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White House Secures Responsible AI Commitment from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic and Others

The White House continues its engagement with the artificial intelligence space today releasing a set of voluntary commitments that a group of leading AI company have formally signed on to. Before that on the Brief: The WSJ reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been spending 3-4 days per week at the company working on their Gemini advanced AI foundation model; a Senator releases two workplace-related AI bills and people are hyped for Runway's latest image-to-video tool. Today's Sponsor

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AppleGPT? Apple Has Been Secretly Working on a ChatGPT Competitor

Bloomberg reports that Apple has developed an LLM platform called Ajax upon which they've built a chatbot that engineers internally call "Apple GPT." NLW provides commentary and predictions for how Apple will chose to compete in the generative AI space. Before that on the Brief: 39% of Gen Z and Millennials think within 20 years, AI will be producing the best entertainment; a SF judge throws cold water on an AI lawsuit; K-pop label using AI to put out songs in multiple languages at once. ABOUT

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Meta Llama 2 Is Here! Everything You Need to Know About OpenAI's Biggest Open Source Competitor

The much anticipated Meta Llama 2 model has been released, and as hoped it is available for commercial use. NLW breaks down how Llama 2 compares to other open and closed LLMs and surveys the community's initial response. Before that on the Brief: Simulation is an AI showrunner that can create a fully animated TV episode from a single prompt; the AI LEAD Act in the Senate; OpenAI's grant for local journalism. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT

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Where Are All the Aliens: Does AI Explain the Fermi Paradox?

The Fermi Paradox refers to the discrepancy between what seems like the high chance of other intelligent life given billions of planets and our total lack of evidence of that life. Some in the AI community (including OpenAI's Sam Altman) think one answer could be AI killing off all advanced biological civilizations. Before that on the Brief: SEC Chair Gary Gensler worries that artificial intelligence could help cause the next financial crisis; the EU unsuccessfully lobbies Asia for tougher AI re

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The AI Daily Brief

AI Bubble? Layoffs Hit AI Companies

Jasper and Mutiny have both laid off part of their teams in recent weeks, leading some to question whether it's another example of the AI bubble deflating after ChatGPT saw declines in usage for the first time ever in June. Before that on The Brief: Nearly 8000 authors have signed an open letter from The Author's Guild asking prominent AI companies to stop training their models on their work. Barry Diller plans to sue AI companies on behalf of publishers. The UN Security Council holds first AI R

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Bard vs. Bing vs. Claude vs. ChatGPT: The Right LLM For Every Task

LLM competition ratchets up seemingly every week. At this point, the different design choices that models have made have led to different LLMs being better or worse suited for different tasks. NLW builds off a recent viral tweet about which LLMs are good for what tasks. 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 Y

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Bill Gates on Why Humans Can Handle AI Risks

Bill Gates has penned another letter about AI, this time arguing that humans are more prepared than we might think for the challenges it brings. Read the full piece: https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-risks-of-AI-are-real-but-manageable 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/@TheAI

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OpenAI Investigated by FTC for ChatGPT Harms

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused consumer harms in terms of data collection and safety practices as well as disparaging information. A look at what the implications are for the larger state of AI regulation. Before that on the Brief the Screen Actor's Guild has joined the Writers Guild of America in their strike, and AI is at the very center of the battle; Hugging Face is raising at a $4B valuation, more controversy at Stability AI, and Twitt

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Elon Musk Announces xAI: Here's Everything We Know So Far

Elon Musk is launching xAI, a new AI company to explore the big questions of the universe. NLW looks at how he's thinking about it differently than some other players in the space. Before that on the Brief: Google has announced a set of updates for Bard that make it vastly more usable -- as well as multimodal! Also on the Brief, Adobe testifies before the Senate that artists should be protected, Kamala Harris meets with civil rights leaders and consumer protection advocates on AI, Shopify releas

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ChatGPT's First True Competitor? Anthropic Releases Claude 2

Anthropic has released Claude 2. The model preforms comparably to GPT-4 but offers a 100k context window for 4-5x cheaper. NLW does a roundup of the AI community's first impressions. Before that on the Brief: the OECD's 2023 employment report finds that more than a quarter of jobs in their member countries have the highest level of risk to be automated away by AI; OpenAI strikes a 6-year deal with Shutterstock and Senators reflect on yesterday's classified White House AI briefing. Today's Sponso

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Why Google Is Intentionally Limiting the Power of Bard AI

Google CEO Sunday Pichai told 60 Minutes that the company is purposefully limiting the power and capabilities of their Bard AI model to ensure society has time to catch up. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis also gives his view of the next wave of AI innovation. Before that on the Brief: the White House is holding its first classified briefing for the Senate; China is considering new AI content rules; Netflix has released a documentary about AI and the military. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown

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5 Ways AI Could Improve Humanity

Today NLW reads the companion piece to yesterday's episode -- 5 Ways AI Could Improve the World https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/ai-artificial-intelligence-world-diseases-climate-scenarios-experts Before that on the Brief: Comedian and actress Sarah Silverman has sued Meta and OpenAI for infringing against her copyright by training their models on her book; TSMC rises after beating earnings expectations; corporates are spending big on AI; and Google is testing Med-PaLM 2 in hos

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