The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
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Why the Impact of AI Will Be Even Weirder Than We Think
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-holding-back-the-strange-ai-tide ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown help...
Sam Altman Wants to Raise $5-$7 TRILLION for AI Chip Plants
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
WSJ writes about an incredibly ambitious plan to transform the landscape for compute. Additionally, the White House has started an AI Safety Consortiu...
OpenAI Building AI Agents as Google Launches Gemini Advanced
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bard is no more! Bard has become Gemini and Gemini now features Gemini Advanced, which uses Gemini Ultra 1.0 -- the first non OpenAI model to hit GPT-...
AI is Personal: On Microsoft's Copilot Super Bowl Ad
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft has released a 60-second Super Bowl commercial focused on their AI Copilot. NLW explores how much it says about the way the company is think...
AI Unlocks Ancient Greek Scrolls Destroyed by Mt Vesuvius
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Vesuvius Challenge is a $1m prize to use AI to decipher text seemingly lost on ancient Greek papyri in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Po...
LEAK: Google Gemini Ultra Coming This Week?
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to a changelog found by an Android developer, Google Ultra is coming out on Wednesday, and Bard will be rebranded to Gemini. Also on this ep...
How AI Will Change Organized Labor
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion of an essay by one of Biden's most senior economic advisors. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-biden-admin-says-rules-must...
Tim Cook Is FINALLY Hyping Apple AI
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Apple AI is coming this fall! At least according to a recent earnings call with CEO Tim Cook. Also, Bard announces image generation, Microsoft brings ...
The FCC Wants AI Robocalls to Be Illegal
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this extended brief, NLW covers: the FCC's new push to make AI robocalls illegal; VW's new AI lab, Mastercard's fraud detection AI, and much more. ...
These Are the Most Used AI Applications
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new study has some surprising results for which AI applications are being the most used. Plus, is Wall Street getting concerned about the cost of AI...
OpenAI Launches Education and Safety Initiative
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has launched an education and safety initiative with Common Sense Media. Also, Biden's Executive Order on AI bears fruit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKD...
US Gov't Says AI Labs Need to Notify Them Around LLM Training
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks at recent comments from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about an LLM disclosure regime. Plus, Elon Musk's role in AI. ABOUT THE AI BREA...
Train Humans, Not AI
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion prompted by Esther Dyson's new essay "Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids" https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dont-fuss-...
Google and HuggingFace Partner in Boost to Open Source AI
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new partnership between Google Cloud and the 'Github for AI/ML models' team up to make open source tools more accessible to developers. Plus, the FT...
Can Viral NSFW Taylor Swift AI Images Make Deepfake Issues Go Mainstream?
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If anyone can make AI deepfakes a mainstream issue it's Taylor Swift. Plus geopolitical competition around compute access heats up. ** LEARN AI THIS ...
Google’s Announcements Show 2 Key 2024 AI Trends
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Google Chrome announces 3 AI features for Chrome as well as an innovative new Video generation tool Lumiere. Also SAP is restructuring 8000 jobs aroun...
The Surprising Reason AI Won't Steal Your Job
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A recent MIT study explored how cost effective automation really was and found that only 23% of jobs that could be automated away would actually have ...
Sam Altman's Secret Quest to Build AI Chip Plants
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bloomberg and FT report on Sam Altman's latest efforts to raise billions to build more AI chip manufacturing capacity. Plus ElevenLabs becomes AI's la...
An Optimistic Take on AI and Inequality
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion based on "For all our fear of AI dystopia, it may help to level up society" https://www.ft.com/content/8f7b9b52-9243-4c34-af8...
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Open Source AGI
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Other revelations from an Instagram reel include that Meta will have around $20B worth of compute by the end of 2024; that Llama 3 is being trained, a...
Google's AlphaGeometry Breakthrough
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A massive improvement in how AI can reason around geometry plus Samsung releases the AI-est AI phone to AI yet. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdo...
Altman Says AGI Soon, But Will Change the World Less Than We Think
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Altman is among the business and political leaders descending upon Davos for the World Economic Forum. Today NLW looks at a set of comments he mad...
