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Has Open Source Screwed a Whole Generation of AI Startups?

NLW explores some of the unexpected developments in the AI space, with a focus on how open source has changed the way enterprises think about AI procurement. Before that on the Brief; DALL-E 3 leaks; AMD earnings results; YouTube testing AI summaries. Today's Sponsor: Giskard - the testing framework for ML models - https://www.giskard.ai/ 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://t

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Is GPT-5 On the Way? OpenAI Files Trademark

A look at a recent trademark filing; Facebook launching AI Personas; a leaked Instagram feature identifying content made by AI; Dell's AI efforts; Google Assistant's AI makeover; plus a deep dive on McKinsey's State of AI in 2023 report which was released earlier today. 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 newslette

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The AI-Robotics Revolution: Robots That Think Like LLMs

Google recently shared its RT-2 model which can translate generalized instructions into robotic control. Also on today's episode, researchers use AI to discover ancient antibiotics from Neanderthals and Denisovans; Google releases research on Med-PaLM M, a general multimodal medical model; and AI might be coming to Dungeons & Dragons. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREA

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The 5 Most Important AI News Stories Last Month

OpenAI Superalignment? Claude 2? White House? Find out what NLW thinks were the most important AI news stories in July. 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.network/

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AI for War? Debating the Military Use of AI

A reading of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent essay for the New York Times and discussing the military applications of artificial intelligence. Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/u-s-china-competition-and-military-ai 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

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A Mysterious GPU Startup Sets Up In The Middle East

On today's episode: The Information reports on a mysterious startup with ex-Meta, AWS and Azure team setting up in the Middle East; the FTC and SEC comment on AI policy; Meta Reels are catching up to TikTok; and a slew of companies are launching AI tools, including Stack Overflow, Intel, DoorDash and Spotify. 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.

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Better Than Midjourney? Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Can Generate Words

Text-to-image but with non-gibberish words! The dream is now real thanks to Stable Diffusion XL which was released yesterday at Amazon Web Services big AI event. Also on today's AI Breakdown: new studies are out from McKinsey and Pew Research that discuss which US jobs are most at risk of AI automation vs. which are resilient and likely to grow over the coming decade. Today's Sponsor: Giskard - the testing framework for ML models - https://www.giskard.ai/ ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown

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Can OpenAI and Anthropic's Frontier Model Forum Improve AI Safety?

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have teamed up to create the Frontier Model Forum. Will it improve AI safety or is it just corporate windowdressing? Before that on the Brief: Alibaba Cloud has announced it will support Meta's Llama 2 model in China; Hugging Face, GitHub and others advocate for open source policy changes in the EU AI Act and people are livid about Netflix's $900k AI job listing. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discu

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The AI Daily Brief

Does This Research Prove That ChatGPT Has Gotten Worse?

A new research paper from Stanford and Berkeley says that yes, indeed ChatGPT has gotten worse. However others are calling the methodology into question. NLW explores the debate. Before that on The Brief, OpenAI shuts down AI detection tool; Sec. Blinken writes AI op-ed; Egypt using AI to restore Mummies. 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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The AI Daily Brief

Can Worldcoin Help Solve AI's Big Economic Problems?

Dystopia or solution? That's the debate that rages around Worldcoin, one of the most ambitious and controversial projects that cuts across artificial intelligence and crypto. Before that on The Brief, Stability AI has released two new open source LLM models FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2 that in certain areas outperform ChatGPT 3.5; OpenAI's head of trust and safety leaves; Meta gets flak for calling Llama 2 "open source" and Elon's new X.com will be "powered by AI." Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI

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The AI Daily Brief

Is Open Source AI Dangerous?

Last week, Meta announced its Llama 2 model, one of the most powerful open source LLMs yet. Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW explores arguments that releasing powerful open source AI is dangerous, along with counterpoints including a reading of a recent Op-Ed from Meta head of global affairs Nick Clegg. 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 Su

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5 Ways People Are Using ChatGPT's Powerful New Custom Instructions Feature

This week ChatGPT released a new "Custom Instruction" feature that allows users to customize information about who they are and what type of responses they want that ChatGPT will remember across all queries. Here's how people are using it so far. 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.yout

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