#147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’ translator

Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read

• Tools & Apps • (00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT • (00:14:15) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked •

• (00:19:33) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great • (00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini • (00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano • (00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds • (00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT • (00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke" • (00:34:51) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years • (00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache •

• Applications & Business • (00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s • (00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions • (00:46:44) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions • (00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side • (00:51:46) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet • (00:54:08) Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts • (00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models • (00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M •

• Projects & Open Source • (00:59:20) Mixtral of experts • (01:05:50) Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages • (01:07:07) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers • (01:10:15) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development •

• Research & Advancements • (01:13:21) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image — you have to see it to believe it • (01:14:20) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1 • (01:17:40) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning • (01:19:04) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders • (01:21:20) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models • (01:23:40) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research •

• Policy & Safety • (01:26:41) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules • (01:33:58) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment • (01:39:12) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation • (01:41:22) US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China • (01:44:12) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI • (01:47:25) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI •

• Synthetic Media & Art • (01:49:03) High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed • (01:52:55) Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle •

• (01:55:57) Outro

Release date

Lydbog: 17. december 2023