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GPT Reviews
A daily show about AI made by AI: news, announcements, and research from arXiv, mixed in with some fun. Hosted by Giovani Pete Tizzano, an overly hyped AI enthusiast; Robert, an often unimpressed analyst, Olivia, an overly online reader, and Belinda, a witty research expert.
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OpenAI API Updates 💵 // Hot Takes on LMs 🔥 // LMs + Long Term Memory 🧠 14.06.2023 14:54
New function calling capability in the Chat Completions API, and the release of I-JEPA, a new AI model based on Yann LeCun's vision for more human-like AI. They also discuss the collaboration between OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic with the UK government, and the potential risks of misuse. Finally, the team explores two papers, "Augmenting Language Models with Long-Term Memory"...
ChatGPT Leaks 🤐 // Apple execs on Facebook 🍎 // LMs Inferring Causation 🤖 13.06.2023 15:13
OpenAI's ChatGPT leaked potential new features for a business variant of the chatbot, while Aya aims to accelerate multilingual AI progress through open collaboration. LEACE and Leveraging Large Language Models for Scalable Vector Graphics-Driven Image Understanding propose new methods for improving fairness, interpretability, and computer vision. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34...
Meta's MusicGen 🎶 // Improving Reasoning with Bard 🤔 // Multi-Modal Instruction Tuning 🌟 12.06.2023 13:36
They discuss Meta's MusicGen AI model that can generate music with very little data, Google's Bard AI language model that is improving at mathematical tasks, BlenderBot 3x that is trained using organic conversation and feedback data, and MIMIC-IT, a dataset comprising 2.8 million multimodal instruction-response pairs for vision-language tasks that has been used to train the Otter model tha...
GPT-4 for Govt. 🌐 // Bard Boosted by 30%🚀 // Lossless Text Compression with LLMs💾 09.06.2023 14:38
Microsoft grants government access to GPT-4, while Google Bard improves by 30% in reasoning abilities. AlphaDev discovers faster sorting algorithms, and LLMZip proposes a lossless text compression algorithm using large language models. These advancements have the potential to transform how we automate responses, program computers, and compress and store text. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamp...
Instagram Chatbot 📸 // Tim Cook on ChatGPT 🍎 // LLMs + Symbolic Memory 🧠 08.06.2023 15:15
Instagram's AI chatbot, Tim Cook's take on AI and ChatGPT, and Google Cloud's new no-cost generative AI training courses. They also delve into research papers that explore improving the trustworthiness of Large Language Models, training interpretable Transformers, and augmenting LLMs with databases as their symbolic memory. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01...
ChatGPT for Pokemon 🐱 // Apple Avoids AI at WWDC 🍎 // Sparse Quantization for Weight Compression 🏋️ 07.06.2023 16:00
Apple's preference for "machine learning" over "AI," McKinsey and Company's cautious use of generative AI tools, ChatGPT's reasoning capabilities in the Pokemon universe, and SpQR's near-lossless compression for large language models. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:31 For better or worse, Apple is avoiding the AI hype train 03:08...
4000 Job Losses 📉 // Zoom's Meeting Summaries 💬 // Pixels to UI Actions 👾 06.06.2023 15:15
The impact of AI on job loss, the new AI-powered feature on Zoom, and two groundbreaking papers on creating digital agents for graphical user interfaces and generating high-quality long-form text. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:26 Nearly 4,000 Jobs Were Lost to AI Last Month, Report Shows 03:09 Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed 05:03...
Paul Graham on AI Boom 💰 // Drones Gone Rogue 🚁 // Object Segmentation 🎯 05.06.2023 15:40
AI drone going rogue during a defense conference and public market investors missing out on the AI boom. Our resident AI research expert, Belinda, joins us to discuss "Segment Anything in High Quality," which proposes HQ-SAM, a modification of the Segment Anything Model that accurately segments any object while maintaining efficiency and zero-shot generalizability. We also dive into &quo...
