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AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Actually Be?

A reading of Max Tegmark's essay "The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI" 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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The AI Daily Brief

The 5 Biggest AI News Stories This Week

AI news this week - here are the 5 most important stories! AI regulation and safety - OpenAI, Microsoft and more AI helps discover antibiotic for superbug Adobe generative fill Microsoft Windows Copilot ChatGPT Browse with Bing for all users 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

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The 9 AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day As A Content Creator

Lists of 1000s of AI tools abound, but here are the 9 I actually use every day (with a watchlist with 3 more I'm experimenting with). The list includes: 1. Feedly 2. ChatGPT 3. Perplexity 4. Descript 5. Midjourney 6. Photoshop 7. Deepfloyd 8. Canva 9. TubeBuddy 10. Vidyo.ai (watchlist) 11. Wondercraft (watchlist) 12. Elevenlabs (watchlist) The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.

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NVIDIA Sets Off An AI Stock Frenzy While Elon Warns of the Terminator Scenario

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW reviews comments from Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt at yesterday's WSJ CEO Council Summit about AI risk. He also covers EU and UK AI regulatory efforts. On the Brief, how AI is coming to YouTube shorts, plus NVIDIA sets off an AI stock frenzy. 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

Mind-Reading AI Generates Videos from Brainwaves

Researchers have developed a new method called Mind-Video for generating semantically accurate video from fMRI scans. Additionally, on todays Brief, NLW covers: The most important announcements from Microsoft Build (including AI coming to Windows 11 and ChatGPT + Bing) Google Bard images Anthropic $450m Series C Naval Ravikant's Airchat 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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This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than ChatGPT's Dataset

On today's episode, NLW looks at global regulatory proposals from OpenAI and Google, as well as a number of topics on the brief, including: Intel's Aurora is a 1 TRILLION parameter model Meta's new multilanguage model can recognize 4000 languages Bill Gates talks about AI CoDI multimodal 1X robot EVE 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 Breakd

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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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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 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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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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