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Judge Delivers Blow to Artists AI Copyright Lawsuit
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A judge has dismissed many of the charges in a class action lawsuit brought against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney. NLW explores on an exten...
Apple is FINALLY Talking About AI
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the M3 Max chip, Apple is finally pitching how they're going to compete in AI. Also on this episode, a preview of the AI Safety Summit in the UK....
AI Proxy War: Google Invests $2B in Anthropic
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google joins Amazon in investing in OpenAI rival Anthropic. Also a look at the reactions, debates and controversy around Biden's AI executive order. I...
Biden's AI Executive Order: Everything You Need to Know
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Biden White House has released its expected Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence. NLW runs through the fact sheet and gives a first interpre...
The State of AI Regulation in the USA
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of the Biden Administration's anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence, NLW surveys the landscape of AI legislative efforts i...
Hinton and Bengio on Managing AI Risks
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A group of scientists, academics and researchers has released a new framework on managing AI risks. NLW explores whether we're moving to more specific...
OpenAI Forms Catastrophic Risk Preparedness Team
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI forms a team to focus on how to prepare for the biggest most catastrophic risks around AI. NLW explores as well as looking at the new UN AI adv...
White House AI Executive Order Coming Monday
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Biden Admin's long promised AI executive order is coming Monday and it seems like it will use the power of government procurement to try and set n...
Midjourney vs. DALL-E-3: Can Midjourney's New Website Compete with ChatGPT Integration?
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Midjourney has made a number of moves recently after DALL-E-3 was integrated into ChatGPT. Those include a new upscaler, a website (finally!) and even...
LEAKED: First Look at Gemini Multimodal?
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Medium user has posted a set of screenshots that purport to show Google's forthcoming Gemini model in their recently opened Makersuite AI builder to...
Can We Have AI Progress and AI Safety at the Same Time?
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW explores a new policy proposal from some extremely notable AI leaders around how we can continue to advance the beneficial development of AI while...
The AI Competitive Landscape One Year After ChatGPT
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks at where companies fit in the competitive matrix of artificial intelligence - from OpenAI to Anthropic to the big techs in Meta, Google, Ama...
AI Leaders Call for International Panel on AI Safety
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this weekend's long read, two very different takes on the future than those we heard about in the Techno Optimist Manifesto earlier this week. Fir...
OpenAI Quietly Abandoned Arrakis Model Earlier This Year
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a rare miss, OpenAI had to shutter their Arrakis model earlier this year. They had hoped that the model would bring GPT-4 level performance with lo...
Which AI Model is the Most Transparent?
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A group of researchers from Stanford, MIT and Princeton have come up with a new system for determining which AI foundation models are the most transpa...
China-US AI Tensions and AI Safety Summit Controversy
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US has once again tightened restrictions on chip exports and other AI engagements with China. NLW explores the potential consequences, as well as ...
AI Agents Coming to OpenAI Dev Event?
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW digs into rumors and reports around what we can expect from the OpenAI developer event coming in November, including reports that the company will...
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Andreessen has just published The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. NLW reads the piece and provides context on why it matters for the AI discourse. Rea...
The 7 Use Case Categories of ChatGPT-4 Vision
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT-4 Vision is one of the biggest AI product updates of the last few months and people are still just exploring all the ways it can be used. NLW ...
Can AI Detect AI? And Other Frequently Asked Questions
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW excerpts Professor Ethan Mollick's recent essay "What people ask me most." https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-people-ask-me-most-also-some Toda...
The US Wants To Block China's Access to Advanced AI Models
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US-China AI battle heats up as the Biden Administration looks into ways to deny China access to key advanced AI models. Before that on the Brief: ...
The State of AI Report: Research, Industry, Politics and Safety
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode, NLW reviews Air Street's epic 6th annual State of AI report - https://www.stateof.ai/ Before that on the Brief, Character AI launc...
AI Chip Wars: Tesla Building "Bunkerlike" Home for Dojo Supercomputer
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla is building a massive facility for their Dojo supercomputer. NLW explores how it could impact what they do in AI. Before that on the Brief: Adob...
The Latest AutoGPT and AI Agent Developments
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
AI Operations and AI Engineer: The New Careers AI Is Creating
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
What's Next in Phase Two of Generative AI?
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 integr...
The End of the First Phase of Generative AI
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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-th...
The Epik AI Yearbook Trend Taking Over Social Media
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
AI's Integration Phase: Canva Launches Slate of AI Features
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Anthropic Raising at a $20B-$30B Valuation
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 invo...
The AI Wearable Wars
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Mobile LLMs? The Battle to Get AI on Our Phones
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Warriors, Doomsayers, Reformers: Understanding the Factions in AI
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artificial intelligence. He reads excerpts from "The A....
