Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes " Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month " Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (03:00) Reka launches Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant to take on ChatGPT (06:48) Arc browser’s new AI-powered featu...
Oct 17, 2023•2 hr 57 min•Ep 179•Transcript available on Metacast Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast . You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (0...
Oct 10, 2023•2 hr 51 min•Ep 178•Transcript available on Metacast Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!! Note: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:30) Preview of news Tools & Apps (05:40) DALLE-3 (12:47) YouAgent (Richard Soc...
Oct 03, 2023•2 hr 56 min•Ep 177•Transcript available on Metacast Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Jessica Da i. Check out her Reboot publication ! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcas t. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Timestamps ...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep 176•Transcript available on Metacast Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast ! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcas t. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Timestam...
Sep 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep 175•Transcript available on Metacast Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being late again... -Andrey Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcas t. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Timestamps + links: (00:00) In...
Sep 06, 2023•2 hr 40 min•Ep 174•Transcript available on Metacast A special non-news episode in which Andrey and Jeremie discussion AI X-Risk! Please let us know if you'd like use to record more of this sort of thing by emailing contact@lastweekin.ai or commenting whether you listen. Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:55) Topic overview (10:22) Definitions of terms (35:25) AI X-Risk scenarios (41:00) Pathways to Extinction (52:48) Relevant assumptions (58:45) Our positions on AI X-Risk (01:08:10) General Debate (01:31:25) Positive/Negative transfer (01:37:40) X-Risk w...
Aug 30, 2023•2 hr 16 min•Ep 173•Transcript available on Metacast Our 134th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being a bit late this week! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:30) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (03:53) ElevenLabs Comes Out of Beta and Releases Eleven Multilingual v2 - a Foundational AI Speech Model for Nearly 30 La...
Aug 26, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Ep 172•Transcript available on Metacast Our 133rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being a bit late this week! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (05:05) ChatGPT gets several new features, including multi-document chat (09:02) Tinder tests AI photo selection feature to help u...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep 171•Transcript available on Metacast Our 132nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:36) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (05:05) OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (07:45) New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks (10:55) JetBrains IDE update previews...
Aug 08, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Ep 170•Transcript available on Metacast Our 131th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:18) Listener feedback/comments Tools & Apps (07:00) ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave (09:20) GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta (12:38) Wix’s n...
Aug 01, 2023•2 hr 52 min•Ep 169•Transcript available on Metacast Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast . Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (08:30) Google’s AI-assisted note-t...
Jul 25, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Ep 168•Transcript available on Metacast Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time (00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11 (00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in Applications & Busin...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep 167•Transcript available on Metacast Our 128th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:00) Google extends generative AI search to places, products and virtual models Applications & Business (00:05:52) China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year (00:10:33) Inside China'...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 166•Transcript available on Metacast Our 127th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:50) Listener comments / corrections (05:33) News Preview Tools & Apps (06:38) Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot (11:38) LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy (14:26) Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for Flashy F...
Jun 21, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Ep 165•Transcript available on Metacast Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections (03:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed (06:02) A majori...
Jun 13, 2023•2 hr 44 min•Ep 164•Transcript available on Metacast Our 125th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:33) Response to listener comments / corrections (05:30) News Preview Tools & Apps (06:21) A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character (12:16) Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters + Nvidia unv...
Jun 06, 2023•2 hr 37 min•Ep 163•Transcript available on Metacast Our 124th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:30) News Preview Tools & Apps (03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 (08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop (12:26) Bing is now the default search for Cha...
May 29, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Ep 162•Transcript available on Metacast Our 123rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:30) News Preview (05:40) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (07:07) OpenAI rolls out more than 70 ChatGPT plugins including Internet access (11:56) How To Delete You...
May 21, 2023•2 hr 56 min•Ep 161•Transcript available on Metacast Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out the No Priors podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/lastweekinainopriors Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Outline: (00:00) Intro (05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections (07:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (07:50) Microsoft 365’s AI-powered ...
May 13, 2023•2 hr 2 min•Ep 160•Transcript available on Metacast Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means fo...
May 08, 2023•2 hr 54 min•Ep 159•Transcript available on Metacast Our 120th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means fo...
Apr 29, 2023•2 hr 49 min•Ep 158•Transcript available on Metacast Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means fo...
Apr 23, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Ep 157•Transcript available on Metacast Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help Lighting Round Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitte...
Apr 14, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Ep 156•Transcript available on Metacast Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Google's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AI Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 Million With Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up Lighting Ro...
Apr 07, 2023•2 hr 37 min•Ep 155•Transcript available on Metacast Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more NVIDIA's big AI moment is here Lighting Round Former head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems Generative AI set to affect 300 mill...
Mar 31, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Ep 154•Transcript available on Metacast Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ 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 ...
Mar 26, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business LLM/ChatGPT roundup RadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature Shortwave email app introduces...
Mar 10, 2023•2 hr 34 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & Business Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I. Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it Amazon’s...
Mar 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast Our 112th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Stories this week: Applications & Business Microsoft's Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈 Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets Roblox is working on generative AI tools Researc...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast 
