Technology
#152 - live translation on phones, Meta aims at AGI, AlphaGeometry, political deepfakes
2024-01-28
Our 152nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:15) Samsung’s latest Galaxy phones offer live translation over phone calls, texts
- (00:06:16) The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’
- (00:10:31) Google is using AI to organize and customize your Chrome browser
- (00:12:10) Adobe’s new AI-powered Premiere Pro features eradicate boring audio editing tasks
- (00:13:16) Waymo looks to launch full fleet of robotaxis in LA
- (00:15:16) Tesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:45) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips
- (00:25:00) Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
- (00:32:43) AI voice startup ElevenLabs lands $80M round, launches marketplace of cloned voices
- (00:35:03) Anthropic’s Margins Raise Questions on AI Startups’ Long-Term Profitability
- (00:38:00) Cohere in talks to raise as much as $1bn as AI arms race heats up
- (00:39:40) DOJ and FTC push to investigate Microsoft's OpenAI partnership- Politico
- (00:41:30) Figure announces commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to bring general purpose robots into automotive production
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:43:28) Stability AI unveils smaller, more efficient 1.6B language model as part of ongoing innovation
- Research & Advancements
- (00:48:58) AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
- (00:54:02) Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation
- (00:56:33) ChatQA: Building GPT-4 Level Conversational QA Models
- (00:59:13) Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model
- (01:01:28) VMamba: Visual State Space Model
- (01:03:40) Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data
- Policy & Safety
- (01:04:40) OpenAI suspends developer behind Dean Phillips bot
- (01:06:49) Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote Tuesday
- (01:09:10) Sharing Fake Nude Images Could Become a Federal Crime Under Proposed Law
- (01:11:00) San Francisco takes legal action over ‘unsafe,’ ‘disruptive’ self-driving cars
- (01:13:40) Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election
- (01:15:55) AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:20:27) Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.?
- (01:23:48) AI models that don’t violate copyright are getting a new certification label
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