Are Copyright Battles Against AI Destined to Fail?
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being taken by some authors, publishers, and policymaker...
ChatGPT Vision: 8 Ways People Are Using It Already
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
The 5 Most Important AI Announcements from Meta Connect
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta suite of apps including Messenger, Instagram, and Wh...
OpenAI Raising at $90B and Trolls Everyone, Saying AGI Has Been Achieved
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90b valuation; discussing an AI hardware device with...
Automated AI Translations Come to Spotify, Undermining Numerous AI Startups
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation for podcasts. NLW explores the news, as well as wha...
ChatGPT Can Now See and Hear
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Americans Are Getting Less Trustful of Artificial Intelligence
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
6 Months After the "6-Month Pause" Letter, Has the AI Safety Conversation Changed?
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 month...
Is This The First AI-Powered Operating System?
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft announced that the complete Windows 11 operating system was going to have access to their Copilot AI assistant. Before that on the Brief, Yo...
5 Reasons DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT is a Huge Deal
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Will Intel's New Chip Usher in the 'Age of the AI PC'?
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Google Bard Gets Major Update While OpenAI Races to Multimodal
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google Bard announced a big update including a deep integration with Google Workspace apps. At the same time, The Information reports that OpenAI is r...
Knowledge Workers Produce 40% Better Results When Using AI - Study
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new study undertaken by Boston Consulting Group and prominent AI researchers shows that consultants who used generative AI did more work, more quick...
GPT-4 More Creative Than the Average Person According to Recent Study
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this research recap, NLW looks at AI creativity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40858-3 BrainLM https://t.co/MUobqXULfb RETFound ret...
Should OpenAI Have Been A Government Program?
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 challeng...
SCOOP: Google Testing Gemini With Partners -- Launch Soon?
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Information has another Google AI scoop with reports that Google has pushed Gemini to testing with a number of external partners, suggesting that ...
$550B In Net Worth Met In D.C. To Talk AI: Did Anything Get Done?
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Senator Chuck Schumer hosted an AI Summit with the CEOs of most of the world's biggest tech companies. NLW explores what went on, and why big challeng...
Apple's AI Strategy Revealed?
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the iPhone/Apple Watch event yesterday we learned about Apple's new, more powerful chip and neural engine. NLW argues that the chip has lots to tel...
Open Interpreter: How People Are Using Github's Hottest AI Project
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Open Interpreter is a local, private version of GPT4 Code Interpreter. It was released last week and quickly became the most active project on Github....
Meta is Working on a ChatGPT Killer
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today NLW looks at a WSJ report that Meta is pushing for a GPT-4 powered Llama 4 to be released open source; a study that shows that ChatGPT is more c...
How Elon Musk Became Consumed with AI Safety
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new TIME Magazine cover story excerpts Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk to tell the story of how he started paying attention to AI safety is...
Don't Believe the Lull: AI Is Screaming Forward
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of an essay from Tyler Cowen "The AI Hype Has Subsided But The Revolution Continues" including looks at how AI is upending the militar...
AI's 100 Most Influential (According to TIME)
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today NLW looks at TIME's first ever list of the 100 most influential people in AI, including some of the most notable snubs. Before that on the Brief...
Apple Spending Millions Each Day Training AI
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to new reporting from The Information, Apple is spending millions each day training AI. That said, its still not clear what they're actually...
An Open GPT-4 Level Model? Meet Falcon 180B
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Falcon 180B is a new open access foundation model that reportedly performs between GPT3.5 and GPT-4 level. NLW looks at the release and explores the i...
Study: Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback Performs As Well As Human Feedback
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at new research from Google that shows that reinforcement learning using artificial intelligence rather than huma...
Is OpenAI Secretly Training GPT-5?
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inflection's Mustafa Suleyman indicates that he is skeptical of claims that OpenAI isn't training GPT-5, and points out that even if they're not, othe...
Who Will Create and Capture the Most Value in AI?
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of defensibility, value capture and economic structure in artificial intelligence. With excerpts from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai...
Should AI Make Us Want A National Privacy Law?
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW explores questions of privacy prompted by the essay "Want Protection from AI? The First Step is a National Privacy Law" by Congresswoman Suzan Del...
Are Educators Ready for a ChatGPT School Year?
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As September and the Fall begins, NLW checks in on the conversation about ChatGPT among educators as they prepare to begin the first year where that t...
The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode, NLW looks at news that the US has pushed Nvidia and AMD to stop AI chip exports to certain Middle Eastern countries as part of the...
