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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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Aug 29, 2024

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AI Secret Trading in China 💼 // Training Models at Scale 🚀 // Improving User Queries with Backtracing 🔍 08.03.2024

A Google engineer has been indicted for allegedly stealing over 500 confidential files containing AI trade secrets while working for China-based companies seeking an edge in the AI technology race. A tutorial series explores parallelism strategies for training large deep learning models, making it accessible to everyone regardless of the hardware you have available. Value functions are a crucial c...

Perplexity vs. Google 🔍 // Microsoft vs. NYT ⚖️ // General Computer Control 💻 07.03.2024

Perplexity AI is a search startup that's looking to take on Google by solving the inadequacies of searching the web. They are nearing unicorn status with a valuation of around $1 billion. Microsoft is being sued by The New York Times for copyright infringement and abusing the newspaper’s intellectual property in training LLMs. Microsoft accuses the Times of "unsubstantiated" claims a...

OpenAI vs Elon Musk 💻 // Automated Text Embeddings 📊 // Unified Time Series Model 📈 06.03.2024

Groq, an AI chip startup, forms a new business unit and acquires Definitive Intelligence to expand its customer and developer ecosystem. OpenAI responds to Elon Musk's lawsuit, revealing that Musk himself wanted "absolute control" over the company by merging it with Tesla. A new Postgres extension called pg_vectorize automates the transformation and orchestration of text to embedding...

Anthropic's Claude 3 🤖 // Elon Musk sues OpenAI 💥 // Unified Time Series Model 🎧 05.03.2024

Anthropic's new and improved Claude 3 model family sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks, exhibiting near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly abandoning their original mission to benefit humanity and instead focusing on profits with Microsoft. Opus 1.5 brings quality improvements, i...

Adobe's GenAI for Audio 🎧 // User Data for AI Backlash 👀 // MOSAIC's Modular Cooking 🍲 04.03.2024

Adobe's new generative AI tools for custom audio creation and editing. Tumblr and WordPress selling user data to train AI tools, sparking backlash. MOSAIC, a modular system for assistive and interactive cooking using natural language and multiple robots. A new approach to real-world humanoid control using a causal transformer model trained through autoregressive prediction of sensorimotor traj...

Meta's Llama 3 🦙 // Apple's GenAI 🍎 // Unsupervised RL via Reward Encoding 🤖 01.03.2024

Meta Platforms is set to launch its new AI language model, Llama 3, which promises to tackle taboo questions with more grace and respect than its predecessor. Apple is ramping up its investment in GenAI, with plans to upgrade Siri and iOS’ built-in search tool, Spotlight, with GenAI models to handle more complex queries and multi-turn conversations. The University of California, Berkeley, has publ...

Pichai on Google Controversy 🤡 // C3.ai's Revenue Surprises AI Market 📈 // 1-bit LLMs for Efficient Language Modeling 💾 29.02.2024

Google's image creation tool, Gemini, has been generating offensive and embarrassing results, prompting the company to make structural changes and update product guidelines to avoid bias in AI tools. C3.ai, a software maker that helps companies build AI applications, reported a narrower-than-expected loss and revenue that topped estimates, causing AI stock to pop more than 14% in extended trad...

DeepMind's Genie 🧞 // More Hollywood AI Concerns 🤖 // MobileLLM for Efficient Language Models 📱 28.02.2024

DeepMind's Genie, a tool that creates video games with just a prompt or an image, is a game-changer in the industry. Tyler Perry's $800M studio expansion is on hold after seeing OpenAI's Sora, highlighting the potential for AI to replace human workers in the entertainment industry. MobileLLM is a promising development for those looking to deploy efficient language models on mobile devi...

Mistral New Models 🗣️ // Mistral-Microsoft Partnership 💻 // Input Length Impact on LLMs 🤔 27.02.2024

Mistral AI has launched a new conversational assistant, Le Chat Mistral, which serves as an entry point to interact with their various models. They're also launching Le Chat Enterprise, which could be useful for businesses looking to boost productivity and efficiency. Microsoft has partnered with Mistral, a French company focused on language models, and will be taking a minor stake in the comp...

Google's Gemma 🌟 // Generalized Instruction Tuning 📚 // Multi-object Diffusion 🖼️ 22.02.2024

Gemma, a new family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built for responsible AI development, is introduced by Google. "Synthetic Data (Almost) from Scratch: Generalized Instruction Tuning for Language Models" presents a new method for instruction tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) called Generalized Instruction Tuning (GLAN). "MuLan: Multimodal-LLM Agent for Progressiv...

Groq's AI Hardware 💻 // Japan's $67B Chip Bet 🎲 // Video Understanding 📹 21.02.2024

Groq's AI hardware breakthroughs with LPU architecture achieving speeds of 500 tokens per second. Japan's $67 billion investment to become a global chip powerhouse and insulate its economy from growing US-China tensions. Neural Network Diffusion paper demonstrating that diffusion models can generate high-performing neural network parameters. VideoPrism paper from Google Research achieving...

OpenAI's Challenge 🤝 // NVIDIA's Graphics Card 💻 // Advancements in AI Research 🔬 20.02.2024

OpenAI's trademark claim for 'GPT' was rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office, which could impact other AI companies using the term. OpenAI's recent deal with Microsoft-backed tender offer led by venture firm Thrive Capital values the company at $80 billion, solidifying its position in the AI industry. The NVIDIA A800 40GB Active Graphics Card is a powerful tool for AI and...

Karpathy Leaves OpenAI 💥 // Slack's New AI Features 🤖 // Preventing Election Misinformation 🗳️ 19.02.2024

Renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy departs from OpenAI for personal projects, leaving speculation about the company's internal issues.  Slack introduces AI features for enterprise plans, including extractive summarization and a digest feature.  Anthropic tests Prompt Shield, an AI tool that redirects users to authoritative sources of voting information to prevent election misinformation. ...

