Our 113th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I.)
Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers)
Vicarious Surgical cuts 14% of staff)
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots)
Spectrum uses generative AI to create TV commercials)
Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it)
Amazon’s Cloud Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up)
Research & Advancements
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools)
Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space)
RT-1: Robotics Transformer)
Meta heats up Big Tech's AI arms race with new language model)
MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can enable a machine learning model to quantify how confident it is in its predictions)
Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible)
How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction)
Policy & Societal Impacts
"AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI)
- What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security)
How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice)
AI-Human Romances Are Flourishing—And This Is Just the Beginning)
Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like)
Planning for AGI and beyond)
Art & Fun Stuff
Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO))
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon)
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking)
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers)
The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place)
