChatGPT gets several new features, including multi-document chat (09:02) Tinder tests AI photo selection feature to help users build profiles (12:35) GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository Applications & Business (15:55) CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips (20:25) Nvidia GPU shortage is ‘top gossip’ of Silicon Valley (23:30) NVIDIA: GPU Supply Issues Involve Packaging, Not Chip Wafers (27:06) Nvidia's AI GPUs Are Selling for up to $70,000 in China (30:00) AMD considers making a specific A.I. chip for China to comply with export controls (31:10) AI chip firm Tenstorrent raises $100 mln from Hyundai, Samsung (33:22) Cruise begins testing self-driving vehicles in Atlanta (35:45) Toyota, Pony.ai plan to mass produce robotaxis in China Projects & Open Source (38:08) Alibaba rolls out open-sourced AI model to take on Meta's Llama 2 Research & Advancements (42:00) Introducing AudioCraft: A Generative AI Tool For Audio and Music (46:25) ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs (52:03) Tool Documentation Enables Zero-Shot Tool-Usage with Large Language Models (54:54) Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (01:00:05) Towards Generalist Biomedical AI (01:03:53) Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions Policy & Safety (01:05:55) The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here (01:12:37) ‘So important’: UK minister endorses Google’s training drive in AI arms race (01:15:10) Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of new regulations (01:16:40) Experience: scammers used AI to fake my daughter’s kidnap (01:19:22) The Stanford University ‘boot camp’ teaching Congress about AI (01:22:23) Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match Synthetic Media & Art (01:24:37) Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back (01:25:48) An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white, with lighter skin and blue eyes. (01:26:47) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 8, 2023

Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 (01:36) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (05:05) OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (07:45) New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks (10:55) JetBrains IDE update previews “deeply integrated” AI Assistant (14:35) No More Paperwork? Amazon AI Tool Transcribes Patient Visits for Doctors (16:11) Photoshop’s new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop’ images (19:11) Wayfair’s AI tool can redraw your living room and sell you furniture Applications & Business (21:25) Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI (28:10) Facing more nimble rivals, OpenAI won’t bend … yet (32:00) OpenAI's head of trust and safety steps down (33:15) Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube (35:28) Samsung extends cut in memory chip production, will focus on high-end AI chips instead (36:50) Microsoft to supply AI tech to Japan government, Nikkei reports (38:20) Protect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools Projects & Open Source (41:56) Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model (49:25) Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source (52:15) Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation Research & Advancements (55:45) AI researchers say they've found 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rules (01:03:48) RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action (01:09:50) (Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs (01:13:26) Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models (01:18:50) STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft (01:20:42) Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity Policy & Safety (01:23:48) Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum (01:29:14) Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers (01:32:46) America Already Has an AI Underclass (01:35:04) AI leaders warn Senate of twin risks: moving too slow and moving too fast (01:38:35) The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here Synthetic Media & Art (01:42:30) This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation (01:44:16) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 1, 2023

Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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 (04:18) Listener feedback/comments Tools & Apps (07:00) ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave (09:20) GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta (12:38) Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts (15:32) Google Bard is now available in the EU Applications & Business (17:15) An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips (20:35) Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription (23:00) Elon Musk threw nine-figure promises at top AI researchers (26:28) Machine Learning Market to Hit $419.94 Billion by 2030: Grand View Research, Inc. (28:31) Jasper, Mutiny AI Startups Cut Workers As Chatbot Rivalry Grows (31:50) Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop (34:34) China’s OpenAI challenger Zhipu AI gets Meituan funding Projects & Open Source Lighting round Research & Advancements (36:50) A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis (43:20) Is ChatGPT getting worse over time? Study claims yes, but others aren’t sure (48:36) A simple yet effective design, coupled with remarkable durability and low cost, make this robotic gripper a promising option for many industries (51:24) Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants (55:16) Researchers From Tsinghua University Introduce A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm Under The Meta-Learning Paradigm (58:47) MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models Policy & Safety (01:02:20) Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons (01:11:55) Frontier Model Security (01:17:15) The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity (01:22:32) 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House (01:27:35) The Illusion Of AI’s Existential Risk (01:35:05) Large majority of Americans have strong reservations about A.I. emergence, CNBC survey shows Synthetic Media & Art (01:38:12) You’re going to see more AI-written articles whether you like it or not (01:41:13) ‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (01:41:49) Google says AI tools meant to help journalists and not to replace them (01:45:12) Actors decry 'existential crisis' over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors (01:47:49) AI tool creates South Park episodes with user in starring role (01:50:51) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 25, 2023

Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast . Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI. 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 (07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (08:30) Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM (14:38) Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that's found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance. Applications & Business (18:20) Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2, an AI language model for commercial use (33:24) U.S. companies are on a hiring spree for A.I. jobs—and they pay an average of $146,000 + San Francisco Companies Got Half the World’s AI Funding So Far This Year (35:42) 65% Of Top AI Companies Have Immigrant Founders (36:50) Elon Musk unveils his AI company, X.AI Spotify CEO’s startup for AI-powered preventive healthcare raises €60M (44:25) OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI (46:03) Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools Projects & Open Source (47:20) WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch Business Email Compromise Attacks Research & Advancements (50:53) Meet LongLLaMA: A Large Language Model Capable of Handling Long Contexts of 256k Tokens (56:37) Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models (01:03:50) AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine (01:08:25) Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation (01:12:57) Patch n' Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution (01:14:20) Scientists just used A.I. to map a fruit fly’s brain. Here’s why it’s a ‘turning point in neuroscience’ Policy & Safety (01:25:40) What are the chances of an AI apocalypse? (01:35:40) China finalizes first-of-its-kind rules governing generative A.I. services like ChatGPT (01:38:57) US senators to get classified White House AI briefing Tuesday (01:40:08) US FTC opens investigation into OpenAI (01:41:55) UK universities draw up guiding principles on generative AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:42:57) Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 + Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare (01:44:20) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 9, 2023

Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time (00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11 (00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in Applications & Business (00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads (00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23 (00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports (00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US (00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace (00:22:40) Fundings Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A (00:26:45) Acquisitions Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io Nvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models Projects & Open Source (00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms Research & Advancements (00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos (00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up (00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning (00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent (00:45:05) NVIDIA H100 GPUs Set Standard for Generative AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark Policy & Safety (00:46:50) From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI (00:53:50) US considering new restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Wall Street Journal reports (00:57:10) 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot (01:00:32) European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’ Synthetic Media and Art (01:04:22) Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool (01:08:27) Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art (01:12:17) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 5, 2023

Our 128th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:00) Google extends generative AI search to places, products and virtual models Applications & Business (00:05:52) China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year (00:10:33) Inside China's underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips (00:14:20) OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports (00:16:22) AI human-voice clones are coming for the Amazon, Apple, Google audiobook (00:18:45) Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU and GPU platforms (00:22:20) Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs Projects & Open Source (00:25:05) Imitation Models and the Open-Source LLM Revolution Research & Advancements (00:29:52) AIs trained on other AI output will start producing junk within a few generations, scientists warn (00:34:42) GPT-4's Secret Has Been Revealed (00:42:00) We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work Policy & Safety (00:44:10) Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers (00:50:25) Five big takeaways from Europe’s AI Act (00:54:44) President Biden meets with AI tech leaders in San Francisco (00:56:25) AI-generated child sex images spawn new nightmare for the web Synthetic Media & Art (01:00:00) LinkedIn Reveals AI Image Hunter That Catches Fake Profiles (01:03:42) The Reddit API Blackout and the Generative AI Connection (01:07:23) Grammys approve new rules on use of artificial intelligence See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 21, 2023

Our 127th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:50) Listener comments / corrections (05:33) News Preview Tools & Apps (06:38) Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot (11:38) LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy (14:26) Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for Flashy Fliers, Social Videos (15:33) WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you (17:00) Google’s Bard AI can now write and execute code to answer a question Applications & Business (19:00) AI at Work: What People Are Saying (22:15) Doctors Are Using Chatbots in an Unexpected Way (26:05) Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report (28:15) OpenAI chief executive does not plan to take company public (29:49) The $500 million robot pizza startup you never heard of has shut down, report says (31:16) Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses (32:32) Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings (33:50) A new important Generative A.I. startup has come out of stealth Projects & Open Source (36:05) RedPajama 7B now available, instruct model outperforms all open 7B models on HELM benchmarks (40:23) LlamaIndex adds private data to large language models Research & Advancements (42:20) Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning (47:17) ControlVideo: Adding Conditional Control for One Shot Text-to-Video Editing (49:50) The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (51:20) InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models (52:55) Simple and Controllable Music Generation (54:28) Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation? (57:24) Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model (01:01:22) Scaling audio-visual learning without labels (01:02:34) Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust (01:03:59) Shining a light on neuromorphic computing (01:05:34) Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4 (01:07:20) From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces (01:09:00) Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web Policy & Safety (01:11:25) ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. (01:14:04) These are the American workers most worried that A.I. will soon make their jobs obsolete (01:17:02) A.I. poses new threats to newsrooms, and they're taking action (01:19:18) City of Yokosuka adopts ChatGPT after favorable trial results (01:20:35) AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova says (01:23:35) OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement Lawsuit (01:27:12) Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law (01:30:16) U.S. Congress to consider two new bills on artificial intelligence Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:46) Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video (01:34:30) Blush, the AI lover from the same team as Replika, is more than just a sexbot (01:37:47) Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion (01:38:53) Runway’s Gen-2 shows the limitations of today’s text-to-video tech (01:42:17) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 13, 2023

Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week! 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: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections (03:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed (06:02) A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves Lighting round (12:04) Google says Gmail on your phone just got a lot faster thanks to A.I. (13:00) Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article (15:06) Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT (17:17) Microsoft Has Launched “Jugalbandi”—A New Generative AI App for India (18:34) Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool Applications & Business (19:55) Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance (22:25) AI Market Set To Break The Trillion-Dollar Barrier: Surging Toward $1.06 Trillion By 2028 Whether You Trust It Or Not (26:07) The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report (30:15) AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem. Lighting round (34:00) Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally (35:16) ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog (37:14) Microsoft signs deal for A.I. computing power with Nvidia-backed CoreWeave that could be worth billions (39:40) Apple is looking for engineers to work with Generative AI in a mixed reality environment (41:15) Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding (43:05) Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week Projects & Open Source (45:21) UAE’s Falcon 40B AI model is now royalty free for commercial, research use (47:45) Evaluating and uncovering open LLMs Research & Advancements (53:10) QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs (58:05) OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations' (01:02:20) Do You Really Need Reinforcement Learning (RL) in RLHF? A New Stanford Research Proposes DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) (01:06:50) Reward Collapse in Aligning Large Language Models Lighting round (01:11:15) How Should We Maximize the Planning Ability of LLMs While Reducing the Computation Cost? Meet SwiftSage : A Novel Generative Agent for Complex Interactive Reasoning Tasks, Inspired by the Dual-Process Theory of Human Cognition (01:15:15) How to Keep Scaling Large Language Models when Data Runs Out? A New AI Research Trains 400 Models with up to 9B Parameters and 900B Tokens to Create an Extension of Chinchilla Scaling Laws for Repeated Data (01:17:58) This AI Research Dives Into The Limitations and Capabilities of Transformer Large Language Models (LLMs), Empirically and Theoretically, on Compositional Tasks " Policy & Safety (01:20:55) ChatGPT Plugins Open Security Holes From PDFs, Websites and More (01:25:02) US, Europe Working on Voluntary AI Code of Conduct as Calls Grow for Regulation Lighting round (01:27:58) With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation (01:30:34) Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented” (01:33:13) Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training (01:36:48) China warns of ‘complicated and challenging circumstances’ posed by AI risk Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:39) Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film. (01:41:02) ‘Those who hate AI are insecure’: inside Hollywood’s battle over artificial intelligence " (01:43:20) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 6, 2023

Our 125th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! 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: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:33) Response to listener comments / corrections (05:30) News Preview Tools & Apps (06:21) A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character (12:16) Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters + Nvidia unveils Avatar Cloud Engine for Games at Computex (15:27) JPMorgan is developing a ChatGPT-like A.I. service that gives investment advice (16:40) TikTok is testing an AI chatbot called Tako (18:32) Zoo, a playground for text to image models Applications & Business (20:10) Insights from American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace (24:29) The A.I. chip boom is pushing Nvidia toward $1 trillion, but it won't help Intel and AMD (29:12) Hoffman and Suleyman's AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot (31:31) Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization (33:51) AI startup Figure raises $70 million to build humanoid robots Projects & Open Source (35:21) PandaGPT: One Model to Instruction-Follow Them All (41:50) Uncensored Models (47:30) Guanaco (50:50) 🦍 Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs (52:17) BLOOMChat: a New Open Multilingual Chat LLM (53:27) GirlfriendGPT - Your personal AI companion Research & Advancements (55:45) Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models (01:02:55) A Pretrainer's Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity (01:07:33) RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era (01:09:35) Enabling Large Language Models to Generate Text with Citations (01:11:12) Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning Policy & Safety (01:14:43) PM meeting with leading CEOs in AI: 24 May 2023 (01:18:05) An early warning system for novel AI risks [3 min] Lighting Round (01:22:07) How Rogue AIs may Arise (01:24:30) Democratic Inputs to AI (01:26:20) Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in 22-word statement (01:29:30) Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I. Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:48) Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. + I used Grimes’ AI vocals to make a hit – here’s how I did it (01:34:27) As a lifelong Beatles fan, this AI-generated Beatles music is blowing my mind (01:36:00) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 29, 2023

Our 124th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:30) News Preview Tools & Apps (03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 (08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop (12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT (14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos (16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries (18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI Applications & Business (19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom (22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think (25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster (28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot (30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis (32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters (33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work Projects & Open Source (35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly + Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio (38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents (41:37) Bard API (43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face (44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source Research & Advancements (45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning (49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds (51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans (54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages (56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models (59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes (01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment Policy & Safety (01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI (01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI? (01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare (01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud (01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives Synthetic Media & Art (01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media (01:28:44) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 21, 2023

Our 123rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:30) News Preview (05:40) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (07:07) OpenAI rolls out more than 70 ChatGPT plugins including Internet access (11:56) How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT (17:45) Google is throwing generative AI at everything (23:12) Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes (25:20) Google develops tool to spot fake AI images after puffer jacket Pope went viral (26:48) Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-Style Search to Its Online Store (27:35) W&B Prompts Applications & Business (28:55) Generative AI Breaks The Data Center: Data Center Infrastructure And Operating Costs Projected To Increase To Over $76 Billion By 2028 (31:31) OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million for Global Crypto Worldcoin (33:33) OpenAI Confirms ChatGPT Data Breach (35:15) Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers (36:50) AI Startup Rewind Gets 170 Offers—and $350 Million Valuation in Unusual Fundraising (38:43) Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare Projects & Open Source (40:22) EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software (44:53) Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models (47:15) Stability AI releases an open source text-to-animation tool (49:19) Listener submission - PandasAI Research & Advancements (50:53) PaLM 2 Technical Report (56:48) Microsoft AI Research Introduces Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): A Simple and General-Purpose Framework for the Automatic Optimization of LLM Prompts (59:51) Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence (01:05:05) Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector (01:08:45) An Inverse Scaling Law for CLIP Training (01:11:13) Active Retrieval Augmented Generation (01:12:53) Professional Certification Benchmark Dataset: The First 500 Jobs For Large Language Models (01:16:17) FrugalGPT: How to Use Large Language Models While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance Policy & Safety (01:18:37) A.I. ‘controls humanity’ in the worst-case scenario but will probably just find us boring, says Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque (01:20:37) Hinton issues another AI warning: World needs to find a way to control artificial intelligence (01:26:48) Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion (01:30:08) The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK (01:32:00) AI voice scams: Report shares 77% of victims lose money, how common it is, and how to protect yourself (01:34:19) Police near Seattle issue warning about AI phone scammers impersonating family members (01:36:01) How to spot AI-generated text AI-Generated Media & Art (01:37:32) Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers' strike (01:39:15) China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral (01:42:16) Hybe uses AI voice technology for Midnatt's multilingual single (01:43:18) Trump shares fake video of Anderson Cooper reacting to CNN town hall (01:46:30) Not even NYT bestsellers are safe from AI cover art (01:48:35) Listener Question - more on the writer’s strike(?) (01:54:48) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 13, 2023

Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out the No Priors podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/lastweekinainopriors Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Outline: (00:00) Intro (05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections (07:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (07:50) Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access (11:26) Informatica goes all in on generative AI with Claire GPT (15:11) LinkedIn’s new AI will write messages to hiring managers (17:30) Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix and continues growing in San Francisco Applications & Business (20:58) "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" (27:30) AI will create ‘a serious number of losers’, DeepMind co-founder warns (31:37) IBM takes another shot at Watson as A.I. boom picks up steam (34:11) IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do (36:30) Peter Thiel’s Palantir is seeing ‘unprecedented’ demand for its military A.I. that its CEO calls ‘a weapon that will allow you to win’ (38:42) Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It (40:42) Chegg CEO calls 48% stock plunge over ChatGPT fears 'extraordinarily overblown' (43:03) Microsoft Working With AMD on Expansion Into AI Processors (45:35) Generative AI startup Runway just raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from a cloud service provider (47:50) Top ex-Google AI researchers raise funding from Thrive Capital Projects & Open Source (51:22) Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data (54:45) No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs (57:15) Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model Research & Advancements (59:27) Meet LLaVA: A Large Language Multimodal Model and Vision Assistant that Connects a Vision Encoder and Vicuna for General-Purpose Visual and Language Understanding (01:04:29) Language models can explain neurons in language models (01:11:55) A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading (01:14:27) AI could run a million microbial experiments per year (01:15:54) Scurrying centipedes inspire many-legged robots that can traverse difficult landscapes (01:17:38) Little Robots Learn to Drive Fast in the Real World (01:20:03) Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots Policy & Safety (01:21:47) China's AI industry barely slowed by US chip export rules (01:26:10) Anthropic thinks ‘constitutional AI’ is the best way to train models + Claude’s Constitution (01:32:45) An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic (01:36:16) ‘Mom, these bad men have me’: She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping (01:39:18) Bill would require disclosure of AI-generated content in political ads Art & Fun Stuff (01:40:46) Unions Representing Hollywood Writers and Actors Seek Limits on A.I. and Chatbots (01:44:56) Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music (01:46:45) Spotify removes thousands of AI-generated songs (01:49:19) Amnesty International Uses AI-Generated Images of Colombian Human Rights Abuses (01:53:20) Midjourney 5.1 Arrives - And It’s Another Leap Forward For AI Art Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first 25 minutes (01:55:20) Listener Question - AI as a career + what to do in college See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 8, 2023

Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links: UK ver;sion | Canadian version | US version Outline: Article picks: (00:00) Intro Tools & Apps (04:20) Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview (08:27) Visual Studio IntelliCode AI Assistant Gets Deep Learning Upgrade (12:36) GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers (16:25) TikTok is testing a new option to create AI-generated avatars for profile pictures Applications & Business (19:11) ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead (26:52) Machine Learning as a Service Market Size Growing at 37.9% CAGR Set to Reach USD 173.5 Billion By 2032 (29:40) Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI + After the Death of BuzzFeed News, Journalists Should Treat AI as an Existential Threat (35:57) PricewaterhouseCoopers announces multiyear $1B investment into generative AI (38:07) Walmart turns to warehouse robots, suggests a boost in profit is possible (40:23) “GPT” may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way Projects & Open Source (43:50) OpenAI Threatens Popular GitHub Project With Lawsuit Over API Use (48:27) Stability AI Launches DeepFloyd IF: A High-Performance Text-to-Image Model with Advanced Integration Capabilities (52:10) Stability AI releases StableVicuna, the AI World’s First Open Source RLHF LLM Chatbot (57:32) Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week Research & Advancements (59:44) First Real-World Study Showed Generative AI Boosted Worker Productivity by 14% (01:03:50) LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions (01:08:50) AI has better 'bedside manner' than some doctors, study finds + Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum (01:13:50) Machine Learning and Metabolite Analysis Can Predict Individual Body Clock Timing (01:13:15) Image generation AI for predicting the deformation of splashing drops (01:18:10) Drones can fly themselves with worm-inspired AI software Policy & Safety (01:19:25) ChatGPT-3.5 Generates More Disinformation in Chinese than in English (01:23:27) The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective (01:29:28) Former OpenAI Researcher: There’s a 50% Chance AI Ends in 'Catastrophe' (01:33:30) Lawmakers propose banning AI from singlehandedly launching nuclear weapons (01:35:35) Republicans counter Biden announcement with dystopian, AI-aided video (01:37:42) The UK will spend £100 million to develop its own ‘sovereign’ AI (01:41:25) Kamala Harris to discuss A.I. in meeting with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs Art & Fun Stuff (01:44:09) From DrakeGPT to Infinite Grimes, AI-generated music strikes a chord + John Legend calls for regulation on AI-generated music (01:47:30) The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped (01:51:05) I’m ChatGPT, and for the Love of God, Please Don’t Make Me Do Any More Copywriting See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 29, 2023

Our 120th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links: UK version | Canadian version | US version Outline: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:35) Episode Preview (06:00) Russia's Sberbank releases ChatGPT rival GigaChat + Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT + Stability AI launches StableLM, an open source ChatGPT alternative (14:30) Stack Overflow joins Reddit and Twitter in charging AI companies for training data + Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart (24:45) Big Tech is racing to claim its share of the generative AI market (27:42) Microsoft Building Its Own AI Chip on TSMC's 5nm Process (30:45) Snapchat’s getting review-bombed after pinning its new AI chatbot to the top of users’ feeds (33:30) Create generative AI video-to-video right from your phone with Runway’s iOS app (35:50) Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (40:30) Autonomous Agents & Agent Simulations (46:13) Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT (49:05) Meet MiniGPT-4: An Open-Source AI Model That Performs Complex Vision-Language Tasks Like GPT-4 (50:50) Visual Instruction Tuning (52:25) AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head (54:05) Performance of ChatGPT on the US Fundamentals of Engineering Exam: Comprehensive Assessment of Proficiency and Potential Implications for Professional Environmental Engineering Practice (58:20) ChatGPT is still no match for humans when it comes to accounting (01:01:13) Large Language Models Are Human-Level Prompt Engineers (01:05:00) RedPajama, a project to create leading open-source models, starts by reproducing LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens (01:05:55) Do Embodied Agents Dream of Pixelated Sheep: Embodied Decision Making using Language Guided World Modelling (01:08:45) Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in Large Language Models (01:11:35) Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond (01:15:40) Tool Learning with Foundation Models (01:17:20) With AI Watermarking, Creators Strike Back (01:22:02) EU lawmakers pass draft of AI Act, includes copyright rules for generative AI (01:26:44) How can we build human values into AI? (01:32:20) How prompt injection can hijack autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT (01:34:30) AI Simply Needs a Kill Switch (01:39:35) Anthropic calls for $15 million in funding to boost the government’s AI risk assessment work (01:41:48) ‘AI isn’t a threat’ – Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back (01:45:20) AI Art Sites Censor Prompts About Abortion (01:48:15) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 23, 2023

Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links: UK version | Canadian version | US version Outline: Applications & Business (04:15) Stability AI announces new open-source large language model + OpenAssistant RELEASED! The world's best open-source Chat AI! (15:00) Stability AI is on shaky ground as it burns through cash and looks at a management overhaul Lighting Round (23:12) Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI (28:40) Google’s big AI push will combine Brain and DeepMind into one team (30:36) Amazon AWS expands generative AI efforts with Bedrock and CodeWhisperer updates (34:00) Samsung wants to release EX1, a human assistant robot, this year Research & Advancements (36:32) The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT (44:00) Auto-GPT and BabyAGI: How ‘autonomous agents’ are bringing generative AI to the masses Lighting Round (52:15) Researchers used machine learning to improve the first photo of a black hole (53:42) Tennis Robot Could Pave Way for Advancement in Fast-Movement Robotics (55:16) OpenAI Surprises Open-Source Community, Unveils Consistency Models (58:28) Model that uses machine learning methods and patient data at hospital arrival predicts strokes more accurately than current system Policy & Safety & Societal Impacts (01:00:50) Finally, a realistic roadmap for getting AI companies in check (01:07:00) China proposes measures to manage generative AI services Lighting Round (01:13:00) A.I. could lead to a ‘nuclear-level catastrophe’ according to a third of researchers, a new Stanford report finds (01:16:00) Inside the AI talent wars: Tech companies are ransacking university AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in search of rare talent (01:20:00) Photographer admits prize-winning image was AI-generated Art & Fun Stuff (01:23:13) Exploring Creativity in Large Language Models: From GPT-2 to GPT-4 (01:27:32) AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song goes viral (01:30:30) Adobe launches AI-powered text-based video editing (01:33:47) Meta has open-sourced an AI project that turns your doodles into animations (01:35:15) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 14, 2023

Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help Lighting Round Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI Bing Image Creator now has a home in the Edge Sidebar, at least for now Research & Advancements Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI Recursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI) Prompting: An Approach to Improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer and Reasoning Tasks Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators Lighting Round [Not an article] GPT-4 can compress and decompress prompts into non-human-readable forms Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome) Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images Another Large Language Model! Meet IGEL: An Instruction-Tuned German LLM Family Meet AUDIT: An Instruction-Guided Audio Editing Model Based on Latent Diffusion Models Policy & Societal Impacts Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled? Lighting Round Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT Art & Fun Stuff The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney Someone keeps accusing fanfiction authors of writing their fic with AI, and nobody knows why How Will AI Transform Photography? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 7, 2023

Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Google's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AI Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 Million With Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up Lighting Round Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub Birth of a Salesman: OpenAI Sheds Its Lab Coat to Seek Big Deals Research & Advancements Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI Lighting Round Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons Policy & Societal Impacts The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained Lighting Round How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images go mainstream FTC Is Reviewing Competition in Artificial Intelligence Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse Art & Fun Stuff Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography” Artificial intelligence deepfake video of Harry Potter characters in faux-Balenciaga fashion show goes viral See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 31, 2023

Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more NVIDIA's big AI moment is here Lighting Round Former head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job Research & Advancements Learning to grow machine-learning models Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo Lighting Round New virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’ 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months” Lighting Round In San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes Art & Fun Stuff People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet) WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 26, 2023

Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business GPT-4 GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions Lighting Round Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You Introducing Claude Research & Advancements Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model Lighting Round Our latest health AI research updates Machine learning takes starring role in exploring the universe A new method to boost the speed of online databases MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks Policy & Societal Impacts Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams Lighting Round Some high-level thoughts on the DeepMind alignment team's strategy Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now? AI Scams and Influencers AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients Art & Fun Stuff Midjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art Illustration competitions grapple with generative AI Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display AI and Copyright: Human Artistry Campaign Launches to Support Songwriters and Musicians’ Rights See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 10, 2023

Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business LLM/ChatGPT roundup RadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 Billion Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups Lighting Round Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation Research & Advancements Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network? Lighting Round Scientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology Lighting Round A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son TikTok’s trendy beauty filter ushers in new tech and new problems UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI "invent ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI Art & Fun Stuff AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 4, 2023

Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I. Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up Research & Advancements Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space RT-1: Robotics Transformer Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction Policy & Societal Impacts "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like Planning for AGI and beyond Art & Fun Stuff Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 26, 2023

Our 112th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Stories this week: Applications & Business Microsoft's Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈 Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets Roblox is working on generative AI tools Research & Advancements BioGPT: Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining MarioGPT - A new way to encode and generate Super Mario Bros levels Machine learning techniques identify thousands of new cosmic objects AI analyzes cell movement under the microscope Accelerating Prime Editing: Machine Learning Helps Design the Best Fix for a Given Genetic Flaw Enhance! Deep learning tool boosts X-ray imaging resolution and hydrogen fuel cell performance Policy & Societal Impacts Beijing to support key firms in building ChatGPT-like AI models Only you can stop an AI apocalypse South Korea aims to join AI race as startup Rebellions launches new chip GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets U.S., China, other nations urge 'responsible' use of military AI Art & Fun Stuff Voice Actors are Having Their Voices Stolen by AI Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack Keanu Reeves Says Deepfakes Are ‘Scary,’ Confirms His Film Contracts Ban Digital Edits to His Acting: ‘They Added a Tear to My Face! Huh?’ TikTokers are roasting McDonald's hilarious drive-thru AI order fails — and it shows that robots won't take over restaurants any time soon See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 13, 2023

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Listen with transcript Stories this week: Applications & Business Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot Lighting Round Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee Instagram’s founders are back with a new app Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |… Research & Advancements Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected Lighting Round Whispers of AI’s modular future AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning Policy & Societal Impacts Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning Lighting Round Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified Art & Fun Stuff AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 5, 2023

Our 110th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! After a 4 month break, we're back with a new co-host, and will resume our regular weekly upload schedule. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast. Stories this week: Applications & Business BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content related : CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories Who owns the generative AI platform? Lighting Round Here’s Why ChatGPT is just the start of the generative AI boom Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT Generative AI funding exploded over the past 2 years After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts Research & Advancements ChatGPT’s creator made a free tool for detecting AI-generated text New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text Related: Stanford introduces DetectGPT to help educators fight back against ChatGPT generated papers Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it Lighting Round Versatile robo-dog runs through the sandy beach at 3 mile/sec AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they work GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit Policy & Societal Impacts 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse Educator considerations for ChatGPT Lighting Round Scores of Stanford students used ChatGPT on final exams, survey suggests - “Stanford students and professors alike are grappling with the rise of ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, and the technology’s implications for education.” When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy Tries to Clarify AI-generated art a concern for local artists who say there’s still a need for human creativity Robot Cars Are Causing 911 False Alarms in San Francisco Art & Fun Stuff I wrote a short story! - I Think I Am Starting to Fear Death Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 13, 2022

Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day (07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city (10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC (10:52) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions (11:50) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas (13:00) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework (13:45) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video (19:05) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system (23:00) Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents? Cues from moving eyes could help pedestrians anticipate vehicle's intentions (24:00) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp (25:00) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain (25:30) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds (26:45) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition (30:30) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art (33:14) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges (34:00) A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat (34:50) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI (35:45) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development (36:25) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine (39:40) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion (43:00) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions (43:55) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI (45:35) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 11, 2022

Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline (00:00) Intro (03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers (08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps (14:30) French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools (15:12) AI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the moon (15:40) Artificial intelligence can be used to better monitor Maine's forests (16:34) Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes (17:45) Using AI to decode speech from brain activity (23:20) Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests (27:50) Canadian researchers using machine learning to mitigate effects of climate change (29:25) Researchers Develop ‘TiCoder’ Framework For Code Generation Using User Feedback With 90.4% Consistency To User Intent (31:12) Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment in Women with Heart Attacks (31:41) MIT Researchers use Machine Learning to Expedite Research on New Battery Materials (32:48) Review finds ‘paucity of robust evidence’ on impact of AI clinical outcomes (36:00) France puts healthcare at heart of $1.8B AI strategy (39:00) Clearview: Glasses With Facial Recognition Are Here—And The Air Force Is Buying (40:00) New York City AI Bias Law Charts New Territory for Employers (40:37) U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China (42:00) UK Government Releases New AI Security Guidance (43:31) Everything Everything's AI-Derived 'Raw Data Feel' Tackles Mental Health, Conspiracy Theories Everything Everything - I Want A Love Like This (47:05) Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice Holly Herndon - Eternal (50:17) A LinkedIn Marketing Agency Acquired an AI That Writes Mega-Cringe LinkedIn Posts (53:24) An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed (57:00) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 3, 2022

Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Machine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery Duration (05:30) Sanas, the buzzy Silicon Valley startup that wants to make the world sound whiter (10:50) AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others (14:12) AI-based method for dating archeological remains (18:33) You just hired a deepfake. Get ready for the rise of imposter employees. (22:43) Deepfakes for all: Uncensored AI art model prompts ethics questions , This AI Tool Is Being Used To Make Freaky, Machine-Generated Porn (29:00) Here's how the best AI art generators compare (35:03) The Great FIlter Button (39:11) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 23, 2022

Our 106th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01: 32) Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals? (06:13) How rangers are using AI to help protect India’s tigers (09:13) Meta Starts Testing Its Latest AI Chatbot, BlenderBot 3 (10:35) AI startup Cerebras celebrated for chip triumph where others tried and failed (11:35) You can (sort of) generate art like Dall-E with TikTok’s latest filter (13:10) Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card (16:00) Wearable AI Sensor Supports Personalized Health Data Processing, Analysis (20:15) AI pilot can navigate crowded airspace (24:18) Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics (25:30) In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice (26:26) New algorithm aces university math course questions (27:28) The AI-powered swimmer is able to switch between different locomotory gaits adaptively to navigate toward any target location on its own (28:25) Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK (32:30) Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him (35:35) AI Contractors Eyeing Bigger Role Backed by Chips Bill Funds (37:26) China drafts rules on use of self-driving vehicles for public transport (38:30) Baidu's robotaxis don't need any human staff in these parts of China (39:35) U.S. appeals court says artificial intelligence can’t be patent inventor (41:45) Robot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants In The Round (44:20) Think Your Street Needs a Redesign? Ask an AI (50:09) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 6, 2022

Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: there was again a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:30) AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths (05:05) Inside Midjourney, The Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E (09:20) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (10:30) Amazon-owned self driving firm Zoox seeks to test robotaxi in California (12:10) Baidu unveils latest autonomous electric vehicle: Apollo RT6 (13:10) Neural Sleeve is a bionic leg wrap that uses AI to correct walking patterns (14:05) Novel method allows robots to learn in the wild (18:45) Clinicians can build trust with machine learning through experience (24:00) Machine learning identifies gun buyers at risk of suicide (24:36) Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems (24:50) Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning (25:17) DeepMind & UCL’s Stochastic MuZero Achieves SOTA Results in Complex Stochastic Environments (26:15) Meet the startups using AI to help doctors fight burnout (30:22) Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth? (36:15) Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2 (40:05) If A.I. Generated Book Jackets Based on Literary Titles… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 20, 2022

Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco (05:00) Japan's forestry industry tests robots to address labor shortage (07:12) FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup (08:30) Words matter: AI can predict salaries based on the text of online job postings (09:12) Photographer Successfully Uses Dall-E 2 AI to Edit his Photos (09:10) Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition (10:00) Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model That Solves Mathematical Questions (13:16) A year in the making, BigScience’s AI language model is finally available (15:55) Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages (16:18) Computer scientists' interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles (16:48) Microsoft AI Researchers Open-Source ‘GODEL’: A Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Model For Dialog (17:35) Fake Friends and the Real Threat of AI-Generated Influencers (22:05) The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw (25:10) Waymo, UPS, others pressure Gov. Newsom to allow autonomous trucking in California (26:10) More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers (27:03) US safety regulators open special investigation into Cruise AV crash (27:46) People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO (29:10) Experiments & Explorations: Robots as Musical Instruments (31:17) Cute desktop robot designed to keep armchair engineers engaged (33:33) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 6, 2022

Our 103rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face (6:15) Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology to crack down on theft, Choice says (10:13) Cruise’s driverless autonomous cars start giving rides to paying passengers (12:10) Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant, is now generally available (13:30) IRS expands AI-powered bots to set up payment plans with taxpayers over the phone (14:10) General Motors is using AI to speed up the vehicle inspection process (14:55) Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT) (21:10) AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages (25:15) Meta releases largest open source AI language model to date (26:05) Google's Parti Generator Relies on 20 Billion Inputs to Create Photorealistic Images (27:30) New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change (30:04) Cerebras Systems Sets Record for Largest AI Models Ever Trained on a Single Device (30:05) Pentagon Unveils Plan to Make 'Responsible Military AI' More Than Just a Buzzword (34:43) Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’ (37:40) Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call (38:17) China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How. (39:03) Earthquake tech could limit deaths. Afghanistan shows it’s not easy. (40:00) Alexa has a new voice — your dead relative’s (41:18) Wordalle is a guess-the-prompt game that combines Wordle and DALL-E (43:25) The King’s Swedish: AI Rewrites the Book in Scandinavia (45:35) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 26, 2022

Our 102st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:05) LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense - Here’s Why (2:00) Condemning the deployment of GPT-4chan (7:25) Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers (11:20) AI maturity: Only 12% of companies are 'AI Achievers' (16:45) NVIDIA & UW Introduce Factory: A Set of Physics Simulation Methods and Learning Tools for Contact-Rich Robotic Assembly (21:50) Artificial intelligence may be the only way researchers can solve the perplexing puzzle of Long COVID. It’s already categorizing patients and even identifying them (25:42) Reddit Bans ‘SFW’ Deepfake Community (30:15) EU To Target Meta, Google, Twitter Over Deepfakes, Report Says (33:28) How to copy text from more than 10 previously published papers and get accepted to CVPR 2022 (36:30) We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience (38:02) DALL-E2 Creates The World’s First AI-Generated Magazine Cover For Cosmopolitan (42:15) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 17, 2022

Our 101st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (0:00) Intro (1:13) Lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy (8:14) Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient (14:20) Tesla Autopilot safety faces bigger questions as US upgrades crash probe (18:05) Stunning Insights from James Webb Space Telescope Are Coming, Thanks to GPU-Powered Deep Learning (20:31) Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts? (22:48) 444 Authors From 132 Institutions Release BIG-bench: A 204-Task ‘Extremely Difficult and Diverse’ Benchmark for Large Language Models (26:23) ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation (28:52) Axon Pauses Plans for Taser Drone as Ethics Board Members Resign (32:42) Shield AI raises $165M at a $2.3B valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systems (35:38) AI program DALL-E mini prompts some truly cursed images (39:30) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 8, 2022

Our 100th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:12) Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice (09:38) Energy Grids Plug into AI for a Brighter, Cleaner Future (15:40) Meet ‘Codeball’ – A Deep Learning-based Automated Code Reviewer That Will Help Maintainers Review Github Pull Requests (18:23) Alimentation Couche-Tard to deploy over 10,000 AI-powered cash registers at stores (19:40) Machine Learning Shows That More Reptile Species May Be at Risk of Extinction Than Previously Thought (20:30) How AI brought Val Kilmer’s ‘Iceman’ back into Top Gun: Maverick (26:40) Can machine learning deliver one-minute brain MRI scans? (32:04) AI model’s insight helps astronomers propose new theory for observing far-off worlds (32:00) Caltech unit creates AI helping drones to withstand violent winds (32:35) UC Berkeley’s Automated Crossword Solver Achieves 99.9% Letter Accuracy, Wins Top Tournament (33:55) $10.5M Army Contract to CMU Lab Will Expand Use of AI in Predictive Maintenance (34:50) China's AI defense can reportedly predict the course of hypersonic missiles (35:47) US robot orders surge 40% as labor shortages, inflation persist (41:36) A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate (49:48) Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab (50:53) Seoul to create disaster response platform using AI (51:48) Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads (52:35) Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases (50:37) AI versus corporate logos (58:14) I asked AI to make a Music Video... the results are trippy (01:01:00) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 2, 2022

Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (1:50) Royal Mail is Doing the Right Thing with Drone Delivery (6:10) Google uses AI to digitise maps in the utilities industry (8:57) AI on the Ball: Startup Shoots Computer Vision to the Soccer Pitch (9:26) Google Adds Machine Learning-Powered Studio Lighting To Video Calls (11:33) Dyson launches a hiring spree for hundreds of engineers to build robots capable of doing household chores (12:20) Pony.ai loses permit to test autonomous vehicles with driver in California (12:52) Researchers develop algorithm to divvy up tasks for human-robot teams (19:42) Microsoft AI Researchers Introduces (De)ToxiGen: A Large-Scale Machine-Generated Dataset for Adversarial and Implicit Hate Speech Detection (24:32) Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify Thousands of New Marine RNA Viruses in Study of Interest to Microbiologists and Clinical Laboratory Scientists (25:17) Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot (26:12) TartanDrive dataset likely largest for off-road environments (26:48) AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes (27:13) Ad break (28:25) China and Europe are leading the push to regulate A.I. — one of them could set the global playbook (33:30) New York State Office for the Aging deploys AI robots as companions for older adults (37:25) Oxford High School tests AI gun detection system in wake of shooting (38:38) An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency (40:12) U.S. firm Clearview A.I. fined for illegally collecting images of Brits' faces (41:19) Pentagon names new chief of responsible artificial intelligence (42:05) The Day I Became Friends with a Robot (44:26) I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life (46:14) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 28, 2022

Our 98th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (2:22) Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions (6:47) Investors pull back on artificial intelligence (9:49) Clearbot Neo autonomously clears plastic from harbors - "Open Ocean Engineering’s Clearbot Neo is a robotic boat that autonomously navigates harbors, canals and rivers to collect trash that would otherwise wash into the ocean." (10:30) You can practice for a job interview with Google AI - "Never mind reading generic guides or practicing with friends — Google is betting that algorithms can get you ready for a job interview. The company has launched an Interview Warmup tool that uses AI to help you prepare for interviews across various roles." (11:02) Uber Eats Dabbles With Delivering Food Via Robots - "Uber Eats is now testing autonomous food delivery in the Los Angeles area." (12:12) Ford-backed robotaxi startup Argo AI is ditching its human safety drivers in Miami and Austin - "Robotaxi startup Argo AI said Tuesday it has begun operating its autonomous test vehicles without human safety drivers in two U.S. cities — Miami and Austin — a major milestone for the Ford- and Volkswagen-backed company. For now, those driverless vehicles won't be carrying paying customers." (13:17) DeepMind’s new AI can perform over 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots (20:10) Google claims its text-to-image AI delivers 'unprecedented photorealism' (25:30) Simultaneous emulation of neuronal and synaptic properties promotes the development of brain-like artificial intelligence - "Researchers have reported a nano-sized neuromorphic memory device that emulates neurons and synapses simultaneously in a unit cell, another step toward completing the goal of neuromorphic computing designed to rigorously mimic the human brain with semiconductor devices." (26:27) Face-to-face screening combined with machine learning model performs best at suicide risk prediction - "According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, a combination of in-person screenings and machine learning worked better than either method alone when it came to predicting suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in adults." (27:11) Google’s Universal Pretraining Framework Unifies Language Learning Paradigms - "Their 20B parameter model surpasses the state-of-the-art 175B GPT-3 on the zero-shot SuperGLUE benchmark and triples the performance of T5-XXL on one-shot summarization tasks." (27:49) Robotic surgery is safer and improves patient recovery time - "Robot-assisted surgery used to perform bladder cancer removal and reconstruction enables patients to recover far more quickly and spend significantly (20 per cent) less time in hospital, concludes a first-of-its kind clinical trial led by scientists at UCL and the University of Sheffield." (28:20) Ad break (29:48) AI may be searching you for guns the next time you go out in public (35:09) Israeli firm hopes AI can curb drownings (38:12) Fatal Tesla Model S Crash in California Prompts Federal Probe - "The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a fatal crash involving a 2022 Tesla Model S that may have had its automated driving system activated." (39:10) Facebook issues $397 checks to Illinois residents as part of class-action - "More than a million Illinois residents will receive a $397 settlement payment from Facebook this week, thanks to a legal battle over the platform’s since-retired photo-tagging system that used facial recognition." (39:50) Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tool Coming to Apps, Schools - “Clearview AI is expanding sales of its facial recognition software to companies from mainly serving the police, it told Reuters, inviting scrutiny on how the startup capitalizes on billions of photos it scrapes from social media profiles. Instead of online photo comparisons, the new private-sector offering matches people to ID photos and other data that clients collect with subjects' permission. It is meant to verify identities for access to physical or digital spaces.” (41:00) A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read (44:03) AI Made This Thumbnail! (45:46) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 18, 2022

Our 97th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning (4:30) Google ups the AI ante with new features for Voice, Assistant, Maps and more (09:33) How machine learning is speeding up Formula 1 (10:02) China to build AI-powered 3D printed hydroelectric dam in Tibet (11:00) Intel debuts new chips for AI workloads, data center acceleration and laptops (11:30) $62.5M Fundraise Values Self-Checkout System Mashgin at $1.5B - (12:20) Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries (16:25) This deep learning technique solves one of the tough challenges of robotics (21:33) Researchers now able to predict battery lifetimes with machine learning (22:34) How Do Patients Feel About AI in Health Care? It Depends (23:22) Meta AI Introduces ‘Make-A-Scene’: A Deep Generative Technique Based On An Autoregressive Transformer For Text-To-Image Synthesis With Human Priors (24:32) Ad break (25:50) A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of (30:40) Clearview AI banned from selling its facial recognition software to most US companies (34:20) Justice Department and EEOC Warn Against Disability Discrimination (35:23) U.S. civil rights enforcers warn employers against biased AI (36:12) Kendrick Lamar uses deepfakes in latest music video (38:23) Humans vs. DALL·E (41:52) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 13, 2022

