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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 interesting and exciting ai tools that launched or were ...
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 this question with renewed vigor. The AI Breakdo...
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 recommendations come in response to numerous complaints on T...
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 new tool called SuperAGI is catching developer's int...
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 for a mixed reality headset have much to celebrat...
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 from the previous week, including cutting edge res...
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 marker of how much the AI risk and safety conversati...
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 Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz, TCR hosts in-dep...
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 progentior of the story said it was actually just a thought...
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, and their new process rewards model for trading....
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, NLW explores how the default interfaces of the inte...
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 supercomputer, a partnership with the world's biggest...
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 Breakdown helps you understand the most important n...
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, Microsoft and more AI helps discover antibiotic for...
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 with 3 more I'm experimenting with). The list include...
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 CEO Council Summit about AI risk. He also covers EU...
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 from fMRI scans. Additionally, on todays Brief, N...
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 number of topics on the brief, including: Intel's ...
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 analysis. A recent Finder.com study also showed Ch...
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 Altman around jobs. In today's episode, NLW builds off ...
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-blowing DragGAN photo editing research Blockade Labs...
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, and explores why mobile is the next frontier for AI....
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 Intro 0:30 The 3 levels of the AI discussion 2:08 Y...
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 of the most interesting and useful ChatGPT plugins...
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 everything that happened in the first Senate AI h...
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, travel planning, research, business and more. On the B...
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. It features Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov. ...
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 ImageBind multimodal HuggingFace Transformers Agents ...
"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 beginning of 2023, Emmet was not a developer. A couple wee...
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 partnership 5. "AI Everywhere" - Med-PaLM 2, M...
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 a preview of the future of large language models,...
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 Pitchbook VC enthusiasm for AI Palantir stock price pops ...
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 the geopolitics of AI. On the headline news brief, ...
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 conversation makes this week one of huge, if subtle, s...
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 lose AI to the open source community. In this epis...
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 visualization. In today's episode, NLW looks at 6 early us...
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 film executives. At the heart of the matter is the u...
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 that, after being trained on a particular person's...
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 know that words are a weakness. Text (such as on s...
Raoul Pal: AI is the Most Disinflationary Force in Our Lifetimes
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The AI Breakdown, NLW is joined by Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal to discuss AI as a disinflationary force, how big companies are reacti...
Real Life "Her"? A Chat with AI Avatar Call Annie About AI Alignment and More
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday night I had a "FaceTime" with Call Annie. It's a new app that matches AI language models with an AI avatar to have a more human conversat...
The Most Important AI News This Week: ChatGPT Browse, Apple Quartz, GPT Robot Dogs
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Discussed on the show: ChatGPT Privacy - https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1650961357913616402 ChatGPT Browse - https://twitter.com/zacknotes/...
The Latest on AutoGPT and BabyAGI: Semi-Autonomous Specialized Agents (SASAs)
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet semi-autonomous specialized agents (SASAs), more descreet, focused implementations of AutoGPT and BabyAGI. The AI Breakdown helps you understand ...
ChatGPT Adds Private Mode as HuggingFace Launches Open Source Competitor
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday ChatGPT announced a number of important updates, including a privacy preserving mode that doesn't record chat history (and doesn't train Ope...
Profit or Piracy? How AI Disrupts Industries
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A case study in the disruptive force of AI to traditional industries. Will they respond as have previous industries in the past have responded to tech...
Why GPT-4-32k Will Totally Transform What We Can Do With AI
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
GPT-4 as most people use it has an 8K token limit. Some already have access to a version with a 32K limit, however, and are reporting hugely different...
The Problems with AutoGPT and BabyAGI: How Useful Are They Really?
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the last 3 weeks, AutoGPT has massively captured the attention of the AI community. But how useful is it really? Some are starting to ask whether ...
I Asked ChatGPT and Its New Open Source Competitor StableLM if AI Should Be Open Source. Here's What They Said.
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stability AI announced StableLM this week and open source AI advocates are over the moon. On this episode of The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at what Stabl...
The AI Data Wars: Elon Threatens to Sue Microsoft While Viral AI Drake Track Stuns Music Industry
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're seeing more and more instances of industries, companies and individuals fighting back against their data and IP being used to train AI. On this ...
AI that Can See the World? Meet MiniGPT-4 an Open Source Image-to-Text Model
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We've had many examples of text-to-image but fewer AI models that can interpret images. MiniGPT-4 is a new open source model that can look at an image...
Can Open Source AI Compete with Big Tech? A Look at TruthGPT, RedPajama and MiniGPT
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some argue that open source AI is the key to making AI's benefits to the entire world, as well as making AI safer. Others think that open source can m...
The AI Arms Race: Where the World's Biggest Companies Stand
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google is working on a top secret search update called "Magi." Amazon announced Bedrock last week. This episode covers the AI strategies of Google, Am...
Is AutoGPT Dangerous?
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There's no denying AutoGPT represents an incredible advance in AI, but does it create new risk we should be paying more attention to?
5 Ways AutoGPT is Already Being Used
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AutoGPT is lighting up the developer and AI community. Here are five uses happening right now: Starting a businesses Building a web application Ta...
What is AutoGPT and Why is Everyone Talking About It?
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Less than a week old, AutoGPT has exploded onto the scene. AutoGPTs are AIs that, once assigned a task, figure out how to complete that task, includin...
Should the US Gov't Have to Review and License AI Tools?
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
That's the question the Biden Administration is asking American citizens to comment on. WSJ and others reported today that the Administration is nervo...
Introducing The AI Breakdown
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet The AI Breakdown - a semiweekly news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence, aka AI. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the ...