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An AI Drone Killed Its Operator In A USAF Simulation -- Except That's Not Actually What Happened

A bogus story about an AI simulation gone wrong made headlines around the world, until the progentior of the story said it was actually just a thought experiment. Oops. On the Brief, a look at Neuralangelo, a new NeRF/Photogrammetry type technology making 3D geometry from 2D videos. Check out The Cognitive Revolution The perfect AI interview complement to The AI Breakdown https://link.chtbl.com/TheCognitiveRevolution The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions i

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The AI Daily Brief

Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math and AI Alignment At the Same Time?

A look at the latest developments from OpenAI, including new features, a cybersecurity grant program, and their new process rewards model for trading. Before that on the Brief, Japan declines to enforce copyright around AI model training, Australia asks citizens if it should ban AI, and an AI camera without a lens. 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 t

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Are ChatGPT Plugins Overhyped?

ChatGPT Plugins are one of the most hyped things in AI -- but are they overhyped? In this episode, NLW explores how the default interfaces of the internet have changed over time, the issues with the current implementations of ChatGPT Plugins, and what it means for the future. Check out The Cognitive Revolution The perfect AI interview complement to The AI Breakdown https://link.chtbl.com/TheCognitiveRevolution The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. S

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The AI Daily Brief

Nvidia Is Building an AI Supercomputer and Gaming Platform

Nvidia made a huge number of AI related announcements at Computex, including new chips, a new AI supercomputer, a partnership with the world's biggest advertising agency WPP, and a new AI gaming platform. 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 Le

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AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Actually Be?

A reading of Max Tegmark's essay "The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI" 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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The AI Daily Brief

The 5 Biggest AI News Stories This Week

AI news this week - here are the 5 most important stories! AI regulation and safety - OpenAI, Microsoft and more AI helps discover antibiotic for superbug Adobe generative fill Microsoft Windows Copilot ChatGPT Browse with Bing for all users 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

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The AI Daily Brief

The 9 AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day As A Content Creator

Lists of 1000s of AI tools abound, but here are the 9 I actually use every day (with a watchlist with 3 more I'm experimenting with). The list includes: 1. Feedly 2. ChatGPT 3. Perplexity 4. Descript 5. Midjourney 6. Photoshop 7. Deepfloyd 8. Canva 9. TubeBuddy 10. Vidyo.ai (watchlist) 11. Wondercraft (watchlist) 12. Elevenlabs (watchlist) The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.

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The AI Daily Brief

NVIDIA Sets Off An AI Stock Frenzy While Elon Warns of the Terminator Scenario

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW reviews comments from Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt at yesterday's WSJ CEO Council Summit about AI risk. He also covers EU and UK AI regulatory efforts. On the Brief, how AI is coming to YouTube shorts, plus NVIDIA sets off an AI stock frenzy. 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.yo

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The AI Daily Brief

Mind-Reading AI Generates Videos from Brainwaves

Researchers have developed a new method called Mind-Video for generating semantically accurate video from fMRI scans. Additionally, on todays Brief, NLW covers: The most important announcements from Microsoft Build (including AI coming to Windows 11 and ChatGPT + Bing) Google Bard images Anthropic $450m Series C Naval Ravikant's Airchat The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com

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The AI Daily Brief

This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than ChatGPT's Dataset

On today's episode, NLW looks at global regulatory proposals from OpenAI and Google, as well as a number of topics on the brief, including: Intel's Aurora is a 1 TRILLION parameter model Meta's new multilanguage model can recognize 4000 languages Bill Gates talks about AI CoDI multimodal 1X robot EVE 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 Breakd

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The AI Daily Brief

Can ChatGPT Outperform Wall Street?

Last month, a University of Florida study showed ChatGPT with 500% returns using news and sentiment analysis. A recent Finder.com study also showed ChatGPT stock picks outperforming the market. On today's episode, NLW explores AI for finance, as well as whether AI itself will bring a stock market boom. 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 Brea

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How Bad Will AI Jobs Loss Be?

On Tuesday, there was a strange exchange between Senator Richard Blumenthal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman around jobs. In today's episode, NLW builds off that exchange to discuss the current state of the discourse around AI and jobs, including recent job cut announcements from IBM and BT, as well as a World Economic Forum study that argues that 14 million net jobs will be lost globally over the next 4 years. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscri

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