#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks

Published: Feb. 11, 2024, 7:54 p.m.

Our 154th 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 and/or\xa0hello@gladstone.ai\nCorrection: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"\nTimestamps + links:\n(00:00:00) Intro / Banter\nTools & Apps(00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant\n(00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images\n(00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails\n(00:12:40) Brilliant Labs\u2019s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant\n(00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos\n(00:16:18) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro\n\nApplications & Business(00:19:04) A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco \u2013 here\u2019s what happened\n(00:23:30) Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost \u201cstamp\u201d machine\n(00:27:33) US industry group calls for multilateral chip export controls to address disadvantage over Korea, other allies\n(00:30:10) U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company\n(00:32:24) Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production \u2014 could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month\n\nProjects & Open Source(00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model\n(00:42:46) Meet \u2018Smaug-72B\u2019: The new king of open-source AI\n(00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5\n(00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI\u2019s custom GPTs\n(00:53:20)\xa0 Apple releases \u2018MGIE\u2019, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing\n\nResearch & Advancements(00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors\n(01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks\n(01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences\n(01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design\n(01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents\n(01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data\n\nPolicy & Safety(01:13:22) EU\u2019s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption\n(01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation\n(01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices\n(01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute\n(01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails\n\nSynthetic Media & Art(01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: \u2018beyond anything we imagined\u2019\n(01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads\n(01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3\n(01:34:38)\xa0 Following lawsuit, rep admits \u201cAI\u201d George Carlin was human-written\n\n\xa0(01:36:20) Outro