#116 - ChatGPT plugins, AI hardware, petition to pause AI, Trump deepfakes

Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more NVIDIA's big AI moment is here • Lighting Round Former head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job •

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• Research & Advancements Learning to grow machine-learning models Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo • Lighting Round New virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making •

Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator •

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• Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’ 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months” • Lighting Round In San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all • Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC

Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes •

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• Art & Fun Stuff People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet) WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit •

Release date

Lydbog: 31. marts 2023