#123 - Delete your info from ChatGPT, Google’s AI plans, EU act targets OSS, PaLM 2, writers’ strike

Our 123rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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 Your Data From ChatGPT • (17:45) Google is throwing generative AI at everything • (23:12) Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes • (25:20) Google develops tool to spot fake AI images after puffer jacket Pope went viral • (26:48) Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-Style Search to Its Online Store • (27:35) W&B Prompts •

• Applications & Business • (28:55) Generative AI Breaks The Data Center: Data Center Infrastructure And Operating Costs Projected To Increase To Over $76 Billion By 2028 •

• (31:31) OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million for Global Crypto Worldcoin •

• (33:33) OpenAI Confirms ChatGPT Data Breach • (35:15) Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers • (36:50) AI Startup Rewind Gets 170 Offers—and $350 Million Valuation in Unusual Fundraising • (38:43) Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare •

• Projects & Open Source • (40:22) EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software • (44:53) Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models • (47:15) Stability AI releases an open source text-to-animation tool • (49:19) Listener submission - PandasAI •

• Research & Advancements • (50:53) PaLM 2 Technical Report • (56:48) Microsoft AI Research Introduces Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): A Simple and General-Purpose Framework for the Automatic Optimization of LLM Prompts • (59:51) Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence • (01:05:05) Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector • (01:08:45) An Inverse Scaling Law for CLIP Training • (01:11:13) Active Retrieval Augmented Generation • (01:12:53) Professional Certification Benchmark Dataset: The First 500 Jobs For Large Language Models • (01:16:17) FrugalGPT: How to Use Large Language Models While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance •

• Policy & Safety • (01:18:37) A.I. ‘controls humanity’ in the worst-case scenario but will probably just find us boring, says Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque • (01:20:37) Hinton issues another AI warning: World needs to find a way to control artificial intelligence • (01:26:48) Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion • (01:30:08) The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK • (01:32:00) AI voice scams: Report shares 77% of victims lose money, how common it is, and how to protect yourself • (01:34:19) Police near Seattle issue warning about AI phone scammers impersonating family members • (01:36:01) How to spot AI-generated text •

• AI-Generated Media & Art • (01:37:32) Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers' strike • (01:39:15) China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral • (01:42:16) Hybe uses AI voice technology for Midnatt's multilingual single • (01:43:18) Trump shares fake video of Anderson Cooper reacting to CNN town hall • (01:46:30) Not even NYT bestsellers are safe from AI cover art •

• (01:48:35) Listener Question - more on the writer’s strike(?)

• (01:54:48) Outro