#113 - Nvidia’s 10k GPU, Toolformer, AI alignment, John Oliver

Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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 Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up •

• Research & Advancements Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space RT-1: Robotics Transformer • Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible •

How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction •

• Policy & Societal Impacts "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like •

Planning for AGI and beyond •

• Art & Fun Stuff Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) •

ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon •

‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers •

The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place •