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Our 128th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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