The AI Breakdown

By Nathaniel Whittemore

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 May 21, 2023

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A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourne, ChatGPT and AutoGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.

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Apple AI? Apple Didn't Say "Artificial Intelligence" Once at WWDC
19:22

Those expecting a big AI announcement at Apple's WWDC were disappointed today, however those waiting for a mixed reality headset have much to celebrate. On this episode, NLW discusses how Apple VisionPro might converge with AI, and where AI did show up (even if not named) in the presentation. 

Before that on the Brief: drama at Stability AI, an AI breakthrough in the writers strike, and 3900 job losses from AI last month.

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Jun 05, 2023
AI Gaming Lights Up: The Biggest AI News This Week
14:29

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 research, 2d video-to-3D modeling, OpenAI corporate secrets and more.

 

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Jun 04, 2023
TIME Asks: Is AI the End of Humanity?
16:44
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 conversation has gone mainstream. On this episode, NLW reads two pieces:
 

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Jun 03, 2023
BONUS: Riley Goodside on The Art of Prompting ChatGPT [The Cognitive Revolution preview]
01:57:11

This is a special preview episode of The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Changes Everything. Hosted by Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz, TCR hosts in-depth interviews with the creators, builders and thinkers pushing the bleeding edge of AI. On this episode, they talk with Riley Goodside, the first Staff Prompt Engineer at Scale AI and expert in prompting LLMs and integrating them into AI applications. 

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Jun 03, 2023
An AI Drone Killed Its Operator In A USAF Simulation -- Except That's Not Actually What Happened
16:32

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 experiment. Oops. On the Brief, a look at Neuralangelo, a new NeRF/Photogrammetry type technology making 3D geometry from 2D videos.

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Jun 02, 2023
Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math and AI Alignment At the Same Time?
19:15
A look at the latest developments from OpenAI, including new features, a cybersecurity grant program, and their new process rewards model for trading. Before that on the Brief, Japan declines to enforce copyright around AI model training, Australia asks citizens if it should ban AI, and an AI camera without a lens.
 

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Jun 01, 2023
Are ChatGPT Plugins Overhyped?
22:56
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 internet have changed over time, the issues with the current implementations of ChatGPT Plugins, and what it means for the future.
 
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May 31, 2023
Nvidia Is Building an AI Supercomputer and Gaming Platform
21:42
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 advertising agency WPP, and a new AI gaming platform.

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May 30, 2023
AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Actually Be?
19:07

A reading of Max Tegmark's essay "The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI"

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May 28, 2023
The 5 Biggest AI News Stories This Week
13:29

AI news this week - here are the 5 most important stories! 

  • AI regulation and safety - OpenAI, Microsoft and more
  • AI helps discover antibiotic for superbug
  • Adobe generative fill
  • Microsoft Windows Copilot
  • ChatGPT Browse with Bing for all users

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May 27, 2023
The 9 AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day As A Content Creator
18:19

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 includes: 1. Feedly 2. ChatGPT 3. Perplexity 4. Descript 5. Midjourney 6. Photoshop 7. Deepfloyd 8. Canva 9. TubeBuddy 10. Vidyo.ai (watchlist) 11. Wondercraft (watchlist) 12. Elevenlabs (watchlist)

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May 26, 2023
NVIDIA Sets Off An AI Stock Frenzy While Elon Warns of the Terminator Scenario
12:45

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 and UK AI regulatory efforts. On the Brief, how AI is coming to YouTube shorts, plus NVIDIA sets off an AI stock frenzy. 

