Last Week in AI - #122 - AI for Word and Excel, leaked Google memo, ImageBind, LLAva, robot...

Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ (https://lastweekin.ai/) Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai (mailto:contact@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) Outline: (00:00) Intro (05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections (07:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (07:50) Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23716591/microsoft-365-copilot-preview-expansion-ai-features-paid-access) (11:26) Informatica goes all in on generative AI with Claire GPT (https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/informatica-goes-all-in-on-generative-ai-with-claire-gpt/) (15:11) LinkedIn’s new AI will write messages to hiring managers (https://www.engadget.com/linkedins-new-ai-will-write-messages-to-hiring-managers-162528197.html) (17:30) Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix and continues growing in San Francisco (https://blog.waymo.com/2023/05/waymo-one-doubles-service-area-in.html) Applications & Business (20:58) "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" (https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither) (27:30) AI will create ‘a serious number of losers’, DeepMind co-founder warns (https://www.ft.com/content/0c105d93-e017-470d-8653-a2a30fd720b2) (31:37) IBM takes another shot at Watson as A.I. boom picks up steam (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/09/ibm-takes-another-shot-at-watson-as-ai-boom-picks-up-steam.html) (34:11) IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-01/ibm-to-pause-hiring-for-back-office-jobs-that-ai-could-kill?sref=b0SdE1lu&utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nleyeonai&tpcc=nleyeonai&leadSource=uverify%20wall) (36:30) Peter Thiel’s Palantir is seeing ‘unprecedented’ demand for its military A.I. that its CEO calls ‘a weapon that will allow you to win’ (https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/peter-thiel-palantir-unprecedented-demand-ai-artificial-intelligence/) (38:42) Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It (https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvb4x/palantir-demos-ai-to-fight-wars-but-says-it-will-be-totally-ethical-dont-worry-about-it) (40:42) Chegg CEO calls 48% stock plunge over ChatGPT fears 'extraordinarily overblown' (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/chegg-ceo-chatgpt-stock-plunge-was-extraordinarily-overblown.html) (43:03) Microsoft Working With AMD on Expansion Into AI Processors (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-04/microsoft-is-helping-finance-amd-s-expansion-into-ai-chips?leadSource=uverify%20wall) (45:35) Generative AI startup Runway just raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from a cloud service provider (https://www.businessinsider.com/generative-artificial-intelligence-startup-runway-funding-cloud-provider-2023-5) (47:50) Top ex-Google AI researchers raise funding from Thrive Capital (https://www.reuters.com/technology/top-ex-google-ai-researchers-raise-funding-thrive-capital-sources-2023-05-04/) Projects & Open Source (51:22) Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23716558/meta-imagebind-open-source-multisensory-modal-ai-model-research) (54:45) No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mlc-ai-lightweight-chatbot) (57:15) Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/hugging-face-and-servicenow-release-a-free-code-generating-model/) Research & Advancements (59:27) Meet LLaVA: A Large Language Multimodal Model and Vision Assistant that Connects a Vision Encoder and Vicuna for General-Purpose Visual and Language Understanding (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/05/04/meet-llava-a-large-language-multimodal-model-and-vision-assistant-that-connects-a-vision-encoder-and-vicuna-for-general-purpose-visual-and-language-understanding/) (01:04:29) Language models can explain neurons in language models (https://openai.com/research/language-models-can-explain-neurons-in-language-models) (01:11:55) A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/science/ai-speech-language.html) (01:14:27) AI could run a million microbial experiments per year (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230504155641.htm) (01:15:54) Scurrying centipedes inspire many-legged robots that can traverse difficult landscapes (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230505101706.htm) (01:17:38) Little Robots Learn to Drive Fast in the Real World (https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-racers-learn) (01:20:03) Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/09/ai_robot_soccer/)...