Last Week in AI #147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’...

Subscribe to the podcast here: https://www.lastweekinai.com/p/subscribe/ Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/18396736?utm_source=youtube Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Correction: Gemini also supports audio Also check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read Tools & Apps(00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT (00:14:15) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked (00:19:33) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great (00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini (00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano (00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds (00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT (00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke" (00:34:51) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years (00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache Applications & Business(00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s (00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions (00:46:44) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions (00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side (00:51:46) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (00:54:08) Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts (00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models (00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M Projects & Open Source(00:59:20) Mixtral of experts (01:05:50) Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages (01:07:07) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers (01:10:15) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development Research & Advancements(01:13:21) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image — you have to see it to believe it (01:14:20) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1 (01:17:40) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning (01:19:04) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders (01:21:20) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models (01:23:40) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research Policy & Safety(01:26:41) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules (01:33:58) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment (01:39:12) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (01:41:22) US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China (01:44:12) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI (01:47:25) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI Synthetic Media & Art(01:49:03) High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed (01:52:55) Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle (01:55:57) Outro