The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Episodes 1115 total
Is Ukraine the First "AI War"?
Ukraine has become a testing lab for advanced AI integrations into combat operations. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most impo…
Why the Impact of AI Will Be Even Weirder Than We Think
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 helps you unde…
Sam Altman Wants to Raise $5-$7 TRILLION for AI Chip Plants
WSJ writes about an incredibly ambitious plan to transform the landscape for compute. Additionally, the White House has started an AI Safety Consortium. Today's…
OpenAI Building AI Agents as Google Launches Gemini Advanced
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-4 levels…
AI is Personal: On Microsoft's Copilot Super Bowl Ad
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 thinking about…
AI Unlocks Ancient Greek Scrolls Destroyed by Mt Vesuvius
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 Pompei. NLW…
LEAK: Google Gemini Ultra Coming This Week?
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 episode, Don…
How AI Will Change Organized Labor
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-ensure-ai…
Tim Cook Is FINALLY Hyping Apple AI
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 Copilot to…
The FCC Wants AI Robocalls to Be Illegal
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. ABOUT THE…
These Are the Most Used AI Applications
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? ABOUT TH…
OpenAI Launches Education and Safety Initiative
OpenAI has launched an education and safety initiative with Common Sense Media. Also, Biden's Executive Order on AI bears fruit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI B…
US Gov't Says AI Labs Need to Notify Them Around LLM Training
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 BREAKDOWN The A…
Train Humans, Not AI
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-about-traini…
Google and HuggingFace Partner in Boost to Open Source AI
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 FTC is inves…
Can Viral NSFW Taylor Swift AI Images Make Deepfake Issues Go Mainstream?
If anyone can make AI deepfakes a mainstream issue it's Taylor Swift. Plus geopolitical competition around compute access heats up. ** LEARN AI THIS YEAR! Regis…
Google’s Announcements Show 2 Key 2024 AI Trends
Google Chrome announces 3 AI features for Chrome as well as an innovative new Video generation tool Lumiere. Also SAP is restructuring 8000 jobs around AI. Inte…
The Surprising Reason AI Won't Steal Your Job
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 economics…
Sam Altman's Secret Quest to Build AI Chip Plants
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 latest unico…
An Optimistic Take on AI and Inequality
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-af80-22352227…