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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Midjourney vs. DALL-E-3: Can Midjourney's New Website Compete with ChatGPT Integration?

Oct 25, 2023 · 22m

Midjourney has made a number of moves recently after DALL-E-3 was integrated into ChatGPT. Those include a new upscaler, a website (finally!) and even a first a…

LEAKED: First Look at Gemini Multimodal?

Oct 24, 2023 · 18m

A Medium user has posted a set of screenshots that purport to show Google's forthcoming Gemini model in their recently opened Makersuite AI builder tool. NLW ex…

Can We Have AI Progress and AI Safety at the Same Time?

Oct 23, 2023 · 23m

NLW explores a new policy proposal from some extremely notable AI leaders around how we can continue to advance the beneficial development of AI while also pres…

The AI Competitive Landscape One Year After ChatGPT

Oct 22, 2023 · 15m

NLW looks at where companies fit in the competitive matrix of artificial intelligence - from OpenAI to Anthropic to the big techs in Meta, Google, Amazon and Mi…

AI Leaders Call for International Panel on AI Safety

Oct 21, 2023 · 15m

In this weekend's long read, two very different takes on the future than those we heard about in the Techno Optimist Manifesto earlier this week. First, a direc…

OpenAI Quietly Abandoned Arrakis Model Earlier This Year

Oct 20, 2023 · 18m

In a rare miss, OpenAI had to shutter their Arrakis model earlier this year. They had hoped that the model would bring GPT-4 level performance with lower cost a…

Which AI Model is the Most Transparent?

Oct 19, 2023 · 19m

A group of researchers from Stanford, MIT and Princeton have come up with a new system for determining which AI foundation models are the most transparent. Watc…

China-US AI Tensions and AI Safety Summit Controversy

Oct 18, 2023 · 18m

The US has once again tightened restrictions on chip exports and other AI engagements with China. NLW explores the potential consequences, as well as drama arou…

AI Agents Coming to OpenAI Dev Event?

Oct 17, 2023 · 15m

NLW digs into rumors and reports around what we can expect from the OpenAI developer event coming in November, including reports that the company will introduce…

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

Oct 16, 2023 · 31m

Marc Andreessen has just published The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. NLW reads the piece and provides context on why it matters for the AI discourse. Read: https:/…

The 7 Use Case Categories of ChatGPT-4 Vision

Oct 15, 2023 · 12m

ChatGPT-4 Vision is one of the biggest AI product updates of the last few months and people are still just exploring all the ways it can be used. NLW explores a…

Can AI Detect AI? And Other Frequently Asked Questions

Oct 14, 2023 · 16m

NLW excerpts Professor Ethan Mollick's recent essay "What people ask me most." https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-people-ask-me-most-also-some Today's Sponso…

The US Wants To Block China's Access to Advanced AI Models

Oct 13, 2023 · 15m

The US-China AI battle heats up as the Biden Administration looks into ways to deny China access to key advanced AI models. Before that on the Brief: an excitin…

The State of AI Report: Research, Industry, Politics and Safety

Oct 12, 2023 · 22m

On today's episode, NLW reviews Air Street's epic 6th annual State of AI report - https://www.stateof.ai/ Before that on the Brief, Character AI launches group…

AI Chip Wars: Tesla Building "Bunkerlike" Home for Dojo Supercomputer

Oct 11, 2023 · 14m

Tesla is building a massive facility for their Dojo supercomputer. NLW explores how it could impact what they do in AI. Before that on the Brief: Adobe releases…

The Latest AutoGPT and AI Agent Developments

Oct 10, 2023 · 19m

AutoGPT held a hackathon last weekend and is in the midst of a global virtual hackathon. Also the latest from MultiOn and SuperAGI. Before that on the Brief; Mi…

AI Operations and AI Engineer: The New Careers AI Is Creating

Oct 9, 2023 · 13m

On today's episode, NLW explores the ways AI is changing people's career paths. In particular, he examines two entirely new roles -- the AI Engineer and AI Oper…

What's Next in Phase Two of Generative AI?

Oct 8, 2023 · 11m

In today's episode, NLW picks up where yesterday leaves off with a discussion of what's coming down the piepleine in generative AI, and why the integration of p…

The End of the First Phase of Generative AI

Oct 7, 2023 · 14m

A reading and exploration of Prof. Ethan Mollick's The shape of the shadow of The Thing https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-the-shadow-of-the-thing Th…

The Epik AI Yearbook Trend Taking Over Social Media

Oct 6, 2023 · 18m

Epik's AI Yearbook photos are everywhere you look. In this video, NLW explores why AI avatar apps keep going viral. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI is consider…