#111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot • Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine •

Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot • Lighting Round Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI • AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation •

OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee •

Instagram’s founders are back with a new app •

Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |… •

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• Research & Advancements Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected •

• Lighting Round Whispers of AI’s modular future AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find •

AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning •

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• Policy & Societal Impacts Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards • Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word •

Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning • Lighting Round Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision •

Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed •

Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified •

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• Art & Fun Stuff AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now •