#164 - Meta AI, Phi-3, OpenELM, Bollywood Deepfakes

Published: April 30, 2024, 4:27 p.m.

Our 164th 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(00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps\n(00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet\n(00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now\n(00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022\n(00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months\n(00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgrades\n\nApplications & Business\n(00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World\u2019s Most Advanced Chips\n(00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.\n(00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters\n(00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams\n(00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chips\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(00:39:03) Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device\n(00:44:12) Snowflake launches Arctic, an open \u2018mixture-of-experts\u2019 LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions\n(00:55:11) Groq\u2019s breakthrough AI chip achieves blistering 800 tokens per second on Meta\u2019s LLaMA 3\n(00:59:52) Microsoft shows off VASA-1, an AI framework that makes human headshots talk, sing\n(01:01:59) Intel Builds World\u2019s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:05:11) Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election\n(01:08:51) LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities\n(01:15:27) The Necessity of AI Audit Standards Boards\n(01:19:45) A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI\n(01:22:45) COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING\n(01:26:40) China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders show\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(01:29:08) Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac