LWiAI Podcast #167 – GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!

With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!

You can watch the youtube version of this here:

With a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.

You can listen along with a (flawed) transcript here

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Timestamps + links:

Intro / Banter

Tools & Apps

(00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users

(00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google

(00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

(00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models

(00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts

(00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console

Applications & Business

(00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company

(00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer

(00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl

(00:41:02) GM’s Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board

(00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes

(00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps

Projects & Open Source

(00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit

(00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3

(00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0

Research & Advancements

(00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

(00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture

Policy & Safety

(00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes

(00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety

(00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It

Synthetic Media & Art

(00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video

(01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright

(01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it’s ‘ethical’ and ‘we’re pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don’t want to end up there ourselves’

(01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech

(01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey

(01:42:00) AI Outro Song

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