#113 - Nvidia’s 10k GPU, Toolformer, AI alignment, John Oliver
Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I.
- Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers
- Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff
- Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
- Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials
- Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it
- Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up
- Research & Advancements
- Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space
- RT-1: Robotics Transformer
- Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model
- MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions
- Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible
- How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction
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Policy & Societal Impacts
- "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI
- What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security
- How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
- AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning
- Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like
- Planning for AGI and beyond
- Art & Fun Stuff
- Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
- ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
- Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers
- The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place
