#111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld

Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business
  • Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot
    • Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard
    • Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad
    • Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public
    • You.com’s AI-infused Google rival provides a tantalizing glimpse of the future
    • Perplexity AI Challenges ChatGPT and Google With New Conversational Search Engine
  • Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot
  • Lighting Round
    • Chatbot Startup Character Seeks $250 Million, Testing Investor Appetite for AI 
      • AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6 bln plus valuation 
    • OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee 
    • Instagram’s founders are back with a new app 
    • Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic |… 
• Research & Advancements
  • Stanford Researcher develops a simple prompting strategy that enables open-source LLMs with 30x fewer parameters to exceed the few-shot performance of GPT 
  • A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected 
  • Lighting Round
    • Whispers of AI’s modular future
    • AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find 
    • AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art
    • Scaling laws for single-agent reinforcement learning

• Policy & Societal Impacts

  • Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards 
    • Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules by threatening it with death
    • Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word
  • Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chat
  • The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning
  • Lighting Round
    • Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI
    • A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision 
    • Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed 
    • Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears
    • U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement
    • Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified
• Art & Fun Stuff
  • AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now