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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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The Most Important AI News This Week: ChatGPT Browse, Apple Quartz, GPT Robot Dogs
Apr 28, 2023 12 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
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The Latest on AutoGPT and BabyAGI: Semi-Autonomous Specialized Agents (SASAs)
Apr 27, 2023 11 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
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ChatGPT Adds Private Mode as HuggingFace Launches Open Source Competitor
Apr 26, 2023 14 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.
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Profit or Piracy? How AI Disrupts Industries
Apr 25, 2023 14 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?
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Why GPT-4-32k Will Totally Transform What We Can Do With AI
Apr 24, 2023 13 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.
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The Problems with AutoGPT and BabyAGI: How Useful Are They Really?
Apr 22, 2023 12 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
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I Asked ChatGPT and Its New Open Source Competitor StableLM if AI Should Be Open Source. Here's What They Said.
Apr 21, 2023 20 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.
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The AI Data Wars: Elon Threatens to Sue Microsoft While Viral AI Drake Track Stuns Music Industry
Apr 20, 2023 12 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
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AI that Can See the World? Meet MiniGPT-4 an Open Source Image-to-Text Model
Apr 19, 2023 11 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
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Can Open Source AI Compete with Big Tech? A Look at TruthGPT, RedPajama and MiniGPT
Apr 18, 2023 14 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
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The AI Arms Race: Where the World's Biggest Companies Stand
Apr 17, 2023 13 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.
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Is AutoGPT Dangerous?
Apr 15, 2023 12 minThere's no denying AutoGPT represents an incredible advance in AI, but does it create new risk we should be paying more attention to?
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5 Ways AutoGPT is Already Being Used
Apr 13, 2023 14 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
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What is AutoGPT and Why is Everyone Talking About It?
Apr 12, 2023 9 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.
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Should the US Gov't Have to Review and License AI Tools?
Apr 12, 2023 10 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.
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Introducing The AI Breakdown
Apr 4, 2023 1 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.