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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...
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...