Japan's AI & Copyright 🇯🇵 // Image Gen with GPT-4 🎨 // Discovering Conservation Laws 🛰️ 02.06.2023 13:58
Google's new AI-powered search tool and its potential impact on the online publishing industry, as well as Japan's new policy on AI and copyright laws. We also explore "Discovering New Interpretable Conservation Laws as Sparse Invariants," which proposes an algorithm that can auto-discover conservation laws from differential equations, and "Controllable Text-to-Image Generat...
ChatGPT Plugins Prompt Injections 💉 // More AI X-Risk 💀 // Unfair Evaluation of LLMs 👎 01.06.2023 15:10
Risks associated with AI technology, including prompt injection and the potential for AI to cause extinction, language models, with a new optimizer called MeZO proposed for fine-tuning large models and a paper investigating whether language models can identify their own "hallucinations." Additionally, a bias in the evaluation paradigm of using large language models to score the quality o...
Meta's Quest 3 🕶️ // OpenAI's potential EU exit 🇪🇺 // BiomedGPT 🩺 31.05.2023 15:29
Meta's Quest 3 headset promising improved AR performance, OpenAI's potential exit from Europe over new AI regulations, the impact of Twitter's algorithm on public opinion and democratic engagement, and a new pre-trained transformer model called BiomedGPT that could improve healthcare outcomes. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:37 Quest 3 hands-on confirms...
Nvidia's AI Supercomputers 🚀 // AI Antibiotic Discovery 💊 // Demo2Code 💻 30.05.2023 14:46
Nvidia's new AI supercomputers and services, the discovery of a new antibiotic using AI, the challenges of implementing AI in specialized fields like healthcare, and a study on Large Language Models' behavior in interactive social settings. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:37 Nvidia debuts new AI supercomputers and services after shares skyrocket 03:01 New s...
Paralized man walks with AI 🚶 // Pitfalls of Imitating ChatGPT 💬 // Voyager's Proficiency in Minecraft 🎮 29.05.2023 14:00
Swiss scientists helping a paralyzed man walk again with the help of a "digital bridge," ChatGPT's life-saving capabilities, Voyager's exceptional proficiency in playing Minecraft, and SPRING's potential for language models in completing sophisticated high-level trajectories in open-world games. These advancements have the potential to revolutionize the way we treat paralysis...
Windows Copilot 🚀 // RL for Chemistry 🧪 // Control-A-Video 🎥 26.05.2023 15:46
Microsoft's Windows Copilot, Spotify's use of AI for podcast ads, and Azure AI Studio's capabilities for businesses. We also dive into three research papers on digital chemistry, controllable text-to-video generation, and arithmetic tasks. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 02:02 Microsoft announces Windows Copilot, an AI ‘personal assistant’ for Windows 11 03...
Google's AI Ads 🔎 // Robots for Real-World Tasks 🤖 // Schmidhuber on AI Future 💡 25.05.2023 15:49
Google introduces new AI-powered ad features, while 1X deploys humanoid robots for security and healthcare tasks, potentially addressing labor shortages. Juergen Schmidhuber shares his optimistic perspective on the potential of AI and the fear of a dystopian future. The team also dives into AI language model advancements, including textually pretrained speech language models, efficient finetuning...
Anthropic Raises $450M 💰 // Waymo-Uber Partnership 🚗 // RNNs strike back 🔃 24.05.2023 15:40
Anthropic raises $450 million in Series C funding to scale their reliable AI products, while Waymo and Uber partner to bring Waymo's autonomous driving technology to the Uber platform. We also explore two fascinating papers: RWKV, which combines the efficiency of transformers with the inference of RNNs, and RecurrentGPT, which enables interactive generation of arbitrarily long text without for...
