Last Week in AI - #126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI...

Our 126th 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) Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections (03:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23749338/zoom-ai-summaries-missed-meetings) (06:02) A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majority-of-americans-have-heard-of-chatgpt-but-few-have-tried-it-themselves/) Lighting round (12:04) Google says Gmail on your phone just got a lot faster thanks to A.I. (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/02/google-says-gmail-on-your-phone-just-got-a-lot-faster-thanks-to-ai.html) (13:00) Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/artifact-news-app-now-uses-ai-to-rewrite-headline-of-a-clickbait-article/) (15:06) Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/instacart-in-app-ai-search-tool-powered-by-chatgpt/) (17:17) Microsoft Has Launched “Jugalbandi”—A New Generative AI App for India (https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2023/05/31/microsoft-has-launched-jugalbandi-a-new-generative-ai-app-for-india/) (18:34) Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23745051/microsoft-teams-windows-11-communities-designer) Applications & Business (19:55) Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/baidu-generative-ai-fund-china/) (22:25) AI Market Set To Break The Trillion-Dollar Barrier: Surging Toward $1.06 Trillion By 2028 Whether You Trust It Or Not (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-market-set-break-trillion-170934964.html) (26:07) The A.I. job culling has already begun and 4,000 people lost work last month to the technology, according to a new report (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-culling-already-begun-4-190624594.html) (30:15) AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/05/chatgpt-hidden-cost-gpu-compute/) Lighting round (34:00) Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/26/tech-stock-surge-interest-artificial-intelligence-technology-nvidia-double-value) (35:16) ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/anybotics-raises-50-million-to-help-deploy-its-robot-dog/) (37:14) Microsoft signs deal for A.I. computing power with Nvidia-backed CoreWeave that could be worth billions (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/microsoft-inks-deal-with-coreweave-to-meet-openai-cloud-demand.html) (39:40) Apple is looking for engineers to work with Generative AI in a mixed reality environment (https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/01/apple-engineers-generative-ai/) (41:15) Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/lightmatters-photonic-ai-hardware-is-ready-to-shine-with-154m-in-new-funding/) (43:05) Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/character-ai-the-a16z-backed-chatbot-startup-tops-1-7m-installs-in-first-week/) Projects & Open Source (45:21) UAE’s Falcon 40B AI model is now royalty free for commercial, research use (https://gulfbusiness.com/uaes-falcon-40b-from-tii-is-now-royalty-free/) (47:45) Evaluating and uncovering open LLMs (https://www.interconnects.ai/p/evaluating-open-llms) Research & Advancements (53:10) QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314) (58:05) OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations' (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/31/openai-is-pursuing-a-new-way-to-fight-ai-hallucinations.html) (01:02:20) Do You Really Need Reinforcement Learning (RL) in RLHF? A New Stanford Research Proposes DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/06/02/do-you-really-need-reinforcement-learning-rl-in-rlhf-a-new-stanford-research-proposes-dpo-direct-preference-optimization-a-simple-training-paradigm-for-training-language-models-from-preferences/) (01:06:50) Reward Collapse in Aligning Large Language Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17608v1) Lighting round (01:11:15) How Should We Maximize the Planning Ability of LLMs While Reducing the Computation Cost? Meet SwiftSage : A Novel Generative Agent for Complex Interactive Reasoning Tasks, Inspired by the Dual-Process Theory of Human Cognition...