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The AI Wearable Wars

Tab and Rewind Pendant both announced AI wearables this week, while Humane premiered on a fashion runway. In this episode, NLW looks at the emerging wearable wars, and asks whether these are even use cases that people want? Before that on the Brief: Jamie Dimon says a 3.5-day workweek is possible and Satya Nadella testifies that AI can't stop Google's search dominance. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Bre

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

Mobile LLMs? The Battle to Get AI on Our Phones

Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the forthcoming battle to get local LLMs on our mobile devices. Before that on the Brief: DALL-E 3 is available now for free for Bing users, with 100 speed boosts per week; Apple appears to be hiring for AI roles in the United Kingdom. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most impo

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

Warriors, Doomsayers, Reformers: Understanding the Factions in AI

NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artificial intelligence. He reads excerpts from "The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/opinion/ai-safety-ethics-effective.html and then discusses what the authors might have missed. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most

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The AI Daily Brief

Are Copyright Battles Against AI Destined to Fail?

NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being taken by some authors, publishers, and policymakers may not hold up long term. Including excerpts from: Does the First Amendment Confer a ‘Right to Compute’? The Future of AI May Depend on It - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-the-first-amendment-confer-a-right-to-compute-the-future-of-ai-may-depend-on-it/ The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art https://arstechn

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

ChatGPT Vision: 8 Ways People Are Using It Already

ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are showing off some amazing use cases. Before that on the Brief: have the AI phone wars begun? TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey 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 B

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The 5 Most Important AI Announcements from Meta Connect

Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta suite of apps including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. NLW counts down the top 5 new features. Before that on the Brief: ChatGPT's ability to browse the internet is back; Biden talks about his forthcoming executive order on AI and a survey of 1600 scientists. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/b

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The AI Daily Brief

OpenAI Raising at $90B and Trolls Everyone, Saying AGI Has Been Achieved

OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90b valuation; discussing an AI hardware device with iPod designer Jony Ive; and scaring the hell out of people with a troll that "AGI has been achieved internally." Before that on the Brief: Apple is the most AI acquisitive Silicon Valley giant, and the CIA is working on a chatbot for intelligence agencies. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and dis

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The AI Daily Brief

Automated AI Translations Come to Spotify, Undermining Numerous AI Startups

Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation for podcasts. NLW explores the news, as well as what it says about the challenge of being a startup. Before that on the Brief: Getty Images launches a rights-ready image generation platform. 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 Th

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The AI Daily Brief

ChatGPT Can Now See and Hear

The race towards multimodal LLMs is heating up! With rumors of a big impending launch of Google Gemini, OpenAI is racing to push out their multimodal features. Today they launched the ability for ChatGPT to carry on audio conversations, as well as to use images as inputs. Before that on the Brief, Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic. 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://th

The AI Daily Brief
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Americans Are Getting Less Trustful of Artificial Intelligence

On today's episode, NLW looks at a set of recent survey results surrounding attitudes towards AI. They range from broad based surveys of the general American public to more specific industry and profession-level studies. Links: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/19/23879648/americans-artificial-general-intelligence-ai-policy-poll https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/mitre-harris-poll-ai-security-risks https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/19/nearly-half-of-ceos-believe-ai-could-replace-their-own-jobs-

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

6 Months After the "6-Month Pause" Letter, Has the AI Safety Conversation Changed?

Six months ago, a group of scientists and other leaders signed a letter asking for a six month pause in the development of advanced AI. Now, six months after the letter, when the pause would have expired, they reflect on what, if anything, has changed in the AI safety discourse. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

Is This The First AI-Powered Operating System?

Microsoft announced that the complete Windows 11 operating system was going to have access to their Copilot AI assistant. Before that on the Brief, YouTube launches a slate of tools for AI creators. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey 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 t

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