Meta's GDPR fine 💰 // LIMA language model 🤖 // Composable Diffusion Models 🎨 23.05.2023 16:17
Meta's €1.2 billion GDPR fine over US mass surveillance is a major blow for the company, while LIMA, a language model trained with only 1,000 prompts and responses, demonstrated strong performance. Composable Diffusion (CoDi) is a powerful generative model that can handle any combination of input and output modalities, and CRITIC is a framework that allows large language models to self-correct...
Apple Limits ChatGPT 🍎 // Hippocratic Raises $50M 💰 // Generalist Dynamic Model Control 🤖 22.05.2023 15:00
Apple is limiting the internal use of some AI-powered tools, while Hippocratic AI has raised $50 million to develop healthcare chatbots. We also discuss a new approach to teaching AI called Guidance and a new large language model called Med-PaLM 2 that improves upon previous work in medical question answering. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 566:54 Introduction 1905:32 Apple reportedly l...
ChatGPT app for iOS 💬 // An RLHF alternative 🧠 // Meta's MTIA v1 accelerator 🚀 19.05.2023 16:22
The ChatGPT app for iOS, Meta's breakthrough in AI accelerator technology with MTIA v1, and an article that explores the future of language and communication. We also discuss three fascinating AI research papers, including "TinyStories," "SLiC-HF," and "Bot or Human?" which presents a new way for online service providers to protect themselves against nefarious act...
PaLM 2 details leaked 🤐 // Apple's Speech Cloning 🗣️ // Contextual Pre-Training 📖 18.05.2023 14:55
Apple's AI-Driven Accessibility Updates and Google's PaLM 2. We also delve into the world of efficient audio generation with SoundStorm and explore the potential of active retrieval augmented generation. Finally, we discuss the importance of in-context learning in NLP and how Pre-Training to Learn in Context can enhance language models' abilities. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps...
Sam Altman on AI Elections Risk 🗳️ // Anthropic-Zoom Partnership 🤝 // Symbol Tuning ICL ❎ 17.05.2023 18:29
We discussed Sam Altman's proposed solutions for regulating AI's impact on elections, as well as the exciting partnership between Anthropic and Zoom to build customer-centric AI products. We also highlighted the LLM University by Cohere, a comprehensive learning resource for anyone interested in NLP using language models. Finally, we delved into three research papers, including Optimizing...
EU AI regulation vs. Open Source 🇪🇺 // Prompt Engineering Guide ✅ // Byte-level Transformers 🤖 16.05.2023 15:38
The EU AI Act's potential impact on American tech companies, Meta's impressive new model architecture for better ad experiences, a multi-scale decoder architecture for modeling long sequences, and the need for best practices and regulations for AGI labs. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:36 EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software 03:16 New AI advancements...
Meta's AI for Advertisers 💸 // GPT-4 explains GPT-2 Neurons 🧠 // ImageBlind 👨🦯 15.05.2023 16:32
Meta introduces generative AI features for advertisers, while Yuval Noah Harari and Yann LeCun debate the promises and dangers of AI. The WebLLMs project allows users to run large-language models and LLM-based chatbots directly in their browsers, and the ImageBind project learns a joint embedding across six different modalities. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 02:07 Met...
Anthropic's 100k context // 🤗 Transformer Agents // Federated Instruction Tuning 12.05.2023 15:10
Anthropic's Claude introduces 100k tokens context windows for businesses to analyze complex documents quickly, while Huggingface releases Transformers Agents, an experimental API for natural language processing and task completion. Stability AI also releases Stable Animation SDK, a powerful text-to-animation tool for artists and developers. Additionally, researchers propose new AI models and f...
PaLM 2 // Google's IO // Snapchat Influencer AI Girlfriend 11.05.2023 15:55
GPT Reviews Artificial Intelligence on Thursday, May 11, 2023 Google's use of generative AI in core products, a controversial AI version of a Snapchat influencer, advancements in language and video understanding with Google's PaLM 2 language model, VideoChat, the potential for unfaithful explanations in large language models revealed by NYU, and more. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps:...
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