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Are Educators Ready for a ChatGPT School Year?

As September and the Fall begins, NLW checks in on the conversation about ChatGPT among educators as they prepare to begin the first year where that technology will be available from day one. Before that on the Brief: Mustafa Suleyman says the US should use AI chip access to impose AI ethics on the world. 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. Su

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The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence

On today's episode, NLW looks at news that the US has pushed Nvidia and AMD to stop AI chip exports to certain Middle Eastern countries as part of their attempt to deny China access to compute. Before that on the Brief: can AI save Silicon Valley from the post-ZIRP era? 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 newslett

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OpenAI Is Now On A Billion Dollar Revenue Pace

On the Brief, NLW looks at new reports that OpenAI is clearing $80,000,000 a month, even before the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise. Also on the Brief Snapchat Dreams is live; an AI-powered defense system around D.C. and more. On the main episode, NLW looks at all the announcements from Google Cloud Next including Vertex AI, Duet AI and an updated partnership with Nvidia. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI

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ChatGPT Enterprise Is Here - How It Shapes the AI Competitive Landscape

OpenAI yesterday announced the much anticipated ChatGPT Enterprise. The service comes with the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet, according to the company. NLW explores the announcement and what it says about the state of the competitive landscape in AI. Before that on the Brief: tech CEOs to head to Washington D.C. next month for a Senate meeting; and Pew shows Americans are concerned about AI. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BR

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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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The AI Daily Brief

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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