Last Week in AI - #118 - Anthropic vs OpenAI, AutoGPT, RL at Scale, AI Safety, Memeworthy AI Videos

Our 118th 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 Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/) Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/05/1167993888/chatgpt-medicine-artificial-intelligence-healthcare) Lighting Round Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/05/google-reveals-its-newest-ai-supercomputer-claims-it-beats-nvidia-.html) Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-investment-generative-ai-project-2023-4) Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/08/amazon-ai-chatgpt-falling-behind/) Bing Image Creator now has a home in the Edge Sidebar, at least for now (https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/bing/bing-image-creator-now-has-a-home-in-the-edge-sidebar-at-least-for-now) Research & Advancements Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI (https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvdme/developers-are-connecting-multiple-ai-agents-to-make-more-autonomous-ai) Recursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI) Prompting: An Approach to Improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer and Reasoning Tasks (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/08/recursive-criticism-and-improvement-rci-prompting-an-approach-to-improve-large-language-models-llms-in-computer-and-reasoning-tasks/) Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators (https://rl-at-scale.github.io/) Lighting Round [Not an article] GPT-4 can compress and decompress prompts into non-human-readable forms (https://twitter.com/VictorTaelin/status/1642664054912155648/photo/1) Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome) (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/10/researchers-populated-a-tiny-virtual-town-with-ai-and-it-was-very-wholesome/) Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images (https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-releases-ai-model-that-can-identify-items-within-images-2023-04-05/) Another Large Language Model! Meet IGEL: An Instruction-Tuned German LLM Family (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/08/another-large-language-model-meet-igel-an-instruction-tuned-german-llm-family/) Meet AUDIT: An Instruction-Guided Audio Editing Model Based on Latent Diffusion Models (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/09/meet-audit-an-instruction-guided-audio-editing-model-based-on-latent-diffusion-models/) Policy & Societal Impacts Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI (https://futurism.com/ai-expert-bomb-datacenters) AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled? (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-is-getting-powerful-but-can-researchers-make-it-principled/) Lighting Round Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT (https://www.analyticsinsight.net/canada-opens-probe-into-openai-the-creator-of-ai-chatbot-chatgpt/) Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (https://www.businessinsider.com/generative-ai-chatgpt-eric-schmidt-google-pausing-development-benefit-china-2023-4) Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened (https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kw7p/someone-asked-an-autonomous-ai-to-destroy-humanity-this-is-what-happened) Canada Opens Probe into OpenAI, the Creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT (https://www.analyticsinsight.net/canada-opens-probe-into-openai-the-creator-of-ai-chatbot-chatgpt/) Art & Fun Stuff The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs (https://newatlas.com/technology/modelscope-video-generator/) Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney (https://spectrum.ieee.org/disney-robot-indestructibles) Someone keeps accusing fanfiction authors of writing their fic with AI, and nobody knows why (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674123/ao3-fanfic-spam-comments-ai-writing) How Will AI Transform Photography? (https://aperture.org/editorial/how-will-ai-transform-photography/) Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/14447625?utm_source=youtube