#124 - AI in Windows and Photoshop, Nvidia makes $$$, DragGAN, Fake Pentagon Explosion

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 for ChatGPT (14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos (16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries (18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI Applications & Business (19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom (22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think   (25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster  (28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot (30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis (32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters (33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work Projects & Open Source (35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly  +  Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio (38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents  (41:37) Bard API (43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face (44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source Research & Advancements (45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning (49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds (51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans  (54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages (56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models (59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes (01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment Policy & Safety  (01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI (01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI? (01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare  (01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud (01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives Synthetic Media & Art (01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media (01:28:44) Outro