OpenAI's Sora: Text-to-Video 📹 // Google's Gemini 1.5 🚀 // Data-efficient LLMs 💾 16.02.2024

OpenAI's announcement of Sora, a text to video model that can generate realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions. Google's new Gemini 1.5, which delivers dramatically enhanced performance and achieves the longest context window of any large-scale foundation model yet. "How to Train Data-Efficient LLMs" paper from Google DeepMind, UC San Diego, and Texas A&M Univ...

Cohere's Aya Languag Model 🌍 // Personalized ChatGPT 🤖 // AI Romance 😍 15.02.2024

Cohere's new language model Aya is making waves in the industry, providing a foundation for underserved languages in natural language understanding, summarization, and translation tasks. OpenAI's new experiment for ChatGPT aims to provide more helpful and personalized responses in future conversations by allowing the chatbot to remember key details from prior chats. People are seeking roma...

ChatGPT's Memory Feature 🤔 // Nvidia Founder Dismisses AI Investment Proposal 💸 // M2-BERT for Long-Context Retrieval 📈 14.02.2024

From ChatGPT's memory feature and its potential impact on privacy and efficiency, to Nvidia founder Jensen Huang's dismissal of OpenAI's $7 trillion AI investment proposal. The episode also delves into V-STaR's approach to improving self-improvement in large language models, and M2-BERT's ability to handle long-context retrieval and outperform competitive baselines. Contact:  ...

Super Bowl AI Commercials 🏈 // Reka Flash Language Model 🤖 // AMD's Open-Source CUDA 🎮 13.02.2024

Companies are using AI in their Super Bowl commercials to showcase their products and services. Reka Flash is a state-of-the-art language model that rivals the performance of larger models and is multilingual and multimodal. AMD has funded an open-source CUDA implementation built on ROCm, allowing for CUDA-enabled software to run without developer intervention. Keyframer is a design tool that uses...

ChatGPT API Price Cut 💰 // Nvidia CEO's Sovereign AI Call 🌐 // Animated Stickers 🎉 12.02.2024

The ChatGPT API has reduced its prices, making it more accessible for developers to use. Nvidia CEO Huang is calling for governments to build sovereign AI infrastructure, while also addressing concerns about the dangers of AI. The Aya Dataset is a valuable resource for researchers looking to develop multilingual NLP models. Finally, the "Animated Stickers" paper introduces a model that g...

Watermarks for DALLE 3 🌊 // TSMC's New Chip Factory in Japan 🇯🇵 // DeepMind's Self-Discover 🧩 09.02.2024

OpenAI implements watermarks on images generated by DALL-E 3 to enhance the trustworthiness of digital information. TSMC's plans to build a second chip factory in Japan could boost Japan's chip-making sector and position TSMC as a major player in the global chip-making industry. "Fractal Patterns May Unravel the Intelligence in Next-Token Prediction" and "Self-Discover: Larg...

Gemini Takes Over 🚀 // FCC Ban on AI Voices 🚫 // Zero-Shot Generalization 🎯 09.02.2024

Google's new Gemini release on Bard and the FCC's ban on AI-generated voices in robocalls are discussed, along with the paper "Learning to Route Among Specialized Experts for Zero-Shot Generalization" and "Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right". Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:44  Google Announces Gemini release on...

OpenAI's Democratic Inputs to AI💡 // MiniCPM-2B Language Model 🤯 // V-IRL Platform for Real-World AI 🌍 06.02.2024

OpenAI's plan to involve the public in AI governance through "Democratic Inputs to AI" is a promising idea. MiniCPM-2B, an edge-side large language model, outperforms many other models on comprehensive benchmarks. DeepSeekMath 7B achieved a score of 51.7% on the MATH benchmark for mathematical reasoning. V-IRL is a platform that enables AI agents to interact with the real world, open...

Gemini Ultra Is Close 🤖 // Open Source Assistant Creator 🌟 // AI and AR with ChatGPT 📷 06.02.2024

Google is revamping its Bard chatbot under a new name, Gemini, with the launch of the highly anticipated Gemini Ultra model. Hugging Face has launched an open source assistant creator, allowing users to create customizable AI assistants with just two clicks. OpenAI has released a VisionOS ChatGPT app for the Apple Vision Pro, bringing AI and AR together. Three interesting research papers were disc...

AI With Body-Cameras 🕵️ // AI Guide Feb 2024 📖 // Planning Capabilities Benchmark ✈️ 05.02.2024

AI to sift through body-cam footage, a comprehensive guide to AI in February 2024, the impact of utterance lengths on conversation models, and a new benchmark for testing the planning capabilities of language agents. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:29  Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage 03:29  Your gu...

AI Companies Market Drop 💸 // Meta's Custom Chip Artemis 🚀 // Amazon's Shopping AI Rufus 🛍️ 02.02.2024

Major AI players like Microsoft, Google, AMD, and Nvidia took a hit after their latest earnings reports failed to impress investors. Meta is rolling out a new custom AI chip called Artemis in their data centers this year, which will complement the Nvidia H100 chips they've acquired. Amazon has announced an AI-based shopping assistant called Rufus, which uses generative artificial intelligence...

Neuralink's BrainChip 🧠 // OpenAI's Chip Collaboration 💻 // YOLO-World Object Detection 🌎 01.02.2024

Elon Musk's Neuralink implanting a chip in its first human brain, OpenAI exploring AI chip collaboration with Samsung and SK Group, and papers proposing new algorithms to improve the robustness of language models and enhance open-vocabulary object detection. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:48  Elon Musk says his Neuralink startup has implanted a chip in its first...

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