#140 - Yasa vs ChatGPT, Waymo expands, scaling robot learning, AI watermarks
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Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes "Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month" Timestamps + Links: (00:00)  Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (03:00) Reka launches Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant to take on ChatGPT (06:48) Arc browser’s new AI-powered features combine OpenAI and Anthropic’s models (11:00) ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers for Content (13:11) Canva’s new AI tools automate boring, labor-intensive design tasks (16:32) Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh (20:45) Google Bard is gaining a new 'Memory' toggle to remember key details (22:22) Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant (24:14) Android 14’s AI-generated wallpapers might be its coolest new feature Applications & Business (24:50) Waymo’s robotaxi service is now available to tens of thousands of people in San Francisco (28:54) Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month (32:34) TSMC Sales Fell Less Than Feared as AI Demand Offsets Slump (34:54) Microsoft could debut its AI chip next month: Report (37:06) Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips (39:08) Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors Projects & Open Source (40:05) Replit’s new AI Model now available on Hugging Face (43:46) Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices (46:30)  Protesters Decry Meta’s “Irreversible Proliferation” of AI Research & Advancements (52:10) Scaling up learning across many different robot types (59:35) Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components (01:06:54) Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution (01:11:45) China's First 28nm Lithography Tool to Be Delivered This Year (01:15:03) LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds (01:18:07) Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To! Policy & Safety (01:22:08) RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war (01:26:48) Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes (01:33:44) Five Takeaways From Bellwether AI Copyright Case (01:36:19) A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country (01:38:12) Governments race to regulate AI tools (01:40:09) US curbs on chip tools to China nearly finalized, government posting shows Synthetic Media & Art (01:45:35) WGA Ratifies Three-Year Deal With Studios, Officially Ending Hollywood Strike (01:47:50)  AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers (01:50:00) Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI (01:51:36) How an AI deepfake ad of MrBeast ended up on TikTok (01:53:53) Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI
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