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Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\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.\nRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/\nEmail us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai\nTimestamps + links:\n(00:00:00)\xa0 Intro / Banter\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes\n(00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads\n(00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead\n(00:12:20) Guns N\u2019 Roses share AI-generated video for \u2018The General\u2019\n\nTools & Apps\n(00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool\n(00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes \u2018lazy\u2019 GPT-4 that refused to work\n(00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant\n(00:23:47)\xa0 ChatGPT finally has competition \u2014 Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade\n(00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations\n(00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones\n\nApplications & Business\n(00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report\n(00:34:25) Cruise wasn\u2019t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators \u2014 it just had bad internet\n(00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development\n(00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI\n(00:47:22)\xa0 AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind\u2019s AlphaCode\n(00:53:00) Meta\u2019s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4\n(00:54:30) DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence\nLighting round\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding\n(01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty\n(01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems?\n(01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models\n(01:20:30) A \u2018Shocking\u2019 Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes\n(01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models\n(01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order\n(01:33:06) Rep. Jeff Jackson Introduces Bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to Stop China from Remotely Using American Technology to Build AI Tools\n(01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake\n(01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation\n\n(01:45:15) Outro