Last Week in AI

📢 Exciting news in the latest release of Last Week in AI newsletter! Top stories:

* Highlights include the AI drama between Yann Lecun and Elon Musk
* Vox Media and OpenAI's partnership,
* Google's A.I. search feature rollback

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Catch the latest episode of Last Week in AI for all the top AI news stories:
- OpenAI pauses Sky voice in ChatGPT
- Microsoft’s Copilot assistant getting GPT-40 upgrade
- OpenAI founders defend after safety researchers quit
- Anthropic Research sheds light on AI's 'Black Box'
- EU's first major law for artificial intelligence gets green light
And much more!

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🚀 Exciting news in the world of AI!

The latest episode of Last Week in AI is out now, featuring top stories such as Google's Project Astra, OpenAI's release of GPT-4o, and the resignation of key figures at OpenAI. Plus, we dive into the investigation of Waymo's self-driving vehicles and Google's new AI media creation models. Don't miss out on all the latest updates in AI!

Check out the newsletter here: https://lastweekin.ai/p/271

Hey everyone! 🎧 Check out the latest episode of our podcast Last Week in AI for all the exciting updates in the world of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and robotics! This week, we're discussing music-generating AI, new Microsoft AI models, Google DeepMind's groundbreaking developments, and much more. 🤖 Don't miss out, listen now at: https://lastweekin.ai/p/lwiai-podcast-166-new-ai-song-generator

Check out the latest release of our newsletter Last Week in AI! This week's top stories include Hello OLMo, a truly open LLM, a Hong Kong firm scammed of $34 million after an employee was duped by a deepfake video call, the FCC's move to criminalize most AI-generated robocalls, and a look inside the music industry's high-stakes AI experiments. Stay informed and read more at the link: https://lastweekin.ai/p/256

📢 Calling all tech enthusiasts and AI aficionados! 🤖✨
Take a trip down memory lane as we reflect on the groundbreaking year that was 2023 for AI.
From mind-blowing advancements to mind-boggling breakthroughs, last year was truly a game-changer.
📰Don't miss out, click the link below to catch up on all the AI news:
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📢 Exciting news! 🚀 Our latest edition of Last Week in AI is out! 🎉 Get the inside scoop on the most fascinating AI, deep learning, and robotics developments. Here are some highlights:

1️⃣ Discover the incredible power of Phi-2, a small but mighty language model. 📚
2️⃣ Be amazed by Mistral AI's groundbreaking LLM, Mixtral 8x7b, that outperforms GPT-3.5 in open-access AI! 🌟
3️⃣ Learn how AI is disrupting Bangladesh's election with affordable deepfakes at just $24/month. 🗳️
4️⃣ Explore the game-changing Mamba model, which enhances current deep learning models based on the Transformer architecture. 🐍

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Last Week in AI #250: Microsoft's Phi-2, Mistral's Mixtral 8x7b, efficient sequence with Mamba, $24 Deepfakes disrupting Bangladesh's election, and more! The small 2.7B Phi-2 model is surprisingly strong, Mistral releases MoE model, Mamba may replace transformers for better performance, cheap deepfakes ran amok in election campaigns

Wish you can talk to your dog?

Can We Use AI to Communicate With Animals? These tools may not look like what some people imagine, but AI-powered human-animal communication could be possible. Research is already underway.

Last Week in :
* AI to decode speech from brain activity
* DALL-E can now draw bigger images
* AI to assess mental well-being of children
And more!

Last Week in AI #183: AI to decode speech from brain activity, DALL-E can now draw bigger images, AI to assess mental well-being of children, and more! AI research on decoding speech from brain activities, OpenAI releases outpainting feature for DALL-E, robots help psychiatrists assess children's mental health

Meta’s new AI chatbot BlenderBot 3 was quickly shown to express conspiracy theories among other offensive remarks upon its release

Read Jacky Liang's thoughts on what this means and what we can expect going forward:
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In the Era of Large Language Models, What's Next for AI Chatbots ? New chatbots powered by large-language models are much more capable than those that came before, but it'll be a while before they make their way into commercial applications.

Last Week in :
* Meta’s AI chatbot says Trump will always be president and repeats anti-Semitic conspiracies
* Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
* Stable Diffusion just launched and went live on GitHub
And more!
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Last Week in AI #180: Meta's troubled chat bot, AI in femtech, Science AI's reproducibility crises, and more! Meta's AI chatbot spews conspiracy theories, how AI-based health apps are applied in femtech, and common AI misuses are causing a reproducibility crisis in the sciences.

In our latest editorial, Daniel Bashir and Andrey Kurenkov detail the AI scaling hypothesis, tracing its development and considering its future.
Read below!

The AI Scaling Hypothesis How far will this go?

In our latest issue of : drones beat human pilots in first fair race, wireless earbuds that clear up calls using deep learning, the artists using AI, and more! 🤖

Last Week in AI #176: Drones beat human pilots in first fair race, better call quality with AI, how artists view AI-generated art, and more! Autonomous drones beat human pilots in first fair drone race, UW developed AI-powered earbuds to enhance speech quality, interview with artists on their experience with DALL-E 2

The world is in an uproar over LaMDA's chatbot stating "I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person" to a Google engineer. But this does not mean LaMDA is, in fact, anything akin to a sentient being. Here's why:

LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense - Here’s Why An AI researcher's explanation for why the transcript of Blake Lemoine's conversation with the LaMDA chatbot does not in any way support the notion that it is sentient

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Last week was full of crazy news: Google's LaMDA (not) being "sentient", DALL-E mini becoming the hot new AI toy to play with, and much more!

Check out our summary of all this news!
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Last Week in AI #172: Controversy over Google's "sentient" chatbot, DALL-E Mini goes viral, Reddit bans deepfakes sub, AI to improve video calls, and more! Hype and chaos ensued after a Google engineer claimed the company's AI-based chatbot is sentient, DALL-E Mini brings AI image generation to the public, Reddit bans community hosting SFW deepfakes

Lots of major news this past week!

* GPT-4chan, 'the worst AI ever' led to a bit controversy
* Google enginner claimed chatbot LaMDA is 'sentient'
* Government investigation into Tesla Autopilot escalates

Listen to hear all about this, and more!
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Last Week in AI - GPT-4chan, ’Sentient’ AI, Tesla Crash Probe, BIG-bench, DALL-E mini Lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy, Google saying AI chatbot has become sentient, US upgrades crash probe into Tesla Autopilot, AI program DALL-E mini prompts some truly cursed images, and more!

Fresh news:

* Royal Mail is Doing Drone Delivery
* Undetectable Backdoors Plantable In Any ML Algorithm
* AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes
* Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot

Last Week in AI #169: Royal Mail will deliver with drones, backdoors in deep learning, AI for weather forecasts, and more! Royal Mail will use drones to deliver to hard-to-reach areas, neural network backdoors are easy to engineer and difficult to detect, machine learning models to improve weather forecasts

Check out last week's news:

♻️Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries
🤗Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation
📃A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of

And much more!
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Last Week in AI #167: Enzyme developed with AI to decompose plastic, Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation, new ambitious EU AI Act, and more! AI helped researchers modify enzymes for plastic recycling, Hugging Face closes Series C funding run, EU proposes sweeping AI legislation to curb harmful uses