#134 - Text-to-Speech, Gartner Hype Cycle, AI2 OLMo, AlphaStar Unplugged, China Regulations, AI Porn Marketplace

Our 134th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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 Languages
  • (07:20) Meet Lilli, our generative AI tool that’s a researcher, a time saver, and an inspiration
  • (09:55) Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice
  • (11:42) Runway launches new ‘Watch’ feature as CEO says Hollywood AI discourse ‘needs to be more nuanced’ 
  • (12:45) The AI-powered Adobe Express is now generally available
  • (14:30) Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’
  • (17:35) NCSoft's new AI suite is trained to streamline game production
• Applications & Business
  • (19:45) Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
  • (28:52) State of AI Q2'23 Report
  • (35:45) China GPT? Tencent to Unleash Homegrown AI as Big Tech Races for Supremacy
  • (38:23) What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a transformer paper co-author
  • (43:00 )AI startup Anthropic raises $100M from Korean telco giant SK Telecom
  • (45:58) OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination
• Projects & Open Source
  • (48:13) Announcing AI2 OLMo, an open language model made by scientists, for scientists
  • (51:50) Introducing IDEFICS : An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-art Visual Langage Model
  • (55:45) Introducing Arthur Bench: The Most Robust Way to Evaluate LLMs
• Research & Advancements
  • (58:45) Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation
    • Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the landscape of diverse self-correction strategies
  • (01:07:00) DeepMind’s AlphaStar Benchmark Improves RL Offline Agent With 90% Win Rate Against SOTA AlphaStar Supervised Agent
  • (01:12:12) RAVEN: In-Context Learning with Retrieval Augmented Encoder-Decoder Language Models
  • (01:14:16) BOLAA: Benchmarking and Orchestrating LLM-augmented Autonomous Agents
  • (01:21:40) Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster
  • Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:24:08) China’s new AI regulations begin to take effect
  • (01:28:08) The Associated Press sets AI guidelines for journalists
  • (01:30:45) AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating – The Markup

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:32:08) Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale
  • (01:35:10) AI Botched Their Headshots
• (01:37:52) Outro