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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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  • May 17, 2023 · 20 min

    The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far

    From Youtube video summarizers to Spotify playlist generators to tools to chat with your PDFs, some of the most interesting and useful ChatGPT plugins as they get rolled out in Beta to all ChatGPT Plus customers. 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

  • May 16, 2023 · 15 min

    7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing

    From a surprising lack of skepticism to clear echoes of social media regulatory failures, NLW covers everything that happened in the first Senate AI hearing in the post ChatGPT era. 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

  • May 15, 2023 · 21 min

    Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?

    NLW tests ChatGPT and the newly updated and opened Bard across 5 categories including creative, travel planning, research, business and more. On the Brief he covers new forthcoming regulations in the EU, Amazon robot leaks, and why you shouldn't become a prompt engineer. Mentioned: https://tech.co/news/google-bard-vs-chatgpt 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

  • May 14, 2023 · 15 min

    Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?

    This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast. It features Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov. 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

  • May 13, 2023 · 12 min

    The Most Important AI News From A Week Where We Glimpsed The Future

    On this week's Weekly Recap: OpenAI Shap-E text-to-3D Anthropic 100k context window Meta ImageBind multimodal HuggingFace Transformers Agents Google I/O announcements Influencer chatbot makes $70k selling conversation at $1/minute Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

  • May 12, 2023 · 20 min

    "How I Went from Non-Technical to Building an Andrew Tate LLM Chatbot in 3 Months"

    Today in the first of a series on AI learning journeys, NLW is joined by Emmet Halm. At the beginning of 2023, Emmet was not a developer. A couple weeks ago, he released a chatbot that was tuned on the ever controversial Andrew Tate. Along the way, he also released a tool to help others fine tune LLMs on specific media creators. In this conversation, they talk about what it takes to start building in AI, and why there has never been a better time. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

  • May 11, 2023 · 13 min

    The Top 5 AI Announcements from Google I/O

    Google tries to reclaim a leadership position in generative AI Honorable Mention - Adobe Firefly partnership 5. "AI Everywhere" - Med-PaLM 2, MusicLM 4. PaLM 2 3. Bard Upgrades 2. Google Workspace (Docs/Drive/Slides) Integration 1. Generative AI in search Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

  • May 10, 2023 · 19 min

    What Comes After ChatGPT? A Preview of the Future of LLMs

    Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW describes three bits of news from this week that together help us get a preview of the future of large language models, including interpretability research from OpenAI using GPT-4 to better understand how GPT-2 works; Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" principles; and Meta's new multimodal model ImageBind, released open source today.

  • May 9, 2023 · 18 min

    How to Get AutoGPT on Your Phone (And What People Are Actually Finding it Useful For)

    A 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

  • May 8, 2023 · 17 min

    Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Invention of the Atom Bomb

    On 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.

  • May 6, 2023 · 13 min

    AI Just Quietly Had One of It's Most Important Weeks in Recent History

    NLW 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

  • May 5, 2023 · 17 min

    Google Losing to Open Source AI? "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

    This 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

  • May 4, 2023 · 12 min

    6 Ways ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Already Being Used

    Code 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

  • May 2, 2023 · 16 min

    Mind-Reading AI? Scientists Use GPT-Like AI to Accurately Translate Thoughts into Text

    Our 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/

  • May 1, 2023 · 11 min

    Text-to-Image AI That Can Actually Spell!? Meet DeepFloyd IF

    If 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/

  • May 1, 2023 · 37 min

    Raoul Pal: AI is the Most Disinflationary Force in Our Lifetimes

    On 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/

  • Apr 28, 2023 · 12 min

    The Most Important AI News This Week: ChatGPT Browse, Apple Quartz, GPT Robot Dogs

    Discussed 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

  • Apr 27, 2023 · 11 min

    The Latest on AutoGPT and BabyAGI: Semi-Autonomous Specialized Agents (SASAs)

    Meet 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