#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 182
Episode description
Our 143rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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Timestamps + links:
- Applications & Business
- (02:53) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
- (12:00) Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event
- (16:05) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes
- (18:30) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van
- (20:55) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU
- (21:35) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota
- (22:38) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe’s third-largest AI round ever
- (23:22) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others
- (24:16) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation
- Tools & Apps
- (25:00) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
- (27:38) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot
- (30:03) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat
- (31:01) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job
- (32:07) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss
- (33:33) Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (40:03) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
- (42:35) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ‘Mirasol3B’ for advanced video analysis
- (45:15) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products
- (46:06) Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation
- (47:54) Title:One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion
- (49:12) Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models
- Policy & Safety
- (51:37) Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards
- (56:10) Amy Klobuchar and John Thune introduce legislation for creating generative AI framework
- (57:55) Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues
- (01:00:19) At UK's AI Summit developers and govts agree on testing to help manage risks
- (01:02:15) White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:04:12) Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal
- (01:07:46) Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music
- (01:10:10) YouTube previews AI tool that clones famous singers — with their permission
- (01:11:08) Microsoft is bringing AI characters to Xbox
- (01:11:49) CBS News Launches New Venture To Identify AI Deepfakes And Misinformation