#168 - OpenAI vs Scar Jo + safety researchers, MS AI updates, cool Anthropic research

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Gavin Purcell (x.com/gavinpurcell) from AI for Humans podcast (aiforhumans.show)!

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Timestamps + Links:

• () Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections

• Tools & Apps

• () OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/openai-says-sky-voice…)

• () Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade (theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160955/microsofts-cop…) + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs (theverge.com/2024/5/20/24159258/microsoft-reca…)

• () ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/elevenl…)

• () Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive (theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161490/adobe-lightroo…)

• () Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US (cnbc.com/2024/05/21/microsoft-khan-academy-lau…)

• () Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles (engadget.com/microsoft-paint-is-getting-an-ai-…)

• Applications & Business

• () OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (businessinsider.com/openai-altman-brockman-def…)

• () OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million (wsj.com/business/media/openai-news-corp-strike…)

• () CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push (wsj.com/tech/ai/coreweave-raises-7-5-billion-i…)

• () Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors. (theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156602/google-announc…)

• () Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots (venturebeat.com/ai/exclusive-inflection-ai-rev…)

• () Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B (techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/data-labeling-startu…)

• Projects & Open Source

• () Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo (marktechpost.com/2024/05/20/abacus-ai-releases…)

• () Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts (lmsys.org/blog/2024-05-17-category-hard)

• () Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures (theverge.com/2024/5/21/24159282/microsoft-ai-s…)

• Research & Advancements

• () New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box' (gizmodo.com/new-anthropic-research-sheds-light…)

• () Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models (arxiv.org/abs/2405.09818v1)

• () SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model (arxiv.org/abs/2405.08295v1)

• () CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models (arxiv.org/abs/2405.10314v1)

• () Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning (arxiv.org/abs/2405.08054v1)

• () SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models (arxiv.org/abs/2405.08317v1)

• Policy & Safety

• () World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light (cnbc.com/2024/05/21/worlds-first-major-law-for…)

• () Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill (thehill.com/policy/technology/4674836-colorado…)

• () Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation (nytimes.com/2024/05/15/technology/ai-schumer-r…)

• () Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models (semafor.com/article/05/17/2024/google-deepmind…)

• () Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risks (cnbc.com/2024/05/21/tech-giants-pledge-ai-safe…)

• Synthetic Media & Art

• () Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI (techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/sony-music-warns-tec…)

• () Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses (techcrunch.com/2024/05/19/creative-artists-age…)

• () What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? (nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/ai-voice-clo…)

• () Outro + AI Song

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