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Was Elon's Tesla FSD Demo the ChatGPT Moment For Self-Driving Cars?

On Friday, Elon Musk did a live video on X to show off Tesla's Full Self Driving v12. The interesting thing about it is that it is fully controlled by AI. Some have heralded it as a seminal moment and seachange in how software is developed. Before that on the Brief: Wall Street remains very hyped about AI and some interesting survey results on how consumers and small businesses see the technology. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussio

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How Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious?

Exploring a new paper attempting to begin creating a systematic approach to answering that question. Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708 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/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.netw

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The Peril and Potential of AutoGPT

Reading excerpts from Zvi Moshowitz' "On AutoGPT" from his blog/newsletter "Don't Worry About the Vase." https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/on-autogpt/ 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/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdow

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Code Llama Kicks LLM for Code Battle Into Overdrive

Meta has released LLM-for-coding Code Llama in numerous versions. NLW explores the community discussion, including some interesting data around an unreleased version trained on synthetic data that seemed to perform better than any other. Before that on the Brief, Spain starts an AI agency; the UK announces more details of its AI Safety Summit and new AI models out of South Korea and China. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN T

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The AI Daily Brief

Was Nvidia's Earnings Call A '1995 Internet Moment'?

One Wall Street analyst thinks that Nvidia's earnings will be seen in the future as a 1995 Internet Moment. Before that on the Brief: The New York Times profiles a novel treatment of a paralyzed woman using AI to reconstruct speech and facial expressions from brainwaves; Hollywood strike considers implications of AI copyright rules, and Salesforce makes an AI-related holiday sales prediction. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in

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How Big A Deal Is GPT-3.5 Fine-Tuning From OpenAI?

OpenAI has released finetuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo. It's expensive, and for some comes with privacy concerns, but also opens up many new applications. Before that on The Brief: Meta's new AI translation model, Nvidia earnings hopes and a new approach to AI agents. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: http

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The Future of AI Music: YouTube and Universal Partner

Universal and YouTube are partnering on an AI music incubator and other approaches to AI music that try to open up creativity while protecting existing copyright holders. Before that on the Brief: Snapchat's Dreams AI feature; Zoom shares jump around AI talk; and Midjourney releases inpainting. 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

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Should the US Nationalize the Artificial Intelligence Industry?

That's the argument of one Politico columnist. NLW examines the argument in depth. Before that on the Brief: A district court judge has said that AI art can't be copyrighted, but anticipates complications coming soon; Singapore workers adapting to AI the fastest; 170,000 books used in AI training dataset; and more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions

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The AI Daily Brief

Could Google's Gemini Be A ChatGPT Killer?

AI Twitter is buzzing with cryptic posts about how the LLM world is set to change in the next few months. On today's episode, NLW looks at everything we know about Google Gemini. 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/aibreakdown Learn

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Could AI End Up Being Good for Democracy?

The standard discourse around AI and politics is one of fear. Deepfakes. Election tampering. Misinformation. Yet the two pieces NLW reads today suggest a different path is possible. Artificial intelligence is powering politics – but it could also reboot democracy How AI could save politics—if it doesn’t destroy it first 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.beehi

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Meta to Launch Open Source Coding AI as Latest Assault on OpenAI

Meta is launching a new open source AI specifically for code generation which could undercut paid tools like Microsoft GitHub Copilot (powered by OpenAI's Codex). Before that on the Brief: a jailbroken Nest that shows the future of AI-powered devices; states form an AI regulatory task force and much more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Sub

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Snapchat Users Freaked Out as My AI Goes Rogue

Users were not stoked when Snapchat's My AI chatbot posted a story yesterday -- something it wasn't supposed to be able to do. Before that on the Brief: the AI Twitter community debates whether OpenAI's acquisition of Global Illumination is about talent or a push towards autonomous agents; a new AMD IT leader survey; McKinsey announces Lilli custom LLM; and Gartner puts generative AI at the peak of inflated expectations. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/bre

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