60% of US Jobs Could Be Impacted by AI
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
That's according to new research from the IMF. NLW also covers Elon wanting more control before building advanced AI at Tesla and OpenAI's new electio...
The Four Wars of the AI Stack: The Battles Shaping the Development of AI
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The wars include the Quality Data Wars, the War of the GPU Rich/Poor, the Multimodality War, the RAG/Ops War Inspired by this excellent framework from...
The Things We Know About AI So Far
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and exploration of: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/signs-and-portents ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the mos...
The AI Assistant and Agent Battle Heats Up
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This episode was produced on Wednesday January 10th, but due to an ice storm never came out! Apologies for the delay. Today's Sponsors: Listen...
What an OpenAI AMA Tells Us About the Future of GPTs and the GPT Store
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plus a new Congressional working group focused on AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discus...
The GPT Store is LIVE! (But Does Anyone Care?)
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a couple months of anticipation and more than 3 million user created GPTs, the GPT store has officially gone live. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The A...
Duolingo Replaces 10% of Contractors With AI
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plus OpenAI claps back at the New York Times copyright lawsuit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news ...
Andrej Karpathy Tries to Rebrand AI
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is "Intelligence Amplification" a better term? Plus, Nvidia prepares to manufacture new chips for the China market. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the c...
What Roles Should Government Play in AI?
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of two essays that explore this question with very different answers. https://www.newsweek.com/why-nationalizing-ai-bad-idea-opinion-185749...
5 Predictions for the GPT Store Coming Next Week
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI announced the GPT Store is finally launching next week. NLW gives 5 predictions on how it will play out. Before that on the Brief: rumors of AI...
AI Researchers Put Risk of Human Extinction from AI at 5%
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new survey asked 2,700+ AI/ML researchers about their fears concerning AI. This is how they responded. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-toppin...
Is AI Headed for a Trough of Disillusionment?
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After the peak of inflated expectations comes the trough of disillusionment. After a dismal outing on the first day of public market trading, some won...
The State of AI in 2024
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NLW breaks down the industry as 2024 begins, from policy to AI safety to the state of the art in technology. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-to...
How AI Will Impact Jobs in 2024
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks across a range of studies, surveys and predictions to try to parse out what the real impact of AI in the workplace might be. Today's Sponso...
New York Times Sues OpenAI In What Could Be A Landmark Lawsuit
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. While it's not the first copyright suit of its type, it's certainly the most significant so far. The...
Testing Suno.ai: The Viral AI Music Generator
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks at the state of AI music generators and gives the new Suno.ai a test run for the holidays. Interested in the January AI Education Beta prog...
8 Predictions for AI in 2024
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW reviews one set of predictions as a way of discussing what's coming next in AI. Built off of https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/8-predictions-for-...
The 10 Biggest AI Events of 2023
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW builds off of this list of the 10 biggest events of AI of 2023 to do a yearly recap! Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn ...
Anthropic Raising Another $750M at $15B-$20B Valuation
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more government involvement in AI. Today's Sponsors: List...
GPT-Engineer Launches App as Text-to-Code Platforms On the Rise
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that are expanding creativity and democratizing the ca...
The More Workers Use AI, The More They Fear for Their Jobs
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of it impacting their employment. Also on today's show w...
Will AI Girlfriends Destroy the Fabric of Society?
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation about the impact of AI companions on society. Also, By...
2024 Generative AI Trend: Moving Beyond Chat Interfaces
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat interfaces with other types of interfaces that are cus...
Can AI Be Regulated In A Way That Preserves Freedom?
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23998493/artificial-intelligence-president-joe-biden-exec...
The Latest Developments in Superalignment
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak-to-strong generalizations, and how they can analog...
Is the GPT-4.5 "Leak" Real?
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also, Pope Francis calls for a binding treaty on AI. I...
Is ChatGPT Acting Lazy Because of the Holidays?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Believe it or not, there is some fairly good evidence that ChatGPT is acting lazy (i.e. returning shorter results for example) because it's mimicking ...
