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#168 - OpenAI vs Scar Jo + safety researchers, MS AI updates, cool Anthropic research

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Last Week in AI
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May 28, 2024
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Summary

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast ! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles Applications & Business (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors. (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B Projects & Open Source (00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo (00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts (00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small l…