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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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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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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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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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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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The AI Daily Brief

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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The AI Daily Brief

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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The AI Daily Brief

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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