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Study: Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback Performs As Well As Human Feedback

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at new research from Google that shows that reinforcement learning using artificial intelligence rather than human feedback could perform as well as RLHF. Before that on the Brief: the first AI pop singer gets a record deal; an AI-produced covid drug moves to phase 1 trials, and more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discu

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The AI Daily Brief

Is OpenAI Secretly Training GPT-5?

Inflection's Mustafa Suleyman indicates that he is skeptical of claims that OpenAI isn't training GPT-5, and points out that even if they're not, others are busy training more advanced models. 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/aib

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The AI Daily Brief

Who Will Create and Capture the Most Value in AI?

An exploration of defensibility, value capture and economic structure in artificial intelligence. With excerpts from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-has-finally-become-transformative-humans-scale-language-model-6a67e641 https://a16z.com/2023/08/03/the-economic-case-for-generative-ai-and-foundation-models/ https://a16z.com/2023/01/19/who-owns-the-generative-ai-platform/ https://a16z.com/2023/08/11/cloud-lessons-for-the-ai-era/ https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/financial-opportunity-of-ai/ ABOUT THE AI

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The AI Daily Brief

Should AI Make Us Want A National Privacy Law?

NLW explores questions of privacy prompted by the essay "Want Protection from AI? The First Step is a National Privacy Law" by Congresswoman Suzan DelBene. 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

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The AI Daily Brief

Are Educators Ready for a ChatGPT School Year?

As September and the Fall begins, NLW checks in on the conversation about ChatGPT among educators as they prepare to begin the first year where that technology will be available from day one. Before that on the Brief: Mustafa Suleyman says the US should use AI chip access to impose AI ethics on the world. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Su

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The AI Daily Brief

The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence

On today's episode, NLW looks at news that the US has pushed Nvidia and AMD to stop AI chip exports to certain Middle Eastern countries as part of their attempt to deny China access to compute. Before that on the Brief: can AI save Silicon Valley from the post-ZIRP era? Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newslett

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The AI Daily Brief

OpenAI Is Now On A Billion Dollar Revenue Pace

On the Brief, NLW looks at new reports that OpenAI is clearing $80,000,000 a month, even before the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise. Also on the Brief Snapchat Dreams is live; an AI-powered defense system around D.C. and more. On the main episode, NLW looks at all the announcements from Google Cloud Next including Vertex AI, Duet AI and an updated partnership with Nvidia. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI

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The AI Daily Brief

ChatGPT Enterprise Is Here - How It Shapes the AI Competitive Landscape

OpenAI yesterday announced the much anticipated ChatGPT Enterprise. The service comes with the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet, according to the company. NLW explores the announcement and what it says about the state of the competitive landscape in AI. Before that on the Brief: tech CEOs to head to Washington D.C. next month for a Senate meeting; and Pew shows Americans are concerned about AI. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BR

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The AI Daily Brief

Was Elon's Tesla FSD Demo the ChatGPT Moment For Self-Driving Cars?

On Friday, Elon Musk did a live video on X to show off Tesla's Full Self Driving v12. The interesting thing about it is that it is fully controlled by AI. Some have heralded it as a seminal moment and seachange in how software is developed. Before that on the Brief: Wall Street remains very hyped about AI and some interesting survey results on how consumers and small businesses see the technology. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussio

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The AI Daily Brief

How Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious?

Exploring a new paper attempting to begin creating a systematic approach to answering that question. Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708 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.netw

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The AI Daily Brief

The Peril and Potential of AutoGPT

Reading excerpts from Zvi Moshowitz' "On AutoGPT" from his blog/newsletter "Don't Worry About the Vase." https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/on-autogpt/ 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://breakdow

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The AI Daily Brief

Code Llama Kicks LLM for Code Battle Into Overdrive

Meta has released LLM-for-coding Code Llama in numerous versions. NLW explores the community discussion, including some interesting data around an unreleased version trained on synthetic data that seemed to perform better than any other. Before that on the Brief, Spain starts an AI agency; the UK announces more details of its AI Safety Summit and new AI models out of South Korea and China. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN T

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