Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
- Applications & Business
- Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
- Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help
- Lighting Round
- Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia
- Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs
- Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI
- Bing Image Creator now has a home in the Edge Sidebar, at least for now
- Research & Advancements
- Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI
- Recursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI) Prompting: An Approach to Improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer and Reasoning Tasks
- Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators
- Lighting Round
- [Not an article] GPT-4 can compress and decompress prompts into non-human-readable forms
- Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome)
- Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
- Another Large Language Model! Meet IGEL: An Instruction-Tuned German LLM Family
- Meet AUDIT: An Instruction-Guided Audio Editing Model Based on Latent Diffusion Models
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Policy & Societal Impacts
- Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI
- AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled?
- Lighting Round
- Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT
- Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
- Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened
- Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT
- Art & Fun Stuff
- The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs
- Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney
- Someone keeps accusing fanfiction authors of writing their fic with AI, and nobody knows why
- How Will AI Transform Photography?