Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov) and guest host Jon Krohn) from the SuperDataScience Podcast).
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:04:14) News Preview
(00:05:28) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(00:07:10) Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro)
(00:11:52) Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear)
(00:15:43) Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos)
(00:17:05) YouTube expands AI audio generation tool to all U.S. creators)
(00:20:29) All Gemini users can now generate images with Imagen 3)
(00:22:27) Meta AI will launch in six more countries today, including the UK)
(00:24:27) OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt—And It’s Very Different From Anthropic's Approach)
Applications & Business
(00:27:46) Tesla’s big ‘We, Robot’ event criticized for ‘parlor tricks’ and vague timelines for robots, Cybercab, Robovan)
(00:37:25) OpenAI announces content deal with Hearst, including content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle)
Projects & Open Source
(00:47:59) OpenR: An Open-Source AI Framework Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models)
(00:49:54) MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering)
(00:56:29) OpenAI Releases Swarm: An Experimental AI Framework for Building, Orchestrating, and Deploying Multi-Agent Systems)
Research & Advancements
(00:59:23) Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists)
(01:05:22) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins)
(01:09:09) LLMs can’t perform “genuine logical reasoning,” Apple researchers suggest)
(01:13:05) GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models)
Policy & Safety
(01:14:34) Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI)
(01:23:04) Google will help build seven nuclear reactors to power its AI systems)
(01:24:11) LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations)
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:26:26) Adobe Pushes Content Authenticity Forward With a Free Web App Designed for Creators)
(01:29:13) Outro
