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The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.
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Forget Alignment, Here's Why Every AI Needs an Individual "Soul"
Jul 8, 202319 minA reading of David Brin's "Give Every AI a Soul - or Else" https://www.wired.com/story/give-every-ai-a-soul-or-else/ ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Finally Coming Next Week!
Jul 7, 202319 minAfter months of waiting, ChatGPT Code Interpreter plugin is coming to all ChatGPT plus users next week. NLW breaks down why people are so excited, and also shares other OpenAI updates including that GPT-4 is now generally available to paying API customers. Before that on The Brief -- Is AI in a bubble? According to analysts at Goldman Sachs, AI isn't overhyped and backs up all the excitement. Also on this Brief, Morgan Stanley says Microsoft heading to $3T market cap, Alibaba launches an image generation AI and more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
OpenAI Sets Moonshot Goal of AI Superalignment in 4 Years
Jul 6, 202321 minYesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintelligent AI with human intent and values. The company is dedicating 20% of its compute resources to the project and its being led by their chief scientist and co-founder. Before that on the Brief: Over the weekend, Google updated its policies to basically say that it's allowed to train AI on any public data we put online. At the same time, platforms like Twitter and Reddit are racing to keep other companies away from the data created on them. On today's Brief, NLW looks at how the rise of AI models are leading companies to cut off access to their data and create fewer commons and more walled gardens. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Will AI Replace All Coders Within 5 Years?
Jul 5, 202320 minStability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque has predicted that there will be no human coders within 5 years. On today's episode, NLW explores this prediction in terms of what evidence there is for and against it. Before that on The Brief, he looks at why ChatGPT had its first decline in traffic ever last month, as well as CNET's push towards AI content. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/ Quick LinksGet Embed PlayerShare on SocialDownload Audio File
Will AI Increase Freedom or Help Authoritarians?
Jul 4, 202324 minAI could be a tool for the promotion of freedom, or it could aid in surveillance, control, and an expansion of authoritarianism. Which is more likely? NLW explores on this special July 4th edition of The AI Breakdown. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
The AI Data Wars: Why Elon Musk's Rate Limits Are About More Than Twitter
Jul 3, 202316 minThe AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scraping. The move follows big changes to the Reddit API that some have called the end of the internet as we know it. Before that on The Brief: Valve has said they won't approve games for Steam that use AI art that might have copyright issues; Humane shares more information about its Ai Pin wearable; AI enthusiasm in markets is causing some people to worry. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Translating Brainwaves to Images and Other Cutting Edge AI Research
Jul 2, 20239 minToday on The AI Breakdown, a research recap of the most interesting recent AI research, including: DreamDiffusion translating EEG to images - https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.16934 Nemo simulating life in games - https://www.ranmo.me/blog/title-digital-companionship Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds - https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.16928 CSM any image to 3D - https://www.csm.ai/any-image-to-3d CSM Discord - https://discord.com/invite/NhJJwmk8gT Playground mixed image editing - https://playgroundai.com/ The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
60 Possible AGI Futures
Jul 1, 202320 minThe debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of scenarios for if and how humans develop AGI and what happens if and when we do. A reading of: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SRW9WAEEKJEgHAhSy/60-possible-futures The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Inflection Raises Monster $1.3 Billion Round to Build One of World's Biggest AI Clusters
Jun 30, 202310 minInflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest GPU clusters. OpenAI sets up shop in London, updates their mobile iOS ChatGPT app with Browse with Bing, and gets sued for data scraping. Runway raises $141M. MLB experimenting with AI scouting. 150+ corporate executives write an open letter slamming EU AI Act. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown will only be releasing The Brief each morning. We'll be back to our regular content at the end of the week. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
The AI Arms Race Heats Up: US Considers Blocking AI Chip Exports
Jun 29, 20238 minThe Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claims their next model will eclipse ChatGPT. Unity releases AI platform including Unity Muse. NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown will only be releasing The Brief each morning. We'll be back to our regular content at the end of the week. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
AI M&A: Billion Dollar Acquisitions Reshape AI Landscape
Jun 28, 202310 minToday on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B Ramp acquires Cohere.io Thompson Reuters acquires legal AI firm CaseText for $650M Verge surveys 2000 people on AI MerlynMind releases education focused large language models Waldo 2.0 is drone object identification Whale song AI SIGN UP FOR THE AI BREAKDOWN NEWSLETTER: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/ NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown will only be releasing The Brief each morning. We'll be back to our regular content at the end of the week. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
DragGAN's Amazing Drag-to-Edit Photo AI Releases Source Code
Jun 27, 20237 minToday on The AI Breakdown Brief: DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive modifications just through dragging has released its source code Inflection releases a new LLM that competes with GPT3.5 MidJourney gets zoomed out with its 5.2 upgrade Nvidia says it plans to invest in Europe ElevenLabs releases Voice Library NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown will only be releasing The Brief each morning. We'll be back to our regular content at the end of the week. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Is AI "Alien Intelligence?" Emerson Spartz on Mental Models for AI
Jun 26, 20231h 12mEmerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12 years old. He founded digital media company Dose which created some of the world's largest viral content sites. For the past few years, Emerson has been focused on AI, with a particular interest in AI safety, AI alignment and extinction risk. Despite being such a techno-optimist by nature that he's been yelled at for being a techno-optimist in books, he has come to have real concerns about the speed and way that AI is developing. In this sprawling conversation, Emerson provides a set of mental models he uses to try and understand AI broadly. Recommended resources: https://aisafety.info/ Robert Miles YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/robertmilesai The A.I. Dilemma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
