#115 - GPT4, Bard, AGI, Alpaca, Anthropic, Midjourney V5

Our 115th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessGPT-4GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why  GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions Lighting RoundConfirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You Introducing Claude Research & AdvancementsMicrosoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI Alpaca: A Strong Instruction-Following Model Lighting RoundOur latest health AI research updates Machine learning takes starring role in exploring the universe  A new method to boost the speed of online databases MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks Policy & Societal Impacts Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams Lighting RoundSome high-level thoughts on the DeepMind alignment team's strategy Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now? AI Scams and Influencers AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office  I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients  Art & Fun StuffMidjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art Illustration competitions grapple with generative AI Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display AI and Copyright: Human Artistry Campaign Launches to Support Songwriters and Musicians’ Rights