Last Week in AI - #117 - Google’s Bard Rush, BloombergGPT, ChatGPT King, Balenciaga Harry Potter

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 (https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Physics-Made-Fundamental-Everything-ebook/dp/B0B5SQ1MLZ) Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ (https://lastweekin.ai/) Stories this week: Applications & Business Google's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AI (https://gizmodo.com/google-assistant-bard-ai-chatbot-smart-home-siri-alexa-1850284090) Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alphabets-google-and-deepmind-pause-grudges-join-forces-to-chase-openai?rc=tuauap) February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 Million (https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/manufacturing/february-2023-robotics-investments-total-620-million/) With Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/nasa-us-air-force-use-robot-blacksmiths-for-automation) Lighting Round Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23662476/microsoft-bing-chatbot-ads-revenue-sharing) Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/30/ai-startups-ycombinator-demo-day/) Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-28/google-partners-with-ai-startup-replit-to-take-on-microsoft-s-github) Birth of a Salesman: OpenAI Sheds Its Lab Coat to Seek Big Deals (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/birth-of-a-salesman-openai-sheds-its-lab-coat-to-seek-big-deals?rc=tuauap) Research & Advancements Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance (https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberggpt-50-billion-parameter-llm-tuned-finance/) The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/the-takeaways-from-stanfords-386-page-report-on-the-state-of-ai/) Lighting Round Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons (https://spectrum.ieee.org/climbing-legged-robot) Policy & Societal Impacts The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt.html) The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/the-european-union-s-ai-act-explained/) Lighting Round How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images go mainstream (https://www-washingtonpost-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/technology/2023/03/30/midjourney-ai-image-generation-rules/) FTC Is Reviewing Competition in Artificial Intelligence (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-27/ftc-reviewing-competition-deception-in-artificial-intelligence) Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse (https://www.engadget.com/midjourney-ends-free-trials-of-its-ai-image-generator-due-to-extraordinary-abuse-153853905.html) Art & Fun Stuff Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography” (https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/29/1070432/china-ai-retro-photo-midjourney/) Artificial intelligence deepfake video of Harry Potter characters in faux-Balenciaga fashion show goes viral (https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/artificial-intelligence-deepfake-video-harry-potter-characters-faux-balenciaga-fashion-show-goes-viral) Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/14346521?utm_source=youtube