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The AI Daily Brief

Are OpenAI Trying for Regulatory Capture?

On this edition of The AI Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at all the AI news, including Mind-blowing DragGAN photo editing research Blockade Labs Skybox text-to-3D world StabilityAI releases open source StableStudio NYT open source Meta article StabilityAI letter on open source to the Senate Was Sam Altman's testimony just regulatory capture? The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.bee

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How We Use AI

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW goes over the news of OpenAI's release of an official ChatGPT app, and explores why mobile is the next frontier for AI. On the Brief: Meta announces AI Chips; Apple bans employees from ChatGPT; and Github Copilot NYC Schools un-ban ChatGPT. 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

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

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

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 - why AI doesn't need sentience or robots to cause harm 3:49 Language as the human operating system 4:56 Why AI is categorically not like other tools before it 6:08 What are the dangers that AI in control of language represents? 7:33 Why social media provides evidence of the risk 10:14 Global coalition to slow things down 11:40 Wouldn't a pa

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far

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 get rolled out in Beta to all ChatGPT Plus customers. 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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The AI Daily Brief

7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing

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 the post ChatGPT era. 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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The AI Daily Brief

Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?

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 covers new forthcoming regulations in the EU, Amazon robot leaks, and why you shouldn't become a prompt engineer. Mentioned: https://tech.co/news/google-bard-vs-chatgpt 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 S

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The AI Daily Brief

Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?

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

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

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 announcements Influencer chatbot makes $70k selling conversation at $1/minute 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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The AI Daily Brief

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

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 released a chatbot that was tuned on the ever controversial Andrew Tate. Along the way, he also released a tool to help others fine tune LLMs on specific media creators. In this conversation, they talk about what it takes to start building in AI, and why there has never been a better time. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https:

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

The Top 5 AI Announcements from Google I/O

Google tries to reclaim a leadership position in generative AI Honorable Mention - Adobe Firefly partnership 5. "AI Everywhere" - Med-PaLM 2, MusicLM 4. PaLM 2 3. Bard Upgrades 2. Google Workspace (Docs/Drive/Slides) Integration 1. Generative AI in search 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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The AI Daily Brief

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

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 interpretability research from OpenAI using GPT-4 to better understand how GPT-2 works; Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" principles; and Meta's new multimodal model ImageBind, released open source today.

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

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

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 announcement Google I/O Developer conference AI leaks IBM relaunches AI division as WatsonX in partnership with HuggingFace One researcher says 80% of jobs could be replaced by AI

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