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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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Spotify's AI Playlist 💿 // Putin Confronts AI Double 🤖 // Vision-Language Rewards 🔍 18.12.2023 13:23
Spotify is testing a new AI-driven playlist creation feature, while Putin was confronted by an AI-generated version of himself. We also delve into a new paper from Google DeepMind that explores the use of vision-language models as sources of rewards for reinforcement learning agents. Finally, we discuss GLEE, an object-level foundation model for locating and identifying objects in images and video...
Instagram'S GenAI Editing Tool 🎨 // OpenAI's New Safety Research 🔍 // CLIP as RNN for Image Segmentation 📷 15.12.2023 14:50
Instagram's new generative AI-powered background editing tool allows users to change the background of their images with fun prompts. FunSearch, a new method for searching for solutions in mathematics and computer science, discovered new solutions for a longstanding open problem in mathematics. The concept of weak-to-strong generalization in AI is explored in a new research direction for super...
OpenAI + Axel Springer Partnership 🤝 // Mistral AI's $415M Funding 💰 // Record-Breaking Results on MMLU Benchmark 📈 14.12.2023 14:39
Axel Springer partners with OpenAI to integrate journalism in AI technologies, enriching the user experience with ChatGPT and providing summaries of selected global news content. Mistral AI raises $415 million in a Series A funding round, aiming to become a European champion in generative artificial intelligence with an open, responsible, and decentralized approach to technology. Microsoft's M...
Nvidia Talks With Biden ☎️ // Beyond Transformers 🚀 // Federated Billion-Sized LLMs 💻 13.12.2023 14:39
Nvidia is in talks with the Biden administration about permissible sales of AI chips to China, while also facing challenges with ChatGPT-4's performance. The open-source model, StripedHyena-7B, offers a potential solution for improved training and inference performance over the Transformer architecture. The papers explore efficient quantization strategies for Latent Diffusion Models, the push...
Europe's AI Rules 🇪🇺 // Cerebras' gigaGPT 💻 // Mistral AI's Mixtral 🚀 12.12.2023 13:13
Europe's new AI rules, Cerebras' gigaGPT model, and Mistral AI's Mixtral 8x7B model. The team also discusses two innovative research papers that propose new approaches to enhance multi-step reasoning tasks. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:35 Europe reaches a deal on the world’s first comprehensive AI rules 02:40 Introducing gigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models i...
Google's Fake AI Demo 🤥 // Hallucination & Creativity 🧠 // Pearl Reinforcement Learning 🤖 11.12.2023 15:05
Google's Gemini AI model demo was faked, highlighting the need for skepticism when it comes to tech demos. The "hallucination problem" in language models is not a bug, but rather a feature that allows for creativity and prompts play a significant role in guiding output. Pearl, a production-ready reinforcement learning agent, addresses a range of challenges that real-world intelligent...
Meta's AI Upgrades 🆕 // Purple Llama 🦙 // RCG's Image Generation Breakthrough 🌅 08.12.2023 16:23
Meta's new AI-powered features, the launch of Purple Llama for responsible deployment of generative AI models, H-GAP's state-action trajectory generative model for controlling humanoid robots, and RCG's new image generation framework that sets a new benchmark in class-unconditional image generation. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:56 Meta reveals major A...
Meta's x IBM Alliance 🤝 // Musk's AI Startup Investment 💰 // Ranking Without GPT 📈 07.12.2023 12:36
Meta and IBM have launched an 'AI Alliance' to promote open-source AI development, while Musk's AI startup seeks to raise $1 billion to compete with OpenAI. The paper "Training Chain-of-Thought via Latent-Variable Inference" explores improving language models, and "Rank-without-GPT" builds GPT-independent listwise rerankers on open-source large language models. Cont...
Runway x Getty Images 🎥 // Microsoft Copilot For All 🚀 // Open-Source LLMs for Code 💻 06.12.2023 14:07
Runway ML and Getty Images' partnership to create a new AI video model, the general availability of Microsoft Copilot, the Magicoder series of fully open-source LLMs for code, and the Unlocking Spell on Base LLMs' new tuning-free alignment method called URIAL. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:34 Runway and Getty Images team up on AI video 02:55 Microsoft Cop...