Our 96th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:36) Wearable, AI-powered whole-breast ultrasound system cleared by the FDA + FDA plays tooth fairy, awards clearance to VideaHealth's cavity-spotting AI (06:40) Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord (12:30) AI Model Can Accurately Detect Multiple Retinal Diseases in Real Time (12:50) Intel wins DARPA RACER-Sim program (14:00) Mayo researchers use AI to detect weak heart pump via patients' Apple Watch ECGs (17:50) Tsinghua U & BAAI’s CogView2 Achieves SOTA Competitive Text-to-Image Generation With 10x Speedups (23:13) In The Latest Research From The University Of Toronto, Machine learning-Based Approach Speeds Up The Counting Of Microplastics - (23:52) Northeastern U & Microsoft Expand StyleGAN’s Latent Space to Surpass the SOTA on Real Face Semantic Editing (24:55) Microsoft AI Researchers Develop MoLeR: A Deep Learning-Based Generative Model That Enables Efficient Drug Design (26:50) Ad break (28:40) UK Regulators' Path for AI Starts with Auditing Algorithms (32:16) A unique machine-learning model predicts homelessness among US soldiers before their transition to civilian life (35:45) Researchers Taught A.I. to Write Wine and Beer Reviews and They're Pretty Convincing (39:33) T-SNE to view and order your Spotify tracks (42:40) What’s New in Spot | Boston Dynamics (44:17) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 5, 2022

Our 95th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (01:27) Meta Using AI to Create Greener Concrete for its Data Centers (07:00) AI can now kill those annoying cookie pop-ups (10:15) Lighting Round AI can predict missed appointments. How can hospitals use that data for better care? Start-up Pony.ai says it's the first self-driving company to get a taxi license in China VisionNav Robotics closes $80M for AGVs Armed with new $150 million raise, Oregon robotics startup sets its sights on Pittsburgh Research & Advancements (13:00) Machine Learning Helps See into a Volcano’s Depths (17:30) Jurassic-X: Crossing the Neuro-Symbolic Chasm with the MRKL System Lighting Round Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves - Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out. - From blurry to bright: AI tech helps researchers peer into the brains of mice AI predicts lung cancer tumor growth after radiation : NHS study " (24:15) Ad break Society & Ethics (25:30) An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns (30:30) IBM research details AI skills gap across Europe (33:20) Lighting Round U.S. Senate Democrats urge Buttigieg to develop autonomous vehicle rules Tough questions, few answers: The FDA wrestles with its approach to AI in medicine Lyft exec Craig Martell tapped as Pentagon’s AI chief The risks of attacks that involve poisoning training data for machine learning models Fun & Neat (35:45) Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge - "What SubT means for the future of autonomous robots" (39:15) This Woman Used AI To Show What "Harry Potter" Characters Would Look Like In Real Life Based On Their Book Descriptions, And My Jaw Is On The Floor - "This AI version of Draco gives me full-body chills." (41:56) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 29, 2022

Our 94th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Zencastr, our go-to tool for recording the podcast. It is super easy to use, and there is nothing to download. Go to http://zen.ai/ lastweekinai and get 30% off your first three months with a PRO account! Warning: some curse words are used in this episode towards the end Outline: (00:00) Intro (2:10) GM Patents Autonomous Tech to Train New Drivers Sans Instructor (6:22) Startups Join AI Acquisition Rush (13:20) UC Berkeley & Intel’s Photorealistic Denoising Method Boosts Video Quality on Moonless Nights (17:00) Amazon opens MASSIVE AI speech dataset so Alexa can speak your language (21:40) Ad break (23:20) South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid (29:15) Actors launch campaign against AI 'show stealers' (37:13) This AI clone of Reddit’s Am I The Asshole forum will give you the best bad advice (40:26) A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet (45:00) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 21, 2022

Our 93nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Intro Applications & Business (01:10) Venture funding for chip startups has doubled in the last five years thanks to AI (4:00) Google's multisearch feature lets you search with text and images at the same time (6:10) Lighting Round Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M - "We’ve seen robotics applied to just about every other field of late, so why not nursing — a field that will require one million new faces to keep up with demand in the U.S. alone? Sorry, developers: Microsoft's new tool fixes the bugs in software code written by AI - "Microsoft's Jigsaw can automate the process of checking and editing code outputted by a machine." Research & Advancements (7:50) Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations - "For centuries, mathematicians have tried to prove that Euler’s fluid equations can produce nonsensical answers. A new approach to machine learning has researchers betting that “blowup” is near." (11:20) Analog A.I.? It sounds crazy, but it might be the future - "Forget digital. The future of A.I. is … analog? At least, that’s the assertion of Mythic, an A.I. chip company that’s, its own words, taking “a leap forward in performance in power” by going back in time. Sort of." (13:55) Lighting Round AI and infrared spectroscopy identify the age and species of mosquitoes – Physics World Deep Science: Combining vision and language could be the key to more capable AI Society & Ethics (15:45) The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers - "How AI and automation can make a job worse than before" (18:45) House lawmakers launch investigation of face-scan contractor ID.me - "The House probe marks an escalation of years of controversy over the government’s growing reliance on facial recognition, which boiled over earlier this year after the IRS said it would require Americans to scan their faces in order to access their IRS tax accounts." (22:10) Lighting Round Biden administration takes step forward on AI policy FDA Issues Advisory on Use of AI and Machine Learning for Large Vessel Occlusion in the Brain Fun & Neat (23:40) GM Cruise autonomous taxi pulled over by police in San Francisco without humans, ‘bolts’ off (U: Cruise responds) - "Last week, a GM Cruise-converted Chevy Bolt without a driver was pulled over by San Francisco Police. In an unexpected turn, the car “bolted” …to a safe spot. Cruise responded below." (26:43) How artificial intelligence helps students learn Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 17, 2022

Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (0:00) Intro Research & Advancements (01:15) OpenAI's new DALL.E model turns your words into pieces of art (5:45) Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance (10:00) Lighting Round Stanford Researchers Have Developed a Machine Learning-Based Algorithm To Detect Autism in Brain “Fingerprints” - "Patients with autism who are diagnosed early and definitively may benefit from earlier therapies and better results. Stanford researchers have created an algorithm that can tell if someone has autism by analyzing brain images." Johns Hopkins’ heart-scanning AI predicts cardiac arrests up to 10 years ahead - "Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed an artificial intelligence approach they say can help predict if and when a person could die of cardiac arrest based on imaging scans of the heart." AI Betting Agents Weigh In On Reproducibility Of Research Findings - "Penn State researchers have created synthetic “prediction markets” for speculating on the replicability of published studies with unparalleled accuracy." AI turns infrared images taken in total darkness into full colour - "The black-and-white images provided by night-vision cameras can be colourised using AI, but it must always be trained on similar images and is unlikely to ever work on unfamiliar general scenes" Applications & Business (12:15) First autonomous X-ray-analyzing AI is cleared in the EU - "An artificial intelligence tool that reads chest X-rays without oversight from a radiologist got regulatory clearance in the European Union last week — a first for a fully autonomous medical imaging AI, the company, called Oxipit, said in a statement." (14:45) Werner to use self-driving trucks on 600 mile lane deemed ‘unappealing’ for human truck drivers - "Werner Enterprises in partnership with autonomous vehicle tech company Aurora Innovation, Inc. launched a commercial pilot program in Texas." (17:00) Lighting Round Elon Musk says production of Tesla's robot could start next year, but A.I. experts have their doubts - "Tesla has yet to reveal a working prototype of the robot, however, and it’s unclear how sophisticated Optimus is at this stage." This California-based HealthTech Startup is Using Artificial Intelligence To Modernize and Personalize Fertility Care - "Alife Health, a San Francisco-based startup is using artificial intelligence to improve IVF fertility outcomes." Using machine learning to improve student success in higher education - "[overview of topic Deploying machine learning and advanced analytics thoughtfully and to their full potential may support improvements in student access, success, and the overall student experience." Microsoft and HPE put AI to the test on International Space Station … with gloves - "An image of a spacewalker’s gloves is analyzed for signs of wear using AI" Society & Ethics (20:45) California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software - "A newly proposed amendment to California's hiring discrimination laws would make AI-powered employment decision-making software a source of legal liability." (23:03) As Russia Plots Its Next Move, an AI Listens to the Chatter - "With vast amounts of data becoming available to intelligence analysts, new tools will help them sift and interpret it all—but they will introduce new risks, too." (25:22) Lightning Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police - “The new "consent-based" product, with aspirations of competing with Amazon and Microsoft, would use Clearview's algorithms to verify a person's face for bank transactions or commercial purposes.” Google Says AI Generated Content Is Against Guidelines - "Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller says content automatically generated with AI writing tools is considered spam, according to the search engine’s webmaster guidelines." California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software - "A newly proposed amendment to California's hiring discrimination laws would make AI-powered employment decision-making software a source of legal liability." What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI - "[overview of topics] To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic" Fun & Neat (27:42) The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots - "How to build a humanoid that gives perfect hugs" (33:00) Adding AI to Museum Exhibits Increases Learning, Keeps Kids Engaged Longer - "They used artificial intelligence (AI) to create a new genre of interactive, hands-on exhibits that includes a virtual assistant to interact with visitors." Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 31, 2022

Our 91st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Applications & Business Meet the DeepMind mafia: These 18 alumni from Google's AI research lab are raising millions for their own startups, from climate to crypto Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer Kroger and Nvidia partner to ‘reinvent the shopping experience’ with AI and digital twin simulations Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures Research & Advancements Researchers From Cortical Labs Develop DishBrain: A Neural Network With Biological Neurons Google AI and UC Berkely Researchers Introduce A Deep Learning Approach Called 'PRIME' That Generates AI Chip Architectures By Drawing From Existing Blueprints And Performance Figures Seeing an elusive magnetic effect through the lens of machine learning AI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out Society & Ethics US-China collaboration in AI papers drops amid ongoing tech war, Stanford report shows Banks Using AI Are Ripe for Russian Sabotage Automation will erase 'knowledge jobs' before most blue collar jobs: Future Today Institute CEO Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says Software vendors are pushing "explainable A.I." that often isn't Fun & Neat Ubisoft shows off machine learning tool for modelling animals Nvidia shows off AI model that turns a few dozen snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 24, 2022

Our 90th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (1:10) Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing (5:50) Meet ElliQ, the robot who wants to keep Grandma company (10:52) Lightning Round Research & Advancements (12:24) AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours (14:15) Meta AI’s Sparse All-MLP Model Doubles Training Efficiency Compared to Transformers (16:15) Lightning Round Society & Ethics (17:33) AI and disinformation in the Russia-Ukraine war + Deepfake Zelenskyy surrender video is the 'first intentionally used' in Ukraine war (19:28) Powered by artificial intelligence, ‘autonomous’ border towers test Democrats’ support for surveillance technology (23:15) Lightning round Fun & Neat (25:05) AI-generated utopias (26:51) Building games and apps entirely through natural language using OpenAI’s code-davinci model (29:15) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 17, 2022