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May 25, 2023
Mind-Reading AI Generates Videos from Brainwaves
17:04

Researchers have developed a new method called Mind-Video for generating semantically accurate video from fMRI scans. Additionally, on todays Brief, NLW covers:

  • The most important announcements from Microsoft Build (including AI coming to Windows 11 and ChatGPT + Bing)
  • Google Bard images 
  • Anthropic $450m Series C
  • Naval Ravikant's Airchat 

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May 24, 2023
This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than ChatGPT's Dataset
15:07

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 Aurora is a 1 TRILLION parameter model
  • Meta's new multilanguage model can recognize 4000 languages
  • Bill Gates talks about AI
  • CoDI multimodal
  • 1X robot EVE

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May 23, 2023
Can ChatGPT Outperform Wall Street?
15:52

Last month, a University of Florida study showed ChatGPT with 500% returns using news and sentiment analysis. A recent Finder.com study also showed ChatGPT stock picks outperforming the market. On today's episode, NLW explores AI for finance, as well as whether AI itself will bring a stock market boom. 

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May 22, 2023
How Bad Will AI Jobs Loss Be?
09:52

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 that exchange to discuss the current state of the discourse around AI and jobs, including recent job cut announcements from IBM and BT, as well as a World Economic Forum study that argues that 14 million net jobs will be lost globally over the next 4 years. 

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May 21, 2023
Are OpenAI Trying for Regulatory Capture?
11:45

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 Skybox text-to-3D world
  • StabilityAI releases open source StableStudio
  • NYT open source Meta article
  • StabilityAI letter on open source to the Senate
  • Was Sam Altman's testimony just regulatory capture?

 

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May 20, 2023
The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How We Use AI
13:41

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. On the Brief: Meta announces AI Chips; Apple bans employees from ChatGPT; and Github Copilot NYC Schools un-ban ChatGPT. 

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May 19, 2023
Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and the Future of Humanity
19:53

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 Yuval starts - why AI doesn't need sentience or robots to cause harm

3:49 Language as the human operating system

4:56 Why AI is categorically not like other tools before it

6:08 What are the dangers that AI in control of language represents?

7:33 Why social media provides evidence of the risk

10:14 Global coalition to slow things down

11:40 Wouldn't a pause just let autocrats get ahead?

13:05 Conclusion

 

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May 18, 2023
The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far
20:23

From Youtube video summarizers to Spotify playlist generators to tools to chat with your PDFs, some of the most interesting and useful ChatGPT plugins as they get rolled out in Beta to all ChatGPT Plus customers.

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May 17, 2023
7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing
15:06

From a surprising lack of skepticism to clear echoes of social media regulatory failures, NLW covers everything that happened in the first Senate AI hearing in the post ChatGPT era. 

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May 16, 2023
Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?
21:19

NLW tests ChatGPT and the newly updated and opened Bard across 5 categories including creative, travel planning, research, business and more. On the Brief he covers new forthcoming regulations in the EU, Amazon robot leaks, and why you shouldn't become a prompt engineer. 

Mentioned: https://tech.co/news/google-bard-vs-chatgpt

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May 15, 2023
Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?
15:08

This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast. It features Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov. 

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May 14, 2023
The Most Important AI News From A Week Where We Glimpsed The Future
12:13

On this week's Weekly Recap:

  • OpenAI Shap-E text-to-3D
  • Anthropic 100k context window
  • Meta ImageBind multimodal
  • HuggingFace Transformers Agents 
  • Google I/O announcements 
  • Influencer chatbot makes $70k selling conversation at $1/minute 

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May 13, 2023
"How I Went from Non-Technical to Building an Andrew Tate LLM Chatbot in 3 Months"
20:52

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 weeks ago, he released a chatbot that was tuned on the ever controversial Andrew Tate. Along the way, he also released a tool to help others fine tune LLMs on specific media creators. In this conversation, they talk about what it takes to start building in AI, and why there has never been a better time.

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May 12, 2023
The Top 5 AI Announcements from Google I/O
13:23

Google tries to reclaim a leadership position in generative AI 

  • Honorable Mention - Adobe Firefly partnership 
  • 5. "AI Everywhere" - Med-PaLM 2, MusicLM
  • 4. PaLM 2
  • 3. Bard Upgrades 
  • 2. Google Workspace (Docs/Drive/Slides) Integration
  • 1. Generative AI in search

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May 11, 2023
What Comes After ChatGPT? A Preview of the Future of LLMs
19:10

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, including interpretability research from OpenAI using GPT-4 to better understand how GPT-2 works; Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" principles; and Meta's new multimodal model ImageBind, released open source today. 

