Last Week in AI - #116 - ChatGPT plugins, AI hardware, petition to pause AI, Trump deepfakes

Our 116th 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 OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23653591/openai-chatgpt-plugins-launch-web-browsing-third-party) NVIDIA's big AI moment is here (https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-gtc-ai-dgx-cloud-161517378.html) Lighting Round Former head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3214152/former-head-google-china-joins-chatgpt-frenzy-starting-own-venture) Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230328005366/en/Cerebras-Systems-Releases-Seven-New-GPT-Models-Trained-on-CS-2-Wafer-Scale-Systems) Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/generative-ai-set-to-affect-300-million-jobs-across-major-economies/) Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job (https://spectrum.ieee.org/agility-robotics-digit) Research & Advancements Learning to grow machine-learning models (https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-technique-machine-learning-models-0322) Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/03/25/researchers-from-uc-berkeley-and-deepmind-propose-successvqa-a-reformulation-of-success-detection-that-is-amenable-to-pre-trained-vlms-such-as-flamingo/) Lighting Round New virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230322140354.htm) Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls (https://source.colostate.edu/scientists-are-using-machine-learning-to-forecast-bird-migration-and-identify-birds-in-flight-by-their-calls/) New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230323103402.htm) Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator (https://petapixel.com/2023/03/20/runway-gen-2-is-the-first-publicly-available-text-to-video-generator/) Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’ (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23640180/openai-gpt-4-launch-closed-research-ilya-sutskever-interview) 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months” (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/1100-notable-signatories-just-signed-an-open-letter-asking-all-ai-labs-to-immediately-pause-for-at-least-6-months/) Lighting Round In San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/in-san-francisco-some-people-wonder-when-ai-will-kill-us-all-.html) Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-system-used-to-verify-identity-by-centrelink-can-be-fooled-by-ai) AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/26/ai-generated-hands-midjourney/) Art & Fun Stuff People Aren’t Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet) (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ai-generated-fake-trump-indictment-images/673513/) WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit (https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/writers-guild-artificial-intelligence-proposal-1235560927/) Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/14235209?utm_source=youtube