Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Stories this week:
Applications & Business
LLM/ChatGPT roundup
RadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves)
Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership)
Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools)
Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology)
Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature)
Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries)
Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 Billion)
Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups)
Lighting Round
Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining)
OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech)
D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT)
OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation)
Research & Advancements
Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands)
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model)
What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network?)
Lighting Round
Scientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells)
Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view)
Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model)
AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions)
Policy & Societal Impacts
OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit)
As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology)
Lighting Round
A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son)
TikTok’s trendy beauty filter ushers in new tech and new problems)
UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI "invent)
ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI)
Art & Fun Stuff
AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone)
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers)
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon)
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking)
The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof is set to return to Twitch with new guardrails in place)
