#147 - Googles Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Metas Seamless translator

Published: Dec. 17, 2023, 9:08 p.m.

Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nCorrection: Gemini also supports audio\nAlso check 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.\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(00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read\nTools & Apps\n(00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT\n(00:14:15) Google\u2019s best Gemini demo was faked\xa0\n(00:19:33) Early impressions of Google\u2019s Gemini aren\u2019t great\n(00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini\n(00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro \u2014 the first smartphone with AI built in \u2014 is now running Gemini Nano\n(00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds\n(00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT\n(00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke"\n(00:34:51) Gmail\u2019s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years\n(00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache\n\nApplications & Business\n(00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD\u2019s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia\u2019s\n(00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier \u2014 Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions\n(00:46:44) OpenAI\u2019s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions\n(00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side\n(00:51:46)\xa0 Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet\n(00:54:08) Tesla\u2019s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts\n(00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models\n(00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(00:59:20) Mixtral of experts\n(01:05:50) Meta AI unveils \u2018Seamless\u2019 translator for real-time communication across languages\n(01:07:07) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers\n(01:10:15) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(01:13:21) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image \u2014 you have to see it to believe it\n(01:14:20) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1\n(01:17:40) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning\n(01:19:04) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders\n(01:21:20) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models\n(01:23:40) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:26:41) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules\n(01:33:58) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment\n(01:39:12) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words \u2018Forever\u2019 Is Now a Terms of Service Violation\n(01:41:22)\xa0 US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China\n(01:44:12) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI\n(01:47:25) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(01:49:03) High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed\n(01:52:55) Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle\n\n(01:55:57) Outro