#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause

Published: July 9, 2023, 6:41 p.m.

Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/\nEmail us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai\nTimestamps:\n(00:00:00) Intro / Banter\nTools & Apps(00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time\n(00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11\n(00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in\n\nApplications & Business(00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads\n(00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in \u201923\n(00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports\n(00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US\n(00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace\n(00:22:40) Fundings\xa0Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more \u2018personal\u2019 AI\nRunway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M\nTypeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation\nCelestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects\nGleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M\nParrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A\n\n(00:26:45) AcquisitionsDatabricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML\nMeituan buys founder\u2019s months-old \u2018OpenAI for China\u2019 for $234M\nAs the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io\nNvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models\n\n\nProjects & Open Source(00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms\n\nResearch & Advancements(00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos\n(00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up\n(00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models\n(00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning\n(00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent\n(00:45:05) NVIDIA H100 GPUs Set Standard for Generative AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark\xa0\n\nPolicy & Safety(00:46:50) From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House\u2019s urgent push to regulate AI\n(00:53:50) US considering new restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Wall Street Journal reports\n(00:57:10) 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla\u2019s Autopilot\n(01:00:32) European companies claim the EU\u2019s AI Act could \u2018jeopardise technological sovereignty\u2019\n\nSynthetic Media and Art(01:04:22) Adobe Stock creators aren\u2019t happy with Firefly, the company\u2019s \u2018commercially safe\u2019 gen AI tool\n(01:08:27) Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art\n\n(01:12:17) Outro