The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

How Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious?

Exploring a new paper attempting to begin creating a systematic approach to answering that question. Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708 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/

The Peril and Potential of AutoGPT

Reading excerpts from Zvi Moshowitz' "On AutoGPT" from his blog/newsletter "Don't Worry About the Vase." https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/on-autogpt/ 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/

Code Llama Kicks LLM for Code Battle Into Overdrive

Meta has released LLM-for-coding Code Llama in numerous versions. NLW explores the community discussion, including some interesting data around an unreleased version trained on synthetic data that seemed to perform better than any other. Before that on the Brief, Spain starts an AI agency; the UK announces more details of its AI Safety Summit and new AI models out of South Korea and China. 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/

Was Nvidia's Earnings Call A '1995 Internet Moment'?

One Wall Street analyst thinks that Nvidia's earnings will be seen in the future as a 1995 Internet Moment. Before that on the Brief: The New York Times profiles a novel treatment of a paralyzed woman using AI to reconstruct speech and facial expressions from brainwaves; Hollywood strike considers implications of AI copyright rules, and Salesforce makes an AI-related holiday sales prediction. 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/

How Big A Deal Is GPT-3.5 Fine-Tuning From OpenAI?

OpenAI has released finetuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo. It's expensive, and for some comes with privacy concerns, but also opens up many new applications. Before that on The Brief: Meta's new AI translation model, Nvidia earnings hopes and a new approach to AI agents. 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/

The Future of AI Music: YouTube and Universal Partner

Universal and YouTube are partnering on an AI music incubator and other approaches to AI music that try to open up creativity while protecting existing copyright holders. Before that on the Brief: Snapchat's Dreams AI feature; Zoom shares jump around AI talk; and Midjourney releases inpainting. 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/

Should the US Nationalize the Artificial Intelligence Industry?

That's the argument of one Politico columnist. NLW examines the argument in depth. Before that on the Brief: A district court judge has said that AI art can't be copyrighted, but anticipates complications coming soon; Singapore workers adapting to AI the fastest; 170,000 books used in AI training dataset; 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/

Could Google's Gemini Be A ChatGPT Killer?

AI Twitter is buzzing with cryptic posts about how the LLM world is set to change in the next few months. On today's episode, NLW looks at everything we know about Google Gemini. 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/

Could AI End Up Being Good for Democracy?

The standard discourse around AI and politics is one of fear. Deepfakes. Election tampering. Misinformation. Yet the two pieces NLW reads today suggest a different path is possible. Artificial intelligence is powering politics – but it could also reboot democracy How AI could save politics—if it doesn’t destroy it first 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/

Meta to Launch Open Source Coding AI as Latest Assault on OpenAI

Meta is launching a new open source AI specifically for code generation which could undercut paid tools like Microsoft GitHub Copilot (powered by OpenAI's Codex). Before that on the Brief: a jailbroken Nest that shows the future of AI-powered devices; states form an AI regulatory task force and much 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/

Snapchat Users Freaked Out as My AI Goes Rogue

Users were not stoked when Snapchat's My AI chatbot posted a story yesterday -- something it wasn't supposed to be able to do. Before that on the Brief: the AI Twitter community debates whether OpenAI's acquisition of Global Illumination is about talent or a push towards autonomous agents; a new AMD IT leader survey; McKinsey announces Lilli custom LLM; and Gartner puts generative AI at the peak of inflated expectations. 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/

Why AI Hype Has Peaked (And Why That's A Good Thing)

In today's episode, NLW explores the factors that have driven AI past its peak of hype, and what's actually going on behind the scenes. 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/

AGI By 2032? The Most Interesting AI Predictions

On today's episode, NLW looks at Metaculus prediction markets around various AI events. Before that on the Brief: Gulf states race to acquire compute; Iowa school district uses AI to figure out which books to ban; and did Microsoft just release ChatGPT for business? 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/

How The AI Backlash Killed This Literary Startup

Prosecraft is the first casualty of the AI backlash. Was it justified, or simply inevitable? Before that on the Brief: Amazon announces generative AI summaries of reviews as well as previews their chip production facility, and OpenAI is *not* going bankrupt. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/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/

As WormGPT Goes White Hat, Evil-GPT Emerges

WormGPT was initially advertised as an LLM for doing bad things. According to a recent interview with founders, however, they're trying to push it for more above-board use-cases. In that vacuum, a new LLM for bad things called, appropriately Evil-GPT has stepped into the mix. 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/

AI and the Turning Point Moment in Human History

A reading of and discussion around Tyler Cowen's "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history." 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/

The Alignment Problem: How To Tell If An LLM Is Trustworthy

New research attempts to put together a complete taxonomy for trustworthiness in LLMs. Before that on the Brief: The FEC is considering new election rules around deepfakes. Also on the Brief: self-driving cars approved in San Francisco; an author finds fake books under her name on Amazon; and Anthropic releases a new model.  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/

76% of Americans Think AI Might Kill Us

A new survey from the AI Policy Institute shows that Americans are extremely concerns about AI and support regulation to slow it down. Before that on The Brief: Disney explores AI; DARPA starts a $20M cybersecurity challenge; and a New Zealand Grocery AI app goes horribly awry. 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/

The LLM for Coding Competition Heats Up!

