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Last Week in AI

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Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!

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#128 - generative search, GPU black market, GPT-4’s Secret, Sam Altman’s World Tour 05.07.2023 1:10:51

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)...

#127 - chatbot dating app, AI at work, RedPajama 7B, tons of research, workers most worried that A.I. 21.06.2023 1:43:09

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) Lin...

#126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI grant program 13.06.2023 1:44:03

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 To...

#125 - Nvidia tools for game devs, TikTok’s Tako, PandaGPT and Gorilla, Voyager, early warning system for AI risks 06.06.2023 1:36:56

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 C...

#124 - AI in Windows and Photoshop, Nvidia makes $$$, DragGAN, Fake Pentagon Explosion 29.05.2023 1:29:37

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...

#123 - Delete your info from ChatGPT, Google’s AI plans, EU act targets OSS, PaLM 2, writers’ strike 21.05.2023 1:55:46

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 (...

#122 - AI for Word and Excel, leaked Google memo, ImageBind, LLAva, robot soccer, Midjourney 5.1 13.05.2023 2:02:25

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 l...

#121 - Top researcher leaves Google, trademarking ”GPT”, Stability AI’s new models, 50% of AI ’Catastrophe’, DrakeGPT 08.05.2023 1:54:39

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...

#120 - GigaChat + HuggingChat, a LOT of research, EU Act passed, #promptography 29.04.2023 1:48:42

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...

#119 - Open Source GPTs, X.AI, Auto-GPT, China’s Censorship of AI, Fake Drake+The Weeknd Colab 23.04.2023 1:36:18

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...

#118 - Anthropic vs OpenAI, AutoGPT, RL at Scale, AI Safety, Memeworthy AI Videos 14.04.2023 1:42:57

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. su...

#117 - Google’s Bard Rush, BloombergGPT, ChatGPT King, Balenciaga Harry Potter 07.04.2023 1:37:08

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 Investm...

#116 - ChatGPT plugins, AI hardware, petition to pause AI, Trump deepfakes 31.03.2023 1:38:39

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 System...

#115 - GPT4, Bard, AGI, Alpaca, Anthropic, Midjourney V5 26.03.2023 1:42:20

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 fi...

#114 - ChatGPT applications, Claude, PALM-E, OpenAI criticism, AI-generated spam 10.03.2023 1:33:49

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 powere...

#113 - Nvidia’s 10k GPU, Toolformer, AI alignment, John Oliver 04.03.2023 1:02:18

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 c...

#112 - Bing Chat Antics, Bio and Mario GPT, Stopping an AI Apocalypse, Stolen Voices 26.02.2023 1:19:38

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 GitH...

#111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld 13.02.2023 1:07:45

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Listen with transcript Stories this week: Applications & Business Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public You.com’s AI...

#110 - We’re back! ChatGPT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT, and some other stuff 05.02.2023 1:13:03

Our 110th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! After a 4 month break, we're back with a new co-host, and will resume our regular weekly upload schedule. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast. Stories this week: Applications & Business BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content related : CNET Is Quietly Publi...

#109 - Tesla Bot, Text-to-Video, Speech-to-Text, AI Voices Darth Vader 13.10.2022 46:54

Our 109th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:08) Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day (07:15) It’s not just floods and fires: This AI forecasts how climate change will impa...

#108 - Undiagnosable Cancers, Robot Sales, Decoding Brain Activity, AI Music 11.09.2022 58:24

Our 108th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline (00:00) Intro (03:50) Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers (08:30) North American companies send in the robots, even as productivity slumps (14:30...

#107 - Surgery Outcomes, Accent Removal, Archeological Dating, Deepfakes 03.09.2022 41:03

Our 107th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Machine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery...

#106 - Animal Speech, AI Pilot, Wrongful Arrest, Redesigning Streets 23.08.2022 51:21

Our 106th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for a lack of consistent episode releases lately, we've been really busy... If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01: 32) Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the anima...

#105 - Sepsis Detection, Midjourney, Submarines, DALL-E 2 Food 06.08.2022 43:47

Our 105th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: there was again a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:30) AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths (05:05) Insi...

#104 - Cruise Outages, Robots for Forestry, BigScience’s BLOOM, EU AI Act 20.07.2022 34:41

Our 104th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: there was a delay in editing, so this news is from two weeks ago. If you are a fan, we'd appreciate your feedback on Apple Podcast, or just via email to contact@lastweekin.ai - feel free to DM us on Twitter too! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco (05:00) Japan's for...