Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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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
(00:33:43) 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
Research & Advancements
(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