#114 - ChatGPT applications, Claude, PALM-E, OpenAI criticism, AI-generated spam

Our 114th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Stories this week:

• Applications & Business
  • LLM/ChatGPT roundup
    • RadioGPT brings AI to the airwaves
    • Salesforce to add ChatGPT to Slack as part of OpenAI partnership
    • Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools
    • Snapchat launches an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology
    • Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature
    • Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries
  • Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 Billion
    • Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups
  • Lighting Round
    • Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining
    • OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech
    • D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT
    • OpenAI rival Stable Diffusion maker seeks to raise funds at US$4 billion valuation
• Research & Advancements
  • Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands
    • PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
  • What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network?
  • Lighting Round
    • Scientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells
    • Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist's point of view