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-po...
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 deve...
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 ...
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 fi...
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 D...
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 te...
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 ...
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 ha...
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 iden...
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 cont...
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 ne...
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 militar...
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...
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 whic...
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 i...
Does This Research Prove That ChatGPT Has Gotten Worse?
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new research paper from Stanford and Berkeley says that yes, indeed ChatGPT has gotten worse. Howe...
Can Worldcoin Help Solve AI's Big Economic Problems?
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dystopia or solution? That's the debate that rages around Worldcoin, one of the most ambitious and c...
Is Open Source AI Dangerous?
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Meta announced its Llama 2 model, one of the most powerful open source LLMs yet. Today on...
5 Ways People Are Using ChatGPT's Powerful New Custom Instructions Feature
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week ChatGPT released a new "Custom Instruction" feature that allows users to customize informa...
White House Secures Responsible AI Commitment from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic and Others
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The White House continues its engagement with the artificial intelligence space today releasing a se...
AppleGPT? Apple Has Been Secretly Working on a ChatGPT Competitor
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bloomberg reports that Apple has developed an LLM platform called Ajax upon which they've built a ch...
Meta Llama 2 Is Here! Everything You Need to Know About OpenAI's Biggest Open Source Competitor
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The much anticipated Meta Llama 2 model has been released, and as hoped it is available for commerci...
Where Are All the Aliens: Does AI Explain the Fermi Paradox?
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Fermi Paradox refers to the discrepancy between what seems like the high chance of other intelli...
AI Bubble? Layoffs Hit AI Companies
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jasper and Mutiny have both laid off part of their teams in recent weeks, leading some to question w...
Bard vs. Bing vs. Claude vs. ChatGPT: The Right LLM For Every Task
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LLM competition ratchets up seemingly every week. At this point, the different design choices that m...
Bill Gates on Why Humans Can Handle AI Risks
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Gates has penned another letter about AI, this time arguing that humans are more prepared than ...
OpenAI Investigated by FTC for ChatGPT Harms
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused consumer harm...
Elon Musk Announces xAI: Here's Everything We Know So Far
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk is launching xAI, a new AI company to explore the big questions of the universe. NLW looks...
ChatGPT's First True Competitor? Anthropic Releases Claude 2
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic has released Claude 2. The model preforms comparably to GPT-4 but offers a 100k context wi...
Why Google Is Intentionally Limiting the Power of Bard AI
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google CEO Sunday Pichai told 60 Minutes that the company is purposefully limiting the power and cap...
5 Ways AI Could Improve Humanity
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today NLW reads the companion piece to yesterday's episode -- 5 Ways AI Could Improve the World htt...
5 Ways AI Could Destroy Humanity
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of "Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the...
Forget Alignment, Here's Why Every AI Needs an Individual "Soul"
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of David Brin's "Give Every AI a Soul - or Else" https://www.wired.com/story/give-every-ai...
ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Finally Coming Next Week!
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After months of waiting, ChatGPT Code Interpreter plugin is coming to all ChatGPT plus users next we...
OpenAI Sets Moonshot Goal of AI Superalignment in 4 Years
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintellig...
Will AI Replace All Coders Within 5 Years?
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque has predicted that there will be no human coders within 5 years. On...
Will AI Increase Freedom or Help Authoritarians?
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI could be a tool for the promotion of freedom, or it could aid in surveillance, control, and an ex...
The AI Data Wars: Why Elon Musk's Rate Limits Are About More Than Twitter
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scrap...
Translating Brainwaves to Images and Other Cutting Edge AI Research
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Breakdown, a research recap of the most interesting recent AI research, including: ...
60 Possible AGI Futures
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of...
Inflection Raises Monster $1.3 Billion Round to Build One of World's Biggest AI Clusters
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest ...
The AI Arms Race Heats Up: US Considers Blocking AI Chip Exports
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China....
AI M&A: Billion Dollar Acquisitions Reshape AI Landscape
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B Ramp acquires Cohere.io ...
DragGAN's Amazing Drag-to-Edit Photo AI Releases Source Code
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive ...
Is AI "Alien Intelligence?" Emerson Spartz on Mental Models for AI
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's ...
What the Head of the New UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce Thinks of AI
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskf...
"AI Will Modify Our Interface For Information" A Conversation with Maven CEO Gagan Biyani
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education r...
Multi-On is What You Wanted AutoGPT to Be - Interview with Founder Div Garg
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the...
AI is the First UI Paradigm Shift in 60 Years
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based...
Biden Meets AI Safety Experts As White House Promises Decisive Action
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "d...
The Faux Outrage Around OpenAI's EU Lobbying
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW arg...
GPT Engineer Generates An Entire Codebase Based On A Prompt
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
GPT-Engineer is the latest AI project to have Github developers going nuts. The project promises to ...
The Most Interesting AI Research This Week
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Research Roundup including: -AssistGPT -LLaMA multimodal adapter -Meta Voicebox -Text-to-Video -LL...
A Critique of Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save The World"
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save the World." This week we read Dwarkes...
How Worried About China AI Should We Be?
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Senators Mark Warner and Ted Cruz discus China's AI advances while Bill Gates meets with Chinese Pre...
EU Passes AI Act, But Generative AI Provisions Remain Controversial
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The EU has passed its AI Act. The risk-based approach has banned some things (like live facial recog...
Why OpenAI's API Updates Will Change How We Use ChatGPT
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has announced a set of API updates including lower prices, a larger 16k context window, and s...
AI at Work: Is Enterprise AI the Next Big Trend?
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise AI is a major theme for investors and corporations alike. Salesforce just announced their...
New ChatGPT Features Leaked?
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at how the real estate industry is thinking about the impact of...
Will AI Save The World?
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
That's the claim in Marc Andreessen's massive new 7000 word missive "Why AI Will Save The World." ...
Creating Worlds From Words: The Most Essential AI News This Week
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the most essential AI news stories across new tools, importa...
The 5 Most Exciting AI Tools Launched This Week
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From text-to-3D avatar to text-to-video to music you create with gestures, these are the most intere...
Are We In An AI Bubble?
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is AI in bubble territory yet? Ever since Nvidia's massive move up recently, people have been asking...
OpenAI's 6 Strategies For Better ChatGPT Prompting
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has published a new guide with 6 recommendations for better ChatGPT prompting. The recommenda...
Can SuperAGI Be What People Wanted from AutoGPT?
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AutoGPT was all the AI hotness a few months ago, with its promise of autonomous AI agents. Now, a ne...
Apple AI? Apple Didn't Say "Artificial Intelligence" Once at WWDC
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Those expecting a big AI announcement at Apple's WWDC were disappointed today, however those waiting...
AI Gaming Lights Up: The Biggest AI News This Week
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI news continues to come fast and furious. On today's weekly recap, NLW covers the biggest stories ...
TIME Asks: Is AI the End of Humanity?
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TIME Magazine's current cover story is titled "The End of Humanity: How Real Is The Risk?" It's a ma...
BONUS: Riley Goodside on The Art of Prompting ChatGPT [The Cognitive Revolution preview]
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special preview episode of The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Changes Everything. Hosted by ...
An AI Drone Killed Its Operator In A USAF Simulation -- Except That's Not Actually What Happened
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A bogus story about an AI simulation gone wrong made headlines around the world, until the progentio...
Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math and AI Alignment At the Same Time?
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A look at the latest developments from OpenAI, including new features, a cybersecurity grant program...
Are ChatGPT Plugins Overhyped?
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT Plugins are one of the most hyped things in AI -- but are they overhyped? In this episode, N...
Nvidia Is Building an AI Supercomputer and Gaming Platform
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia made a huge number of AI related announcements at Computex, including new chips, a new AI sup...
AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Actually Be?
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of Max Tegmark's essay "The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI" The AI B...
The 5 Biggest AI News Stories This Week
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI news this week - here are the 5 most important stories! AI regulation and safety - OpenAI, Mi...
The 9 AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day As A Content Creator
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lists of 1000s of AI tools abound, but here are the 9 I actually use every day (with a watchlist wit...
NVIDIA Sets Off An AI Stock Frenzy While Elon Warns of the Terminator Scenario
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW reviews comments from Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt at yesterday's WSJ C...
Mind-Reading AI Generates Videos from Brainwaves
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers have developed a new method called Mind-Video for generating semantically accurate video...
This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than ChatGPT's Dataset
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode, NLW looks at global regulatory proposals from OpenAI and Google, as well as a nu...
Can ChatGPT Outperform Wall Street?
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, a University of Florida study showed ChatGPT with 500% returns using news and sentiment ...
How Bad Will AI Jobs Loss Be?
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, there was a strange exchange between Senator Richard Blumenthal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altma...
Are OpenAI Trying for Regulatory Capture?
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this edition of The AI Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at all the AI news, including Mind-blo...
The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How We Use AI
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW goes over the news of OpenAI's release of an official ChatGPT app, an...
Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and the Future of Humanity
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Find the complete presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiM-LuRe6w&t=2005s 0:00 Int...
The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Youtube video summarizers to Spotify playlist generators to tools to chat with your PDFs, some ...
7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From a surprising lack of skepticism to clear echoes of social media regulatory failures, NLW covers...
Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW tests ChatGPT and the newly updated and opened Bard across 5 categories including creative, trav...
Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast....
The Most Important AI News From A Week Where We Glimpsed The Future
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Weekly Recap: OpenAI Shap-E text-to-3D Anthropic 100k context window Meta ImageBi...
"How I Went from Non-Technical to Building an Andrew Tate LLM Chatbot in 3 Months"
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today in the first of a series on AI learning journeys, NLW is joined by Emmet Halm. At the beginnin...
The Top 5 AI Announcements from Google I/O
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google tries to reclaim a leadership position in generative AI Honorable Mention - Adobe Firefly...
What Comes After ChatGPT? A Preview of the Future of LLMs
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW describes three bits of news from this week that together help us get...
How to Get AutoGPT on Your Phone (And What People Are Actually Finding it Useful For)
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A check-in on AutoGPT as well as the headline news: Updates from the US copyright office Pitchboo...
Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Invention of the Atom Bomb
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode, we discuss Warren Buffett's recent comments on AI as well as cover a primer of t...
AI Just Quietly Had One of It's Most Important Weeks in Recent History
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW argues Geoffrey Hinton's defection from Google and his progress mainstreaming the AI safety conv...
Google Losing to Open Source AI? "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a Google researcher had a note leaked that argued that Google (and OpenAI) were going to ...
6 Ways ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Already Being Used
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Code Interpreter is a new plugin for ChatGPT that is allowing for amazing data analysis and visualiz...
The First Anti-AI Strike: The Writers Guild of America Protests AI Writing
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Writers Guild of America is striking after not being able to come to an agreement with TV and fi...
Mind-Reading AI? Scientists Use GPT-Like AI to Accurately Translate Thoughts into Text
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our main discussion is focused on new research out of the University of Texas Austin on GPT-like AI ...
Text-to-Image AI That Can Actually Spell!? Meet DeepFloyd IF
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever used Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion or another text-to-image generator, you'll ...