AI Startups Are Having More Trouble Fundraising. Here's What It Means.
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI startups have run counter to the trend of decreased VC all year, but even they're now feeling the pinch as well. Here's why it matters more broadly...
RUMOR: GPT-4.5 Coming Before EOY (Maybe Even This Week?)
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks at rumors from some sources that have previously had OpenAI insider leaks that GPT-4.5 could be coming as soon as this week and likely befor...
The Significance of Sam Altman as TIME CEO of the Year
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Taylor Swift was named TIME's Person of the Year, many in the AI space had questions. Apparently TIME had a plan, however, naming Sam Altman as C...
China Drives D.C. to Be More AI Ambitious
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/china-global-ai-plans-00129160 vs https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/ai-sam-alt...
Meta Launches Midjourney, Dall-E-3 Competitor
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does the new tool stand up to other image generators? And what else did Meta AI announce. The day following Google's Gemini was a mixed bag for th...
OpenAI's COO Says AI for Business is Overhyped. Is He Right?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap recently got a big conversation going when he suggested that AI for business was overhyped. NLW explores whether he's right. ...
BREAKING: Google Launches Gemini
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
GPT-4 finally has a credible competitor as Google launches Gemini! NLW covers the three-size model, the emphasis on reasoning and multimodality, and w...
Meta, IBM Form AI Alliance to Counter OpenAI with More Open AI
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI is not open enough; at least not according to the new AI Alliance - a group led by Meta, IBM, AMD and others that is trying to ensure AI stays ...
How Clashing Egos and Disagreements Shaped the AI Field
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Elon Musk's fallout with Larry Page to...well...Elon Musk's fallout with Sam Altman...to Sam Altman's fallout with Dario Amodei to...Sam Altman's...
Predictions for Generative AI Year 2
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday was the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT. NLW reads (with the help of ElevenLabs) a group of predictions around what year 2 for generative AI ...
The Fight for AI's Soul Following OpenAI's Leadership Battle
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW reads excerpts from a set of pieces opining about AI after OpenAI's leadership battle and on the one year anniversary of ChatGPT. Excerpts from: ...
Did Google DeepMind Just Revolutionize Materials Science?
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Deepmind's GNoME AI has 10x'd the number of known stable materials, and more than 736 of them have already been successfully created in the lab. Plus ...
ChatGPT Launched 1 Year Ago Today: A Retrospective
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Birthday ChatGPT! The incredibly influential software was launched on November 30, 2022. Five days later it had a million users. Five weeks afte...
Amazon Launches Q Chatbot: Is It A Disappointment or AI On Trend?
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We didn't get Amazon's rumored "Olympus" model, but we did get an enterprise focused chatbot called Q. NLW explores whether it's a disappointment that...
Is Pika 1.0 AI Video's Breakout Moment?
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pika Labs officially launched 1.0 and many think it might be representative of a coming breakout moment for text-to-video generation. Plus a look at t...
Q*: Was This New Advance the Reason for Sam Altman's Firing?
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More information came out late last week about a model that showed signs of more advanced reasoning called Q*, leading to additional speculation that ...
How Close Are We To True AI Agents?
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of one of the hottest topics in AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussion...
Self-Regulation vs. More Regulation: The Right Approach for AI
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of "Why self-regulation is best for artificial intelligence" https://thehill.com/opinion/4300288-why-self-regulation-is-best-for-artificial-...
The Winners and Losers Following the OpenAI Power Struggle
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the dust settles, NLW looks at who has benefitted and who has lost out after Sam Altman's removal and reinstatement. Spoiler alert: no one comes ou...
Stability AI Releases Stunning Stable Video Diffusion Model
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The company claims the video generator out performs Pika and Runway. Note: this is the Brief that was supposed to come out Wednesday which got bumped ...
IT'S OVER! Sam Altman BACK as CEO of OpenAI
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After 5 days of tense negotiations, Sam Altman has returned as CEO of OpenAI, bringing Greg Brockman with him. That doesn't mean nothing has changed h...
