#138 - DALLE-3, YouAgent, Gemini, NExT-GPT, AI book labeling

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 3:37 p.m.

Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!!\nNote: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward!\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(04:30) Preview of news\nTools & Apps\n(05:40) DALLE-3\n(12:47) YouAgent (Richard Socher thread)\n\nApplications & Business\n(20:03) Google's Gemini AI surpasses Chat GPT-4 fivefold: Report\n(25:16) Google begins external testing of its GPT-4 competitor "Gemini"\n(26:30) From sanctions to silicon: China\u2019s semiconductor breakthrough\n(35:41) AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the U.S.\n(41:19) SoftBank planning OpenAI investment: Financial Times\n(44:30) OpenAI Hustles to Beat Google to Launch \u2018Multimodal\u2019 LLM\n(46:40) The AI Detection Arms Race Is On\n(51:30) Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups\n(55:15) AI chip startup Enfabrica raises $125 mln, with backing from Nvidia\n(56:41) Databricks raises over $500 mln at $43 bln valuation\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(01:01:15) Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(01:10:19) NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM\n(01:15:35) On measuring situational awareness in LLMs\n(01:22:50) Language Modeling Is Compression\n(01:26:22) How AI can Revolutionize Science\xa0 (Jeremie\u2019s gift link)\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:33:33) Inside the Senate\u2019s Private AI Meeting With Tech\u2019s Billionaire Elites\n(01:36:08) Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy\n(01:41:45) Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit\n(01:43:48) EU to let \u2018responsible\u2019 AI startups train models on its supercomputers\n(01:44:26) Biden-\u2060Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\n(01:45:23) Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist to testify in Senate AI hearings\xa0\n(01:46:40) AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government\u2014and Making Everyone Nervous\n(01:47:27) Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI\n(01:50:18) Gary Gensler confirms SEC\u2019s use of AI for financial surveillance\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(01:50:55) Self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon\u2019s site is AI-generated