Last Week in AI

Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessLLM/ChatGPT roundupRadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 BillionAnthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups Lighting RoundMicrosoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation Research & AdvancementsGoogle’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commandsPaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network? Lighting RoundScientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology Lighting Round A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son TikTok’s trendy beauty filter ushers in new tech and new problems UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI "invent ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI Art & Fun StuffAI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyoneSci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon  ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place

Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I. Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers  Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots  Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up Research & Advancements Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space RT-1: Robotics Transformer Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible  How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction Policy & Societal Impacts "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like  Planning for AGI and beyond Art & Fun Stuff Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)  ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon  ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers  The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place

Our 112th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Stories this week: Applications & Business Microsoft's Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈 Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets Roblox is working on generative AI tools  Research & Advancements BioGPT: Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining MarioGPT - A new way to encode and generate Super Mario Bros levels Machine learning techniques identify thousands of new cosmic objects AI analyzes cell movement under the microscope Accelerating Prime Editing: Machine Learning Helps Design the Best Fix for a Given Genetic Flaw Enhance! Deep learning tool boosts X-ray imaging resolution and hydrogen fuel cell performance  Policy & Societal Impacts Beijing to support key firms in building ChatGPT-like AI models Only you can stop an AI apocalypse South Korea aims to join AI race as startup Rebellions launches new chip GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets U.S., China, other nations urge 'responsible' use of military AI Art & Fun Stuff Voice Actors are Having Their Voices Stolen by AI Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack Keanu Reeves Says Deepfakes Are ‘Scary,’ Confirms His Film Contracts Ban Digital Edits to His Acting: ‘They Added a Tear to My Face! Huh?’ TikTokers are roasting McDonald's hilarious drive-thru AI order fails — and it shows that robots won't take over restaurants any time soon

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Listen with transcript Stories this week: Applications & Business Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot Lighting Round Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI  AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation  OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee  Instagram’s founders are back with a new app  Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |…  Research & Advancements Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT  A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected  Lighting Round Whispers of AI’s modular future AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find  AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning Policy & Societal Impacts Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards  Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning Lighting Round Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision  Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed  Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified Art & Fun Stuff AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now

Our 110th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! After a 4 month break, we're back with a new co-host, and will resume our regular weekly upload schedule. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast. Stories this week: Applications & Business BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content related : CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories Who owns the generative AI platform? Lighting Round Here’s Why ChatGPT is just the start of the generative AI boom Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT  Generative AI funding exploded over the past 2 years After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts  Research & Advancements ChatGPT’s creator made a free tool for detecting AI-generated text New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text Related:  Stanford introduces DetectGPT to help educators fight back against ChatGPT generated papers Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it Lighting Round Versatile robo-dog runs through the sandy beach at 3 mile/sec  AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they work GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit  Policy & Societal Impacts 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse Educator considerations for ChatGPT Lighting Round Scores of Stanford students used ChatGPT on final exams, survey suggests - “Stanford students and professors alike are grappling with the rise of ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, and the technology’s implications for education.” When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy Tries to Clarify AI-generated art a concern for local artists who say there’s still a need for human creativity Robot Cars Are Causing 911 False Alarms in San Francisco  Art & Fun Stuff I wrote a short story! - I Think I Am Starting to Fear Death Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics 

Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day (07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impact your city  (10:00) Artificial Intelligence Spending Grew 20.7% Worldwide in 2021, According to IDC (10:52) Tesla is being sued over Autopilot and Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving predictions  (11:50) Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas  (13:00) Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework (13:45) Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video , Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video (19:05) OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system (23:00) Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents? Cues from moving eyes could help pedestrians anticipate vehicle's intentions (24:00) Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp (25:00) How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain  (25:30) NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds (26:45) Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands , House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition (30:30) Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art  (33:14) Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges (34:00)  A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat (34:50) There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI (35:45) US to invest $50 billion in spring 2023 as it looks to counter Chinese chip development  (36:25) Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine (39:40) I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion (43:00) Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions (43:55) Hellblade developer Ninja Theory confirms it won’t replace voice actors with AI (45:35) Outro

Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline (00:00) Intro (03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers  (08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps  (14:30) French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools (15:12) AI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the moon (15:40) Artificial intelligence can be used to better monitor Maine's forests  (16:34) Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in drive-thru lanes  (17:45) Using AI to decode speech from brain activity (23:20) Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests (27:50) Canadian researchers using machine learning to mitigate effects of climate change  (29:25) Researchers Develop ‘TiCoder’ Framework For Code Generation Using User Feedback With 90.4% Consistency To User Intent  (31:12) Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment in Women with Heart Attacks  (31:41) MIT Researchers use Machine Learning to Expedite Research on New Battery Materials  (32:48) Review finds ‘paucity of robust evidence’ on impact of AI clinical outcomes  (36:00) France puts healthcare at heart of $1.8B AI strategy  (39:00) Clearview: Glasses With Facial Recognition Are Here—And The Air Force Is Buying (40:00) New York City AI Bias Law Charts New Territory for Employers  (40:37) U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China (42:00) UK Government Releases New AI Security Guidance (43:31) Everything Everything's AI-Derived 'Raw Data Feel' Tackles Mental Health, Conspiracy TheoriesEverything Everything - I Want A Love Like This (47:05) Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice Holly Herndon - Eternal (50:17) A LinkedIn Marketing Agency Acquired an AI That Writes Mega-Cringe LinkedIn Posts (53:24) An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed (57:00) Outro

Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Machine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery Duration (05:30) Sanas, the buzzy Silicon Valley startup that wants to make the world sound whiter (10:50) AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others (14:12) AI-based method for dating archeological remains (18:33) You just hired a deepfake. Get ready for the rise of imposter employees.  (22:43) Deepfakes for all: Uncensored AI art model prompts ethics questions , This AI Tool Is Being Used To Make Freaky, Machine-Generated Porn (29:00) Here's how the best AI art generators compare (35:03) The Great FIlter Button (39:11) Outro

Our 106th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01: 32) Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals? (06:13) How rangers are using AI to help protect India’s tigers (09:13) Meta Starts Testing Its Latest AI Chatbot, BlenderBot 3  (10:35) AI startup Cerebras celebrated for chip triumph where others tried and failed (11:35) You can (sort of) generate art like Dall-E with TikTok’s latest filter (13:10) Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card  (16:00) Wearable AI Sensor Supports Personalized Health Data Processing, Analysis (20:15) AI pilot can navigate crowded airspace (24:18) Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics (25:30) In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice (26:26) New algorithm aces university math course questions (27:28) The AI-powered swimmer is able to switch between different locomotory gaits adaptively to navigate toward any target location on its own (28:25) Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK (32:30) Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him (35:35) AI Contractors Eyeing Bigger Role Backed by Chips Bill Funds (37:26) China drafts rules on use of self-driving vehicles for public transport (38:30) Baidu's robotaxis don't need any human staff in these parts of China (39:35) U.S. appeals court says artificial intelligence can’t be patent inventor (41:45) Robot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants In The Round (44:20) Think Your Street Needs a Redesign? Ask an AI (50:09) Outro

Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: there was again a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to [email protected] - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:30) AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths (05:05) Inside Midjourney, The Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E  (09:20) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (10:30) Amazon-owned self driving firm Zoox seeks to test robotaxi in California (12:10) Baidu unveils latest autonomous electric vehicle: Apollo RT6 (13:10) Neural Sleeve is a bionic leg wrap that uses AI to correct walking patterns  (14:05) Novel method allows robots to learn in the wild (18:45) Clinicians can build trust with machine learning through experience (24:00) Machine learning identifies gun buyers at risk of suicide (24:36)  Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems (24:50)  Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning  (25:17) DeepMind & UCL’s Stochastic MuZero Achieves SOTA Results in Complex Stochastic Environments (26:15) Meet the startups using AI to help doctors fight burnout (30:22) Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth? (36:15) Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2 (40:05) If A.I. Generated Book Jackets Based on Literary Titles…