#138 - DALLE-3, YouAgent, Gemini, NExT-GPT, AI book labeling

Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!!

Note: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward!

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter

• (04:30) Preview of news

• Tools & Apps • (05:40) DALLE-3 • (12:47) YouAgent (Richard Socher thread) •

• Applications & Business • (20:03) Google's Gemini AI surpasses Chat GPT-4 fivefold: Report • (25:16) Google begins external testing of its GPT-4 competitor "Gemini" • (26:30) From sanctions to silicon: China’s semiconductor breakthrough • (35:41) AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the U.S. • (41:19) SoftBank planning OpenAI investment: Financial Times • (44:30) OpenAI Hustles to Beat Google to Launch ‘Multimodal’ LLM • (46:40) The AI Detection Arms Race Is On • (51:30) Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups • (55:15) AI chip startup Enfabrica raises $125 mln, with backing from Nvidia • (56:41) Databricks raises over $500 mln at $43 bln valuation •

• Projects & Open Source • (01:01:15) Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates •

• Research & Advancements • (01:10:19) NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM • (01:15:35) On measuring situational awareness in LLMs • (01:22:50) Language Modeling Is Compression • (01:26:22) How AI can Revolutionize Science • ( Jeremie’s gift link • )

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• Policy & Safety • (01:33:33) Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites • (01:36:08) Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy • (01:41:45) Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit • (01:43:48) EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers • (01:44:26) Biden-⁠Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI • (01:45:23) Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist to testify in Senate AI hearings • (01:46:40) AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous • (01:47:27) Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI • (01:50:18) Gary Gensler confirms SEC’s use of AI for financial surveillance •

• Synthetic Media & Art • (01:50:55) Self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon’s site is AI-generated •