Nathaniel Whittemore

The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.

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Jul 10, 2026

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OpenAI's 6 Strategies For Better ChatGPT Prompting 07.06.2023

OpenAI has published a new guide with 6 recommendations for better ChatGPT prompting. The recommendations come in response to numerous complaints on Twitter that ChatGPT has gotten worse over the last few weeks. 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 Th...

Can SuperAGI Be What People Wanted from AutoGPT? 06.06.2023

AutoGPT was all the AI hotness a few months ago, with its promise of autonomous AI agents. Now, a new tool called SuperAGI is catching developer's interest as an ai agent implementation tool that is more robust than what AutoGPT offered.   The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.c...

Apple AI? Apple Didn't Say "Artificial Intelligence" Once at WWDC 05.06.2023

Those expecting a big AI announcement at Apple's WWDC were disappointed today, however those waiting for a mixed reality headset have much to celebrate. On this episode, NLW discusses how Apple VisionPro might converge with AI, and where AI did show up (even if not named) in the presentation.  Before that on the Brief: drama at Stability AI, an AI breakthrough in the writers strike, and 3900 job l...

AI Gaming Lights Up: The Biggest AI News This Week 04.06.2023

AI news continues to come fast and furious. On today's weekly recap, NLW covers the biggest stories from the previous week, including cutting edge research, 2d video-to-3D modeling, OpenAI corporate secrets and more.   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 Subscrib...

TIME Asks: Is AI the End of Humanity? 03.06.2023

TIME Magazine's current cover story is titled "The End of Humanity: How Real Is The Risk?" It's a marker of how much the AI risk and safety conversation has gone mainstream. On this episode, NLW reads two pieces:   AI Is Not an Arms Race - Katja Grace The Darwinian Argument for Worrying About AI - Dan Hendrycks The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  S...

BONUS: Riley Goodside on The Art of Prompting ChatGPT [The Cognitive Revolution preview] 03.06.2023

This is a special preview episode of The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Changes Everything. Hosted by Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz, TCR hosts in-depth interviews with the creators, builders and thinkers pushing the bleeding edge of AI. On this episode, they talk with Riley Goodside, the first Staff Prompt Engineer at Scale AI and expert in prompting LLMs and integrating them into AI applications...

An AI Drone Killed Its Operator In A USAF Simulation -- Except That's Not Actually What Happened 02.06.2023

A bogus story about an AI simulation gone wrong made headlines around the world, until the progentior of the story said it was actually just a thought experiment. Oops. On the Brief, a look at Neuralangelo, a new NeRF/Photogrammetry type technology making 3D geometry from 2D videos. Check out The Cognitive Revolution The perfect AI interview complement to The AI Breakdown  https://link.chtbl.com/T...

Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math and AI Alignment At the Same Time? 01.06.2023

A look at the latest developments from OpenAI, including new features, a cybersecurity grant program, and their new process rewards model for trading. Before that on the Brief, Japan declines to enforce copyright around AI model training, Australia asks citizens if it should ban AI, and an AI camera without a lens.   The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in...

Are ChatGPT Plugins Overhyped? 31.05.2023

ChatGPT Plugins are one of the most hyped things in AI -- but are they overhyped? In this episode, NLW explores how the default interfaces of the internet have changed over time, the issues with the current implementations of ChatGPT Plugins, and what it means for the future.   Check out The Cognitive Revolution The perfect AI interview complement to The AI Breakdown  https://link.chtbl.com/TheCog...

Nvidia Is Building an AI Supercomputer and Gaming Platform 30.05.2023

Nvidia made a huge number of AI related announcements at Computex, including new chips, a new AI supercomputer, a partnership with the world's biggest advertising agency WPP, and a new AI gaming platform. 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 Br...

AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Actually Be? 28.05.2023

A reading of Max Tegmark's essay "The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With 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 Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: htt...

The 5 Biggest AI News Stories This Week 27.05.2023

AI news this week - here are the 5 most important stories!  AI regulation and safety - OpenAI, Microsoft and more AI helps discover antibiotic for superbug Adobe generative fill Microsoft Windows Copilot ChatGPT Browse with Bing for all users The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehii...

