The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

Today on The AI Breakdown, a research recap of the most interesting recent AI research, including: DreamDiffusion translating EEG to images - https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.16934 Nemo simulating life in games - https://www.ranmo.me/blog/title-digital-companionship Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds - https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.16928 CSM any image to 3D - https://www.csm.ai/any-image...

The debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of scenarios for if and how humans develop AGI and what happens if and when we do. A reading of: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SRW9WAEEKJEgHAhSy/60-possible-futures The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.    Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https...

Inflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest GPU clusters. OpenAI sets up shop in London, updates their mobile iOS ChatGPT app with Browse with Bing, and gets sued for data scraping. Runway raises $141M. MLB experimenting with AI scouting. 150+ corporate executives write an open letter slamming EU AI Act. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for...

The Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claims their next model will eclipse ChatGPT. Unity releases AI platform including Unity Muse. NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown will only be releasing The Brief each morning. We'll be back to our regular content at the end of the week.    T...

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B Ramp acquires Cohere.io  Thompson Reuters acquires legal AI firm CaseText for $650M Verge surveys 2000 people on AI MerlynMind releases education focused large language models Waldo 2.0 is drone object identification Whale song AI   SIGN UP FOR THE AI BREAKDOWN NEWSLETTER: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/   NOTE: While NLW is...

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive modifications just through dragging has released its source code Inflection releases a new LLM that competes with GPT3.5 MidJourney gets zoomed out with its 5.2 upgrade Nvidia says it plans to invest in Europe ElevenLabs releases Voice Library  NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown...

Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12 years old. He founded digital media company Dose which created some of the world's largest viral content sites.   For the past few years, Emerson has been focused on AI, with a particular interest in AI safety, AI alignment and extinction risk. Desp...

Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from Ian's writing on AI going back to 2018 to help us understand the perspective he's bringing to the taskforce and its £100M mission to make AI safer and more aligned.   Excerpts from: AI Nationalism (2018) We must slow down the race to God-li...

For more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education revolution. Now as the CEO of Maven, he's helping the world figure out how to reskill for the coming era of artificial intelligence. In this conversation, we talk about the growth in Maven's AI courses as well as how AI is transforming the platform and how they run the company.  The AI Breakdown help...

Today NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the browser to execute complex tasks.   Learn more: https://multion.ai/   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.yo...

AI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based interaction to intent-based outcome specification. A reading of AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years by Jakob Nielsen   Before that on The Brief Marvel has kicked up significant controversy around the AI generated title sequence for the new Secret Invasion show on Disney+; Senate Majority Leader C...

President Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "decisive action" on AI in the weeks to come. CNN reports that senior advisors have been meeting on AI 2-3 times per week since April. On the Brief: OpenAI Is reportedly considering opening an app store for custom models build on top OpenAI; a new LLM beats GPT3.5 with 1/1000th the training data; Oper...

Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW argues that the story is not only not some smoking gun, but is the type of nothingburger that makes people drop out of otherwise important conversations because they're feeling like the media is trying to manipulate their feelings. Before that a new research study reveals some unexpectedly positive att...

GPT-Engineer is the latest AI project to have Github developers going nuts. The project promises to create entire code bases with a single prompt, reigniting excitement around the potential for more powerful AI agents. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe...

A Research Roundup including: -AssistGPT -LLaMA multimodal adapter -Meta Voicebox -Text-to-Video -LLM agent teaching weaker AIs -AI art QR code generator   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/@TheA...

Last week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save the World." This week we read Dwarkesh Patel's "Contra Marc Andreessen on AI."   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 J...

Senators Mark Warner and Ted Cruz discus China's AI advances while Bill Gates meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping and TikTok parent ByteDance buys $1B in GPUs from Nvidia. Before that on the Brief, 42% of CEOs worry AI could end humanity in the next decade, Mercedes puts ChatGPT in its cars, and Meta wants to commercialize LLaMA.  The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news a...

The EU has passed its AI Act. The risk-based approach has banned some things (like live facial recognition and biometric scraping), and made a whole slew of other things require registration. The biggest arguments remain around generative AI focused provisions. Before that on the Brief, a $4.4 trillion McKinsey predicition, new tools from Google, and AI Jesus on Twitch.  The AI Breakdown helps you...

OpenAI has announced a set of API updates including lower prices, a larger 16k context window, and something they're calling function calling. On today's episode, NLW explains why function calling in particular is such a big deal. Before that on the Brief, updates from Adobe and Meta as well as a new superchip and HuggingFace partnership for AMD.  The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most imp...

Enterprise AI is a major theme for investors and corporations alike. Salesforce just announced their AI Cloud as well as doubling their generative AI venture fund to $500m. Accenture also announced a $3B investment in their AI practice. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/...

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at how the real estate industry is thinking about the impact of generative AI. Before that on the Brief, we cover a leak from potential new ChatGPT features, as well as updates from Microsoft Bing and Google Search Generative Experience (SGE).  The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown ne...

That's the claim in Marc Andreessen's massive new 7000 word missive "Why AI Will Save The World." On this week's Long Reads Sunday, NLW voice clones himself with https://play.ht/ to "read" the entire piece.  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...

Today on the Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the most essential AI news stories across new tools, important research, big company announcements, open source updates and societal impact.  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: htt...

From text-to-3D avatar to text-to-video to music you create with gestures, these are the most interesting and exciting ai tools that launched or were announced this week.  Before that on the Brief AI in Instagram. AI in WhatsApp. AI in Facebook. It's all on the way, according to an all-hands meeting this week with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Additionally ChatGPT comes to iPad, Adobe launched Firefly...

Is AI in bubble territory yet? Ever since Nvidia's massive move up recently, people have been asking this question with renewed vigor. 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 c...