The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
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AI Bubble? Layoffs Hit AI Companies
Jasper and Mutiny have both laid off part of their teams in recent weeks, leading some to question whether it's another example of the AI bubble deflating after…
Bard vs. Bing vs. Claude vs. ChatGPT: The Right LLM For Every Task
LLM competition ratchets up seemingly every week. At this point, the different design choices that models have made have led to different LLMs being better or w…
Bill Gates on Why Humans Can Handle AI Risks
Bill Gates has penned another letter about AI, this time arguing that humans are more prepared than we might think for the challenges it brings. Read the full p…
OpenAI Investigated by FTC for ChatGPT Harms
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused consumer harms in terms of data collection and safety practices as well a…
Elon Musk Announces xAI: Here's Everything We Know So Far
Elon Musk is launching xAI, a new AI company to explore the big questions of the universe. NLW looks at how he's thinking about it differently than some other p…
ChatGPT's First True Competitor? Anthropic Releases Claude 2
Anthropic has released Claude 2. The model preforms comparably to GPT-4 but offers a 100k context window for 4-5x cheaper. NLW does a roundup of the AI communit…
Why Google Is Intentionally Limiting the Power of Bard AI
Google CEO Sunday Pichai told 60 Minutes that the company is purposefully limiting the power and capabilities of their Bard AI model to ensure society has time…
5 Ways AI Could Improve Humanity
Today NLW reads the companion piece to yesterday's episode -- 5 Ways AI Could Improve the World https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/ai-artificial…
5 Ways AI Could Destroy Humanity
A reading of "Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul…
Forget Alignment, Here's Why Every AI Needs an Individual "Soul"
A reading of David Brin's "Give Every AI a Soul - or Else" https://www.wired.com/story/give-every-ai-a-soul-or-else/ ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown hel…
ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Finally Coming Next Week!
After months of waiting, ChatGPT Code Interpreter plugin is coming to all ChatGPT plus users next week. NLW breaks down why people are so excited, and also shar…
OpenAI Sets Moonshot Goal of AI Superalignment in 4 Years
Yesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintelligent AI with human intent and values. The company is dedicati…
Will AI Replace All Coders Within 5 Years?
Stability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque has predicted that there will be no human coders within 5 years. On today's episode, NLW explores this prediction in terms of w…
Will AI Increase Freedom or Help Authoritarians?
AI could be a tool for the promotion of freedom, or it could aid in surveillance, control, and an expansion of authoritarianism. Which is more likely? NLW explo…
The AI Data Wars: Why Elon Musk's Rate Limits Are About More Than Twitter
The AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scraping. The move follows big changes to the Reddit API that som…
Translating Brainwaves to Images and Other Cutting Edge AI Research
Today on The AI Breakdown, a research recap of the most interesting recent AI research, including: DreamDiffusion translating EEG to images - https://huggingfac…
60 Possible AGI Futures
The debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of scenarios for if and how humans develop AGI and what happen…
Inflection Raises Monster $1.3 Billion Round to Build One of World's Biggest AI Clusters
Inflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest GPU clusters. OpenAI sets up shop in London, updates their m…
The AI Arms Race Heats Up: US Considers Blocking AI Chip Exports
The Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claims their next model…
AI M&A: Billion Dollar Acquisitions Reshape AI Landscape
Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B Ramp acquires Cohere.io Thompson Reuters acquires legal AI firm CaseText for $650M Verge…