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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Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and the Future of Humanity

May 18, 2023 · 19m

Find the complete presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiM-LuRe6w&t=2005s 0:00 Intro 0:30 The 3 levels of the AI discussion 2:08 Yuval starts - w…

The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far

May 17, 2023 · 20m

From Youtube video summarizers to Spotify playlist generators to tools to chat with your PDFs, some of the most interesting and useful ChatGPT plugins as they g…

7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing

May 16, 2023 · 15m

From a surprising lack of skepticism to clear echoes of social media regulatory failures, NLW covers everything that happened in the first Senate AI hearing in…

Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?

May 15, 2023 · 21m

NLW tests ChatGPT and the newly updated and opened Bard across 5 categories including creative, travel planning, research, business and more. On the Brief he co…

Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?

May 14, 2023 · 15m

This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast. It features Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov.  The AI Break…

The Most Important AI News From A Week Where We Glimpsed The Future

May 13, 2023 · 12m

On this week's Weekly Recap: OpenAI Shap-E text-to-3D Anthropic 100k context window Meta ImageBind multimodal HuggingFace Transformers Agents  Google I/O announ…

"How I Went from Non-Technical to Building an Andrew Tate LLM Chatbot in 3 Months"

May 12, 2023 · 20m

Today in the first of a series on AI learning journeys, NLW is joined by Emmet Halm. At the beginning of 2023, Emmet was not a developer. A couple weeks ago, he…

The Top 5 AI Announcements from Google I/O

May 11, 2023 · 13m

Google tries to reclaim a leadership position in generative AI  Honorable Mention - Adobe Firefly partnership  5. "AI Everywhere" - Med-PaLM 2, MusicLM 4. PaLM…

What Comes After ChatGPT? A Preview of the Future of LLMs

May 10, 2023 · 19m

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW describes three bits of news from this week that together help us get a preview of the future of large language models, including…

How to Get AutoGPT on Your Phone (And What People Are Actually Finding it Useful For)

May 9, 2023 · 18m

A check-in on AutoGPT as well as the headline news: Updates from the US copyright office Pitchbook VC enthusiasm for AI Palantir stock price pops after AI annou…

Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Invention of the Atom Bomb

May 8, 2023 · 17m

On today's episode, we discuss Warren Buffett's recent comments on AI as well as cover a primer of the geopolitics of AI. On the headline news brief, we cover u…

AI Just Quietly Had One of It's Most Important Weeks in Recent History

May 6, 2023 · 13m

NLW argues Geoffrey Hinton's defection from Google and his progress mainstreaming the AI safety conversation makes this week one of huge, if subtle, significanc…

Google Losing to Open Source AI? "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

May 5, 2023 · 17m

This week, a Google researcher had a note leaked that argued that Google (and OpenAI) were going to lose AI to the open source community. In this episode, NLW e…

6 Ways ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Already Being Used

May 4, 2023 · 12m

Code Interpreter is a new plugin for ChatGPT that is allowing for amazing data analysis and visualization. In today's episode, NLW looks at 6 early use cases, r…

The First Anti-AI Strike: The Writers Guild of America Protests AI Writing

May 3, 2023 · 12m

The Writers Guild of America is striking after not being able to come to an agreement with TV and film executives. At the heart of the matter is the use of AI…

Mind-Reading AI? Scientists Use GPT-Like AI to Accurately Translate Thoughts into Text

May 2, 2023 · 16m

Our main discussion is focused on new research out of the University of Texas Austin on GPT-like AI that, after being trained on a particular person's brain, ca…

Text-to-Image AI That Can Actually Spell!? Meet DeepFloyd IF

May 1, 2023 · 11m

If you've ever used Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion or another text-to-image generator, you'll know that words are a weakness. Text (such as on signs) tend…

Raoul Pal: AI is the Most Disinflationary Force in Our Lifetimes

May 1, 2023 · 37m

On this episode of The AI Breakdown, NLW is joined by Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal to discuss AI as a disinflationary force, how big companies are reacting to AI…

Real Life "Her"? A Chat with AI Avatar Call Annie About AI Alignment and More

Apr 29, 2023 · 10m

On Wednesday night I had a "FaceTime" with Call Annie. It's a new app that matches AI language models with an AI avatar to have a more human conversation. The c…

The Most Important AI News This Week: ChatGPT Browse, Apple Quartz, GPT Robot Dogs

Apr 28, 2023 · 12m

Discussed on the show: ChatGPT Privacy - https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1650961357913616402 ChatGPT Browse - https://twitter.com/zacknotes/status/165136002…