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Testing Suno.ai: The Viral AI Music Generator

NLW looks at the state of AI music generators and gives the new Suno.ai a test run for the holidays. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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 communit

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8 Predictions for AI in 2024

NLW reviews one set of predictions as a way of discussing what's coming next in AI. Built off of https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/8-predictions-for-ai-in-2024/ Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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 YouTub

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The 10 Biggest AI Events of 2023

NLW builds off of this list of the 10 biggest events of AI of 2023 to do a yearly recap! Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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/ai

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Anthropic Raising Another $750M at $15B-$20B Valuation

Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more government involvement in AI. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in

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GPT-Engineer Launches App as Text-to-Code Platforms On the Rise

Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that are expanding creativity and democratizing the capacity to build webapps. Also on this episode, NLW looks at Bill Gates AI thoughts for 2024. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://

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The More Workers Use AI, The More They Fear for Their Jobs

A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of it impacting their employment. Also on today's show we look at OpenAI's new Preparedness plan. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdo

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Will AI Girlfriends Destroy the Fabric of Society?

Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation about the impact of AI companions on society. Also, ByteDance gets caught using OpenAI API to train a competing model and improved ChatGPT performance sparks 4.5 rumors. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI B

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2024 Generative AI Trend: Moving Beyond Chat Interfaces

In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat interfaces with other types of interfaces that are custom designed for specific use cases. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newslette

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Can AI Be Regulated In A Way That Preserves Freedom?

A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23998493/artificial-intelligence-president-joe-biden-executive-order-ai-safety-openai-google-accelerationists Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up for the waitlist here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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.be

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The Latest Developments in Superalignment

OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak-to-strong generalizations, and how they can analogize using weaker models to train more advanced models to simulate humans trying to control superhuman AI. Before that on the Brief, Intel's latest in the AI chip race. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown ABOUT THE AI BRE

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Is the GPT-4.5 "Leak" Real?

A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also, Pope Francis calls for a binding treaty on AI. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up for the waitlist here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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 Yo

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Is ChatGPT Acting Lazy Because of the Holidays?

Believe it or not, there is some fairly good evidence that ChatGPT is acting lazy (i.e. returning shorter results for example) because it's mimicking the productivity patterns of humans at the holidays. Plus a look at the trends, papers and projects currently interesting OpenAI's Andrej Karpathy. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakd

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