Last Week in AI - #131 - ChatGPT+ instructions, Microsoft reveals pricing for AI, is ChatGPT...

Our 131th 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 + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:18) Listener feedback/comments Tools & Apps (07:00) ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave (https://venturebeat.com/ai/chatgpt-plus-gets-custom-instructions-allowing-it-to-remember-how-you-want-it-to-behave/) (09:20) GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta (https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23801498/github-copilot-x-chat-code-chatbot-public-beta) (12:38) Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/wixs-new-tool-can-create-entire-websites-from-prompts/) (15:32) Google Bard is now available in the EU (https://thenextweb.com/news/google-bard-available-eu) Applications & Business (17:15) An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/an-ai-supercomputer-whirs-to-life-powered-by-giant-computer-chips.html) (20:35) Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/microsoft-stock-hits-all-time-high-on-new-copilot-ai-subscription.html) closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/microsoft-stock-hits-all-time-high-on-new-copilot-ai-subscription.html) (23:00) Elon Musk threw nine-figure promises at top AI researchers (https://www.semafor.com/article/07/14/2023/elon-musk-threw-nine-figure-promises-at-top-ai-researchers) (26:28) Machine Learning Market to Hit $419.94 Billion by 2030: Grand View Research, Inc. (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/machine-learning-market-hit-419-104000471.html) (28:31) Jasper, Mutiny AI Startups Cut Workers As Chatbot Rivalry Grows (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/jasper-mutiny-ai-startups-cut-workers-as-chatbot-rivalry-grows) (31:50) Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/cognaize-raises-18m-to-build-a-better-llm-for-the-finance-sector-one-that-keeps-humans-in-the-loop/) (34:34) China’s OpenAI challenger Zhipu AI gets Meituan funding (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/19/chinas-openai-challenger-zhipu-ai-gets-meituan-funding/) Projects & Open Source Lighting round Research & Advancements (36:50) A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis (https://huggingface.co/papers/2307.12856) (43:20) Is ChatGPT getting worse over time? Study claims yes, but others aren’t sure (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/is-chatgpt-getting-worse-over-time-study-claims-yes-but-others-arent-sure/) (48:36) A simple yet effective design, coupled with remarkable durability and low cost, make this robotic gripper a promising option for many industries (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230714114801.htm) (51:24) Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants (https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-deepfake-videos-prompt-false-memories.html) (55:16) Researchers From Tsinghua University Introduce A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm Under The Meta-Learning Paradigm (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/07/22/researchers-from-tsinghua-university-introduce-a-novel-machine-learning-algorithm-under-the-meta-learning-paradigm/) (58:47) MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/mlcommons-launches-a-new-platform-to-benchmark-ai-medical-models/) Policy & Safety (01:02:20) Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html) (01:11:55) Frontier Model Security (https://www.anthropic.com/index/frontier-model-security) (01:17:15) The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23794855/anthropic-ai-openai-claude-2) (01:22:32) 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/us/politics/ai-regulation-biden.html) (01:27:35) The Illusion Of AI’s Existential Risk (https://www.noemamag.com/the-illusion-of-ais-existential-risk) (01:35:05) Large majority of Americans have strong reservations about A.I. emergence, CNBC survey shows (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/large-majority-of-americans-have-strong-reservations-about-ai-emergence-cnbc-survey-shows.html) Synthetic Media & Art (01:38:12) You’re going to see more AI-written articles whether you like it or not (https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/18/23798164/gizmodo-ai-g-o-bot-stories-jalopnik-av-club-peter-kafka-media-column) (01:41:13) ‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense...