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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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How to Get AutoGPT on Your Phone (And What People Are Actually Finding it Useful For)
May 9, 202319 minA check-in on AutoGPT as well as the headline news: Updates from the US copyright office Pitchbook VC enthusiasm for AI Palantir stock price pops after AI announcement Google I/O Developer conference AI leaks IBM relaunches AI division as WatsonX in partnership with HuggingFace One researcher says 80% of jobs could be replaced by AI
Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Invention of the Atom Bomb
May 8, 202318 minOn today's episode, we discuss Warren Buffett's recent comments on AI as well as cover a primer of the geopolitics of AI. On the headline news brief, we cover updates from Google and Amazon as well as new open source LLM's and a new text-to-3D platform Shap-E from OpenAI.
AI Just Quietly Had One of It's Most Important Weeks in Recent History
May 6, 202313 minNLW argues Geoffrey Hinton's defection from Google and his progress mainstreaming the AI safety conversation makes this week one of huge, if subtle, significance. Also covered: Midjourney v5.1 Inflection Pi iBaby AGI Brain-to-video CEBRA research Microsoft Bing updates Microsoft-AMD AI chips? Samsung bans AI Meta ChatGPT malware warning IBM 7800 jobs disrupted by AI Chegg stock craters because of ChatGPT White House AI meeting OpenAI back in Italy Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google, warns on AI Featured song "I'm Fine" by angelbaby x wesghost x grimes-ai https://twitter.com/angelbaby/status/1654200137592233984 The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the YouTuve version of The AI Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown
Google Losing to Open Source AI? "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
May 5, 202317 minThis week, a Google researcher had a note leaked that argued that Google (and OpenAI) were going to lose AI to the open source community. In this episode, NLW explores the arguments and asks what the implications might be. Read the original note: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
6 Ways ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Already Being Used
May 4, 202313 minCode Interpreter is a new plugin for ChatGPT that is allowing for amazing data analysis and visualization. In today's episode, NLW looks at 6 early use cases, ranging from San Francisco Crime Data to mapping Lighthouses to basic video editing. On the Headline Brief, NLW covers: Microsoft Bing Upgrades Meta's ChatGPT malware warning Google Deepmind CEO on AGI
The First Anti-AI Strike: The Writers Guild of America Protests AI Writing
May 3, 202313 minThe Writers Guild of America is striking after not being able to come to an agreement with TV and film executives. At the heart of the matter is the use of AI, and many believe the issues at stake are broadly relevant for other industries as well.
Mind-Reading AI? Scientists Use GPT-Like AI to Accurately Translate Thoughts into Text
May 2, 202316 minOur main discussion is focused on new research out of the University of Texas Austin on GPT-like AI that, after being trained on a particular person's brain, can translate their thoughts into text. The news brief covers: IBM replacing 7800 future hires with AI Dropbox lays off 500 in pivot to AI Meta AI on earnings call Amazon building improved LLM for Alexa Geoffrey Hinton 'Godfather of AI' leaves Google to warn of dangers of AI White House looking into use of AI for employee tracking Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/
Text-to-Image AI That Can Actually Spell!? Meet DeepFloyd IF
May 1, 202311 minIf you've ever used Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion or another text-to-image generator, you'll know that words are a weakness. Text (such as on signs) tends to be gibberish. DeepFloyd IF has started to solve that problem and it's doing it open source. Referenced in the video: https://twitter.com/DeepFloydIF https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1652295961404645376 https://stability.ai/blog/deepfloyd-if-text-to-image-model https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1651822596844048385 https://the-decoder.com/deepfloyd-if-is-a-crazy-good-text-to-image-model-and-open-source/ https://wandb.ai/geekyrakshit/deepfloyd/reports/A-Gentle-Introduction-to-DeepFloydAI-s-New-Diffusion-Model-IF--VmlldzozNTY3Nzc4 https://twitter.com/javilopen/status/1652387049268297729 https://huggingface.co/DeepFloyd https://twitter.com/DavidVorick/status/1652070967412129793 Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/
Raoul Pal: AI is the Most Disinflationary Force in Our Lifetimes
May 1, 202338 minOn this episode of The AI Breakdown, NLW is joined by Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal to discuss AI as a disinflationary force, how big companies are reacting to AI, AI safety and more. This is an excerpt from a conversation that first appeared on The Breakdown on Tuesday April 25, 2023. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/
Real Life "Her"? A Chat with AI Avatar Call Annie About AI Alignment and More
Apr 29, 202311 minOn Wednesday night I had a "FaceTime" with Call Annie. It's a new app that matches AI language models with an AI avatar to have a more human conversation. The conversation explores AI alignment, X-risk, and much more.
