The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

That's the argument of one Politico columnist. NLW examines the argument in depth. Before that on the Brief: A district court judge has said that AI art can't be copyrighted, but anticipates complications coming soon; Singapore workers adapting to AI the fastest; 170,000 books used in AI training dataset; and more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown...

AI Twitter is buzzing with cryptic posts about how the LLM world is set to change in the next few months. On today's episode, NLW looks at everything we know about Google Gemini. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Break...

The standard discourse around AI and politics is one of fear. Deepfakes. Election tampering. Misinformation. Yet the two pieces NLW reads today suggest a different path is possible. Artificial intelligence is powering politics – but it could also reboot democracy How AI could save politics—if it doesn’t destroy it first ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most importan...

Meta is launching a new open source AI specifically for code generation which could undercut paid tools like Microsoft GitHub Copilot (powered by OpenAI's Codex). Before that on the Brief: a jailbroken Nest that shows the future of AI-powered devices; states form an AI regulatory task force and much more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE A...

Users were not stoked when Snapchat's My AI chatbot posted a story yesterday -- something it wasn't supposed to be able to do. Before that on the Brief: the AI Twitter community debates whether OpenAI's acquisition of Global Illumination is about talent or a push towards autonomous agents; a new AMD IT leader survey; McKinsey announces Lilli custom LLM; and Gartner puts generative AI at the peak o...

In today's episode, NLW explores the factors that have driven AI past its peak of hype, and what's actually going on behind the scenes. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@T...

On today's episode, NLW looks at Metaculus prediction markets around various AI events. Before that on the Brief: Gulf states race to acquire compute; Iowa school district uses AI to figure out which books to ban; and did Microsoft just release ChatGPT for business? Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you u...

Prosecraft is the first casualty of the AI backlash. Was it justified, or simply inevitable? Before that on the Brief: Amazon announces generative AI summaries of reviews as well as previews their chip production facility, and OpenAI is *not* going bankrupt. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/break...

WormGPT was initially advertised as an LLM for doing bad things. According to a recent interview with founders, however, they're trying to push it for more above-board use-cases. In that vacuum, a new LLM for bad things called, appropriately Evil-GPT has stepped into the mix. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to T...

A reading of and discussion around Tyler Cowen's "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history." ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join th...

New research attempts to put together a complete taxonomy for trustworthiness in LLMs. Before that on the Brief: The FEC is considering new election rules around deepfakes. Also on the Brief: self-driving cars approved in San Francisco; an author finds fake books under her name on Amazon; and Anthropic releases a new model.  Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/b...

A new survey from the AI Policy Institute shows that Americans are extremely concerns about AI and support regulation to slow it down. Before that on The Brief: Disney explores AI; DARPA starts a $20M cybersecurity challenge; and a New Zealand Grocery AI app goes horribly awry. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown...

On the Brief: Stability AI releases StableCode as Google opens the waitlist for its in-browser AI-powered coding environment; Google is in talks with major record labels around AI music and AI discovers an asteroid. On our main episode: NVIDIA announces its state of the art Grace Hopper superchip is coming next year, alongside a slew of other generative AI updates. NLW explores how the AI chip com...

NLW reviews a recent research paper which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of LLM development and organizes remaining challenges and problems to be solved -- along with prospective solutions. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI launches GPTBot to crawl the web for AI training purposes; Zoom has to back off ToS changes that would allow them to collected data for AI training purposes. Plu...

During last week's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple anticipated putting generative AI into every product, and intimated that they had spent billions on artificial intelligence research and development. Before that on The Brief: after the community questioned some art from an upcoming book, Wizards of the Coast and D&D Beyond are clarifying their AI art policies; Morgan Stanley say...

NLW opines on the increasingly popular canard "AI won't take your job; someone using AI will" and finds it lacking. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join t...

A reading of "Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons" by Daniel Eth. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the comm...

Today NLW is joined by Swyx and Alessio, the hosts of the Latent Space podcast to discuss the key technical developments from the last month of AI, including code interpreter; llama 2; the latest in AI agents; growing interest in AI companions, and more. Latent Space podcast -https://www.latent.space/podcast / https://twitter.com/latentspacepod Swyx - https://twitter.com/swyx Alessio Fanelli - htt...

On today's episode NLW explores Meta's newly launched AudioCraft compared to Google MusicLM. Before that on the Brief, Goldman Sachs predicts AI investment will reach 4% of GDP by 2025; a 9-figure investment for an Nvidia competitor; new Alibaba AI models and more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you un...

NLW explores some of the unexpected developments in the AI space, with a focus on how open source has changed the way enterprises think about AI procurement. Before that on the Brief; DALL-E 3 leaks; AMD earnings results; YouTube testing AI summaries. Today's Sponsor: Giskard - the testing framework for ML models - https://www.giskard.ai/ ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understan...

A look at a recent trademark filing; Facebook launching AI Personas; a leaked Instagram feature identifying content made by AI; Dell's AI efforts; Google Assistant's AI makeover; plus a deep dive on McKinsey's State of AI in 2023 report which was released earlier today. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps y...

Google recently shared its RT-2 model which can translate generalized instructions into robotic control. Also on today's episode, researchers use AI to discover ancient antibiotics from Neanderthals and Denisovans; Google releases research on Med-PaLM M, a general multimodal medical model; and AI might be coming to Dungeons & Dragons. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management soft...

OpenAI Superalignment? Claude 2? White House? Find out what NLW thinks were the most important AI news stories in July. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Jo...

A reading of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent essay for the New York Times and discussing the military applications of artificial intelligence. Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/u-s-china-competition-and-military-ai ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news...

On today's episode: The Information reports on a mysterious startup with ex-Meta, AWS and Azure team setting up in the Middle East; the FTC and SEC comment on AI policy; Meta Reels are catching up to TikTok; and a slew of companies are launching AI tools, including Stack Overflow, Intel, DoorDash and Spotify. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT T...