#117 - Google’s Bard Rush, BloombergGPT, ChatGPT King, Balenciaga Harry Potter

Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business Google's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AIAlphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI •

February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 MillionWith Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up •

• Lighting Round Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub Birth of a Salesman: OpenAI Sheds Its Lab Coat to Seek Big Deals •

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• Research & Advancements Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI • Lighting Round Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons •

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• Policy & Societal Impacts The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained • Lighting Round How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images go mainstream FTC Is Reviewing Competition in Artificial Intelligence Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse •

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• Art & Fun Stuff Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography” Artificial intelligence deepfake video of Harry Potter characters in faux-Balenciaga fashion show goes viral •

Release date

Lydbog: 7. april 2023