The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Episodes 1115 total
The Peril and Potential of AutoGPT
Reading excerpts from Zvi Moshowitz' "On AutoGPT" from his blog/newsletter "Don't Worry About the Vase." https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/on-autogpt/ ABO…
Code Llama Kicks LLM for Code Battle Into Overdrive
Meta has released LLM-for-coding Code Llama in numerous versions. NLW explores the community discussion, including some interesting data around an unreleased ve…
Was Nvidia's Earnings Call A '1995 Internet Moment'?
One Wall Street analyst thinks that Nvidia's earnings will be seen in the future as a 1995 Internet Moment. Before that on the Brief: The New York Times profile…
How Big A Deal Is GPT-3.5 Fine-Tuning From OpenAI?
OpenAI has released finetuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo. It's expensive, and for some comes with privacy concerns, but also opens up many new applications. Before that…
The Future of AI Music: YouTube and Universal Partner
Universal and YouTube are partnering on an AI music incubator and other approaches to AI music that try to open up creativity while protecting existing copyrigh…
Should the US Nationalize the Artificial Intelligence Industry?
That's the argument of one Politico columnist. NLW examines the argument in depth. Before that on the Brief: A district court judge has said that AI art can't b…
Could Google's Gemini Be A ChatGPT Killer?
AI Twitter is buzzing with cryptic posts about how the LLM world is set to change in the next few months. On today's episode, NLW looks at everything we know ab…
Could AI End Up Being Good for Democracy?
The standard discourse around AI and politics is one of fear. Deepfakes. Election tampering. Misinformation. Yet the two pieces NLW reads today suggest a differ…
Meta to Launch Open Source Coding AI as Latest Assault on OpenAI
Meta is launching a new open source AI specifically for code generation which could undercut paid tools like Microsoft GitHub Copilot (powered by OpenAI's Codex…
Snapchat Users Freaked Out as My AI Goes Rogue
Users were not stoked when Snapchat's My AI chatbot posted a story yesterday -- something it wasn't supposed to be able to do. Before that on the Brief: the AI…
Why AI Hype Has Peaked (And Why That's A Good Thing)
In today's episode, NLW explores the factors that have driven AI past its peak of hype, and what's actually going on behind the scenes. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN T…
AGI By 2032? The Most Interesting AI Predictions
On today's episode, NLW looks at Metaculus prediction markets around various AI events. Before that on the Brief: Gulf states race to acquire compute; Iowa scho…
How The AI Backlash Killed This Literary Startup
Prosecraft is the first casualty of the AI backlash. Was it justified, or simply inevitable? Before that on the Brief: Amazon announces generative AI summaries…
As WormGPT Goes White Hat, Evil-GPT Emerges
WormGPT was initially advertised as an LLM for doing bad things. According to a recent interview with founders, however, they're trying to push it for more abov…
AI and the Turning Point Moment in Human History
A reading of and discussion around Tyler Cowen's "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history." ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps…
The Alignment Problem: How To Tell If An LLM Is Trustworthy
New research attempts to put together a complete taxonomy for trustworthiness in LLMs. Before that on the Brief: The FEC is considering new election rules aroun…
76% of Americans Think AI Might Kill Us
A new survey from the AI Policy Institute shows that Americans are extremely concerns about AI and support regulation to slow it down. Before that on The Brief…
The LLM for Coding Competition Heats Up!
On the Brief: Stability AI releases StableCode as Google opens the waitlist for its in-browser AI-powered coding environment; Google is in talks with major reco…
GPTBot AI Data Controversy and the Remaining Challenges of LLMs
NLW reviews a recent research paper which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of LLM development and organizes remaining challenges and problems to b…
Apple Reveals It Spent Billions on AI R&D
During last week's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple anticipated putting generative AI into every product, and intimated that they had spent bil…