The 9 AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day As A Content Creator 26.05.2023

Lists of 1000s of AI tools abound, but here are the 9 I actually use every day (with a watchlist with 3 more I'm experimenting with). The list includes: 1. Feedly 2. ChatGPT 3. Perplexity 4. Descript 5. Midjourney 6. Photoshop 7. Deepfloyd 8. Canva 9. TubeBuddy 10. Vidyo.ai (watchlist) 11. Wondercraft (watchlist) 12. Elevenlabs (watchlist) The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important n...

NVIDIA Sets Off An AI Stock Frenzy While Elon Warns of the Terminator Scenario 25.05.2023

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW reviews comments from Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt at yesterday's WSJ CEO Council Summit about AI risk. He also covers EU and UK AI regulatory efforts. On the Brief, how AI is coming to YouTube shorts, plus NVIDIA sets off an AI stock frenzy.  The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter:...

Mind-Reading AI Generates Videos from Brainwaves 24.05.2023

Researchers have developed a new method called Mind-Video for generating semantically accurate video from fMRI scans. Additionally, on todays Brief, NLW covers: The most important announcements from Microsoft Build (including AI coming to Windows 11 and ChatGPT + Bing) Google Bard images  Anthropic $450m Series C Naval Ravikant's Airchat  The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important ne...

This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than ChatGPT's Dataset 23.05.2023

On today's episode, NLW looks at global regulatory proposals from OpenAI and Google, as well as a number of topics on the brief, including: Intel's Aurora is a 1 TRILLION parameter model Meta's new multilanguage model can recognize 4000 languages Bill Gates talks about AI CoDI multimodal 1X robot EVE The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to...

Can ChatGPT Outperform Wall Street? 22.05.2023

Last month, a University of Florida study showed ChatGPT with 500% returns using news and sentiment analysis. A recent Finder.com study also showed ChatGPT stock picks outperforming the market. On today's episode, NLW explores AI for finance, as well as whether AI itself will bring a stock market boom.  The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe...

How Bad Will AI Jobs Loss Be? 21.05.2023

On Tuesday, there was a strange exchange between Senator Richard Blumenthal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman around jobs. In today's episode, NLW builds off that exchange to discuss the current state of the discourse around AI and jobs, including recent job cut announcements from IBM and BT, as well as a World Economic Forum study that argues that 14 million net jobs will be lost globally over the next 4...

Are OpenAI Trying for Regulatory Capture? 20.05.2023

On this edition of The AI Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at all the AI news, including Mind-blowing DragGAN photo editing research Blockade Labs Skybox text-to-3D world StabilityAI releases open source StableStudio NYT open source Meta article StabilityAI letter on open source to the Senate Was Sam Altman's testimony just regulatory capture?   The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most impo...

The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How We Use AI 19.05.2023

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW goes over the news of OpenAI's release of an official ChatGPT app, and explores why mobile is the next frontier for AI. On the Brief: Meta announces AI Chips; Apple bans employees from ChatGPT; and Github Copilot NYC Schools un-ban ChatGPT.  The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter:...

Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and the Future of Humanity 18.05.2023

Find the complete presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiM-LuRe6w&t=2005s 0:00 Intro 0:30 The 3 levels of the AI discussion 2:08 Yuval starts - why AI doesn't need sentience or robots to cause harm 3:49 Language as the human operating system 4:56 Why AI is categorically not like other tools before it 6:08 What are the dangers that AI in control of language represents? 7:33 Why socia...

The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far 17.05.2023

From Youtube video summarizers to Spotify playlist generators to tools to chat with your PDFs, some of the most interesting and useful ChatGPT plugins as they get rolled out in Beta to all ChatGPT Plus customers. 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 T...

7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing 16.05.2023

From a surprising lack of skepticism to clear echoes of social media regulatory failures, NLW covers everything that happened in the first Senate AI hearing in the post ChatGPT era.  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: ht...

Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer? 15.05.2023

NLW tests ChatGPT and the newly updated and opened Bard across 5 categories including creative, travel planning, research, business and more. On the Brief he covers new forthcoming regulations in the EU, Amazon robot leaks, and why you shouldn't become a prompt engineer.  Mentioned: https://tech.co/news/google-bard-vs-chatgpt The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discus...

Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges? 14.05.2023

This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast. It features Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov.  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/@TheAIBreakdo...

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