#133 - ChatGPT multi-document chat, CoreWeave raises $2.3B, AudioCraft, ToolLLM, Autonomous Warfare

Our 133rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter

• Response to listener comments / corrections

• Tools & Apps • (05:05) ChatGPT gets several new features, including multi-document chat • (09:02) Tinder tests AI photo selection feature to help users build profiles • (12:35) GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository •

• Applications & Business • (15:55) CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips • (20:25) Nvidia GPU shortage is ‘top gossip’ of Silicon Valley • (23:30) NVIDIA: GPU Supply Issues Involve Packaging, Not Chip Wafers • (27:06) Nvidia's AI GPUs Are Selling for up to $70,000 in China • (30:00) AMD considers making a specific A.I. chip for China to comply with export controls • (31:10) AI chip firm Tenstorrent raises $100 mln from Hyundai, Samsung • (33:22) Cruise begins testing self-driving vehicles in Atlanta • (35:45) Toyota, Pony.ai plan to mass produce robotaxis in China •

• Projects & Open Source • (38:08) Alibaba rolls out open-sourced AI model to take on Meta's Llama 2 •

• Research & Advancements • (42:00) Introducing AudioCraft: A Generative AI Tool For Audio and Music • (46:25) ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs • (52:03) Tool Documentation Enables Zero-Shot Tool-Usage with Large Language Models • (54:54) Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback • (01:00:05) Towards Generalist Biomedical AI • (01:03:53) Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions •

• Policy & Safety • (01:05:55) The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here • (01:12:37) ‘So important’: UK minister endorses Google’s training drive in AI arms race • (01:15:10) Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of new regulations • (01:16:40) Experience: scammers used AI to fake my daughter’s kidnap • (01:19:22) The Stanford University ‘boot camp’ teaching Congress about AI • (01:22:23) Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match •

• Synthetic Media & Art • (01:24:37) Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back • (01:25:48) An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white, with lighter skin and blue eyes. •

• (01:26:47) Outro

Release date

Lydbog: 18. august 2023