#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec

Published: May 12, 2024, 7:49 p.m.

Our 166th 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:\n(00:00:00) Intro / Banter\nTools & Apps(00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model\n(00:09:31) Mysterious \u201cgpt2-chatbot\u201d AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts\n(00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices\n(00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan\n(00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors\n(00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand\n\nApplications & Business(00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT\n(00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini\n(00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion\n(00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring\n(00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI\n\nProjects & Open Source(00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models\n(00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model\n(00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities\n(00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence\n(00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library\n(00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models\n\nResearch & Advancements(00:50:02) Google DeepMind\u2019s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA\n(00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory\n(01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation\n(01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems\n(01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks\n\nPolicy & Safety(01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models\n(01:17:30) OpenAI\u2019s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI\n(01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation\n(01:25:15) OpenAI Releases \u2018Deepfake\u2019 Detector to Disinformation Researchers\n\nSynthetic Media & Art(01:28:15) Audible\u2019s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles\n(01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL\xb7E 3\n(01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala\n(01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam\xa0\n(01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men\n\n(01:40:18) AI Outro Song