Last Week in AI - #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! 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. (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/23/nvidias-a100-is-the-10000-chip-powering-the-race-for-ai-.html) Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers (https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-generative-ai-is-coming-for-the-lawyers/) Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff (https://www.therobotreport.com/vicarious-surgical-cuts-14-of-staff/) Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots (https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-layoffs-hit-trash-sorting-robots/) Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials (https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/spectrum-uses-generative-ai-create-tv-commercials/2475541) Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/23/23610362/spotify-ai-dj-beta-announcement-custom-playlist-feature-personalized) Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/amazon-s-aws-joins-with-ai-startup-hugging-face-as-chatgpt-competition-heats-up) Research & Advancements Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04761.pdf) Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space (https://sites.google.com/view/adaptive-agent/) RT-1: Robotics Transformer (https://robotics-transformer.github.io/) Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model (https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launch-ai-language-model-llama-2023-02-24/) MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/02/18/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 (https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/machine-learning-makes-long-term-expansive-reef-monitoring-possible/) How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction (https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-opioid-addiction-22531/) Policy & Societal Impacts "AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI (https://robotic.substack.com/p/ai-alignment) What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security (https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/02/27/what-chatgpt-means-for-the-new-future-of-national-security/379846/) How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice (https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7axa/how-i-broke-into-a-bank-account-with-an-ai-generated-voice) AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning (https://time.com/6257790/ai-chatbots-love/) Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like (https://theconversation.com/machine-learning-is-helping-police-work-out-what-people-on-the-run-now-look-like-198325) Planning for AGI and beyond (https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond) Art & Fun Stuff Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (https://youtu.be/Sqa8Zo2XWc4) ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon (https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/) ‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking (https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/artificial-intelligence-runway-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-1235532322/) Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/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 (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/18/23604961/nothing-forever-twitch-ai-suspension-ban-lift-mismatch-media) Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/13792109?utm_source=youtube