The Most Important AI News This Week: ChatGPT Browse, Apple Quartz, GPT Robot Dogs
Apr 28, 202312 minDiscussed on the show: ChatGPT Privacy - https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1650961357913616402 ChatGPT Browse - https://twitter.com/zacknotes/status/1651360024877203457 HuggingChat - https://twitter.com/ClementDelangue/status/1650908484936908808 Microsoft Designer - https://twitter.com/yusuf_i_mehdi/status/1651625352131907584 Google Bard - https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23692517/google-ai-bard-chatbot-code-support-functions-google-sheets Apple AI Quartz - https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1651600006405660673 Sully Omarr on Apple's M2 opportunity - https://twitter.com/SullyOmarr/status/1651275484573966336 Harvey funding - https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-harvey-putting-llms-to-work/ A16Z Pinecone - https://a16z.com/2023/04/27/investing-in-pinecone Replit - https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/27/replit-funding-100m-generative-ai/ Palantir - https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvb4x/palantir-demos-ai-to-fight-wars-but-says-it-will-be-totally-ethical-dont-worry-about-it ChatGPT in Robot Dogs - https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1650832349008125952 Rate of Change - https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/p/rate-change Midjourney updates - https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1651314922326994944 Watch the original video: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown
The Latest on AutoGPT and BabyAGI: Semi-Autonomous Specialized Agents (SASAs)
Apr 27, 202311 minMeet semi-autonomous specialized agents (SASAs), more descreet, focused implementations of AutoGPT and BabyAGI. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Breakdown wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614
ChatGPT Adds Private Mode as HuggingFace Launches Open Source Competitor
Apr 26, 202314 minYesterday ChatGPT announced a number of important updates, including a privacy preserving mode that doesn't record chat history (and doesn't train OpenAI models on chat history) as well as a forthcoming business offering. Many think that the moves are at least in part response to European scrutiny around GDPR compliance. Also yesterday, AI platform HuggingFace announced HuggingChat, an open source ChatGPT competitor.
Profit or Piracy? How AI Disrupts Industries
Apr 25, 202314 minA case study in the disruptive force of AI to traditional industries. Will they respond as have previous industries in the past have responded to technology wrought change -- with lawyers and intimidation? Or will they adapt and seize new opportunities never before imaginable? How do issues of creativity and copyright fit in?
Why GPT-4-32k Will Totally Transform What We Can Do With AI
Apr 24, 202313 minGPT-4 as most people use it has an 8K token limit. Some already have access to a version with a 32K limit, however, and are reporting hugely different opportunities in terms of what it GPT can do, based on how much more text it can take in and output at once.
The Problems with AutoGPT and BabyAGI: How Useful Are They Really?
Apr 22, 202312 minFor the last 3 weeks, AutoGPT has massively captured the attention of the AI community. But how useful is it really? Some are starting to ask whether it really lives up to the hype. Watch the original video: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown
I Asked ChatGPT and Its New Open Source Competitor StableLM if AI Should Be Open Source. Here's What They Said.
Apr 21, 202320 minStability AI announced StableLM this week and open source AI advocates are over the moon. On this episode of The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at what StableLM is, how it compares to GPT, and then asks both ChatGPT and StableLM what they "think" about whether AI should be open source.
The AI Data Wars: Elon Threatens to Sue Microsoft While Viral AI Drake Track Stuns Music Industry
Apr 20, 202312 minWe're seeing more and more instances of industries, companies and individuals fighting back against their data and IP being used to train AI. On this episode, we look at Elon threatening to sue Microsoft, Reddit changing their terms for AI companies, and the music industry loosing their ever-loving mind about a viral AI produced track featuring the synthetic voices of Drake and The Weeknd. Subscibe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown
AI that Can See the World? Meet MiniGPT-4 an Open Source Image-to-Text Model
Apr 19, 202311 minWe've had many examples of text-to-image but fewer AI models that can interpret images. MiniGPT-4 is a new open source model that can look at an image of food and give you the recipe, look at a white board mockup of a website and give you the code, look at a picture of a person and their dog at sunset and write a poem. Subscribe to the YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown
Can Open Source AI Compete with Big Tech? A Look at TruthGPT, RedPajama and MiniGPT
Apr 18, 202314 minSome argue that open source AI is the key to making AI's benefits to the entire world, as well as making AI safer. Others think that open source can multiply risks. With a slate of new projects being announced this week, the conversation is heating up. Discussed in this episode: Elon Musk's planned TruthGPT Dolly 2.0, an open source LLM based on the EleutherAI pythia model built by Databricks RedPajama, an open source proxy of Facebook/Meta's LLaMA, from Together MiniGPT, an open source AI model that can extract information from images Stable Diffusion XL, the latest open source text-to-image model from Stability AI
The AI Arms Race: Where the World's Biggest Companies Stand
Apr 17, 202313 minGoogle is working on a top secret search update called "Magi." Amazon announced Bedrock last week. This episode covers the AI strategies of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Adobe, and Apple.
Is AutoGPT Dangerous?
Apr 15, 202312 minThere's no denying AutoGPT represents an incredible advance in AI, but does it create new risk we should be paying more attention to?
5 Ways AutoGPT is Already Being Used
Apr 13, 202314 minAutoGPT is lighting up the developer and AI community. Here are five uses happening right now: Starting a businesses Building a web application Task list that does itself Creating podcast content Autonomous AI agent generator
What is AutoGPT and Why is Everyone Talking About It?
Apr 12, 20239 minLess than a week old, AutoGPT has exploded onto the scene. AutoGPTs are AIs that, once assigned a task, figure out how to complete that task, including generating other AIs. They have access to the internet, longer term memory, and thus can be used in much different ways. In just a week, AutoGPTs have become the most active GitHub repositories.
Should the US Gov't Have to Review and License AI Tools?
Apr 12, 202310 minThat's the question the Biden Administration is asking American citizens to comment on. WSJ and others reported today that the Administration is nervous about AI being used for crime and disinformation, and so is collecting public comments on the idea of having an FDA-like body to review and approve AI tools.
Introducing The AI Breakdown
Apr 4, 20231 minMeet The AI Breakdown - a semiweekly news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence, aka AI. 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. The AI Breakdown is a part of The Breakdown Network: Change Explained.
