The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

by Nathaniel Whittemore

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 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.
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Open Source AGI

Jan 19, 2024 · 19m

Other revelations from an Instagram reel include that Meta will have around $20B worth of compute by the end of 2024; that Llama 3 is being trained, and that it…

Google's AlphaGeometry Breakthrough

Jan 19, 2024 · 17m

A massive improvement in how AI can reason around geometry plus Samsung releases the AI-est AI phone to AI yet. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps yo…

Altman Says AGI Soon, But Will Change the World Less Than We Think

Jan 17, 2024 · 14m

Sam Altman is among the business and political leaders descending upon Davos for the World Economic Forum. Today NLW looks at a set of comments he made about AG…

60% of US Jobs Could Be Impacted by AI

Jan 16, 2024 · 17m

That's according to new research from the IMF. NLW also covers Elon wanting more control before building advanced AI at Tesla and OpenAI's new election policies…

The Four Wars of the AI Stack: The Battles Shaping the Development of AI

Jan 14, 2024 · 9m

The wars include the Quality Data Wars, the War of the GPU Rich/Poor, the Multimodality War, the RAG/Ops War Inspired by this excellent framework from our frien…

The Things We Know About AI So Far

Jan 13, 2024 · 16m

A reading and exploration of: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/signs-and-portents ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most importan…

The AI Assistant and Agent Battle Heats Up

Jan 13, 2024 · 11m

Note: This episode was produced on Wednesday January 10th, but due to an ice storm never came out! Apologies for the delay. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the char…

What an OpenAI AMA Tells Us About the Future of GPTs and the GPT Store

Jan 12, 2024 · 18m

Plus a new Congressional working group focused on AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI…

The GPT Store is LIVE! (But Does Anyone Care?)

Jan 11, 2024 · 15m

After a couple months of anticipation and more than 3 million user created GPTs, the GPT store has officially gone live. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown…

Duolingo Replaces 10% of Contractors With AI

Jan 10, 2024 · 16m

Plus OpenAI claps back at the New York Times copyright lawsuit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discuss…

Andrej Karpathy Tries to Rebrand AI

Jan 8, 2024 · 19m

Is "Intelligence Amplification" a better term? Plus, Nvidia prepares to manufacture new chips for the China market. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-toppin…

What Roles Should Government Play in AI?

Jan 6, 2024 · 15m

A reading of two essays that explore this question with very different answers. https://www.newsweek.com/why-nationalizing-ai-bad-idea-opinion-1857495 https://w…

5 Predictions for the GPT Store Coming Next Week

Jan 5, 2024 · 18m

OpenAI announced the GPT Store is finally launching next week. NLW gives 5 predictions on how it will play out. Before that on the Brief: rumors of AI-powered S…

AI Researchers Put Risk of Human Extinction from AI at 5%

Jan 4, 2024 · 16m

A new survey asked 2,700+ AI/ML researchers about their fears concerning AI. This is how they responded. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast '…

Is AI Headed for a Trough of Disillusionment?

Jan 3, 2024 · 15m

After the peak of inflated expectations comes the trough of disillusionment. After a dismal outing on the first day of public market trading, some wonder if the…

The State of AI in 2024

Jan 2, 2024 · 19m

NLW breaks down the industry as 2024 begins, from policy to AI safety to the state of the art in technology. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podca…

How AI Will Impact Jobs in 2024

Dec 29, 2023 · 17m

NLW looks across a range of studies, surveys and predictions to try to parse out what the real impact of AI in the workplace might be. Today's Sponsors: Notion…

New York Times Sues OpenAI In What Could Be A Landmark Lawsuit

Dec 28, 2023 · 16m

The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. While it's not the first copyright suit of its type, it's certainly the most significant so far. The case -- w…

Testing Suno.ai: The Viral AI Music Generator

Dec 24, 2023 · 11m

NLW looks at the state of AI music generators and gives the new Suno.ai a test run for the holidays. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn…

8 Predictions for AI in 2024

Dec 23, 2023 · 18m

NLW reviews one set of predictions as a way of discussing what's coming next in AI. Built off of https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/8-predictions-for-ai-in-2024/…