Google Delays Gemini 🛑 // LLM Visualization 👀 // Linear-Time Sequence Modeling 🤖 05.12.2023 13:38
Google's postponement of the launch of Gemini, Apple's "Generating Molecular Conformer Fields" paper achieving state-of-the-art performance on molecular conformer generation, "Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces" proposing a new model that allows for content-based reasoning, and EPFL's "Instruction-tuning Aligns LLMs to the Human Br...
Microsoft's £2.5B Investment on the UK 💰 // Detecting ChatGPT Content 📝 // DeepMind's Self-Consistent LMs 🔍 04.12.2023 16:29
Microsoft's £2.5 billion investment in AI infrastructure and skills in the UK, iA Writer's new authorship feature, and research papers on Universal Self-Consistency for Large Language Model Generation, One-step Diffusion with Distribution Matching Distillation, and QMoE: Practical Sub-1-Bit Compression of Trillion-Parameter Models. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introductio...
OpenAI’s Q* Breakthrough ☢️ // Andrej Karpathy Intro to LLMs 📜 // DuckTrack Multimodal Collector 🦆 24.11.2023 13:39
OpenAI's Q* model, which is viewed as a potential breakthrough in the quest for Artificial General Intelligence. They also cover Andrej Karpathy's Intro to Large Language Models, DuckTrack, a new multimodal computer interaction data collector, and GAIA, a benchmark for General AI Assistants that proposes real-world questions that require a set of fundamental abilities. Contact: sergi@ear...
Sam Altman back in the Throne 👑 // Inflection-2 🏆 // Orca 2: Small LMs That Reason 🐬 23.11.2023 15:11
Sam Altman's return as CEO of OpenAI after a power struggle, the release of a new voice feature for OpenAI's ChatGPT AI language model, the release of Inflection-2, and the Orca 2 project teaching small language models how to reason effectively. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:50 Sam Altman Returns as the CEO of OpenAI 03:21 OpenAI Voice for all users 04:52...
Anthropic's Claude 2.1 💬 // Stable Video Diffusion 📹 // Efficient Language Model Finetuning with LQ-LoRA 🔍 22.11.2023 16:52
Generative video models, language model finetuning, and generative retrieval. Claude 2.1 boasts a larger context window and decreased false statements, while Stable Video Diffusion can be applied in various sectors. LQ-LoRA offers a promising approach for more efficient language model finetuning and compression, and RIPOR surpasses state-of-the-art generative retrieval models by a large margin. Co...
OpenAI Drama Continues 😈 // Shallow Networks as Transformer Alternative 🤔 // SelfEval for Generative Model Evaluation ✅ 21.11.2023 13:38
The drama at OpenAI with Sam Altman trying to return as CEO and staff threatening to quit unless the board resigns. We also explore the potential of using shallow neural networks as an alternative to attention layers in transformers, and a paper that proposes a method called SelfEval for evaluating generative models. Additionally, we discuss a paper that explores the effectiveness of using shallow...
Sam Altman Fired from OpenAI 🔥 // Meta's Responsible AI Disbanded ⚠️ // Contrastive Chain of Thought 🔗 20.11.2023 14:26
the fallout from Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI and Meta's decision to disband its Responsible AI team. Our collaborators also break down some cutting-edge research in the AI field, including contrastive chain-of-thought prompting, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and language models. Finally, we discuss ML-Bench, a new evaluation setup for large language models that leverages open-sou...
Google's Audio Watermarks 🔊 // Microsoft AI Chips 🖥️ // Nvidia Proprietary LM 🧠 17.11.2023 13:48
From Google's new inaudible watermarks in AI-generated music to Microsoft's new AI chips and NVIDIA's breakthrough in chip design using generative AI, there's plenty to get excited about. DeepMind's new music generation model and experiments in music AI tools are also explored. Additionally, research papers on evaluating Large Language Models on non-English languages and confid...
