#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards

Published: June 3, 2024, 12:04 a.m.

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nFeel free to leave us feedback here: https://forms.gle/ngXvXZpNJxaAprDv6\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\n(00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections\nTools & Apps\n(00:04:33) Google\u2019s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online\n(00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot\n(00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser\n(0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul \u2014 and a monthly subscription price\n(00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you\u2019re watching them\n(00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled\n\nApplications & Business\n(00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user\n(00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI\n(00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits\n(00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans \u2014 China continues to move forward despite US sanctions\n(00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits\n(00:48:16) Elon Musk\u2019s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains\n(00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release\n(01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model\n(01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled\n(01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year\n(01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws\n(01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI\n(01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What\u2019s Important\n(01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting\n(01:46:36) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic\n(01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees\n(01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee\n(01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden\u2019s Voice Fined $6 Million\n(01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT\n(02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation\u2019s Firms\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(02:02:23) Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI\n\n(02:04:21) Outro + AI Song