#115 - GPT4, Bard, AGI, Alpaca, Anthropic, Midjourney V5

Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business
  • GPT-4
    • GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why 
    • GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired
  • Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions
  • Lighting Round
    • Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
    • Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses
    • Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You
    • Introducing Claude
• Research & Advancements
  • Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI
  • Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model
  • Lighting Round
    • Our latest health AI research updates
    • Machine learning takes starring role in exploring the universe 
    • A new method to boost the speed of online databases
    • MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks
• Policy & Societal Impacts
  • Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How
  • Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
  • Lighting Round
    • Some high-level thoughts on the DeepMind alignment team's strategy
    • Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now?
    • AI Scams and Influencers
    • AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office 
    • I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients 
• Art & Fun Stuff
  • Midjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art
  • Illustration competitions grapple with generative AI
  • Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display
  • AI and Copyright: Human Artistry Campaign Launches to Support Songwriters and Musicians’ Rights