#116 - ChatGPT plugins, AI hardware, petition to pause AI, Trump deepfakes

Published: March 31, 2023, 10:19 a.m.

Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nCheck out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/\nStories this week:\nApplications & BusinessOpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT\u2019s capabilities to let it browse the web and more\nNVIDIA's big AI moment is here\nLighting RoundFormer head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture\nCerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems\nGenerative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies\nAgility\u2019s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job\n\n\nResearch & AdvancementsLearning to grow machine-learning models\nResearchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo\nLighting RoundNew virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making\xa0\nScientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls\xa0\nNew in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents\nRunway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator\n\n\n\nPolicy & Societal Impacts\nOpenAI co-founder on company\u2019s past approach to openly sharing research: \u2018We were wrong\u2019\n1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking \u201call AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months\u201d\nLighting RoundIn San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all\nClearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC\nVoice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI\nAI can draw hands now. That\u2019s bad news for deep-fakes\n\n\nArt & Fun StuffPeople Aren\u2019t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet)\nWGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit