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The Surprising Way AI Will Make Us Value "Soft Skills"

A reading and discussion of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opinion/ai-economy-jobs-colleges.html ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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OpenAI's Stunning New Video Model SORA Shocks the AI World

Welp, they've done it again. On a day when it was supposed to be all about Google's million+ token lengths in Gemini 1.5, OpenAI completely stole their thunder with the announcement of Sora, easily the most advanced text-to-video generation model we've seen. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: http

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Google Launches Gemini 1.5 with ONE MILLION Token Context Window

Google surprises everyone with a massive context window on their new Gemini 1.5 model. Speaking of huge context windows, Magic.dev raises $100M+ for a model that apparently can handle multiple million token context windows. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

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Karpathy Leaves OpenAI as OpenAI Launches Memory for ChatGPT

OpenAI makes headlines with Andrej Karpathy's departure and the launch of a groundbreaking memory feature for ChatGPT. This video delves into the implications for OpenAI's direction and the evolving landscape of AI research. Before that on the Brief, Nvidia launches a chatbot that runs on your PC. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscr

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OpenAI Hits $2B Revenue Run Rate

OpenAI is growing even faster than we knew, according to new numbers shared with the Financial Times. Also on this episode, NLW covers the White House exploring cryptographic proof to verify official statements. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the co

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Nvidia Surges Past Amazon's Market Cap and is Creeping on Google

AI hype continues to drive results in the market. Also on this episode, Google is investing $25m into AI worker training in Europe. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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Is Ukraine the First "AI War"?

Ukraine has become a testing lab for advanced AI integrations into combat operations. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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Why the Impact of AI Will Be Even Weirder Than We Think

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-holding-back-the-strange-ai-tide ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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Sam Altman Wants to Raise $5-$7 TRILLION for AI Chip Plants

WSJ writes about an incredibly ambitious plan to transform the landscape for compute. Additionally, the White House has started an AI Safety Consortium. Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTu

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OpenAI Building AI Agents as Google Launches Gemini Advanced

Bard is no more! Bard has become Gemini and Gemini now features Gemini Advanced, which uses Gemini Ultra 1.0 -- the first non OpenAI model to hit GPT-4 levels. Reports also suggest that OpenAI's next big play is AI agents. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

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AI is Personal: On Microsoft's Copilot Super Bowl Ad

Microsoft has released a 60-second Super Bowl commercial focused on their AI Copilot. NLW explores how much it says about the way the company is thinking about AI (and how central it is to Microsoft's future). Also on the show: can Nvidia use AI to speed up its chip design process? ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Br

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AI Unlocks Ancient Greek Scrolls Destroyed by Mt Vesuvius

The Vesuvius Challenge is a $1m prize to use AI to decipher text seemingly lost on ancient Greek papyri in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Pompei. NLW covers the amazing results. Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sub

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