#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections

• Tools & Apps • (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online • (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot • (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser • (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price • (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them • (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled •

• Applications & Business • (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user • (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI • (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits • (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions • (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits • (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round •

• Projects & Open Source • (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains • (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release • (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model • (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code •

• Research & Advancements • (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled • (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year • (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws • (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI • (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important • (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says •

• Policy & Safety • (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting • (01:46:36) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic • (01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees • (01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee • (01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden’s Voice Fined $6 Million • (01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT • (02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation’s Firms •

• Synthetic Media & Art • (02:02:23) Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI •

• (02:04:21) Outro + AI Song

Release date

Lydbog: 3. juni 2024