#118 - Anthropic vs OpenAI, AutoGPT, RL at Scale, AI Safety, Memeworthy AI Videos

Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help • Lighting Round Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI Bing Image Creator now has a home in the Edge Sidebar, at least for now •

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• Research & Advancements Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AIRecursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI) Prompting: An Approach to Improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer and Reasoning Tasks •

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Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators • Lighting Round [Not an article] GPT-4 can compress and decompress prompts into non-human-readable forms Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome) Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images Another Large Language Model! Meet IGEL: An Instruction-Tuned German LLM Family Meet AUDIT: An Instruction-Guided Audio Editing Model Based on Latent Diffusion Models •

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• Policy & Societal Impacts Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled? • Lighting Round Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT •

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• Art & Fun Stuff The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney Someone keeps accusing fanfiction authors of writing their fic with AI, and nobody knows why How Will AI Transform Photography? •