Airbnb Acquires Siri Co-Founder's Startup 🏠 // Notion's AI Q&A Feature ❓ // Microsoft's AI Infrastructure 💻 16.11.2023 17:32
Airbnb's acquisition of a secretive AI startup launched by Siri's co-founder, Notion's new Q&A feature that allows users to ask an AI about their notes, and Microsoft's infrastructure developments in AI and custom silicon. The team also explores research papers on improving the factuality of language models, refining large language models' self-judgment, and the vulnerabili...
Hopper Supercharges AI 🚀 // YouTube's AI Labels 📺 // GOAT Navigation System 🐐 15.11.2023 18:21
NVIDIA's supercharged AI computing platform, Hopper, and YouTube's new labeling system for AI-generated videos. The team also explores groundbreaking AI research papers, including the impact of large language models on scientific discovery, the capabilities of large multimodal models, and the development of a universal navigation system for mobile robots called GOAT. Contact: sergi@earki...
OpenAI vs. Google AI Talent War ⚔️// Unified Vision Model 🌟// Fast Text-to-3D Generation 📚 14.11.2023 17:59
The fierce battle for talent between OpenAI and Google, as well as Microsoft's development of AI chips to rival Nvidia. The team also explores the impact of the Hollywood Actors Strike on AI and streaming. Additionally, they review three cutting-edge research papers on topics such as a unified vision model, fast text-to-3D generation, and efficient convolutions. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Ti...
OpenAI Data Partnerships 🤝 // $500M Funding for Aleph Alpha 💰 // Multimodal Autoregressive Models 🌟 13.11.2023 17:35
OpenAI's Data Partnerships, where organizations collaborate to create diverse training datasets for AI models. They also explore the massive funding of $500 million into German AI startup Aleph Alpha. Additionally, they review three cutting-edge research papers on topics such as open-world multi-task agents, dense prediction, and multimodal autoregressive models. Contact: sergi@earkind.com T...
AI Pin Wearable by Humane 🧠 // Amazon's 'Olympus' AI Model 💪 // Learning Unsupervised World Models for Autonomous Driving 🚗 10.11.2023 18:00
The launch of Humane's AI Pin, a wearable brain powered by OpenAI, and Amazon's ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus.' The team also explores interesting internet finds, including a blog post about being acquired by Google. They review research papers on the appropriate use of evaluation benchmarks for large language models, the rule-following ability of LLMs, and learning unsuper...
ChatGPT Outage 🌐 // Meta's AI Ad Policy 🗳️ // Neural MMO 2.0 🎮 09.11.2023 13:19
ChatGPT outage and the increasing demand for OpenAI's services. They also explore Meta's new policy requiring political ad campaigns to disclose their use of AI. In the "Random Reads" segment, they highlight the ArXiv AI paper summarizer, Bulletpapers, which won the Anthropic Hackathon. The hosts then delve into three fascinating research papers: Neural MMO 2.0, OtterHD-8B, and l...
First-ever AI-Negotiated Contract 📜 // Baidu's Shift to Huawei Chips 🖥️ // Meta's Ban on Political Advertisers 🚫 08.11.2023 14:55
First-ever AI-negotiated contract, Baidu's shift to Huawei chips, and Meta's decision to bar political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools. The team also reviews three cutting-edge AI research papers, including CogVLM's visual language model, Google DeepMind's framework for classifying AGI models, and GateLoop's data-controlled linear recurrence model. Contact: ser...
OpenAI's New Models 💡 // AI Characters in Xbox Games 🎮 // Kolmogorov Neural Networks 🧠 07.11.2023 17:37
OpenAI's new models and developer products, Microsoft's partnership with Inworld AI for AI characters in Xbox games, and explore thought-provoking research papers on Kolmogorov neural networks, learning from mistakes in large language models, and prompt injection attacks. Contact: sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 02:38 New models and developer products announced at DevDa...
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