#127 - chatbot dating app, AI at work, RedPajama 7B, tons of research, workers most worried that A.I.

Our 127th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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 Fliers, Social Videos • (15:33) WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you • (17:00) Google’s Bard AI can now write and execute code to answer a question •

• Applications & Business • (19:00) AI at Work: What People Are Saying • (22:15) Doctors Are Using Chatbots in an Unexpected Way • (26:05) Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report • (28:15) OpenAI chief executive does not plan to take company public • (29:49) The $500 million robot pizza startup you never heard of has shut down, report says • (31:16) Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses • (32:32) Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings • (33:50) A new important Generative A.I. startup has come out of stealth •

• Projects & Open Source • (36:05) RedPajama 7B now available, instruct model outperforms all open 7B models on HELM benchmarks • (40:23) LlamaIndex adds private data to large language models •

• Research & Advancements • (42:20) Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning • (47:17) ControlVideo: Adding Conditional Control for One Shot Text-to-Video Editing • (49:50) The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget • (51:20) InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models • (52:55) Simple and Controllable Music Generation • (54:28) Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation? • (57:24) Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model • (01:01:22) Scaling audio-visual learning without labels • (01:02:34) Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust • (01:03:59) Shining a light on neuromorphic computing • (01:05:34) Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4 • (01:07:20) From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces • (01:09:00) Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web •

• Policy & Safety • (01:11:25) ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. • (01:14:04) These are the American workers most worried that A.I. will soon make their jobs obsolete • (01:17:02) A.I. poses new threats to newsrooms, and they're taking action • (01:19:18) City of Yokosuka adopts ChatGPT after favorable trial results • (01:20:35) AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova says • (01:23:35) OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement Lawsuit • (01:27:12) Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law • (01:30:16) U.S. Congress to consider two new bills on artificial intelligence •

• Synthetic Media & Art • (01:31:46) Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video • (01:34:30) Blush, the AI lover from the same team as Replika, is more than just a sexbot • (01:37:47) Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion • (01:38:53) Runway’s Gen-2 shows the limitations of today’s text-to-video tech •

• (01:42:17) Outro