Last Week in AI - #114 - ChatGPT applications, Claude, PALM-E, OpenAI criticism, AI-generated spam

Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ (https://lastweekin.ai/) Stories this week: Applications & Business LLM/ChatGPT roundup RadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves (https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/03/07/ai-radio) Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership (https://www.reuters.com/technology/salesforce-add-chatgpt-slack-part-openai-partnership-2023-03-07/) Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools (https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-expands-chatgpt-integration-more-developer-tools-2023-03-06/) Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/27/snapchat-launches-an-ai-chatbot-powered-by-openais-gpt-technology/) Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meet-duckassist-duckduckgos-new-ai-feature/) Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/shortwave-email-app-introduces-ai-powered-summaries/) Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 Billion (https://thesequence.substack.com/p/inside-claure-the-chatgpt-competitor) Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/27/anthropic-begins-supplying-its-text-generating-ai-models-to-startups/) Lighting Round Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23621772/microsoft-bing-ai-chatbot-personality-toggle) OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/1/23620783/chatgpt-api-openai-pricing-whisper) D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/07/d-ids-new-web-app-gives-a-face-and-voice-to-openais-chatgpt/) OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation (https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/startups-tech/openai-rival-stable-diffusion-maker-seeks-raise-funds-us4-billion-valuation) Research & Advancements Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/embodied-ai-googles-palm-e-allows-robot-control-with-natural-commands/) PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model (https://palm-e.github.io/) What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network? (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/02/26/what-happens-if-you-run-a-transformer-model-with-an-optical-neural-network/) Lighting Round Scientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells (https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkgap/scientists-now-want-to-create-ai-using-real-human-brain-cells) Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230301101527.htm) Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/6/23627788/google-1000-language-ai-universal-speech-model) AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2358953-ai-masters-video-game-6000-times-faster-by-reading-the-instructions/) Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit (https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3naz/openai-is-now-everything-it-promised-not-to-be-corporate-closed-source-and-for-profit) As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/technology/artificial-intelligence-regulation-congress.html) Lighting Round A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son (https://www.businessinsider.com/couple-canada-reportedly-lost-21000-in-ai-generated-voice-scam-2023-3) TikTok’s trendy beauty filter ushers in new tech and new problems (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/08/tiktok-bold-glamour-filter-effect-generative-ai/) UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI "invent (https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-supreme-court-hears-landmark-patent-case-over-ai-inventor-2023-03-02/) ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI (https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plan-regulate-chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence-act/) Art & Fun Stuff AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/25/23613752/ai-generated-short-stories-literary-magazines-clarkesworld-science-fiction) 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/) ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon...