#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates
Nov 24, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Ep. 183
Episode description
Our 144th 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:
- (00:00) Intro/Banter
- Applications & Business
- (01:30) Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
- (20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns
- (22:30) GM’s Self-Driving Car Unit Skids Off Course
- (24:00) Leaked email shows Amazon is cutting 'several hundred' jobs across Alexa business, including the newly launched Artificial General Intelligence team
- (25:35) US Chip Ban Fallout Spreads as Alibaba Scraps Cloud Spinoff
- (27:48) Tencent Stockpiled Enough NVIDIA AI GPUs To Last Them A Couple More Generations
- (29:44) Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever — no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse
- (31:37) US Launches $3 Billion Effort to Boost Advanced Chip Packaging
- (34:50) Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team
- Tools & Apps
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (45:43) Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure
- (53:35) Meet JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-Task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models
- (58:10) NVIDIA’s “NeMo” Model Now Tuned For Chip Development, Showing Exceptional Results
- (01:00:33) UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs
- Policy & Safety
- (01:02:35) President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
- (01:12:44) Tech firms to allow vetting of AI tools, as Musk warns all human jobs threatened
- As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits
- (01:16:41) France, Germany and Italy join forces to propose unified AI regulation in the EU
- (01:22:02) UK will refrain from regulating AI ‘in the short term’
- (01:24:31) If you get sued for an AI-generated creative work, OpenAI says it will protect you while Anthropic says you're on your own
- (01:29:41) China tightens rare-earth export curbs amid tension with U.S.
- Synthetic Media & Art