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Text-to-image but with non-gibberish words! The dream is now real thanks to Stable Diffusion XL which was released yesterday at Amazon Web Services big AI event. Also on today's AI Breakdown: new studies are out from McKinsey and Pew Research that discuss which US jobs are most at risk of AI automation vs. which are resilient and likely to grow over the coming decade. Today's Sponsor: Giskard - th...

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have teamed up to create the Frontier Model Forum. Will it improve AI safety or is it just corporate windowdressing? Before that on the Brief: Alibaba Cloud has announced it will support Meta's Llama 2 model in China; Hugging Face, GitHub and others advocate for open source policy changes in the EU AI Act and people are livid about Netflix's $900k AI job lis...

A new research paper from Stanford and Berkeley says that yes, indeed ChatGPT has gotten worse. However others are calling the methodology into question. NLW explores the debate. Before that on The Brief, OpenAI shuts down AI detection tool; Sec. Blinken writes AI op-ed; Egypt using AI to restore Mummies. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE A...

Dystopia or solution? That's the debate that rages around Worldcoin, one of the most ambitious and controversial projects that cuts across artificial intelligence and crypto. Before that on The Brief, Stability AI has released two new open source LLM models FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2 that in certain areas outperform ChatGPT 3.5; OpenAI's head of trust and safety leaves; Meta gets flak for calling L...

Last week, Meta announced its Llama 2 model, one of the most powerful open source LLMs yet. Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW explores arguments that releasing powerful open source AI is dangerous, along with counterpoints including a reading of a recent Op-Ed from Meta head of global affairs Nick Clegg. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussi...

This week ChatGPT released a new "Custom Instruction" feature that allows users to customize information about who they are and what type of responses they want that ChatGPT will remember across all queries. Here's how people are using it so far. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: ht...

The White House continues its engagement with the artificial intelligence space today releasing a set of voluntary commitments that a group of leading AI company have formally signed on to. Before that on the Brief: The WSJ reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been spending 3-4 days per week at the company working on their Gemini advanced AI foundation model; a Senator releases two workp...

Bloomberg reports that Apple has developed an LLM platform called Ajax upon which they've built a chatbot that engineers internally call "Apple GPT." NLW provides commentary and predictions for how Apple will chose to compete in the generative AI space. Before that on the Brief: 39% of Gen Z and Millennials think within 20 years, AI will be producing the best entertainment; a SF judge throws cold...

The much anticipated Meta Llama 2 model has been released, and as hoped it is available for commercial use. NLW breaks down how Llama 2 compares to other open and closed LLMs and surveys the community's initial response. Before that on the Brief: Simulation is an AI showrunner that can create a fully animated TV episode from a single prompt; the AI LEAD Act in the Senate; OpenAI's grant for local...

The Fermi Paradox refers to the discrepancy between what seems like the high chance of other intelligent life given billions of planets and our total lack of evidence of that life. Some in the AI community (including OpenAI's Sam Altman) think one answer could be AI killing off all advanced biological civilizations.  Before that on the Brief: SEC Chair Gary Gensler worries that artificial intellig...

Jasper and Mutiny have both laid off part of their teams in recent weeks, leading some to question whether it's another example of the AI bubble deflating after ChatGPT saw declines in usage for the first time ever in June.  Before that on The Brief: Nearly 8000 authors have signed an open letter from The Author's Guild asking prominent AI companies to stop training their models on their work. Bar...

LLM competition ratchets up seemingly every week. At this point, the different design choices that models have made have led to different LLMs being better or worse suited for different tasks. NLW builds off a recent viral tweet about which LLMs are good for what tasks. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI...

Bill Gates has penned another letter about AI, this time arguing that humans are more prepared than we might think for the challenges it brings. Read the full piece: https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-risks-of-AI-are-real-but-manageable 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://theaibre...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused consumer harms in terms of data collection and safety practices as well as disparaging information. A look at what the implications are for the larger state of AI regulation. Before that on the Brief the Screen Actor's Guild has joined the Writers Guild of America in their strike, and AI is at the very center of...

Elon Musk is launching xAI, a new AI company to explore the big questions of the universe. NLW looks at how he's thinking about it differently than some other players in the space. Before that on the Brief: Google has announced a set of updates for Bard that make it vastly more usable -- as well as multimodal! Also on the Brief, Adobe testifies before the Senate that artists should be protected, K...

Anthropic has released Claude 2. The model preforms comparably to GPT-4 but offers a 100k context window for 4-5x cheaper. NLW does a roundup of the AI community's first impressions. Before that on the Brief: the OECD's 2023 employment report finds that more than a quarter of jobs in their member countries have the highest level of risk to be automated away by AI; OpenAI strikes a 6-year deal with...

Google CEO Sunday Pichai told 60 Minutes that the company is purposefully limiting the power and capabilities of their Bard AI model to ensure society has time to catch up. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis also gives his view of the next wave of AI innovation. Before that on the Brief: the White House is holding its first classified briefing for the Senate; China is considering new AI content rules; Ne...

Today NLW reads the companion piece to yesterday's episode -- 5 Ways AI Could Improve the World https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/ai-artificial-intelligence-world-diseases-climate-scenarios-experts Before that on the Brief: Comedian and actress Sarah Silverman has sued Meta and OpenAI for infringing against her copyright by training their models on her book; TSMC rises after beati...

A reading of "Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/five-ways-ai-might-destroy-the-world-everyone-on-earth-could-fall-over-dead-in-the-same-second Featuring Max Tegmark, Elizerer Yudkowsky, Joshua Bengio and more.    ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most i...

A reading of David Brin's "Give Every AI a Soul - or Else" https://www.wired.com/story/give-every-ai-a-soul-or-else/ 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  ...

After months of waiting, ChatGPT Code Interpreter plugin is coming to all ChatGPT plus users next week. NLW breaks down why people are so excited, and also shares other OpenAI updates including that GPT-4 is now generally available to paying API customers. Before that on The Brief -- Is AI in a bubble? According to analysts at Goldman Sachs, AI isn't overhyped and backs up all the excitement. Also...

Yesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintelligent AI with human intent and values. The company is dedicating 20% of its compute resources to the project and its being led by their chief scientist and co-founder. Before that on the Brief: Over the weekend, Google updated its policies to basically say that it's allowed to train AI on any public d...

Stability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque has predicted that there will be no human coders within 5 years. On today's episode, NLW explores this prediction in terms of what evidence there is for and against it. Before that on The Brief, he looks at why ChatGPT had its first decline in traffic ever last month, as well as CNET's push towards AI content.  Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https...

AI could be a tool for the promotion of freedom, or it could aid in surveillance, control, and an expansion of authoritarianism. Which is more likely? NLW explores on this special July 4th edition of 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   Subsc...

The AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scraping. The move follows big changes to the Reddit API that some have called the end of the internet as we know it. Before that on The Brief: Valve has said they won't approve games for Steam that use AI art that might have copyright issues; Humane shares more information about its Ai Pin wearable; AI...