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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DragGAN's Amazing Drag-to-Edit Photo AI Releases Source Code

Jun 27, 2023 · 6m

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive modifications just through dragging has released its source co…

Is AI "Alien Intelligence?" Emerson Spartz on Mental Models for AI

Jun 26, 2023 · 1h 12m

Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12 years old…

What the Head of the New UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce Thinks of AI

Jun 25, 2023 · 17m

Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from…

"AI Will Modify Our Interface For Information" A Conversation with Maven CEO Gagan Biyani

Jun 24, 2023 · 28m

For more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education revolution. Now as the CEO of Maven, he's helping the world f…

Multi-On is What You Wanted AutoGPT to Be - Interview with Founder Div Garg

Jun 23, 2023 · 24m

Today NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the browser to execute complex tasks.   Learn more: https://mul…

AI is the First UI Paradigm Shift in 60 Years

Jun 22, 2023 · 19m

AI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based interaction to intent-based outcome specification. A readin…

Biden Meets AI Safety Experts As White House Promises Decisive Action

Jun 21, 2023 · 12m

President Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "decisive action" on AI in the weeks to come. CNN reports that…

The Faux Outrage Around OpenAI's EU Lobbying

Jun 20, 2023 · 21m

Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW argues that the story is not only not some smoking gun, but is…

GPT Engineer Generates An Entire Codebase Based On A Prompt

Jun 19, 2023 · 16m

GPT-Engineer is the latest AI project to have Github developers going nuts. The project promises to create entire code bases with a single prompt, reigniting ex…

The Most Interesting AI Research This Week

Jun 18, 2023 · 12m

A Research Roundup including: -AssistGPT -LLaMA multimodal adapter -Meta Voicebox -Text-to-Video -LLM agent teaching weaker AIs -AI art QR code generator   The…

A Critique of Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save The World"

Jun 17, 2023 · 24m

Last week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save the World." This week we read Dwarkesh Patel's "Contra Marc Andreessen on AI."   The AI Breakdown…

How Worried About China AI Should We Be?

Jun 16, 2023 · 16m

Senators Mark Warner and Ted Cruz discus China's AI advances while Bill Gates meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping and TikTok parent ByteDance buys $1B in GP…

EU Passes AI Act, But Generative AI Provisions Remain Controversial

Jun 15, 2023 · 17m

The EU has passed its AI Act. The risk-based approach has banned some things (like live facial recognition and biometric scraping), and made a whole slew of oth…

Why OpenAI's API Updates Will Change How We Use ChatGPT

Jun 14, 2023 · 19m

OpenAI has announced a set of API updates including lower prices, a larger 16k context window, and something they're calling function calling. On today's episod…

AI at Work: Is Enterprise AI the Next Big Trend?

Jun 13, 2023 · 15m

Enterprise AI is a major theme for investors and corporations alike. Salesforce just announced their AI Cloud as well as doubling their generative AI venture fu…

New ChatGPT Features Leaked?

Jun 12, 2023 · 17m

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at how the real estate industry is thinking about the impact of generative AI. Before that on the Brief, we cover a leak fr…

Will AI Save The World?

Jun 11, 2023 · 43m

That's the claim in Marc Andreessen's massive new 7000 word missive "Why AI Will Save The World." On this week's Long Reads Sunday, NLW voice clones himself wit…

Creating Worlds From Words: The Most Essential AI News This Week

Jun 10, 2023 · 12m

Today on the Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the most essential AI news stories across new tools, important research, big company announcements, open source updates…

The 5 Most Exciting AI Tools Launched This Week

Jun 9, 2023 · 18m

From text-to-3D avatar to text-to-video to music you create with gestures, these are the most interesting and exciting ai tools that launched or were announced…

Are We In An AI Bubble?

Jun 8, 2023 · 19m

Is AI in bubble territory yet? Ever since Nvidia's massive move up recently, people have been asking this question with renewed vigor. The AI Breakdown helps yo…