Last Week in AI· Folge 206

#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

Sonntag, 19. Mai 2024 · 1 h 43

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Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Daliana Liu (linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu) from The Data Scientist Show! (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-data-scienti…)

And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.

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Timestamps + links:

• Intro / Banter

• Tools & Apps

• () OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users (theverge.com/2024/5/13/24155493/openai-gpt-4o-…)

• () Project Astra is the future of AI at Google (theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156296/google-ai-gemi…)

• () Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-…)

• () Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models (engadget.com/google-unveils-veo-and-imagen-3-i…)

• () Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/google-unveil…)

• () Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console (marktechpost.com/2024/05/10/anthropic-ai-launc…)

• Applications & Business

• () OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company (nytimes.com/2024/05/14/technology/ilya-sutskev…)

• () Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer (anthropic.com/news/mike-krieger-joins-anthropic)

• () $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl (newatlas.com/robotics/unitree-g1-humanoid-agent)

• () GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board (abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/gms-cruise…)

• () US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes (reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-o…)

• () Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps (techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/waymo-safety-probe-n…)

• Projects & Open Source

• () Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit (developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-family-and-…)

• () Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3 (businesswire.com/news/home/20240513516248/en/F…)

• () License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 (huggingface.co/blog/agents)

• Research & Advancements

• () The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987)

• () SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture (arxiv.org/abs/2405.06694v1)

• Policy & Safety

• () Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes (fedscoop.com/senate-bill-on-ai-security-bolste…)

• () U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety (techcrunch.com/2024/05/11/u-k-agency-releases-…)

• () Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It (wired.com/story/protesters-pause-ai-split-stop)

• Synthetic Media & Art

• () Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155927/google-ai-synt…)

• () How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright (wired.com/story/the-us-copyright-office-loosen…)

• () Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (pcgamer.com/games/strategy/stellaris-gets-an-d…)

• () At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech (techcrunch.com/2024/05/11/at-the-ai-film-festi…)

• () Daliana Interviews Andrey

• () AI Outro Song

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