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Profit or Piracy? How AI Disrupts Industries

A case study in the disruptive force of AI to traditional industries. Will they respond as have previous industries in the past have responded to technology wrought change -- with lawyers and intimidation? Or will they adapt and seize new opportunities never before imaginable? How do issues of creativity and copyright fit in?

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The AI Daily Brief

Why GPT-4-32k Will Totally Transform What We Can Do With AI

GPT-4 as most people use it has an 8K token limit. Some already have access to a version with a 32K limit, however, and are reporting hugely different opportunities in terms of what it GPT can do, based on how much more text it can take in and output at once.

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

The Problems with AutoGPT and BabyAGI: How Useful Are They Really?

For the last 3 weeks, AutoGPT has massively captured the attention of the AI community. But how useful is it really? Some are starting to ask whether it really lives up to the hype. Watch the original video: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

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The AI Daily Brief

The AI Data Wars: Elon Threatens to Sue Microsoft While Viral AI Drake Track Stuns Music Industry

We're seeing more and more instances of industries, companies and individuals fighting back against their data and IP being used to train AI. On this episode, we look at Elon threatening to sue Microsoft, Reddit changing their terms for AI companies, and the music industry loosing their ever-loving mind about a viral AI produced track featuring the synthetic voices of Drake and The Weeknd. Subscibe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

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The AI Daily Brief

AI that Can See the World? Meet MiniGPT-4 an Open Source Image-to-Text Model

We've had many examples of text-to-image but fewer AI models that can interpret images. MiniGPT-4 is a new open source model that can look at an image of food and give you the recipe, look at a white board mockup of a website and give you the code, look at a picture of a person and their dog at sunset and write a poem. Subscribe to the YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

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The AI Daily Brief

Can Open Source AI Compete with Big Tech? A Look at TruthGPT, RedPajama and MiniGPT

Some argue that open source AI is the key to making AI's benefits to the entire world, as well as making AI safer. Others think that open source can multiply risks. With a slate of new projects being announced this week, the conversation is heating up. Discussed in this episode: Elon Musk's planned TruthGPT Dolly 2.0, an open source LLM based on the EleutherAI pythia model built by Databricks RedPajama, an open source proxy of Facebook/Meta's LLaMA, from Together MiniGPT, an open source AI model

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The AI Daily Brief

Is AutoGPT Dangerous?

There's no denying AutoGPT represents an incredible advance in AI, but does it create new risk we should be paying more attention to?

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The AI Daily Brief

5 Ways AutoGPT is Already Being Used

AutoGPT is lighting up the developer and AI community. Here are five uses happening right now: Starting a businesses Building a web application Task list that does itself Creating podcast content Autonomous AI agent generator

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The AI Daily Brief

What is AutoGPT and Why is Everyone Talking About It?

Less than a week old, AutoGPT has exploded onto the scene. AutoGPTs are AIs that, once assigned a task, figure out how to complete that task, including generating other AIs. They have access to the internet, longer term memory, and thus can be used in much different ways. In just a week, AutoGPTs have become the most active GitHub repositories.

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

Should the US Gov't Have to Review and License AI Tools?

That's the question the Biden Administration is asking American citizens to comment on. WSJ and others reported today that the Administration is nervous about AI being used for crime and disinformation, and so is collecting public comments on the idea of having an FDA-like body to review and approve AI tools.

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