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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SCOOP: Google Testing Gemini With Partners -- Launch Soon?

Sep 15, 2023 · 19m

The Information has another Google AI scoop with reports that Google has pushed Gemini to testing with a number of external partners, suggesting that launch is…

$550B In Net Worth Met In D.C. To Talk AI: Did Anything Get Done?

Sep 14, 2023 · 21m

Senator Chuck Schumer hosted an AI Summit with the CEOs of most of the world's biggest tech companies. NLW explores what went on, and why big challenges remain…

Apple's AI Strategy Revealed?

Sep 13, 2023 · 18m

At the iPhone/Apple Watch event yesterday we learned about Apple's new, more powerful chip and neural engine. NLW argues that the chip has lots to tell us about…

Open Interpreter: How People Are Using Github's Hottest AI Project

Sep 12, 2023 · 15m

Open Interpreter is a local, private version of GPT4 Code Interpreter. It was released last week and quickly became the most active project on Github. NLW explo…

Meta is Working on a ChatGPT Killer

Sep 11, 2023 · 19m

Today NLW looks at a WSJ report that Meta is pushing for a GPT-4 powered Llama 4 to be released open source; a study that shows that ChatGPT is more creative th…

How Elon Musk Became Consumed with AI Safety

Sep 10, 2023 · 11m

A new TIME Magazine cover story excerpts Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk to tell the story of how he started paying attention to AI safety issues and h…

Don't Believe the Lull: AI Is Screaming Forward

Sep 9, 2023 · 11m

An exploration of an essay from Tyler Cowen "The AI Hype Has Subsided But The Revolution Continues" including looks at how AI is upending the military and labor…

AI's 100 Most Influential (According to TIME)

Sep 9, 2023 · 18m

Today NLW looks at TIME's first ever list of the 100 most influential people in AI, including some of the most notable snubs. Before that on the Brief, two sena…

Apple Spending Millions Each Day Training AI

Sep 7, 2023 · 18m

According to new reporting from The Information, Apple is spending millions each day training AI. That said, its still not clear what they're actually planning…

An Open GPT-4 Level Model? Meet Falcon 180B

Sep 6, 2023 · 19m

Falcon 180B is a new open access foundation model that reportedly performs between GPT3.5 and GPT-4 level. NLW looks at the release and explores the implication…

Study: Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback Performs As Well As Human Feedback

Sep 5, 2023 · 15m

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at new research from Google that shows that reinforcement learning using artificial intelligence rather than human feedback…

Is OpenAI Secretly Training GPT-5?

Sep 4, 2023 · 10m

Inflection's Mustafa Suleyman indicates that he is skeptical of claims that OpenAI isn't training GPT-5, and points out that even if they're not, others are bus…

Who Will Create and Capture the Most Value in AI?

Sep 3, 2023 · 18m

An exploration of defensibility, value capture and economic structure in artificial intelligence. With excerpts from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-has-finall…

Should AI Make Us Want A National Privacy Law?

Sep 2, 2023 · 9m

NLW explores questions of privacy prompted by the essay "Want Protection from AI? The First Step is a National Privacy Law" by Congresswoman Suzan DelBene. ABOU…

Are Educators Ready for a ChatGPT School Year?

Sep 1, 2023 · 20m

As September and the Fall begins, NLW checks in on the conversation about ChatGPT among educators as they prepare to begin the first year where that technology…

The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence

Aug 31, 2023 · 21m

On today's episode, NLW looks at news that the US has pushed Nvidia and AMD to stop AI chip exports to certain Middle Eastern countries as part of their attempt…

OpenAI Is Now On A Billion Dollar Revenue Pace

Aug 30, 2023 · 18m

On the Brief, NLW looks at new reports that OpenAI is clearing $80,000,000 a month, even before the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise. Also on the Brief Snapchat Dre…

ChatGPT Enterprise Is Here - How It Shapes the AI Competitive Landscape

Aug 29, 2023 · 22m

OpenAI yesterday announced the much anticipated ChatGPT Enterprise. The service comes with the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet, according to the company. N…

Was Elon's Tesla FSD Demo the ChatGPT Moment For Self-Driving Cars?

Aug 28, 2023 · 18m

On Friday, Elon Musk did a live video on X to show off Tesla's Full Self Driving v12. The interesting thing about it is that it is fully controlled by AI. Some…

How Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious?

Aug 27, 2023 · 8m

Exploring a new paper attempting to begin creating a systematic approach to answering that question. Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708 ABOUT THE…