#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec

Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• Tools & Apps
• (00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (venturebeat.com/ai/elevenlabs-previews-music-g…)

• (00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts (arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04…)

• (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices (businesswire.com/news/home/20240509196718/en/S…)

• (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan (venturebeat.com/ai/stability-ai-sows-gen-ai-di…)

• (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/apple-siri-ai-…)

• (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand (cnbc.com/2024/05/09/alibaba-rolls-out-latest-v…)

• Applications & Business
• (00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT (theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150341/openai-stack-ov…)

• (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05…)

• (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion (nytimes.com/2024/05/06/technology/wayve-ai-sel…)

• (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring (techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/motional-delays-comm…)

• (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI (cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-ai-startups-val…)

• Projects & Open Source
• (00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models (arxiv.org/abs/2405.01535v1)

• (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (arxiv.org/abs/2405.04434v2)

• (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities (marktechpost.com/2024/04/29/openvoice-v2-evolv…)

• (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence (arxiv.org/abs/2405.04324v1)

• (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (venturebeat.com/automation/hugging-face-launch…)

• (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models (reka.ai/news/vibe-eval)

• Research & Advancements
• (00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA (wired.com/story/alphafold-3-google-deepmind-ai…)

• (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory (arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517v1)

• (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation (arxiv.org/abs/2405.01434v1)

• (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems (arxiv.org/abs/2402.12875v2)

• (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (arxiv.org/abs/2404.19756)

• Policy & Safety
• (01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models (reuters.com/technology/us-lawmakers-unveil-bil…)

• (01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI (theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152273/openai-model-sp…)

• (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-arm…)

• (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers (nytimes.com/2024/05/07/technology/openai-deepf…)

• Synthetic Media & Art
• (01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles (bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-02/audi…)

• (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3 (techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/tiktok-automatically…)

• (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala (ibtimes.co.uk/katy-perrys-fan-made-ai-image-so…)

• (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam (interestingengineering.com/culture/woman-falls…)

• (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men (economist.com/china/2024/05/09/why-young-russi…)

• (01:40:18) AI Outro Song

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