Last Week in AI - #130 - Llama 2, Elon Musk’s xAI, WormGPT, LongLLaMA, AI apocalypse, actors on...

Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Co-hosted this week by John Kron of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast (https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast). Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI. 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 + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (08:30) Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/12/googles-ai-assisted-note-taking-app-gets-limited-launch-as-notebooklm/) (14:38) Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that's found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance. (https://www.businessinsider.com/glaze-artificial-intelligence-artists-intellectual-property-midjourney-openai-stability-2023-7) Applications & Business (18:20) Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2, an AI language model for commercial use (https://www.engadget.com/meta-and-microsoft-release-llama-2-an-ai-language-model-for-commercial-use-163615807.html) (33:24) U.S. companies are on a hiring spree for A.I. jobs—and they pay an average of $146,000 (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/13/us-companies-are-on-a-hiring-spree-for-ai-jobs-that-pay-an-average-of-146000.html) + San Francisco Companies Got Half the World’s AI Funding So Far This Year (https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/10/san-francisco-companies-got-half-the-worlds-ai-funding-so-far-this-year/) (35:42) 65% Of Top AI Companies Have Immigrant Founders (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2023/07/09/65-of-top-ai-companies-have-immigrant-founders/) (36:50) Elon Musk unveils his AI company, X.AI (https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-ai-announcement) Spotify CEO’s startup for AI-powered preventive healthcare raises €60M (https://thenextweb.com/news/spotify-ceo-ai-powered-preventive-healthcare-startup-raises-60m) (44:25) OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/openai-chatgpt-pay-ap-news-ai/) (46:03) Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/shutterstock-expands-deal-with-openai-to-build-generative-ai-tools/) Projects & Open Source (47:20) WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch Business Email Compromise Attacks (https://slashnext.com/blog/wormgpt-the-generative-ai-tool-cybercriminals-are-using-to-launch-business-email-compromise-attacks/) Research & Advancements (50:53) Meet LongLLaMA: A Large Language Model Capable of Handling Long Contexts of 256k Tokens (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/07/10/meet-longllama-a-large-language-model-capable-of-handling-long-contexts-of-256k-tokens/) (56:37) Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models (https://huggingface.co/papers/2305.14705) (01:03:50) AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02227-y) (01:08:25) Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation (https://huggingface.co/papers/2307.03869) (01:12:57) Patch n' Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution (https://huggingface.co/papers/2307.06304) (01:14:20) Scientists just used A.I. to map a fruit fly’s brain. Here’s why it’s a ‘turning point in neuroscience’ (https://fortune.com/2023/07/08/ai-neural-map-fruit-fly-connectome-brain-turning-point-neuroscience/) Policy & Safety (01:25:40) What are the chances of an AI apocalypse? (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/07/10/what-are-the-chances-of-an-ai-apocalypse) (01:35:40) China finalizes first-of-its-kind rules governing generative A.I. services like ChatGPT (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/13/china-introduces-rules-governing-generative-ai-services-like-chatgpt.html) (01:38:57) US senators to get classified White House AI briefing Tuesday (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senators-get-classified-white-house-ai-briefing-tuesday-2023-07-10/) (01:40:08) US FTC opens investigation into OpenAI (https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-ftc-opens-investigation-into-openai-washington-post-2023-07-13/) (01:41:55) UK universities draw up guiding principles on generative AI (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/04/uk-universities-draw-up-guiding-principles-on-generative-ai) Synthetic Media & Art (01:42:57) Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/14/actors_strike_gen_ai/) + Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare (https://gizmodo.com/sag-aftra-ai-actors-strike-amptp-ceos-likeness-image-1850638409) (01:44:20) Outro Episode link:...