What the Head of the New UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce Thinks of AI
Jun 25, 202317 minEntrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from Ian's writing on AI going back to 2018 to help us understand the perspective he's bringing to the taskforce and its £100M mission to make AI safer and more aligned. Excerpts from: AI Nationalism (2018) We must slow down the race to God-like AI (April 2023) Taskforce announcement thread and post (June 2023) The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
"AI Will Modify Our Interface For Information" A Conversation with Maven CEO Gagan Biyani
Jun 24, 202328 minFor more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education revolution. Now as the CEO of Maven, he's helping the world figure out how to reskill for the coming era of artificial intelligence. In this conversation, we talk about the growth in Maven's AI courses as well as how AI is transforming the platform and how they run the company. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Multi-On is What You Wanted AutoGPT to Be - Interview with Founder Div Garg
Jun 23, 202324 minToday NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the browser to execute complex tasks. Learn more: https://multion.ai/ The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
AI is the First UI Paradigm Shift in 60 Years
Jun 22, 202320 minAI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based interaction to intent-based outcome specification. A reading of AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years by Jakob Nielsen Before that on The Brief Marvel has kicked up significant controversy around the AI generated title sequence for the new Secret Invasion show on Disney+; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced SAFE Innovation framework; Wimbledon launches AI-powered commentary, and Dropbox starts a $50M AI venture fund. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Biden Meets AI Safety Experts As White House Promises Decisive Action
Jun 21, 202313 minPresident Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "decisive action" on AI in the weeks to come. CNN reports that senior advisors have been meeting on AI 2-3 times per week since April. On the Brief: OpenAI Is reportedly considering opening an app store for custom models build on top OpenAI; a new LLM beats GPT3.5 with 1/1000th the training data; Opera releases a new AI browser and more. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
The Faux Outrage Around OpenAI's EU Lobbying
Jun 20, 202322 minToday TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW argues that the story is not only not some smoking gun, but is the type of nothingburger that makes people drop out of otherwise important conversations because they're feeling like the media is trying to manipulate their feelings. Before that a new research study reveals some unexpectedly positive attitudes towards AI. Also on The Brief, AI adds $150B to the net worth of the world's richest. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
GPT Engineer Generates An Entire Codebase Based On A Prompt
Jun 19, 202316 minGPT-Engineer is the latest AI project to have Github developers going nuts. The project promises to create entire code bases with a single prompt, reigniting excitement around the potential for more powerful AI agents. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
The Most Interesting AI Research This Week
Jun 18, 202312 minA Research Roundup including: -AssistGPT -LLaMA multimodal adapter -Meta Voicebox -Text-to-Video -LLM agent teaching weaker AIs -AI art QR code generator The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
A Critique of Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save The World"
Jun 17, 202324 minLast week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save the World." This week we read Dwarkesh Patel's "Contra Marc Andreessen on AI." The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
How Worried About China AI Should We Be?
Jun 16, 202317 minSenators Mark Warner and Ted Cruz discus China's AI advances while Bill Gates meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping and TikTok parent ByteDance buys $1B in GPUs from Nvidia. Before that on the Brief, 42% of CEOs worry AI could end humanity in the next decade, Mercedes puts ChatGPT in its cars, and Meta wants to commercialize LLaMA. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
EU Passes AI Act, But Generative AI Provisions Remain Controversial
Jun 15, 202317 minThe EU has passed its AI Act. The risk-based approach has banned some things (like live facial recognition and biometric scraping), and made a whole slew of other things require registration. The biggest arguments remain around generative AI focused provisions. Before that on the Brief, a $4.4 trillion McKinsey predicition, new tools from Google, and AI Jesus on Twitch. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Why OpenAI's API Updates Will Change How We Use ChatGPT
Jun 14, 202319 minOpenAI has announced a set of API updates including lower prices, a larger 16k context window, and something they're calling function calling. On today's episode, NLW explains why function calling in particular is such a big deal. Before that on the Brief, updates from Adobe and Meta as well as a new superchip and HuggingFace partnership for AMD. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
AI at Work: Is Enterprise AI the Next Big Trend?
Jun 13, 202315 minEnterprise AI is a major theme for investors and corporations alike. Salesforce just announced their AI Cloud as well as doubling their generative AI venture fund to $500m. Accenture also announced a $3B investment in their AI practice. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
New ChatGPT Features Leaked?
Jun 12, 202318 minToday on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at how the real estate industry is thinking about the impact of generative AI. Before that on the Brief, we cover a leak from potential new ChatGPT features, as well as updates from Microsoft Bing and Google Search Generative Experience (SGE). The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Will AI Save The World?
Jun 11, 202343 minThat's the claim in Marc Andreessen's massive new 7000 word missive "Why AI Will Save The World." On this week's Long Reads Sunday, NLW voice clones himself with https://play.ht/ to "read" the entire piece. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Creating Worlds From Words: The Most Essential AI News This Week
Jun 10, 202313 minToday on the Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the most essential AI news stories across new tools, important research, big company announcements, open source updates and societal impact. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
The 5 Most Exciting AI Tools Launched This Week
Jun 9, 202318 minFrom text-to-3D avatar to text-to-video to music you create with gestures, these are the most interesting and exciting ai tools that launched or were announced this week. Before that on the Brief AI in Instagram. AI in WhatsApp. AI in Facebook. It's all on the way, according to an all-hands meeting this week with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Additionally ChatGPT comes to iPad, Adobe launched Firefly for Enterprise, and more. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
