The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

AI M&A: Billion Dollar Acquisitions Reshape AI Landscape

Today 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

Today 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

Emerson 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

Entrepreneur 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

For 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

Today 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

AI 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

President 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

Today 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

GPT-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

A 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"

Last 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?

Senators 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

The 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

OpenAI 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?

Enterprise 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?

Today 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?

That'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

Today 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

From 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/

Are We In An AI Bubble?

Is AI in bubble territory yet? Ever since Nvidia's massive move up recently, people have been asking this question with renewed vigor. 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's 6 Strategies For Better ChatGPT Prompting

OpenAI has published a new guide with 6 recommendations for better ChatGPT prompting. The recommendations come in response to numerous complaints on Twitter that ChatGPT has gotten worse over the last few weeks. 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/

Can SuperAGI Be What People Wanted from AutoGPT?

AutoGPT was all the AI hotness a few months ago, with its promise of autonomous AI agents. Now, a new tool called SuperAGI is catching developer's interest as an ai agent implementation tool that is more robust than what AutoGPT offered.   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 AI? Apple Didn't Say "Artificial Intelligence" Once at WWDC

Those expecting a big AI announcement at Apple's WWDC were disappointed today, however those waiting for a mixed reality headset have much to celebrate. On this episode, NLW discusses how Apple VisionPro might converge with AI, and where AI did show up (even if not named) in the presentation.  Before that on the Brief: drama at Stability AI, an AI breakthrough in the writers strike, and 3900 job losses from AI last month. 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 Gaming Lights Up: The Biggest AI News This Week

AI news continues to come fast and furious. On today's weekly recap, NLW covers the biggest stories from the previous week, including cutting edge research, 2d video-to-3D modeling, OpenAI corporate secrets 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/

TIME Asks: Is AI the End of Humanity?

TIME Magazine's current cover story is titled "The End of Humanity: How Real Is The Risk?" It's a marker of how much the AI risk and safety conversation has gone mainstream. On this episode, NLW reads two pieces:   AI Is Not an Arms Race - Katja Grace The Darwinian Argument for Worrying About AI - Dan Hendrycks 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/

BONUS: Riley Goodside on The Art of Prompting ChatGPT [The Cognitive Revolution preview]

This is a special preview episode of The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Changes Everything. Hosted by Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz, TCR hosts in-depth interviews with the creators, builders and thinkers pushing the bleeding edge of AI. On this episode, they talk with Riley Goodside, the first Staff Prompt Engineer at Scale AI and expert in prompting LLMs and integrating them into AI applications.  Check out The Cognitive Revolution The perfect AI interview complement to The AI Breakdown  https://link.chtbl.com/TheCognitiveRevolution   Find TCR on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast

An AI Drone Killed Its Operator In A USAF Simulation -- Except That's Not Actually What Happened

A bogus story about an AI simulation gone wrong made headlines around the world, until the progentior of the story said it was actually just a thought experiment. Oops. On the Brief, a look at Neuralangelo, a new NeRF/Photogrammetry type technology making 3D geometry from 2D videos. Check out The Cognitive Revolution The perfect AI interview complement to The AI Breakdown  https://link.chtbl.com/TheCognitiveRevolution   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/

Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math and AI Alignment At the Same Time?

A look at the latest developments from OpenAI, including new features, a cybersecurity grant program, and their new process rewards model for trading. Before that on the Brief, Japan declines to enforce copyright around AI model training, Australia asks citizens if it should ban AI, and an AI camera without a lens.   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/

Are ChatGPT Plugins Overhyped?

ChatGPT Plugins are one of the most hyped things in AI -- but are they overhyped? In this episode, NLW explores how the default interfaces of the internet have changed over time, the issues with the current implementations of ChatGPT Plugins, and what it means for the future.   Check out The Cognitive Revolution The perfect AI interview complement to The AI Breakdown  https://link.chtbl.com/TheCognitiveRevolution   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/