Our 89th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (3:23) Amazon Uses Machine Learning to Improve Video Quality on Prime Video (6:55) These Campaigns Hope 'Deepfake' Candidates Help Get Out the Vote Research & Advancements (16:25) DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions (20:45) Generating and Identifying Propaganda With Machine Learning Society & Ethics (27:08) The secret police: Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd's murder (33:40) AI-produced images can't fix diversity issues in dermatology databases Fun & Neat (40:35) Grunt of the litter: scientists use AI to decode pig calls (43:25) I fell in love with my AI girlfriend - and it saved my marriage' (48:00) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 10, 2022

Our 88th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro Applications & Business (01:18) How GitHub Uses Machine Learning to Extend Vulnerability Code Scanning (06:55) First Wholly AI-Developed Drug Enters Phase 1 Trials Research & Advancements (10:50) Stanford University use AI computing to cut DNA sequencing down to five hours (15:36) AI Machines Have Beaten Moore's Law Over The Last Decade, Say Computer Scientists Society & Ethics (21:56) China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching (28:00) Russia’s AI Army: Drones, AI-Guided Missiles and Autonomous Tanks Fun & Neat (36:20) How vacation photos of zebras and whales can help conservation (40:50) Walmart’s Choose My Model Helps Shoppers Try on Clothes Virtually (43:37) Baidu plans 100-city robot taxi rollout by 2030 (46:01) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 24, 2022

Our 87th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:30) AI Arrives for Serious Photo Editing, Not Just Smartphone Snapshots (05:20) Listen to an AI voice actor try and flirt with you (10:28) DeepMind’s AI can control superheated plasma inside a fusion reactor (15:55) Good News About the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training (21:36) Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints (26:18) Facial recognition firm Clearview AI tells investors it is seeking massive expansion beyond law enforcement (31:23) This AI Generates Fake New Pokémon, And It's Actually Pretty Good (34:01) AI generated this moody, entertaining animated music video (37:35) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 17, 2022

Our 86th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:22) This AI is set to help stop illegal fishing (04:21) An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code? (09:40) The New CGI: Creating Neural Neighborhoods With Block-NeRF (12:45) MuZero’s first step from research into the real world (16:40) MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads (20:02) AI fails its job interview (23:58) Mad Scientist Forces AI to Make Horrific Pictures Out of BuzzFeed Headlines (26:18) Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 10, 2022

Our 85th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:20) Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis (05:20) How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise (09:00) DeepMind claims its new code-generating system is competitive with human programmers (14:00) Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B (16:35) AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data (19:24) Democratic lawmakers take another stab at AI bias legislation (22:55) AI-generated Valentine's Cards (26:10) Tell this AI your story's themes, and it'll write the first paragraph for you (28:50) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 6, 2022

Our 84rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: apologies for issues with sound quality in this episode! Outline: Applications & Business Meta Aims to Build the World's Fastest AI Supercomputer Deploying machine learning to improve mental health Research & Advancements OpenAI rolls out new text-generating models that it claims are less toxic Meta researchers build an AI that learns equally well from visual, written or spoken materials Society & Ethics China Proposes Increased Regulation of Deepfakes and Other AI Synthesis Systems IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes Fun & Neat Google AI tools bring back women in science to the fore Watch an AI Play the Best Game of Tetris You've Ever Seen Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 22, 2022

Our 83rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure (02:48) BioNTech and London A.I. company create "early warning system" for COVID-19 variants (05:20) We’re one step closer to self-farming farms (09:55) ‘We Were Blown Away’: How New A.I. Research Is Changing the Way Conservators and Collectors Think About Attribution (12:42) Meta claims its AI improves speech recognition quality by reading lips (15:46) The Messy History of Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI (18:30) Feds' spending on facial recognition tech expands, despite privacy concerns (20:35) Great Resignation Versus Increasing Investment In AI, Robotics And Automation: A Troubling Trend (25:55) Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code (28:22) AIML machine learning students develop beer using AI (31:40) Robo-dogs and therapy bots: Artificial intelligence goes cuddly (34:55) Outro Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 6, 2022

For our first episode in 2022, we are joined with our friends from the Towards Data Science podcast to discuss our thoughts about the AI-related trends and events that happened in 2021. Some things we discuss are: Foundation models continue to grow, but one interesting trend is the focus on efficiency along with (instead of?) scale. For example, while DeepMind’s Gopher model has fewer than twice the parameters of GPT-3, it’s reportedly 25 times more efficient, meaning that much more value is being squeezed out of the same training data and compute. AI21Labs’ Jurrassic models are also equal to GPT-3 on a parameter count basis, but reflect a focus on architecture optimization over raw scaling that we expect to persist into 2022. (That’s not to say significant scaling won’t happen, or that it hasn’t happened already; Microsoft Turing-NLG, released a few months ago, is over half a trillion parameters in size. But it’s safe to say that scaling won’t be done without simultaneous efficiency optimizations that were less of a focus in late-2020.) Procedural environment generation has been a big theme in reinforcement learning. In Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents , the team at DeepMind showed how training RL agents on a wide range of environments can lead to emergent behaviour associated with generalization, like trial and error and cooperation with friendly agents. Open-ended learning (OEL) seems like an interesting wildcard, which some researchers think might be an important ingredient in the final AGI recipe. We spoke with OpenAI’s head of open-ended learning, Ken Stanley, about what role OEL might play in the future of AI on this episode of the TDS podcast . A NeurIPS spotlight paper titled Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power , and subsequent work by the same author, are showing that we should expect highly capable AI systems to engage in dangerous behaviour that’s misaligned with human values, by default . Specifically, highly competent agents will tend to search for states that are powerful, in the sense that they offer many downstream options. This finding makes a compelling case that AI alignment ought to be prioritized, particularly given the rate of progress we’re seeing in AI capabilities more broadly. If it really is the case that capable AI systems will be dangerous by default, active effort must be invested in safety research. Outline: 0:00 Intro 2:15 Rise of multi-modal models 7:40 Growth of hardware and compute 13:20 Reinforcement learning 20:45 Open-ended learning 26:15 Power seeking paper 32:30 Safety and assumptions 35:20 Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation 42:00 Mapping natural language 46:20 Timnit Gebru’s research institute 49:20 Wrap-up See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 1, 2022

Happy new year! Our last episode of 2021 is also our 82th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: Intro This AI-powered art app lets you paint pictures with words AI Dungeon’s creators are launching an experimental AI-powered game platform Announcing the Transactions on Machine Learning Research Bigger’s Not Always Better: DeepMind’s New Language AI Is Small But Mighty 2021 was the year of monster AI models U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’ Face Recognition Is Being Banned—but It’s Still Everywhere Better Images of AI Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 16, 2021

Our 81th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (0:00) Intro (1:30) Meet your new A.I. best friend (6:37) The Beatles: Get Back Used High-Tech Machine Learning To Restore The Audio (10:26) Google, Cambridge U & Alan Turing Institute Propose PolyViT: A Universal Transformer for Image, Video, and Audio Classification (14:00) Deep-learning model speeds extreme weather predictions (18:23) How We Determined Crime Prediction Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods (23:44) Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars (27:18) Alarmed by Tesla’s public self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV (30:15) A ​Quadruped Humanoid Robot Might Be Able To Do It All (34:05) Forging New Pathways: Boys & Girls Clubs Teens Take AI From Idea to Application (38:00) Outro Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 10, 2021

Our 80th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. Outline: (01:10) Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives (04:16) Twitch Introduces Machine Learning Feature to Detect Suspicious Users (07:28) DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots (11:06) Yale researchers combat biases in machine learning algorithms (13:40) Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center (17:20) US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots (19:50) Who, exactly, authored this AI-generated spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo? (25:00) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 25, 2021

Our 79th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to email us your thoughts or feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices (04:42) Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI / AI-powered writing assistant Writer nabs $21M (07:03) A Leap Forward in Computer Vision: Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners (09:27) Research Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI (11:42) A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical (13:45) South Korea is Selling Millions of Photos To Facial Recognition Researchers (16:00) AWS makes AI and machine learning tangible with first major art debut at Smithsonian (19:00) ‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words (21:45) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 23, 2021

A special discussion episode, where we do not cover AI news but instead chat about our experiences teaching AI classes at Stanford with Abigail See, a graduate from the Stanford AI Lab and a good friend of ours. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 19, 2021

Our 78th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: (00:00) Intro (01:40) Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business (05:20) AI startup funding hits record high of $17.9B in Q3 / Robot orders by companies surge as labor shortages linger (09:50) University of Waterloo AI Researchers Introduce A New NLP Model ‘AfriBERTa’ For African Languages Using Deep Learning Techniques (12:40) AI skin cancer diagnoses risk being less accurate for dark skin – study (16:55) Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank (22:15) Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California (26:15) CMU opens first AI maker space to let students 'sharpen the cutting edge of AI' (28:25) Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs (31:05) Outro Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 11, 2021

Our 77th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: (01:06) Landing AI brings in $57M for its machine learning operations tools (05:13) As the Arctic Warms, AI Forecasts Scope Out Shifting Sea Ice (09:07) Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots (14:12) Google AI Introduces ‘GoEmotions’: An NLP Dataset for Fine-Grained Emotion Classification (18:28) Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System (21:40) Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns (25:50) Australia Ordered Clearview AI to Destroy its Database, As Its Violating Privacy Laws (27:54) AIBA uses AI technology to vet judges and refs at Belgrade worlds (30:40) Miso Introduces Second Generation Restaurant Kitchen Robot, the Flippy 2 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 4, 2021

Our 76th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: AI voice-acting tool xVASynth gets even better at recreating videogame voices Microsoft acquires AI-powered moderation platform Two Hat MIT’s Latest AI Research Using Deep Neural Networks Explains How The Brain Processes Language Works Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers Clearview AI finally takes part in a federal accuracy test. Tesla pulled the latest FSD Beta from owners’ cars today ruDALL-E: generating images from text descriptions, or the largest computational project in Russia Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 28, 2021

Our 75th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations Inside Mailchimp’s push to bring AI to content marketing What MuJoCo’s acquisition means for DeepMind’s AI & robotics research Yann LeCun Team Challenges Current Beliefs on Interpolation and Extrapolation Regarding DL Model Generalization Performance Deep Learning Tools for Audacity A Harvard freshman made a social networking app called 'The FaceTag.' It's sparked a debate about the ethics of facial recognition. Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 22, 2021

Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: Applications Waymo's self-driving taxi struggles with left turns and puddles. But it's still winning over some Arizona riders How AI can fight human trafficking Research AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining Ethics New robots patrolling for 'anti-social behaviour' causing unease in Singapore streets Singapore sends Xavier the robot to help police keep streets safe under three-week trial Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself? Fun Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 8, 2021

Our 73rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Applications First AI Pathology Program Approved: Helps Detect Prostate Cancer Adobe Lightroom is getting more powerful with AI-based selection tool Research DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain Summarizing Books with Human Feedback Ethics AI’s Islamophobia problem MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated Fun Amazon’s Astro Is a Mobile Alexa and Cup Holder that Costs $1k Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/136 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 15, 2021

Our 72st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Article picks: Applications New Algorithm Can Identify Pre-Alzheimer's Brain Changes With Over 99% Accuracy Columbia to Launch $25 Million AI-based Climate Modeling Center Research Machine learning technique detects phishing sites based on markup visualization Stanford’s BEHAVIOR Benchmarks 100 Activities From Everyday Life for Embodied AI Ethics Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here. Sharing learnings from the first algorithmic bias bounty challenge Fun Could Robots From Boston Dynamics Beat Me in a Fight? iRobot’s newest Roomba uses AI to avoid dog poop Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/132 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 11, 2021

Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions AI startups claim to detect depression from speech, but the jury’s out on their accuracy Research GPT-3 mimics human love for ‘offensive’ Reddit comments, study finds AI Researchers Introduce A Graph Neural Network Estimator for ETA Prediction at Google Maps Ethics T esla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency. Bias persists in face detection systems from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Fun The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot These cute electric robots may soon deliver your dinner Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/132 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 3, 2021

Our 70th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Google Sheets’ formula suggestions are like autofill for math More than 50 robots are working at Singapore's high-tech hospital Research Challenges and Opportunities in NLP Benchmarking Google Brain Uncovers Representation Structure Differences Between CNNs and Vision Transformers Ethics “Flying in the Dark”: Hospital AI Tools Aren’t Well Documented Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses after one hits visually impaired athlete Fun Rise of the robo-drama: Young Vic creates new play using artificial intelligence Astrobee Will Find Astronauts’ Lost Socks Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/131 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 27, 2021

Our 69th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Applications Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused. Research 100+ Standford Researchers Publish 200+ Page Paper on the AI Paradigm Shift Introduced by Large-Scale Models DeepMind Open-Sources Perceiver IO, A General-Purpose Deep Learning Model Architecture That Handles A Wide Range of Data and Tasks Ethics Reddit user reverse-engineers what they believe is Apple's solution to flag child sex abuse How AI-powered Tech Landed Man In Jail With Scant Evidence Fun Philip Glass on Artificial Intelligence and Art The Bouba/Kiki Effect And Sound Symbolism In CLIP Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/130 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 20, 2021

Our 68th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: publications OpenAI can translate English into code with its new Codex Cattle-ist for the Future: Plainsight Revolutionizes Livestock Management with AI Research Without Code for DeepMind’s Protein AI, This Lab Wrote Its Own Artificial Intelligence may diagnose dementia in a day Ethics Twitter AI bias contest shows beauty filters hoodwink the algorithm U.S. Will Investigate Tesla’s Autopilot System Over Crashes With Emergency Vehicles Fun Appreciating the Poetic Misunderstandings of A.I. Art Boston Dynamics' robots can parkour better than you Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/129 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 16, 2021

Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment Tortured phrases' give away fabricated research papers Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test These Algorithms Look at X-Rays' and Somehow Detect Your Race Tably, An AI-Powered Camera App, Give You A Deeper Understanding Of Your Cat's Health And Mood Man defends against package thieves using machine learning AI, flour, and very loud sirens Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/128 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 11, 2021

Our 66th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: audio is fixed on this upload. This week: Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches Here Is A Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Beehive That Could Save Bee Colonies Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models Facebook AI Releases ‘VoxPopuli’, A Large-Scale Open Multilingual Speech Corpus For AI Translations in NLP Systems China built the world's largest facial recognition system. Now, it's getting camera-shy. Twitter announces first algorithmic bias bounty challenge Say Hello To The Tokyo Olympic Robots Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/127 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 2, 2021

Our 100th episode! Given this event, we have a short discussion among the hosts of the podcasts. Hope you enjoy! And please fill out this survey Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 28, 2021

Check out this special crossover episode with the AI Today podcast, the hosts of which Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss pressing topics around artificial intelligence, interview guests and experts on the subject, and cut through the hype around AI. For this crossover episode, we thought it’d be fun to chat about some of the topics that have recently been covered on the AI Today podcast, in particular what has been happening with AI in government. Specifically, we discuss: Challenges in Federal AI Adoption Interview with Justin Marsico, Chief Data Officer at the Bureau Of The Fiscal Service AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government - Interview with Neil Chaudhry, GSA Data and AI at the State level, interview with Joy Bonaguro, CDO State of California Data and AI in the state of North Dakota, Interview with Dorman Bazzell, CDO of North Dakota Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 26, 2021

Our 65th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots DeepMind's AI for protein structure is coming to the masses Reasoning with Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering AI now enables robots to adapt rapidly to changing real world conditions Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say Google CEO Still Insists AI Revolution Bigger Than Invention of Fire Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/125 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 21, 2021

2021 has been a bit less crazy than 2020 so far, but plenty of notable stuff has already happened. So, we decided to partner with our friends over at the Towards Data Science podcast, hosted by co-founder of ShapestMinds Jeremie Harris. Specifically, we discuss: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI , For Its Latest Trick Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software As well as the general trends these stories represent. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 16, 2021

Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news This week: This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns Elon Musk admits self-driving is harder than he thought as Tesla owners troll him over missed deadlines Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/124 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 9, 2021

Our 63rd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube This week: Voice AI is scary good now. Video game actors hate it. Robot rock: can big tech pick pop’s next megastar? Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts Researchers turn to machine learning to predict when immunotherapy will be effective Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks Google's algorithm misidentified an engineer as a serial killer Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/123 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 6, 2021

An interview with Sean McGregor, the ML architect at the neural accelerator startup Syntiant who also works with the XPRIZE Foundation and is the creator and maintainer of the Partnership on AI's Incident Database. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 1, 2021

Our 62nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness. This week: Google Survey Explores Methods for Making DL Models ‘Smaller, Faster, and Better’ Machine learning models that detect COVID-19 on chest X-rays are not suitable for clinical use GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code What’s Going on With Amazon’s “High-Tech” Warehouse Robots? How Twitter hired tech's biggest critics to build ethical AI LinkedIn’s job-matching AI was biased. The company’s solution? More AI. GAN Theft Auto is a snippet of GTA 5 made by AI Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/122 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 29, 2021

An interview with Jordan Harrod, a PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, a YouTuber who creates educational videos about AI, and an advocate for evidence-based policy. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out her channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod Detailed bio: Jordan Harrod is a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Her research focuses on using neuromodulation to understand pain and consciousness, and using neurotechnology and machine learning to develop new tools for brain stimulation. She is also a significant communicator and educator focused on AI, with her YouTube channel having many videos on how we interact with artificial intelligence in our daily lives, and she is also the Chief Operating Officer of the MIT Science Policy Review , a peer-reviewed science policy journal. Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 24, 2021

Our 61st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, more controllable GAN, more controllable language models, AI for wildfires and reading lips, being critical of human oversight of AI, surveillance by AI in China, and some fun AI weirdness. Check out our interview with the creator of AI Weirdness (that we discuss as our last article) here: https://www.letstalkai.show/e/ai-weirdness-interview/ This week: Harnessing the Wild Power of AI Image Generation The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance software Fun Facts about Fun Guys Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/121 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 17, 2021

Our 60th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! On this episode, new ways to scale training, a take on RL being enough, care bots, creepy fake humans, AI for AI chips, City Brains in China, and cheaper robot dogs. This week: Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity Library Claims to Train 32 trillion Parameters Deep Learning Models On A Cluster of Just 32 GPUs DeepMind scientists: Reinforcement learning is enough for general AI ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can Across China, AI ‘city brains’ are changing how the government runs This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/120 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 10, 2021

Our 59th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: GPT-3: a disappointing paper NYU, Facebook & CIFAR Present ‘True Few-Shot Learning’ for Language Models Whose Few-Shot Ability They Say Is Overestimated Google Ventures-backed Merlin Labs is building AI that can fly planes Self-Driving Truck Completes 950-Mile Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver King County is first in the country to ban facial recognition software Have autonomous robots started killing in war? Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/119 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 4, 2021

Our 58th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism OpenAI launches $100 million startup fund with Microsoft Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language All together now: the most trustworthy covid-19 model is an ensemble AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/118 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 28, 2021

Our 57 Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data Deepfake dubs could help translate film and TV without losing an actor's original performance Quizzing Michelangelo AI History of Ethical AI at Google Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/117 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 25, 2021

An interview with Janelle Shane, the creator of aiweirdness.com and author of ' You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place '. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Janelle Shane works as a research scientist in Colorado, where she makes computer-controlled holograms for studying the brain, and other light-steering devices. She is also a self-described A. I. Humorist - on aiweirdness.com , she writes about AI and the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Popular Science, and more, AND she has also given the TED talk “The danger of AI is weirder than you think” in 2019. Her book, “ You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place ” uses cartoons and humorous pop-culture experiments to look inside the minds of the algorithms that run our world, making artificial intelligence and machine learning both accessible and entertaining. Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 20, 2021

Our 56th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff Grand Theft Auto Looks Frighteningly Photorealistic With This Machine Learning Technique The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’ Tesla in fatal California crash may have been in autopilot mode, officials say DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/116 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 13, 2021

Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: China makes "world's largest satellite image database" to train AI better How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker The autonomous vehicle world is shrinking — it’s overdue Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 7, 2021

Our 54th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Rethinking large conferences Google and UC Berkeley Propose Green Strategies for Large Neural Network Training Huawei trained the Chinese-language equivalent of GPT-3 Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 29, 2021

Our 53drd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot Can Medical Alexas Make Us Healthier? AI Pinpoints Local Pollution Hotspots Using Satellite Images Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/113 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 22, 2021

Our 52nd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving ‘No one was driving’ in Tesla crash that killed two men in Spring, Texas, report says 2.6 Million Fake Faces: AI Generated People May Be The Future Of The Metaverse, Celebrity, And Perhaps ... All Of Us Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/112 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 16, 2021

Our 51st Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Shedding light on fairness in AI with a new data set Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI Companies are racing to bring A.I. to the masses with no code software New' Nirvana Song Created 27 Years After Kurt Cobain's Death Via AI Software Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/111 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 12, 2021

An interview with Cade Metz, a New York Times reporter covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. His first book, "Genius Makers", tells the stories of the The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. Get the book: http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers ​ Follow Cade on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CadeMetz/ ​ And on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cademetz/ Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 11, 2021

Our 50th Last Week in AI episode! With some exciting news and our usual news coverage. Enjoy our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group Robots of the future at Boston Dynamics Silicon Valley leaders think AI will fund cash handouts Deepfake Amazon workers sowing confusion on twitter MIT study finds systematic labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/110 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 11, 2021

Our 49th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The 2021 AI Index: Major Growth Despite the Pandemic Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks Meet the AI algorithms that judge how beautiful you are AI system can sniff out diseases as well as dogs do Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/106 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 9, 2021

Our 48th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This OpenAI GPT-3 Powered Demo Is A Glimpse of NPCs In The Future Band of AI startups launch ‘rebel alliance’ for interoperability An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis This cute book explains AI to children, without scary Terminators Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/105 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 26, 2021

Our 47th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The AI Research Paper Was Real. The "Coauthor" Wasn't Clearview AI’s plan for invasive facial recognition is worse than you think This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market Google reshuffles AI team leadership after researcher’s controversial departure Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/104 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 18, 2021

Our 46th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Georgia Startup Races to Complete AI-powered Voice Screening Tool to Crush COVID-19 New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally end it. 0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 5:15 News Summary segment 5:15 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/103 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 11, 2021

Our 45th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This is how we lost control of our faces Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos Amazon faces spying claims over AI cameras in vans AI in health care creates unique data challenges 0:00 - 0:30 Intro 0:30 - 4:30 News Summary segment 4:30 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Feb 4, 2021

Our 44th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching US commission cites ‘moral imperative’ to explore AI weapons Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini. 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:99 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/101 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 28, 2021

