#150 - GPT Store, new Nvidia chips, DeepMinds robotics progress, bad uses of AI

Published: Jan. 14, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Our 150th 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 + links:\n(00:00:00) Intro / Banter\nTools & Apps(00:02:49) OpenAI\u2019s custom GPT Store is now open for business\n(00:06:52) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams\nLighting round(00:09:18) The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you\n(00:11:18) Amazon\u2019s Alexa gets new generative AI-powered experiences\n(00:12:55) Google appears to be working on an \u2018advanced\u2019 version of Bard that you have to pay for\n\n\nApplications & Business(00:14:24) Nvidia's newest chips are designed to run AI at home as competition from Intel, AMD looms\n(00:16:52) Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI\nLighting round(00:19:16) AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M\n(00:21:33) Waymo will start testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways\n(00:23:24) Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos\n\n\nResearch & Advancements(00:25:10) DeepMind is trying to train robots for real-world activities\n(00:29:03) MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts\nLighting round(00:33:18) PIXART-\u03b4: Fast and Controllable Image Generation with Latent Consistency Models\n(00:35:20)\xa0 InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes\n(00:37:06) The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models\n(00:39:33) Mixtral of Experts\n\n\nPolicy & Safety(00:40:38) Meta and OpenAI have spawned a wave of AI sex companions\u2014and some of them are children\n(00:46:30) \u2018Impossible\u2019 to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says\nLighting round(00:49:52) Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions\n(00:51:43) Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive\n\n\nSynthetic Media & Art(00:55:09) A list going viral reveals famous artists whose work was used to train AI generator\n(00:58:28) YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated true crime deepfakes\nLighting round(01:00:27) AI-Generated George Carlin Comedy Special Slammed by Comedian\u2019s Daughter\n(01:01:56) SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games\n(01:03:26) Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain\u2014and AI is already on the case