The AI Breakdown: Daily Artificial Intelligence News and Discussions
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, ChatGPT and AutoGPT 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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December 2, 2023 • 13 mins
NLW reads excerpts from a set of pieces opining about AI after OpenAI's leadership battle and on the one year anniversary of ChatGPT.
Excerpts from:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-29/openai-sam-altman-firing-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to-continue-innovating-openai-should-return-to-its-nonprofit-roots
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/23/opinion/sam-altman-openai.html
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December 1, 2023 • 18 mins
Deepmind's GNoME AI has 10x'd the number of known stable materials, and more than 736 of them have already been successfully created in the lab. Plus Amazon's new Titan image generation model and Microsoft sets up in the UK.
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November 30, 2023 • 16 mins
Happy Birthday ChatGPT! The incredibly influential software was launched on November 30, 2022. Five days later it had a million users. Five weeks after that, 100 million. The rest, as they say, is history -- a history that NLW explores.
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November 29, 2023 • 18 mins
We didn't get Amazon's rumored "Olympus" model, but we did get an enterprise focused chatbot called Q. NLW explores whether it's a disappointment that continues to show how behind OpenAI the big tech co's are, or whether it actually exemplifies a broader AI trend of workflow integration. Also: is Stability AI facing financial pressure?
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November 28, 2023 • 21 mins
Pika Labs officially launched 1.0 and many think it might be representative of a coming breakout moment for text-to-video generation. Plus a look at the complicated geopolitical tension around AI between the US, China and the United Arab Emirates.
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November 27, 2023 • 23 mins
More information came out late last week about a model that showed signs of more advanced reasoning called Q*, leading to additional speculation that this was part of the reason for Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI. Also on this episode, Inflection claims their latest model is the second most powerful LLM.
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November 26, 2023 • 13 mins
An exploration of one of the hottest topics in AI.
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November 25, 2023 • 14 mins
A reading of "Why self-regulation is best for artificial intelligence" https://thehill.com/opinion/4300288-why-self-regulation-is-best-for-artificial-intelligence/
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"Underregulating tech is a relic of the 90s. AI is an urgent call for change." https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4304297-underregulating-tech-is-a-relic-of-the-90s-ai-is-an-alarm-for-urgent-change/
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November 24, 2023 • 12 mins
As the dust settles, NLW looks at who has benefitted and who has lost out after Sam Altman's removal and reinstatement. Spoiler alert: no one comes out better.
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November 23, 2023 • 8 mins
The company claims the video generator out performs Pika and Runway. Note: this is the Brief that was supposed to come out Wednesday which got bumped for OpenAI news.
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November 22, 2023 • 18 mins
After 5 days of tense negotiations, Sam Altman has returned as CEO of OpenAI, bringing Greg Brockman with him. That doesn't mean nothing has changed however. Join NLW for an exploration of the latest on what caused the rift and where the company goes from here.
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November 21, 2023 • 17 mins
Apparently in addition to asking half of Silicon Valley to be the new CEO, over the weekend the OpenAI Board asked Dario Amodei to take over and bring Anthropic with him in a merger. On the Brief: Meta disbands responsible AI team.
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November 20, 2023 • 17 mins
WTAF is going on? First the board announced former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as new CEO. Then Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were running a new division in Redmond. Then employees started rebelling with a letter demanding the board's resignation.
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November 19, 2023 • 16 mins
Act 3 of the Dumbest Palace Coup Ever, as employees and investors revolt and the board appears forced to capitulate.
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November 18, 2023 • 19 mins
Backstabbing. Ambition. Betrayal. After Sam Altman was fired and Greg Brockman quit, NLW digs in to what we've learned so far.
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November 17, 2023 • 18 mins
OpenAI has announced that Sam Altman has been removed over failures of communication with the board. NLW gets into speculation about what it all means.
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November 17, 2023 • 24 mins
The Information reports that much-anticipated Gemini has been officially delayed. NLW explores interpretations for why Google has struggled to keep pace with OpenAI and other AI competitors.
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November 16, 2023 • 19 mins
Microsoft confirms long speculated Project Athena with the announcement of its first custom chips for AI including the Maia and Cobalt. They also announce a new LLM and a rebrand of Bing Chat to Copilot. Also on this episode, new AI legislation and an AI discussion between Biden and Xi.
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November 15, 2023 • 23 mins
OpenAI has a 6-person committee that will decide when AGI is achieved, with major implications for their relationship with Microsoft. NLW also explores the battle between signers of a "Responsible AI" declaration and the rest of Silicon Valley.
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November 14, 2023 • 19 mins
On today's episode, NLW looks at new research about LLM hallucination; Google suing AI scammers; and China and the US working towards an agreement not to use AI in nuclear device control systems.
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