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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AI's Integration Phase: Canva Launches Slate of AI Features

Oct 5, 2023 · 17m

AI is moving to a phase of integration where companies are figuring out how to bring AI tools into existing user workflows. Case in point, today NLW discusses G…

Anthropic Raising at a $20B-$30B Valuation

Oct 4, 2023 · 18m

Just a couple weeks after announcing their big Amazon deal, Anthropic is out fundraising again with a $2B round that is reported to have Google's involvement an…

The AI Wearable Wars

Oct 3, 2023 · 20m

Tab and Rewind Pendant both announced AI wearables this week, while Humane premiered on a fashion runway. In this episode, NLW looks at the emerging wearable wa…

Mobile LLMs? The Battle to Get AI on Our Phones

Oct 2, 2023 · 18m

Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the forthcoming battle to get local LLMs on our mobile devices. B…

Warriors, Doomsayers, Reformers: Understanding the Factions in AI

Oct 1, 2023 · 12m

NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artificial intelligence. He reads excerpts from "The A.I. Wars Ha…

Are Copyright Battles Against AI Destined to Fail?

Sep 30, 2023 · 16m

NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being taken by some authors, publishers, and policymakers may not…

ChatGPT Vision: 8 Ways People Are Using It Already

Sep 30, 2023 · 20m

ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are showing off some amazing use cases. Before that on the Brief: h…

The 5 Most Important AI Announcements from Meta Connect

Sep 28, 2023 · 22m

Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta suite of apps including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. NL…

OpenAI Raising at $90B and Trolls Everyone, Saying AGI Has Been Achieved

Sep 27, 2023 · 19m

OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90b valuation; discussing an AI hardware device with iPod desi…

Automated AI Translations Come to Spotify, Undermining Numerous AI Startups

Sep 26, 2023 · 19m

Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation for podcasts. NLW explores the news, as well as what it says…

ChatGPT Can Now See and Hear

Sep 25, 2023 · 17m

The race towards multimodal LLMs is heating up! With rumors of a big impending launch of Google Gemini, OpenAI is racing to push out their multimodal features…

Americans Are Getting Less Trustful of Artificial Intelligence

Sep 24, 2023 · 9m

On today's episode, NLW looks at a set of recent survey results surrounding attitudes towards AI. They range from broad based surveys of the general American pu…

6 Months After the "6-Month Pause" Letter, Has the AI Safety Conversation Changed?

Sep 23, 2023 · 10m

Six months ago, a group of scientists and other leaders signed a letter asking for a six month pause in the development of advanced AI. Now, six months after th…

Is This The First AI-Powered Operating System?

Sep 22, 2023 · 19m

Microsoft announced that the complete Windows 11 operating system was going to have access to their Copilot AI assistant. Before that on the Brief, YouTube laun…

5 Reasons DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT is a Huge Deal

Sep 21, 2023 · 20m

OpenAI has announced that DALL-E 3 image generation is coming natively to ChatGPT. NLW explores 5 reasons the announcement is a huge deal, including how it repr…

Will Intel's New Chip Usher in the 'Age of the AI PC'?

Sep 20, 2023 · 13m

Intel has announced a new AI focused chip that they say will allow generative AI applications to run directly on device without being connected to the internet…

Google Bard Gets Major Update While OpenAI Races to Multimodal

Sep 19, 2023 · 18m

Google Bard announced a big update including a deep integration with Google Workspace apps. At the same time, The Information reports that OpenAI is racing to b…

Knowledge Workers Produce 40% Better Results When Using AI - Study

Sep 18, 2023 · 18m

A new study undertaken by Boston Consulting Group and prominent AI researchers shows that consultants who used generative AI did more work, more quickly, and be…

GPT-4 More Creative Than the Average Person According to Recent Study

Sep 17, 2023 · 12m

On this research recap, NLW looks at AI creativity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40858-3 BrainLM https://t.co/MUobqXULfb RETFound retinal model htt…

Should OpenAI Have Been A Government Program?

Sep 16, 2023 · 12m

That's what Sam Altman argued, but the state of America's civic life brings up many questions of whether the government is actually up to the challenge that AI…