Last Week in AI - #121 - Top researcher leaves Google, trademarking ”GPT”, Stability AI’s new...

Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ (https://lastweekin.ai/) Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It (https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Physics-Made-Fundamental-Everything-ebook/dp/B0B5SQ1MLZ) Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means for AI and the future of sentience You can find it on Amazon in the UK, Canada, and the US — here are the links: UK ver;sion (https://geni.us/QPMadeMeDoIt) | Canadian version (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0735244138?tag=prhca-20) | US version (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735244138?tag=prhca-20) Outline: Article picks: (00:00) Intro Tools & Apps (04:20) Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/27/microsoft-makes-its-ai-powered-designer-tool-available-in-preview/) (08:27) Visual Studio IntelliCode AI Assistant Gets Deep Learning Upgrade (https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2023/04/28/intellicode-upgrade.aspx?m=1) (12:36) GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/gitlabs-new-security-feature-uses-ai-to-explain-vulnerabilities-to-developers/) (16:25) TikTok is testing a new option to create AI-generated avatars for profile pictures (https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/tech/tiktok-ai-avatars/index.html) Applications & Business (19:11) ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html?unlocked_article_code=8RDFAtX1xkOspB61SPPOTK_h7NBczj90I_u55jOsuCWWAoG5LCwl8cgIvu_qduEzKzMmdNumYvBgAoao5ndX_5u9TurBsxForgjUu8GJ_MPZRmuhEl3ToUb3PLERDkVw0oJgbhNhtK6ibyf8WnFeop4fQkVfN3pgFTcBFWG89nG4Qo0Q3pIPxcFtn0pfGo-hCLmwQVPDbdKfJp2KigLovDMWF8HFkB3y4jMbxVk87-tWETMXqm1CAR8xEYEkANLA8jO1_cWYpqYqS2LGuQ9Z5YQNd_xshUih6h3qbBb3SyjL2JreBprWCNGnShI-G3S1ofEjmJK4FAM_ZibyoCuyVun4zxg5syzSxXGmeCults3X7eIsEQ) (26:52) Machine Learning as a Service Market Size Growing at 37.9% CAGR Set to Reach USD 173.5 Billion By 2032 (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/04/24/2652996/0/en/Machine-Learning-as-a-Service-Market-Size-Growing-at-37-9-CAGR-Set-to-Reach-USD-173-5-Billion-By-2032.html) (29:40) Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI (https://futurism.com/insider-layoffs-ai) + After the Death of BuzzFeed News, Journalists Should Treat AI as an Existential Threat (https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-buzzfeed-news-journalism-existential-threat-1849869364) (35:57) PricewaterhouseCoopers announces multiyear $1B investment into generative AI (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pricewaterhousecoopers-to-pour-1-billion-into-generative-ai-cac2cedd) (38:07) Walmart turns to warehouse robots, suggests a boost in profit is possible (https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2023/04/05/walmart-turns-to-warehouse-robots-suggests-a-boost-in-profit-is-possible/) (40:23) “GPT” may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/gpt-may-be-trademarked-soon-if-openai-has-its-way/) Projects & Open Source (43:50) OpenAI Threatens Popular GitHub Project With Lawsuit Over API Use (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/openai-sends-shutdown-letter-to-gpt4free) (48:27) Stability AI Launches DeepFloyd IF: A High-Performance Text-to-Image Model with Advanced Integration Capabilities (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/05/01/stability-ai-launches-deepfloyd-if-a-high-performance-text-to-image-model-with-advanced-integration-capabilities/) (52:10) Stability AI releases StableVicuna, the AI World’s First Open Source RLHF LLM Chatbot (https://substack.com/redirect/7efe758b-828b-4f4b-84f2-642e86536dc2?j=eyJ1IjoidzRsMyJ9.XnUxKkzyxPbIkMWEIKSY3fw9yTYWRVt_yWr9dABbP-E) (57:32) Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week (https://www.latent.space/p/reza-shabani#details) Research & Advancements (59:44) First Real-World Study Showed Generative AI Boosted Worker Productivity by 14% (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-24/generative-ai-boosts-worker-productivity-14-new-study-finds) (01:03:50) LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14402.pdf) (01:08:50) AI has better 'bedside manner' than some doctors, study finds (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/28/ai-has-better-bedside-manner-than-some-doctors-study-finds) + Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum...