Last Week in AI - #115 - GPT4, Bard, AGI, Alpaca, Anthropic, Midjourney V5

Our 115th 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 GPT-4 (https://openai.com/research/gpt-4) GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why (https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/14/1069823/gpt-4-is-bigger-and-better-chatgpt-openai/) GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/gpt-4s-first-app-is-a-virtual-volunteer-for-the-visually-impaired/) Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23649794/google-chatgpt-rival-bard-ai-chatbot-access-hands-on) Lighting Round Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 (https://blogs.bing.com/search/march_2023/Confirmed-the-new-Bing-runs-on-OpenAI%E2%80%99s-GPT-4) Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/technology/microsoft-google-ai-tools-businesses.html) Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/03/14/adept-ai-startup-raises-350-million-series-b/?sh=51c6ffa22cc3) Introducing Claude (https://www.anthropic.com/index/introducing-claude) Research & Advancements Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI (https://futurism.com/gpt-4-sparks-of-agi) Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model (https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html) Lighting Round Our latest health AI research updates (https://blog.google/technology/health/ai-llm-medpalm-research-thecheckup/) Machine learning takes starring role in exploring the universe (https://sciencex.com/wire-news/440501709/machine-learning-takes-starring-role-in-exploring-the-universe.html) A new method to boost the speed of online databases (https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-method-hash-function-online-databases-0313) MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/03/11/mit-researchers-uncover-the-structural-properties-and-dynamics-of-deep-classifiers-offering-novel-explanations-for-optimization-generalization-and-approximation-in-deep-networks/) Policy & Societal Impacts Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How (https://www.anthropic.com/index/core-views-on-ai-safety) Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams (https://www.platformer.news/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its) Lighting Round Some high-level thoughts on the DeepMind alignment team's strategy (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DVPZz0-9FSYgrHFgs4NCN6kn2tE7J8AK/view) Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now? (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/8/23629362/meta-ai-language-model-llama-leak-online-misuse) AI Scams and Influencers (https://artificialintelligencemadesimple.substack.com/p/ai-scams-and-influencers) AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office (https://petapixel.com/2023/03/16/ai-generated-image-from-text-is-not-human-authorship-says-us-copyright-office/) I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients (https://www.fastcompany.com/90863983/chatgpt-medical-diagnosis-emergency-room) Art & Fun Stuff Midjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art (https://www.cined.com/midjourney-v5-is-out-now-next-steps-in-photorealistic-experience-with-ai-art/) Illustration competitions grapple with generative AI (https://www.axios.com/2023/03/17/illustration-competitions-ai-dalle) Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display (https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/13/online-storm-erupts-over-ai-work-in-dutch-museums-girl-with-a-pearl-earring-display) AI and Copyright: Human Artistry Campaign Launches to Support Songwriters and Musicians’ Rights (https://variety.com/2023/music/news/ai-copyright-human-artistry-campaign-musicians-songwriters-artificial-intelligence-1235557582/) Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/14144582?utm_source=youtube