On the Brief: Stability AI releases StableCode as Google opens the waitlist for its in-browser AI-powered coding environment; Google is in talks with major record labels around AI music and AI discovers an asteroid. On our main episode: NVIDIA announces its state of the art Grace Hopper superchip is coming next year, alongside a slew of other generative AI updates. NLW explores how the AI chip competitive space is developing, including the latest from AMD, startups like Tenstorrent, and efforts from the big tech giants. 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/

GPTBot AI Data Controversy and the Remaining Challenges of LLMs

NLW reviews a recent research paper which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of LLM development and organizes remaining challenges and problems to be solved -- along with prospective solutions. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI launches GPTBot to crawl the web for AI training purposes; Zoom has to back off ToS changes that would allow them to collected data for AI training purposes. Plus a terrifying new cyberattack that can tell what you typed just by listening to your keystrokes. Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10169 Today's Sponsor: Giskard - the testing framework for ML models - https://www.giskard.ai/ 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/

Apple Reveals It Spent Billions on AI R&D

During last week's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple anticipated putting generative AI into every product, and intimated that they had spent billions on artificial intelligence research and development. Before that on The Brief: after the community questioned some art from an upcoming book, Wizards of the Coast and D&D Beyond are clarifying their AI art policies; Morgan Stanley says AI bubble may be peaking, University College London study says 27% can't recognize deepfakes, 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/

Why We're Radically Underestimating the Political Implications of AI Job Displacement

NLW opines on the increasingly popular canard "AI won't take your job; someone using AI will" and finds it lacking. 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/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nlw / https://twitter.com/AIBreakdownPod

Why Do People Who Think AI Could Kill Us All Still Work on AI?

A reading of "Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons" by Daniel Eth. 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/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nlw / https://twitter.com/AIBreakdownPod

Code Interpreter is GPT-4.5: A Summer AI Technical Roundup [feat. Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space]

Today NLW is joined by Swyx and Alessio, the hosts of the Latent Space podcast to discuss the key technical developments from the last month of AI, including code interpreter; llama 2; the latest in AI agents; growing interest in AI companions, and more. Latent Space podcast -https://www.latent.space/podcast / https://twitter.com/latentspacepod Swyx - https://twitter.com/swyx Alessio Fanelli - https://twitter.com/FanaHOVA 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/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nlw / https://twitter.com/AIBreakdownPod

The Frontier of AI-Generated Music Models

On today's episode NLW explores Meta's newly launched AudioCraft compared to Google MusicLM. Before that on the Brief, Goldman Sachs predicts AI investment will reach 4% of GDP by 2025; a 9-figure investment for an Nvidia competitor; new Alibaba AI models 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/

Has Open Source Screwed a Whole Generation of AI Startups?

NLW explores some of the unexpected developments in the AI space, with a focus on how open source has changed the way enterprises think about AI procurement. Before that on the Brief; DALL-E 3 leaks; AMD earnings results; YouTube testing AI summaries. Today's Sponsor: Giskard - the testing framework for ML models - https://www.giskard.ai/ 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/

Is GPT-5 On the Way? OpenAI Files Trademark

A look at a recent trademark filing; Facebook launching AI Personas; a leaked Instagram feature identifying content made by AI; Dell's AI efforts; Google Assistant's AI makeover; plus a deep dive on McKinsey's State of AI in 2023 report which was released earlier today. 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/

The AI-Robotics Revolution: Robots That Think Like LLMs

Google recently shared its RT-2 model which can translate generalized instructions into robotic control. Also on today's episode, researchers use AI to discover ancient antibiotics from Neanderthals and Denisovans; Google releases research on Med-PaLM M, a general multimodal medical model; and AI might be coming to Dungeons & Dragons. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/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/

The 5 Most Important AI News Stories Last Month

OpenAI Superalignment? Claude 2? White House? Find out what NLW thinks were the most important AI news stories in July. 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/

AI for War? Debating the Military Use of AI

A reading of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent essay for the New York Times and discussing the military applications of artificial intelligence. Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/u-s-china-competition-and-military-ai 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/