OpenAI Is Now On A Billion Dollar Revenue Pace
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the Brief, NLW looks at new reports that OpenAI is clearing $80,000,000 a month, even before the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise. Also on the Brief Sn...
ChatGPT Enterprise Is Here - How It Shapes the AI Competitive Landscape
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI yesterday announced the much anticipated ChatGPT Enterprise. The service comes with the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet, according to the ...
Was Elon's Tesla FSD Demo the ChatGPT Moment For Self-Driving Cars?
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday, Elon Musk did a live video on X to show off Tesla's Full Self Driving v12. The interesting thing about it is that it is fully controlled by...
How Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious?
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring a new paper attempting to begin creating a systematic approach to answering that question. Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708...
The Peril and Potential of AutoGPT
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reading excerpts from Zvi Moshowitz' "On AutoGPT" from his blog/newsletter "Don't Worry About the Vase." https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/on-au...
Code Llama Kicks LLM for Code Battle Into Overdrive
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meta has released LLM-for-coding Code Llama in numerous versions. NLW explores the community discussion, including some interesting data around an unr...
Was Nvidia's Earnings Call A '1995 Internet Moment'?
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One Wall Street analyst thinks that Nvidia's earnings will be seen in the future as a 1995 Internet Moment. Before that on the Brief: The New York Tim...
How Big A Deal Is GPT-3.5 Fine-Tuning From OpenAI?
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has released finetuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo. It's expensive, and for some comes with privacy concerns, but also opens up many new applications. B...
The Future of AI Music: YouTube and Universal Partner
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Universal and YouTube are partnering on an AI music incubator and other approaches to AI music that try to open up creativity while protecting existin...
Should the US Nationalize the Artificial Intelligence Industry?
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Could Google's Gemini Be A ChatGPT Killer?
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Could AI End Up Being Good for Democracy?
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The standard discourse around AI and politics is one of fear. Deepfakes. Election tampering. Misinformation. Yet the two pieces NLW reads today sugges...
Meta to Launch Open Source Coding AI as Latest Assault on OpenAI
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meta is launching a new open source AI specifically for code generation which could undercut paid tools like Microsoft GitHub Copilot (powered by Open...
Snapchat Users Freaked Out as My AI Goes Rogue
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Brie...
Why AI Hype Has Peaked (And Why That's A Good Thing)
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
AGI By 2032? The Most Interesting AI Predictions
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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;...
How The AI Backlash Killed This Literary Startup
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prosecraft is the first casualty of the AI backlash. Was it justified, or simply inevitable? Before that on the Brief: Amazon announces generative AI ...
As WormGPT Goes White Hat, Evil-GPT Emerges
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
AI and the Turning Point Moment in Human History
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Brea...
The Alignment Problem: How To Tell If An LLM Is Trustworthy
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New research attempts to put together a complete taxonomy for trustworthiness in LLMs. Before that on the Brief: The FEC is considering new election r...
76% of Americans Think AI Might Kill Us
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 LLM for Coding Competition Heats Up!
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
GPTBot AI Data Controversy and the Remaining Challenges of LLMs
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW reviews a recent research paper which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of LLM development and organizes remaining challenges and pro...
Apple Reveals It Spent Billions on AI R&D
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Why We're Radically Underestimating the Political Implications of AI Job Displacement
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Bre...
Why Do People Who Think AI Could Kill Us All Still Work on AI?
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of "Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons" by Daniel Eth. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdow...
Code Interpreter is GPT-4.5: A Summer AI Technical Roundup [feat. Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space]
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, in...
The Frontier of AI-Generated Music Models
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode NLW explores Meta's newly launched AudioCraft compared to Google MusicLM. Before that on the Brief, Goldman Sachs predicts AI inves...
Has Open Source Screwed a Whole Generation of AI Startups?
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 procu...
Is GPT-5 On the Way? OpenAI Files Trademark
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A look at a recent trademark filing; Facebook launching AI Personas; a leaked Instagram feature identifying content made by AI; Dell's AI efforts; Goo...
The AI-Robotics Revolution: Robots That Think Like LLMs
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google recently shared its RT-2 model which can translate generalized instructions into robotic control. Also on today's episode, researchers use AI t...
The 5 Most Important AI News Stories Last Month
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
AI for War? Debating the Military Use of AI
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent essay for the New York Times and discussing the military applications of artificial intelligence. Links:...
A Mysterious GPU Startup Sets Up In The Middle East
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
Better Than Midjourney? Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Can Generate Words
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 bi...
Can OpenAI and Anthropic's Frontier Model Forum Improve AI Safety?
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have teamed up to create the Frontier Model Forum. Will it improve AI safety or is it just corporate windowdre...