May 10, 2023
How to Get AutoGPT on Your Phone (And What People Are Actually Finding it Useful For)
18:42

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 after AI announcement
  • Google I/O Developer conference AI leaks
  • IBM relaunches AI division as WatsonX in partnership with HuggingFace
  • One researcher says 80% of jobs could be replaced by AI
May 09, 2023
Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Invention of the Atom Bomb
17:59

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, we cover updates from Google and Amazon as well as new open source LLM's and a new text-to-3D platform Shap-E from OpenAI. 

May 08, 2023
AI Just Quietly Had One of It's Most Important Weeks in Recent History
13:10

NLW argues Geoffrey Hinton's defection from Google and his progress mainstreaming the AI safety conversation makes this week one of huge, if subtle, significance. 

Also covered: 

Midjourney v5.1
Inflection Pi
iBaby AGI
Brain-to-video CEBRA research
Microsoft Bing updates
Microsoft-AMD AI chips?
Samsung bans AI
Meta ChatGPT malware warning
IBM 7800 jobs disrupted by AI
Chegg stock craters because of ChatGPT
White House AI meeting
OpenAI back in Italy
Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google, warns on AI 

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May 06, 2023
Google Losing to Open Source AI? "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
17:25

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 episode, NLW explores the arguments and asks what the implications might be. 

Read the original note: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

May 05, 2023
6 Ways ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Already Being Used
12:54

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 use cases, ranging from San Francisco Crime Data to mapping Lighthouses to basic video editing. 

On the Headline Brief, NLW covers:

  • Microsoft Bing Upgrades
  • Meta's ChatGPT malware warning 
  • Google Deepmind CEO on AGI
May 04, 2023
The First Anti-AI Strike: The Writers Guild of America Protests AI Writing
12:37

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 use of AI, and many believe the issues at stake are broadly relevant for other industries as well.

May 03, 2023
Mind-Reading AI? Scientists Use GPT-Like AI to Accurately Translate Thoughts into Text
16:02

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 brain, can translate their thoughts into text. 

The news brief covers:

  • IBM replacing 7800 future hires with AI
  • Dropbox lays off 500 in pivot to AI
  • Meta AI on earnings call
  • Amazon building improved LLM for Alexa
  • Geoffrey Hinton 'Godfather of AI' leaves Google to warn of dangers of AI
  • White House looking into use of AI for employee tracking
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May 02, 2023
Text-to-Image AI That Can Actually Spell!? Meet DeepFloyd IF
11:18
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 signs) tends to be gibberish. DeepFloyd IF has started to solve that problem and it's doing it open source.
 
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May 01, 2023
Raoul Pal: AI is the Most Disinflationary Force in Our Lifetimes
37:42

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 reacting to AI, AI safety and more. 

This is an excerpt from a conversation that first appeared on The Breakdown on Tuesday April 25, 2023. 

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May 01, 2023
Real Life "Her"? A Chat with AI Avatar Call Annie About AI Alignment and More
10:54

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 conversation. The conversation explores AI alignment, X-risk, and much more. 

Apr 29, 2023
The Most Important AI News This Week: ChatGPT Browse, Apple Quartz, GPT Robot Dogs
12:06
Apr 28, 2023
The Latest on AutoGPT and BabyAGI: Semi-Autonomous Specialized Agents (SASAs)
11:24

Meet semi-autonomous specialized agents (SASAs), more descreet, focused implementations of AutoGPT and BabyAGI. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Breakdown wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614

Apr 27, 2023
ChatGPT Adds Private Mode as HuggingFace Launches Open Source Competitor
13:57
Yesterday ChatGPT announced a number of important updates, including a privacy preserving mode that doesn't record chat history (and doesn't train OpenAI models on chat history) as well as a forthcoming business offering. Many think that the moves are at least in part response to European scrutiny around GDPR compliance. Also yesterday, AI platform HuggingFace announced HuggingChat, an open source ChatGPT competitor.
Apr 26, 2023
Profit or Piracy? How AI Disrupts Industries
14:21

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 technology wrought change -- with lawyers and intimidation? Or will they adapt and seize new opportunities never before imaginable? How do issues of creativity and copyright fit in? 

Apr 25, 2023
Why GPT-4-32k Will Totally Transform What We Can Do With AI
13:07

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 opportunities in terms of what it GPT can do, based on how much more text it can take in and output at once. 

Apr 24, 2023
The Problems with AutoGPT and BabyAGI: How Useful Are They Really?
12:04
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 it really lives up to the hype.
 
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Apr 22, 2023
I Asked ChatGPT and Its New Open Source Competitor StableLM if AI Should Be Open Source. Here's What They Said.
20:06
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 StableLM is, how it compares to GPT, and then asks both ChatGPT and StableLM what they "think" about whether AI should be open source.
Apr 21, 2023
The AI Data Wars: Elon Threatens to Sue Microsoft While Viral AI Drake Track Stuns Music Industry
11:46

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 episode, we look at Elon threatening to sue Microsoft, Reddit changing their terms for AI companies, and the music industry loosing their ever-loving mind about a viral AI produced track featuring the synthetic voices of Drake and The Weeknd.

 

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Apr 20, 2023
AI that Can See the World? Meet MiniGPT-4 an Open Source Image-to-Text Model
11:02

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 of food and give you the recipe, look at a white board mockup of a website and give you the code, look at a picture of a person and their dog at sunset and write a poem.

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Apr 19, 2023
Can Open Source AI Compete with Big Tech? A Look at TruthGPT, RedPajama and MiniGPT
13:50

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 multiply risks. With a slate of new projects being announced this week, the conversation is heating up.

Discussed in this episode:

  • Elon Musk's planned TruthGPT 
  • Dolly 2.0, an open source LLM based on the EleutherAI pythia model built by Databricks
  • RedPajama, an open source proxy of Facebook/Meta's LLaMA, from Together 
  • MiniGPT, an open source AI model that can extract information from images 
  • Stable Diffusion XL, the latest open source text-to-image model from Stability AI 
Apr 18, 2023
The AI Arms Race: Where the World's Biggest Companies Stand
13:04

Google is working on a top secret search update called "Magi." Amazon announced Bedrock last week. This episode covers the AI strategies of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Adobe, and Apple. 

Apr 17, 2023
Is AutoGPT Dangerous?
12:29

There's no denying AutoGPT represents an incredible advance in AI, but does it create new risk we should be paying more attention to?

Apr 15, 2023
5 Ways AutoGPT is Already Being Used
13:59

AutoGPT is lighting up the developer and AI community. Here are five uses happening right now:

  1. Starting a businesses
  2. Building a web application
  3. Task list that does itself
  4. Creating podcast content
  5. Autonomous AI agent generator
Apr 13, 2023
What is AutoGPT and Why is Everyone Talking About It?
09:23

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, including generating other AIs. They have access to the internet, longer term memory, and thus can be used in much different ways. In just a week, AutoGPTs have become the most active GitHub repositories. 

Apr 12, 2023
Should the US Gov't Have to Review and License AI Tools?
10:05

That's the question the Biden Administration is asking American citizens to comment on. WSJ and others reported today that the Administration is nervous about AI being used for crime and disinformation, and so is collecting public comments on the idea of having an FDA-like body to review and approve AI tools. 

Apr 12, 2023
Introducing The AI Breakdown
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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 explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.

The AI Breakdown is a part of The Breakdown Network: Change Explained. 

Apr 04, 2023