Nonsense Sentience, Condemning GPT-4chan, DeepFake bans, CVPR Plagiarism

Our 102st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Outline:

• (00:00) Intro
• (01:05) LaMDA’s Sentience is Nonsense - Here’s Why
• (2:00) Condemning the deployment of GPT-4chan
• (7:25) Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers 
• (11:20) AI maturity: Only 12% of companies are 'AI Achievers' 
• (16:45) NVIDIA & UW Introduce Factory: A Set of Physics Simulation Methods and Learning Tools for Contact-Rich Robotic Assembly 
• (21:50) Artificial intelligence may be the only way researchers can solve the perplexing puzzle of Long COVID. It’s already categorizing patients and even identifying them 
• (25:42) Reddit Bans ‘SFW’ Deepfake Community
• (30:15) EU To Target Meta, Google, Twitter Over Deepfakes, Report Says 
• (33:28) How to copy text from more than 10 previously published papers and get accepted to CVPR 2022
• (36:30) We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience
• (38:02) DALL-E2 Creates The World’s First AI-Generated Magazine Cover For Cosmopolitan
• (42:15) Outro