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Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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• (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

AI is humanity's most powerful creation, yet also poses an existential threat if uncontrolled. In this thought-provoking episode, Rob explores the implications of AI with multiple guest clips taken from his best discussions and conversations around AI. Discussing themes like automation, universal basic income and AI ethics, they debate whether AI will liberate humanity or trap us!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• AI could wipe out millions of automatable, low-level jobs, necessitating universal basic income.
• Advanced AI may be the biggest event in human history - an "ultra-intelligence" - allowing fusion with machines.
• AI reflects its programmers' motives; the first AI may be benign, but militarised AI could be catastrophic.
• AI medical advances could virtually eliminate disease and extend lifespans dramatically.
• AI threatens to commoditize music, film and art by quickly generating generic creative works.
• Humanity must maintain control of AI development or risk handing power to a force with no empathy.
• AI is a tool, not inherently superior to humans. With wisdom, it can empower and elevate humanity.

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"I sometimes think that we think we are smarter than we are as a species."

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Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss Sunny’s All-In Summit experience (1:34), OpenAI’s race to beat Google in launching the first multimodal LLM (9:07), whether generative AI needs a UI shift (33:00), and much more!

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(59:41) Sunny demos Headshots AI

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Sam Harris speaks with Mustafa Suleyman about his new book, “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma.” They discuss the progress in artificial intelligence made at his company DeepMind, the acquisition of DeepMind by Google, Atari DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold, the invention of new knowledge, the risks of our making progress in AI, “superintelligence” as a distraction from more pressing problems, the inevitable spread of general-purpose technology, the nature of intelligence, productivity growth and labor disruptions, “the containment problem,” the importance of scale, Moore’s law, Inflection AI, open-source LLMs, changing the norms of work and leisure, the redistribution of value, introducing friction into the deployment of AI, regulatory capture, a misinformation apocalypse, digital watermarks, asymmetric threats, conflict and cooperation with China, supply-chain monopolies, and other topics.

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Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

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

Wiping out a tenth of the world? Possible. Wiping out all of humanity? Less likely, but not entirely impossible. We examine how two groups of experts have arrived at these worrying predictions about AI. Education is giving hope to inmates in a maximum security prison in New York (11:17). And, on Britain’s working men’s clubs which have nurtured rock bands for decades (18:00).

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Our 125th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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

A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?

Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.

Plus: Kevin, Casey and the New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger answer Hard Questions from listeners.

Today’s Guest:

• Kate Conger is a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

• A lawyer used ChatGPT the same week that A.I. leaders released a 22-word statement about the existential risk A.I. poses to humanity.
• The chip company Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap, powered by A.I. demand.
• The podcast “Acquired” did a two-part series on the history of Nvidia.

Bret Speaks Alexandros Marinos on the dawning of the AI age. Where are we, where are we headed, and how should we react?

Find Alexandros on Twitter: @alexandrosM (https://twitter.com/alexandrosM)

Find Alexandros at his Substack: Do Your Own Research (https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/)

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