#124 - AI in Windows and Photoshop, Nvidia makes $$$, DragGAN, Fake Pentagon Explosion
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Our 124th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro / Banter

(01:30) News Preview

Tools & Apps

(03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11)

(08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop)

(12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT)

(14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos)

(16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries)

(18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI)

Applications & Business

(19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet) + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom)

(22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think)  

(25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster) 

(28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot)

(30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis)

(32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters)

(33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work)

Projects & Open Source

(35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly)  +  Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio)

(38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents) 

(41:37) Bard API)

(43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face)

(44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source)

Research & Advancements

(45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning)

(49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds)

(51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans) 

(54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages)

(56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models)

(59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes)

(01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment)

Policy & Safety 

(01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI)

(01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?)

(01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare) 

(01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud)

(01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives)

Synthetic Media & Art

(01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media)

(01:28:44) Outro