#130 - Llama 2, Elon Musks xAI, WormGPT, LongLLaMA, AI apocalypse, actors on strike

Published: July 25, 2023, 3:27 a.m.

Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nCo-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast.\nCorrection: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI.\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 + links:\n(00:00) Intro / Banter\n(07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections\nTools & Apps\n(08:30) Google\u2019s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM\n(14:38) Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that's found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance.\n\nApplications & Business\n(18:20) Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2, an AI language model for commercial use\n(33:24) U.S. companies are on a hiring spree for A.I. jobs\u2014and they pay an average of $146,000 +\xa0 San Francisco Companies Got Half the World\u2019s AI Funding So Far This Year\n(35:42) 65% Of Top AI Companies Have Immigrant Founders\n(36:50) Elon Musk unveils his AI company, X.AI\nSpotify CEO\u2019s startup for AI-powered preventive healthcare raises \u20ac60M\n(44:25) OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI\n(46:03) Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(47:20) WormGPT \u2013 The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch Business Email Compromise Attacks\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(50:53) Meet LongLLaMA: A Large Language Model Capable of Handling Long Contexts of 256k Tokens\n(56:37) Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models\n(01:03:50) AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine\n(01:08:25) Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation\n(01:12:57) Patch n' Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution\n(01:14:20) Scientists just used A.I. to map a fruit fly\u2019s brain. Here\u2019s why it\u2019s a \u2018turning point in neuroscience\u2019\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:25:40) What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?\n(01:35:40) China finalizes first-of-its-kind rules governing generative A.I. services like ChatGPT\n(01:38:57) US senators to get classified White House AI briefing Tuesday\n(01:40:08) US FTC opens investigation into OpenAI\n(01:41:55) UK universities draw up guiding principles on generative AI\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(01:42:57) Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 + Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare\n\n(01:44:20) Outro