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AutoGPT held a hackathon last weekend and is in the midst of a global virtual hackathon. Also the latest from MultiOn and SuperAGI. Before that on the Brief; Microsoft preparing to announce AI chip and the geopolitics of AI heats up. Links: https://twitter.com/AlexReibman/status/1711277630035755076 https://twitter.com/Auto_GPT/status/1699522676770177520 https://twitter.com/DivGarg9/status/17107192...

On today's episode, NLW explores the ways AI is changing people's career paths. In particular, he examines two entirely new roles -- the AI Engineer and AI Operations -- and what they mean for you. Links: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/04/2023/ai-is-spurring-the-rise-of-the-novice-coder https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1674873002314563584 https://news....

In today's episode, NLW picks up where yesterday leaves off with a discussion of what's coming down the piepleine in generative AI, and why the integration of products into our daily lives seems more important than ever. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important new...

A reading and exploration of Prof. Ethan Mollick's The shape of the shadow of The Thing https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-the-shadow-of-the-thing The piece argues that a vision of artificial intelligence is coming into view, if haltingly, and that we're near to the end of the first phase of generative AI, which was kicked off by ChatGPT. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RES...

Epik's AI Yearbook photos are everywhere you look. In this video, NLW explores why AI avatar apps keep going viral. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI is considering making its own AI chips. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscr...

AI is moving to a phase of integration where companies are figuring out how to bring AI tools into existing user workflows. Case in point, today NLW discusses Google Assistant getting a Bard upgrade and goes through a slate of new AI features from Canva. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you...

Just a couple weeks after announcing their big Amazon deal, Anthropic is out fundraising again with a $2B round that is reported to have Google's involvement and is seeking a $20B-$30B valuation. Before that on the Brief, a Mr. Beast deepfake ad scam; Morgan Stanley says 40% of workers impacted by AI in the next 3 years, and more. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https...

Tab and Rewind Pendant both announced AI wearables this week, while Humane premiered on a fashion runway. In this episode, NLW looks at the emerging wearable wars, and asks whether these are even use cases that people want? Before that on the Brief: Jamie Dimon says a 3.5-day workweek is possible and Satya Nadella testifies that AI can't stop Google's search dominance. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATION...

Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the forthcoming battle to get local LLMs on our mobile devices. Before that on the Brief: DALL-E 3 is available now for free for Bing users, with 100 speed boosts per week; Apple appears to be hiring for AI roles in the United Kingdom. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https:/...

NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artificial intelligence. He reads excerpts from "The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/opinion/ai-safety-ethics-effective.html and then discusses what the authors might have missed. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: htt...

NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being taken by some authors, publishers, and policymakers may not hold up long term. Including excerpts from: Does the First Amendment Confer a ‘Right to Compute’? The Future of AI May Depend on It - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-the-first-amendment-confer-a-right-to-compute-the-future-o...

ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are showing off some amazing use cases. Before that on the Brief: have the AI phone wars begun? TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscri...

Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta suite of apps including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. NLW counts down the top 5 new features. Before that on the Brief: ChatGPT's ability to browse the internet is back; Biden talks about his forthcoming executive order on AI and a survey of 1600 scientists. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leadin...

OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90b valuation; discussing an AI hardware device with iPod designer Jony Ive; and scaring the hell out of people with a troll that "AGI has been achieved internally." Before that on the Brief: Apple is the most AI acquisitive Silicon Valley giant, and the CIA is working on a chatbot for intelligence ag...

Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation for podcasts. NLW explores the news, as well as what it says about the challenge of being a startup. Before that on the Brief: Getty Images launches a rights-ready image generation platform. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  S...

The race towards multimodal LLMs is heating up! With rumors of a big impending launch of Google Gemini, OpenAI is racing to push out their multimodal features. Today they launched the ability for ChatGPT to carry on audio conversations, as well as to use images as inputs. Before that on the Brief, Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand...

On today's episode, NLW looks at a set of recent survey results surrounding attitudes towards AI. They range from broad based surveys of the general American public to more specific industry and profession-level studies. Links: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/19/23879648/americans-artificial-general-intelligence-ai-policy-poll https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/mitre-harris-poll-ai-securit...

Six months ago, a group of scientists and other leaders signed a letter asking for a six month pause in the development of advanced AI. Now, six months after the letter, when the pause would have expired, they reflect on what, if anything, has changed in the AI safety discourse. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN Th...

Microsoft announced that the complete Windows 11 operating system was going to have access to their Copilot AI assistant. Before that on the Brief, YouTube launches a slate of tools for AI creators. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI...

OpenAI has announced that DALL-E 3 image generation is coming natively to ChatGPT. NLW explores 5 reasons the announcement is a huge deal, including how it represents a significant market-driven acceleration in AI product releases. Before that on the Brief, Amazon is updating Alexa with a dedicated LLM. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey...

Intel has announced a new AI focused chip that they say will allow generative AI applications to run directly on device without being connected to the internet. The chip comes out in December. Also on today's episode, NLW explores the controversy around the UK's decision to invite China to its upcoming AI Summit. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakd...

Google Bard announced a big update including a deep integration with Google Workspace apps. At the same time, The Information reports that OpenAI is racing to beat Google to release a multimodal model of GPT-4. Before that on the Brief, Microsoft AI researchers accidentally expose 38 terabytes of private data. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown...

A new study undertaken by Boston Consulting Group and prominent AI researchers shows that consultants who used generative AI did more work, more quickly, and better when they were using AI. NLW discusses the nuance and implications. Before that on the Brief: a new study reveals that many large companies are hesitant to fully embrace AI due to concerns around bias; Gen Z is the generation most like...

On this research recap, NLW looks at AI creativity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40858-3 BrainLM https://t.co/MUobqXULfb RETFound retinal model https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02881-2 Any-to-Any Multimodal https://huggingface.co/papers/2309.05519 AI that can smell: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1701611251376497046 TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE C...

That's what Sam Altman argued, but the state of America's civic life brings up many questions of whether the government is actually up to the challenge that AI presents. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakd...