#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal

Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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• (00:00) Intro / Banter

• (01:30) SuperDataScience podcast ad

• (03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections

• Tools & Apps • (05:59) ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads • (10:44) ChatGPT can now search the web in real time • (13:30) Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps • (18:26) Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts • (19:32) Windows 11’s next big update is now available with Copilot, AI-powered Paint, and more • (20:21) Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools • (21:32) YouTube Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Tools For Video Creators • (23:20) Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers •

• Applications & Business • (25:00) AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs • (29:28) Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic • (36:24) China to Challenge ASML with a better technology than EUV • (40:00) Intel says newest laptop chips, software will handle generative AI • (43:03) Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images • (46:02) AI Startup Writer Pens $100M Round • (46:40) AI chip startup Kneron secures $49M investment • (48:45) AI startup AlphaSense valued at $2.5 billion after latest funding round • (51:01) A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device • (52:42) Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers • (55:24) Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data •

• Projects & Open Source • (56:11) Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone • (01:01:12) Adept AI Labs Open-Sources Persimmon-8B: A Powerful Fully Permissively-Licensed Language Model with <10 Billion Parameters • (01:03:20) BTLM-3B-8K: 7B Parameter Performance in a 3B Parameter Model •

• Research & Advancements • (01:07:10) AnyMAL: An Efficient and Scalable Any-Modality Augmented Language Model • (01:09:35) DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation • / Text-to-3D using Gaussian Splatting • (01:12:40) Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential • (01:15:38) Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window • (01:17:26) John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence •

• Policy & Safety • (01:19:46) Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill • (01:24:03) AI facial recognition tech leads to wave of lawsuits from Black plaintiffs after mistaken identities end in arrests • (01:26:20) California governor vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety drivers • (01:27:47) Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town • (01:29:00) AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency • (01:30:36) We Can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nuclear Catastrophe •

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• Synthetic Media & Art • (01:33:19) Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I. • (01:35:10) Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness • (01:36:24) Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake • (01:37:36) Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns • (01:39:59) Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors • (01:42:17) Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy • (01:45:22) Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI • (01:48:55) OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List •

• (01:50:16) Outro