OpenAI Board Asked Anthropic For Merger
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Apparently in addition to asking half of Silicon Valley to be the new CEO, over the weekend the OpenAI Board asked Dario Amodei to take over and bring...
Latest OpenAI Drama: Altman/Brockman to Microsoft, Board Hires Former Twitch CEO; Employees Rebel
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
WTAF is going on? First the board announced former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as new CEO. Then Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Sam Altman and Greg Brock...
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman COMING BACK to OpenAI?!
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Act 3 of the Dumbest Palace Coup Ever, as employees and investors revolt and the board appears forced to capitulate. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI B...
What REALLY Happened at OpenAI?
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Backstabbing. Ambition. Betrayal. After Sam Altman was fired and Greg Brockman quit, NLW digs in to what we've learned so far. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOW...
BREAKING: Sam Altman FIRED from OpenAI
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has announced that Sam Altman has been removed over failures of communication with the board. NLW gets into speculation about what it all means...
Gemini Delayed: Is Google In the Innovator's Dilemma?
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Information reports that much-anticipated Gemini has been officially delayed. NLW explores interpretations for why Google has struggled to keep pa...
The Biggest AI Announcements from Microsoft Ignite
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft confirms long speculated Project Athena with the announcement of its first custom chips for AI including the Maia and Cobalt. They also anno...
OpenAI's AGI Committee
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has a 6-person committee that will decide when AGI is achieved, with major implications for their relationship with Microsoft. NLW also explore...
Which LLMs Hallucinate Least?
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode, NLW looks at new research about LLM hallucination; Google suing AI scammers; and China and the US working towards an agreement not...
OpenAI Is Officially Training GPT-5
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the AI Breakdown NLW looks at what GPTs are (and what they're not) and why many people are thinking about them the wrong way. Plus, OpenAI is...
How Close to Agents Are GPTs?
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of Ethan Mollick's "Almost an Agent: What GPTs Can Do" https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/almost-an-agent-what-gpts-can-do ABOUT THE AI BREAK...
Humane Ai Pin: The Future of Computing or Solution in Search of a Problem?
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Humane has officially launched its Ai Pin and, if nothing else, it has stirred some serious controversy. NLW explores the community's reactions. Toda...
The Significance of OpenAI's New Data Partnerships Program
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI closed the week with yet another announcement -- this time about a new data partnerships program through which they hope to expand the data tha...
2X Bigger than GPT-4!? Amazon Is Training "Olympus"
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sources are suggesting that Amazon is training a 2 trillion parameter model called Olympus. NLW looks at what it means for Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT-5...
Samsung Gauss and the AI Phone Wars
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Samsung announced a set of AI models they're calling Gauss as well as plans to put parts of the model on their next flagship Galaxy phone. NLW looks a...
OpenAI DevDay: Everything You Need To Know
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday OpenAI announces 128k GPT-4 Turbo at 1/3rd the price; a new Text-to-Speech model; Whisper 3; and proto-agent features like the Assistants AP...
The AI Stack for Content Creators (aka the AI Tools I Actually Use)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The best AI tools for content creators -- or at least the ones I use regularly, including Descript, HeyGen, Perplexity, ChatGPT, ElevenLabs, Canva Mag...
ChatGPT All Tools and What OpenAI Is Really Building
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the lead up to November 6th's OpenAI DevDay, NLW looks at their recent launch of PDF reading and the All Tools model and explores that it suggests ...
BREAKING: Elon Announces xAI ChatGPT Competitor Grok
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A special, all-AI created bonus episode about Elon Musk's announcement of xAI's ChatGPT competitor Grok. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown help...
An OpenAI Researcher on "Techno-Humanism"
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of OpenAI research scientist Richard Ngo's essay "Techno-humanism is techno-optimism for the 21st century." https://www.mindthefuture.info/p...
Regulatory Capture? Meta AI Chief Accuses OpenAI, Anthropic of Stoking Fears
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The war of words between the AI safety advocates on the one side and the AI open source advocates on the other has gotten increasingly contentious. Th...
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...