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Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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