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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...
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. However others are calling the methodology into questi...
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 controversial projects that cuts across artificial ...
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 The AI Breakdown, NLW explores arguments that rel...
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 information about who they are and what type of responses...
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 set of voluntary commitments that a group of leading...
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 chatbot that engineers internally call "Apple GPT." ...
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 commercial use. NLW breaks down how Llama 2 compares to ot...
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 intelligent life given billions of planets and our total ...
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 whether it's another example of the AI bubble defla...
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 models have made have led to different LLMs being b...
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 we might think for the challenges it brings. Read...
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 harms in terms of data collection and safety practices...
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 at how he's thinking about it differently than so...
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 window for 4-5x cheaper. NLW does a roundup of the A...
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 capabilities of their Bard AI model to ensure society...
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 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/ai...
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 same second’" https://www.theguardian.com/tech...
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-a-soul-or-else/ ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Br...
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 week. NLW breaks down why people are so excited, and...
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 superintelligent AI with human intent and values. The company i...
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 today's episode, NLW explores this prediction in ...
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 expansion of authoritarianism. Which is more likely?...
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 scraping. The move follows big changes to the Reddit AP...
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: DreamDiffusion translating EEG to images - https:...
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 scenarios for if and how humans develop AGI and w...
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 GPU clusters. OpenAI sets up shop in London, updat...
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. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claims their n...
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 Thompson Reuters acquires legal AI firm CaseTe...
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 modifications just through dragging has released i...
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 largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12...
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 Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads exce...
"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 revolution. Now as the CEO of Maven, he's helping t...
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 browser to execute complex tasks. Learn more: ...
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 interaction to intent-based outcome specification...
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 "decisive action" on AI in the weeks to come. CNN re...
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 argues that the story is not only not some smoking gu...
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 create entire code bases with a single prompt, rei...
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 -LLM agent teaching weaker AIs -AI art QR code genera...
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 Dwarkesh Patel's "Contra Marc Andreessen on AI." The ...
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 President Xi Jinping and TikTok parent ByteDance buys...
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 recognition and biometric scraping), and made a whole s...
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 something they're calling function calling. On toda...
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 AI Cloud as well as doubling their generative AI ...
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 generative AI. Before that on the Brief, we cover...
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." On this week's Long Reads Sunday, NLW voice clones...
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, important research, big company announcements, open sourc...