#164 - Meta AI, Phi-3, OpenELM, Bollywood Deepfakes

Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• Tools & Apps

• (00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps (nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/meta-ai-assi…)

• (00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (theverge.com/2024/4/23/24137534/microsoft-phi-…)

• (00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now (theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138090/ray-ban-meta-s…)

• (00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 (arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04…)

• (00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months (scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3259205/baid…)

• (00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgrades (zdnet.com/article/the-new-and-improved-adobe-p…)

• Applications & Business

• (00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World’s Most Advanced Chips (wccftech.com/intel-the-pentagon-deepen-ties-to…)

• (00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I. (nytimes.com/2024/04/24/technology/meta-profit-…)

• (00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters (theregister.com/2024/04/22/openai_ceo_sam_altm…)

• (00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams (foxbusiness.com/technology/google-consolidates…)

• (00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chips (windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-and-ope…)

• Projects & Open Source

• (00:39:03) Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device (venturebeat.com/ai/apple-releases-openelm-smal…)

• (00:44:12) Snowflake launches Arctic, an open ‘mixture-of-experts’ LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3 (venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/snowflake-…)

• Research & Advancements

• (00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions (arxiv.org/abs/2404.13208v1)

• (00:55:11) Groq’s breakthrough AI chip achieves blistering 800 tokens per second on Meta’s LLaMA 3 (venturebeat.com/ai/groqs-breakthrough-ai-chip-…)

• (00:59:52) Microsoft shows off VASA-1, an AI framework that makes human headshots talk, sing (venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-shows-off-vasa-1-…)

• (01:01:59) Intel Builds World’s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI (intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/inte…)

• Policy & Safety

• (01:05:11) Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election (arabnews.com/node/2497011/world)

• (01:08:51) LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities (arxiv.org/abs/2404.08144)

• (01:15:27) The Necessity of AI Audit Standards Boards (arxiv.org/abs/2404.13060)

• (01:19:45) A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI (storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind…)

• (01:22:45) COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING (arxiv.org/abs/2402.14020)

• (01:26:40) China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders show (reuters.com/world/china/china-acquired-recentl…)

• Synthetic Media & Art

• (01:29:08) Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac (theverge.com/2024/4/24/24139442/tupac-ai-lawsu…)

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