GPT Reviews

OpenAI's ChatGPT has released a new update to give users more control over how it responds. A.I. companies have agreed to voluntary safeguards to manage the risks associated with their technology. "Secrets of RLHF in Large Language Models Part I: PPO" introduces a new approach to reinforcement learning with human feedback, which is important for large language models. Finally, "...

Cerebras has sold a $100 million AI supercomputer and is planning eight more, challenging the market for AI hardware and validating the market for specialized AI hardware outside of GPUs. The NYC subway system is using AI to track fare evasion, raising concerns about privacy and surveillance. LLM Evaluation research... Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:39  Cerebras Sel...

LLAMA 2, the new open-source conversational language model from Meta, has been released, with Microsoft as the preferred partner. Apple has created its own AI-based chatbot called "Apple GPT" to compete with Google and Open AI, but had to halt the rollout due to security concerns around generative AI. "Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels" proposes a new a...

A comprehensive look at Wix's AI journey, from its current AI-powered features to its ambitious future plans. It also delves into the SEC's warning about AI's potential risks to financial stability, including its use in financial fraud and conflicts of interest. The episode also features a deep dive into three intriguing research papers, exploring the NaViT Vision Transformer, the Rete...

CM3leon, a new generative model for text and images that is more efficient and state-of-the-art. OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is also featured, offering an "Ask Me Anything" document on AI research. Additionally, Sumformer, a linear-complexity alternative to self-attention for speech recognition, and DreamTeacher, a self-supervised feature representation learning framework that uses gener...

AP's partnership with OpenAI, Google's language model Bard, and Meta's release of a commercial version of LLaMA. Additionally, two AI research papers are discussed, one about using LLMs to help robots with complex tasks and another about a hypernetwork called HyperDreamBooth that can efficiently generate personalized weights from a single image of a person. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com...

Elon Musk's new AI company, xAI, aims to understand the true nature of the universe and has a team of heavy hitters from AI powerhouses. Anthropic's new model, Claude 2, has made significant improvements in coding, math, and reasoning, and is being used by businesses for a wide variety of use cases. Google's new AI-backed tool, NotebookLM, is a note-taking tool that uses AI to help use...

Google's efforts to combat political misinformation, Volkswagen's partnership with Mobileye to launch autonomous vehicles, and two AI research papers on video understanding and efficient text generation. The episode highlights the need for improved video-focused foundation models and the potential for more efficient inference in large language models. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamp...

From the concerning flood of AI-generated books on Amazon's Kindle Program to OpenAI's Superalignment team dedicated to addressing the superintelligence alignment problem. The team also discusses the temporary shutdown of the web browsing feature for ChatGPT Plus subscribers and three research papers, including LongNet, SDXL, and KnowNo. These papers cover topics such as scaling sequence l...

The EU and Japan's potential partnership on AI and chips to reduce reliance on China, the UN Security Council's first-ever meeting on the potential threats of AI to global peace and security, a paper challenging the belief that pre-trained models always outperform meta-learning algorithms in few-shot learning, and Microsoft's ZeRO++ introducing communication volume reduction techniques...

From the potential misuse of AI-generated imagery for disinformation campaigns to the use of AI chatbots to frustrate telemarketing scammers, the episode highlights the versatility of AI in addressing persistent issues. The development of Hint-ReLIC and Statler state-maintaining language models also show promising advancements in neural algorithmic reasoning and large language model-based robot re...

Elon Musk blames AI companies for new paywalls on reading tweets. European VCs and tech firms warn against over-regulation of AI in EU la. GPT-4's big secret is revealed: it's a mixture of 8 smaller models using a 2-year-old technique. AI research papers discussed include Preference Ranking Optimization for Human Alignment, ChatGPT for Robotics, and Large Language Models are Effective Text...

From the first fully AI-generated drug entering clinical trials to a new method for improving out-of-distribution performance of visual detectors, there's plenty to pique your interest. The OBELISC dataset is also discussed, which could have important implications for training large multimodal models. Finally, the potential catastrophic risks associated with AI are explored, with practical sug...

Amazon's AI marketplace, Stability AI's recent changes, potential biases in large language models, and the use of LLMs by crowd workers. These discussions shed light on important issues in the AI industry and highlight the need for transparency and oversight in the development and use of AI models. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:41  Amazon reveals AI strateg...

ERNIE 3.5 has made significant improvements in efficacy, functionality, and performance, while OpenAI's work assistant may put the company at odds with Microsoft's copilots. "Learning to Rank in Generative Retrieval" proposes a novel framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance among generative retrieval methods. Finally, "System-Level Natural Language Feedback"...

DeepMind is developing a chatbot called Gemini that will rival ChatGPT, while Reka has received $58 million in funding to advance AI research. We also explore the emerging discipline of prompt engineering and the use of large language models as weak learners in machine learning pipelines. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:34  DeepMind claims its next chatbot will rival...

Databricks' acquisition of MosaicML for $1.3 billion, Ramp's acquisition of Cohere.io to improve its customer service, and two research papers on self-supervised evaluation for large language models and scaling MLPs. These topics provide valuable insights into the growing demand for generative AI tools, the importance of realistic data evaluation, and the limits of MLPs' performance on...

Stability AI's SDXL 0.9, which has potential applications in film, television, music, design, and industrial fields, to archaeologists using AI to translate 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, this episode is packed with fascinating developments. We also delve into MIT and Stanford's "From Word Models to World Models," which proposes a computational framework for language-informed...

From the concerning news of over 100,000 ChatGPT account credentials being compromised, to OpenAI's plans to launch a marketplace for AI models, potentially competing with existing app stores. We also explore Hyung Won Chung's unique approach to software development with GPT-4 and discuss promising research papers on improving language models with memory-augmentation and mobile manipulation. Conta...

DeepMind's self-improving robotic agent, RoboCat, and Microsoft's new AI model, Orca. They also discuss two research papers, "RED FM" and "SqueezeLLM," that introduce new resources for multilingual relation extraction and a post-training quantization framework, respectively. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:37  DeepMind Announces RoboCat: A...

the intersection of AI and music with the Grammys' new rules for AI use. We also dive into the OpenLLaMA project, an open source reproduction of Google's LLaMA language model. Our AI research expert, Belinda, joins us to discuss two papers: the Recurrent Memory Decision Transformer, which proposes a model for reinforcement learning tasks, and the Block-State Transformer, which combines Sta...

Meta's decision not to release their AI speech tool due to deepfake concerns, China's President welcoming AI tech with potential global implications, the "Waluigi Effect" article revealing the challenges of large language models, and research papers exploring fine-tuning, inverse scaling, and unifying large language models and knowledge graphs. Contact:  sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introdu...

OpenAI's ChatGPT takes the AI world by storm with 1 million users in five days, while Google revolutionizes online shopping with a virtual try-on feature. The essay "Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software" sheds light on the importance of clear communication in software development. Meanwhile, research papers explore TryOnDiffusion, image captioning, and the BBF agent's...

Amazon's leaked document on ChatGPT, Japan's decision on AI training copyrights, and Israel's support for copyrighted works in machine learning. We also explore two research papers on end-to-end reinforcement learning for robotic mobile manipulation and benchmarking general conditional image similarity. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:51  A leaked documen...

Mistral AI secures $113 million seed funding to compete against OpenAI with a unique approach, while Hugging Face partners with AMD to optimize transformer performance. The Beatles announce a final record using John Lennon's voice via AI assist, raising concerns about the ethics of AI in music. We also dive into research papers exploring the efficiency of language models, the use of retrieval-...