Episodes
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...
Published 10/17/23
Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro /...
Published 10/10/23
Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!! Note: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Timestamps + Links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:30) Preview of news Tools & Apps (05:40) DALLE-3 (12:47) YouAgent (Richard...
Published 10/03/23
Our 137th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Jessica Dai. Check out her Reboot publication! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Timestamps...
Published 09/20/23
Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on...
Published 09/10/23
Our 135th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being late again... -Andrey Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Timestamps + links: (00:00)...
Published 09/06/23
A special non-news episode in which Andrey and Jeremie discussion AI X-Risk! Please let us know if you'd like use to record more of this sort of thing by emailing [email protected] or commenting whether you listen. Outline: (00:00) Intro(03:55) Topic overview(10:22) Definitions of terms(35:25) AI X-Risk scenarios(41:00) Pathways to Extinction(52:48) Relevant assumptions(58:45) Our positions on AI X-Risk(01:08:10) General Debate(01:31:25) Positive/Negative transfer(01:37:40) X-Risk within...
Published 08/30/23
Our 134th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being a bit late this week! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:30) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(03:53) ElevenLabs Comes Out of Beta and Releases Eleven Multilingual v2 - a Foundational AI Speech Model for Nearly 30...
Published 08/26/23
Our 133rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Apologies for pod being a bit late this week! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Timestamps + links: (00:00)  Intro / Banter Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(05:05) ChatGPT gets several new features, including multi-document chat (09:02) Tinder tests AI photo selection feature to...
Published 08/18/23
Our 132nd 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] Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:36) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(05:05) OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (07:45) New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks (10:55) JetBrains IDE update...
Published 08/08/23
Our 131th 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] Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:18) Listener feedback/comments Tools & Apps (07:00) ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave (09:20) GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta (12:38)...
Published 08/01/23
Our 130th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Co-hosted this week by Jon Krohn of the Super Data Science Podcast podcast. Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Timestamps + links: (00:00) Intro / Banter (07:30) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (08:30) Google’s AI-assisted...
Published 07/25/23
Our 129th 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] Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time (00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11 (00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in Applications &...
Published 07/09/23
Our 128th 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] Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:00) Google extends generative AI search to places, products and virtual models Applications & Business(00:05:52) China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year (00:10:33) Inside...
Published 07/05/23
Our 127th 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] Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:50) Listener comments / corrections (05:33) News Preview Tools & Apps (06:38) Teaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot (11:38) LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy (14:26) Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for...
Published 06/21/23
Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:35) Response to listener comments / corrections (03:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (04:24) Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed (06:02) A...
Published 06/13/23
Our 125th 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] Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (02:33) Response to listener comments / corrections (05:30) News Preview Tools & Apps(06:21) A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character (12:16) Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters +...
Published 06/06/23
Our 124th 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] Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (01:30) News Preview Tools & Apps (03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 (08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop (12:26) Bing is now the default search...
Published 05/29/23
Our 123rd 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] Check out The Gradient here: https://thegradient.pub/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / Banter (04:30) News Preview (05:40) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(07:07) OpenAI rolls out more than 70 ChatGPT plugins including Internet access (11:56) How To...
Published 05/21/23
Our 122nd 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] Check out the No Priors podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/lastweekinainopriors Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Outline: (00:00) Intro (05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections (07:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (07:50) Microsoft 365’s...
Published 05/13/23
Our 121st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means...
Published 05/08/23
Our 120th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means...
Published 04/29/23
Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Quantum Physics Made Me Do It tells the story of human self-understanding through the lens of physics. It explores what we can and can’t know about reality, and how tiny tweaks to quantum theory can reshape our entire picture of the universe. And because I couldn't resist, it explains what that story means...
Published 04/23/23
Our 118th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessAnthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help Lighting RoundGoogle reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at...
Published 04/14/23
Our 117th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Read out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessGoogle's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AIAlphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 MillionWith Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step...
Published 04/07/23