#158 - Claude 3, Elon Musk sues OpenAI, StarCoder 2, AI-Generated Spam

Published: March 10, 2024, 7:38 p.m.

Our 158th 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\nTimestamps + links:\nTools & Apps\n(00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude\n(00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper\n(00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini\n(00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3\n(00:24:25) Wix\u2019s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts\n(00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic\u2014and you can too\n\nApplications & Business\n(00:27:40) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity , OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails\n(00:35:42) Inside the Crisis at Google\n(00:38:36) It\u2019s official: Waymo robotaxis are now free to use freeways and leave San Francisco\n(00:40:33) Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase \u2014 Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call\n(00:42:43) AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(00:45:13) StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation\n(00:49:05) Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images\n(00:51:21) H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components\n(00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper\n(01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models\n(01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms\n(01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics\n(01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and the Reasoning Gap\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:15:18) India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches\n(01:19:16) When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges with Partial Observability of Human Evaluators in Reward Learning\n(01:24:45) OpenAI signs open letter to build AI responsibly just days after Elon Musk sued the company for putting profit ahead of people\n(01:27:37) AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET\u2019s reliability rating\n(01:29:40) Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users\u2019 machines\n(01:32:25) China offers AI computing \u2018vouchers\u2019 to its underpowered start-ups\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(01:34:18) Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images\n(01:37:10) AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon\n(01:39:55) Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers\n(01:43:35) Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet\n\nFun!\n(01:46:35) Man tries to steal driverless car in L.A., doesn\u2019t get far: police