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Can ChatGPT Outperform Wall Street?

Last month, a University of Florida study showed ChatGPT with 500% returns using news and sentiment analysis. A recent Finder.com study also showed ChatGPT stock picks outperforming the market. On today's episode, NLW explores AI for finance, as well as whether AI itself will bring a stock market boom. 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 Brea

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The AI Daily Brief

How Bad Will AI Jobs Loss Be?

On Tuesday, there was a strange exchange between Senator Richard Blumenthal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman around jobs. In today's episode, NLW builds off that exchange to discuss the current state of the discourse around AI and jobs, including recent job cut announcements from IBM and BT, as well as a World Economic Forum study that argues that 14 million net jobs will be lost globally over the next 4 years. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscri

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The AI Daily Brief

Are OpenAI Trying for Regulatory Capture?

On this edition of The AI Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at all the AI news, including Mind-blowing DragGAN photo editing research Blockade Labs Skybox text-to-3D world StabilityAI releases open source StableStudio NYT open source Meta article StabilityAI letter on open source to the Senate Was Sam Altman's testimony just regulatory capture? The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.bee

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The AI Daily Brief

The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How We Use AI

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW goes over the news of OpenAI's release of an official ChatGPT app, and explores why mobile is the next frontier for AI. On the Brief: Meta announces AI Chips; Apple bans employees from ChatGPT; and Github Copilot NYC Schools un-ban ChatGPT. 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.yo

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The AI Daily Brief

Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and the Future of Humanity

Find the complete presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiM-LuRe6w&t=2005s 0:00 Intro 0:30 The 3 levels of the AI discussion 2:08 Yuval starts - why AI doesn't need sentience or robots to cause harm 3:49 Language as the human operating system 4:56 Why AI is categorically not like other tools before it 6:08 What are the dangers that AI in control of language represents? 7:33 Why social media provides evidence of the risk 10:14 Global coalition to slow things down 11:40 Wouldn't a pa

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The AI Daily Brief

The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far

From Youtube video summarizers to Spotify playlist generators to tools to chat with your PDFs, some of the most interesting and useful ChatGPT plugins as they get rolled out in Beta to all ChatGPT Plus customers. 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

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The AI Daily Brief

7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing

From a surprising lack of skepticism to clear echoes of social media regulatory failures, NLW covers everything that happened in the first Senate AI hearing in the post ChatGPT era. 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

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The AI Daily Brief

Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?

NLW tests ChatGPT and the newly updated and opened Bard across 5 categories including creative, travel planning, research, business and more. On the Brief he covers new forthcoming regulations in the EU, Amazon robot leaks, and why you shouldn't become a prompt engineer. Mentioned: https://tech.co/news/google-bard-vs-chatgpt 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 S

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The AI Daily Brief

Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?

This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast. It features Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov. 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

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The AI Daily Brief

The Most Important AI News From A Week Where We Glimpsed The Future

On this week's Weekly Recap: OpenAI Shap-E text-to-3D Anthropic 100k context window Meta ImageBind multimodal HuggingFace Transformers Agents Google I/O announcements Influencer chatbot makes $70k selling conversation at $1/minute Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

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The AI Daily Brief

"How I Went from Non-Technical to Building an Andrew Tate LLM Chatbot in 3 Months"

Today in the first of a series on AI learning journeys, NLW is joined by Emmet Halm. At the beginning of 2023, Emmet was not a developer. A couple weeks ago, he released a chatbot that was tuned on the ever controversial Andrew Tate. Along the way, he also released a tool to help others fine tune LLMs on specific media creators. In this conversation, they talk about what it takes to start building in AI, and why there has never been a better time. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https:

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The AI Daily Brief

The Top 5 AI Announcements from Google I/O

Google tries to reclaim a leadership position in generative AI Honorable Mention - Adobe Firefly partnership 5. "AI Everywhere" - Med-PaLM 2, MusicLM 4. PaLM 2 3. Bard Upgrades 2. Google Workspace (Docs/Drive/Slides) Integration 1. Generative AI in search Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown

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