#141 - Adobe AI upgrades, Ernie 4.0, TimeGPT, No Fakes Act, AI drones

Published: Oct. 26, 2023, 2:38 p.m.

Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!\nRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/\nEmail us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai\nCheck out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there\u2019s a video version on YouTube.\nTimestamps + Links:\n(00:00) Intro / Banter\n(01:00) SuperDataScience podcast ad\nTools & Apps(02:55) Adobe is upgrading Photoshop\u2019s generative AI model \u2014 and releasing more for Illustrator and Express\n(07:52) Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other\n(14:15) Kendall Jenner becomes "Billie": Meta's AI celebrities face more resistance than enthusiasm\n(18:22) Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta\n\nApplications & Business(20:22) Google Cloud pledges a \u2018shared fate,\u2019 offering legal indemnification for customers\n(25:00) Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4\n(31:05) Key Arm China Staff Quit to Create Government-Backed Startup\n(33:30) AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia\n(34:47) Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails\n(37:20) ChatGPT\u2019s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing\n(38:46) TSMC: ecosystem for 2nm chip development is nearing completion\n(41:50) OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut\n\nResearch & Advancements(46:35) LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music\n(50:20) TimeGPT-1\n(55:25) How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?\n(01:00:17) HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time\n(01:04:33) PaLI-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger\n(01:05:42) A Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF\n(01:08:20) Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity\n\nPolicy & Safety(01:12:05) No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas\n(01:15:03) Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight\n(01:19:59) How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington\n(01:28:38) China targets 50% boost in computing power as AI race with U.S. ramps up\n(01:31:03) China proposes blacklist of sources used to train generative AI models\n(01:34:44) Biden to cut China off from more Nvidia chips, expand curbs to more countries\n(01:37:51) TSMC expects permanent U.S. approval to supply chip tools to its China factory\n(01:40:34) Southeast Asia eyes hands-off AI rules, defying EU ambitions\n\nSynthetic Media & Art(01:44:05) AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War\n\n(01:47:03) Outro