Last Week in AI – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.
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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

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Our 124th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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

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Our 123rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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

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Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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

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Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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