Jan 20th, 2021 by Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea Google Sidelines Second Artificial Intelligence Researcher This App Claims It Can Detect ‘Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t AI could make healthcare fairer--by helping us believe what patients say 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment 5:25 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/100 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 21, 2021

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Use of Clearview AI facial recognition tech spiked as law enforcement seeks to identify Capitol mob FDA issues action plan for regulating AI in medical devices Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:30 News Summary segment 4:30 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/99 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 14, 2021

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI For Its Latest Trick, OpenAI’s GPT-3 Generates Images From Text Captions Summary of AI Provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act 2021 AI algorithms detect diabetic eye disease inconsistently Research highlights from an unprecedented year at NeurIPS 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 4:45 News Summary segment 4:45 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/98 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jan 7, 2021

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google tolds its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research - documents Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case The year deepfakes went mainstream 13 acquisitions highlight Big Tech’s AI talent grab in 2020 AI Startups Raised $9.9B in second half of 2020, a 15% Jump 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment 4:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/94 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 12, 2020

An interview with Juan Mateos-Garcia, the Director of Data Analytics at Nesta (the UK's Innovation Foundation) where he leads a team of data scientists, developers, visualisers and innovation experts who use new datasets, analytics methods and visualisation tools to inform innovation and AI policy. We focus on the recent paper A narrowing of AI research? , which he co-wrote with Joel Klinge and Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 10, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I. AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology Labor Unions Work to Find Ways to Bargain With AI's Black Box 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:40 News Summary segment 4:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/94 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 5, 2020

An interview with Nur Ahmed , a Strategy PhD candidate at Ivey Business School , Western University, Canada and a Research Fellow at the ScotiaBank Digital Banking Lab about The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research ”. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dec 3, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: Why you shouldn’t get your Ph.D. Why you should get your PhD Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are? How AI bots and voice assistants reinforce gender bias Training AI algorithms on mostly smiling faces reduces accuracy and introduces bias, according to research Facial-recognition research needs an ethical reckoning I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”. I didn’t like its answer and neither will you. Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue). 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/93 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 28, 2020

An interview with Emil Wallner, the creator of mlart.co . Emil is an internet-educated, independent machine learning researcher, and resident at the Google Arts & Culture Lab. As a resident at Google he is using machine learning to explore art and culture. Part-time, he applies machine learning to logical tasks such as programming and mathematics. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 26, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed Facebook’s improved AI isn’t preventing harmful content from spreading When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks ‘Official.’ A Woman? ‘Smile’ AI research finds a ‘compute divide’ concentrates power and accelerates inequality in the era of deep learning 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:20 News Summary segment 4:20 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/92 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 19, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI is wrestling with a replication crisis The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms An ICLR submission is given a Clear Rejection (Score: 3) rating because the benchmark it proposed requires MuJoCo, a commercial software package, thus making RL research less accessible for underrepresented groups. What do you think? How do you find the motivation to keep doing ML? Is there a ML community "blind eye" toward the negative impact of FAANG recommendation algorithms on global society? 0:00 - 1:00 Intro 1:00 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-ai-91 Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 13, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything” Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves 2020 AI survey: Confidence in artificial intelligence expands as health industry leaders project faster return on investment Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots. 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: skynettoday.com/digests/the-ninetieth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 8, 2020

An interview with Tom Henighan, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI working on the safety team, about the recent paper “ Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling ” that he co-authored with many others at OpenAI. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nov 5, 2020

NOTE: audio for andrey is a bit rough this week, sorry! Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3 AI agreement to enhance environmental monitoring, weather prediction Mayo Clinic, Google Focus on AI Effort for Cancer Care Inequality grows in AI research How I used GPT-3 to hit Hacker News front page 5 times in 3 weeks I Asked AI to Write This Post for Me. Here Are the Results. 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-ninth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 29, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Automating Image Abuse: deepfake bots on Telegram, Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police, Tesla is putting ‘self driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready , Google AI tech will be used for virtual border wall, CBP contract shows 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment 5:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-eighth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 25, 2020

An interview with Daniel Leufer and Alexa Steinbrück about their project AIMyths.org . Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 22, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI , Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies , A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data, 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:40 News Summary segment 5:40 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-seventh Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 20, 2020

An interview with Jack Clark and Raymond Perrault about their recent paper Measurement in AI Policy: Opportunities and Challenges . Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 15, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed , Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals , Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From Big Tech 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-sixth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 10, 2020

An interview with Professor Matt Beane about his recent paper Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World , co-authored with Professor Erik Brynjolfsson. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 8, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world , ExamSoft’s remote bar exams sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns, Deepfake Putin is here to warn American’s about their self-inflicted doom 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-fifth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 4, 2020

Courtesy of our regular host Sharon, an except from the event celebrating a new course on GANs she teaches. See the full event here: https://youtu.be/9d4jmPmTWmc "To celebrate the launch of GANs Specialization, we’ve assembled a panel of GANs experts. They will discuss some of their current projects and the importance and future of GANs and also provide practical career advice for ML practitioners." Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | Pocket Casts | YouTube Music: Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 1, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Twitter and Zoom’s algorithmic bias issues , Despite past denials, LAPD has used facial recognition software 30,000 times in last decade, records show , We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1m AI prize , How humane is the UK’s plan to introduce robot companions in care homes? , OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-fourth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 24, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Face mask recognition has arrived - for better or worse, Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and disinformation , Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence , Why Wasn’t Uber Charged in a Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash? 0:00 - 0:35 Intro 0:35 - 5:25 News Summary segment 5:25 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-third Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 19, 2020

An interview with Professors Jong Hyun Chung and Yong Suk Lee about their recent paper The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs . Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 17, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week Hope Returns to the Machine Learning Universe , California Utilities Hope Drones, AI Will Lower Risk of Future Wildfires , How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide , The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with media hype , * AI standards launched to help tackle the problem of overhyped studies , IBM says U.S. should adopt new export controls on facial recognition systems 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 5:00 News Summary segment 5:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eighty-second Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 10, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos , This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop , Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI , Robotics, AI, and Cloud Computing Combine to Supercharge Chemical and Drug Synthesis 0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment 4:00 News Discussion segment Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eightieth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 4, 2020

Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week " Hulu deepfaked its new ad. It won’t be the last. ", " Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird " , " The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something ", and " The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies ". Intro: 0:00 - 0:45 News Summary segment: 0:45 - 6:45 News Discussion segment: 6:45 onward Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://www.skynettoday.com/digests/the-eightieth Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sep 2, 2020

An interview with Professor Paul Brewer and PhD Students James Bingaman and Ashely Paintsil about their new survey paper " Media Messages and U.S. Public Opinion about Artificial Intelligence " about what the general U.S. public thinks about AI, and how popular media and interaction with new technology shapes it. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 29, 2020

An interview with Professors Julian Togelius and Sebastian Risi about their new survey paper "Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation", their work at modl.ai, and more! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 26, 2020

Our latest roundup of last week's big AI news! Plus, Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss the news and offer their thoughts. We are trying out this combination of formats for the first time - please fill out the listener survey to let us know what you think about it: bit.ly/ltasurvey Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 22, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Please fill out the listener survey: bit.ly/ltasurvey Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 20, 2020

An interview with Stanford AI Lab PhDs Abigal See and Ashwin Paranjape about their involvement with the Alexa Prize Challenge and what it took to enable their chatbot Chirpy Cardinal to take second place. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 16, 2020

Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection software, and how AI is being used to assign students final grades and reopen schools. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 14, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to AI's struggles in 2020, Chinese AI surveillance, tools to fight facial recognition, and more! Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 9, 2020

Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are becoming cheaper, AI's struggle to adapt to 2020, and how AI is learning when to defer to humans. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 7, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to Black Lives Matter, the disaster that was Genderify, possible ways jobs will be lost, and Weird A.I. Yankovic. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Aug 2, 2020

Our eleventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at two recent stories on facial recognition, why Natural Language Processing researchers might be chasing the wrong goal, and a clickbait headline accompanying an exciting story about automated code generation. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 26, 2020

Our tenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how AI might threaten fashion models' jobs, how AI is being used to predict job hopping, Facebook's simulations of bad user behavior, and A.I. generated parody songs. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 26, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 24, 2020

An interview with the Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute Abhishek Gupta, as well as fellow AI Ethics researchers Camylle Lanteigne, Muriam Fancy, Ryan Khurana, about their recent State of AI Ethics Report . Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 20, 2020

Our ninth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, recent research on the computational limits of deep learning, how AI is being used to decide when to discharge patients, and a recent report on robust AI research. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 19, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 16, 2020

A chat among several of the founders of online AI-focused magazine The Gradient (thegradient.pub) about its origins and purpose. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 12, 2020

Our eighth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the rise of AI therapy bots, the fight against facial recognition in Detroit, a paper from DeepMind and Oxford on decolonialism in AI, and how deepfakes are being used for corporate training. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 10, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 5, 2020

Our seventh audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how an HBO documentary is using deepfake technology for good, a new system to measure AI's carbon impact, a follow-up from last week's story on Timnit Gebru and Yann LeCun, and finally the push for a national AI research cloud. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 4, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 28, 2020

Our sixth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how one deep learning pioneer still seems to have something to learn about AI bias, how facial recognition led to a wrongful arrest and the facial recognition ban being pushed by Democratic lawmakers, and how Trump's Visa freeze could affect the US's AI prospects. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 25, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Tim Hwang, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) about his new report “Shaping the Terrain of AI Competition” and more. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 21, 2020

Our fifth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at more news from Boston Dynamics, a new MIT startup that wants to help you do deep learning on your CPU, recent changes at NeurIPS, and Baidu's departure from the Partnership on AI. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 19, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 14, 2020

Our fourth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at recent progress in curtailing the development of facial recognition technology, a recent call for attention to racism in academia, and recent news from OpenAI and Boston Dynamics. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 14, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 7, 2020

Our third audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the how the police are using surveillance against civil rights protesters, AI for productivity, and recent calls from AI researchers for regulation and cooperation. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jun 7, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 31, 2020

Our second audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the ACLU's lawsuit against Clearview AI, an international AI group among the G7, how small businesses might begin to use automation, and Microsoft's push towards replacing journalists with AI. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 31, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 25, 2020

Our first audio round up of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, a discussion of peoples' awareness of self driving technology, surveillance by iFlyTek and Clear, and Nvidia's new recreation of Pacman. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 17, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 13, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Professor James Zou and Doctor Irena Fisher-Hwang about their new class CS472: Data Science and AI for COVID-19. See more here: https://sites.google.com/view/data-science-covid-19 Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 9, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

May 2, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 26, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 18, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 15, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhD Sharon Zhou interviews Professor Matthew Lungren about the efforts to leverage AI to help with the coronavirus crisis, the promise for sharing more medical data as part of those efforts, and more. Check out coverage of similar topics at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 11, 2020

Tired of constantly hearing about COVID-19? So are Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou, who mostly discuss non virus related stories this week... and then some virus related stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Apr 4, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover news about bias in commercial voice recognition systems, a debate about the future of AI, and more on what covid 19 shows us about robotics. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 26, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou cover more news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis and how research is changing. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 19, 2020

Stanford AI Lab PhDs discuss news stories related to how AI helps tackle the coronavirus crisis, and more on mass surveillance. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mar 13, 2020

Hello World! Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss news stories related to mass-deployment of facial recognition and responsible AI research. By the way, we get better in future episodes, we promise! Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skynettoday.com Theme: Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .