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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

The AI Daily Brief
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:

The AI Daily Brief
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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The AI Daily Brief

What Comes After ChatGPT? A Preview of the Future of LLMs

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW describes three bits of news from this week that together help us get a preview of the future of large language models, including interpretability research from OpenAI using GPT-4 to better understand how GPT-2 works; Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" principles; and Meta's new multimodal model ImageBind, released open source today.

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

How to Get AutoGPT on Your Phone (And What People Are Actually Finding it Useful For)

A check-in on AutoGPT as well as the headline news: Updates from the US copyright office Pitchbook VC enthusiasm for AI Palantir stock price pops after AI announcement Google I/O Developer conference AI leaks IBM relaunches AI division as WatsonX in partnership with HuggingFace One researcher says 80% of jobs could be replaced by AI

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Invention of the Atom Bomb

On today's episode, we discuss Warren Buffett's recent comments on AI as well as cover a primer of the geopolitics of AI. On the headline news brief, we cover updates from Google and Amazon as well as new open source LLM's and a new text-to-3D platform Shap-E from OpenAI.

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

AI Just Quietly Had One of It's Most Important Weeks in Recent History

NLW argues Geoffrey Hinton's defection from Google and his progress mainstreaming the AI safety conversation makes this week one of huge, if subtle, significance. Also covered: Midjourney v5.1 Inflection Pi iBaby AGI Brain-to-video CEBRA research Microsoft Bing updates Microsoft-AMD AI chips? Samsung bans AI Meta ChatGPT malware warning IBM 7800 jobs disrupted by AI Chegg stock craters because of ChatGPT White House AI meeting OpenAI back in Italy Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google, warns on AI Featu

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

Google Losing to Open Source AI? "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

This week, a Google researcher had a note leaked that argued that Google (and OpenAI) were going to lose AI to the open source community. In this episode, NLW explores the arguments and asks what the implications might be. Read the original note: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

6 Ways ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Already Being Used

Code Interpreter is a new plugin for ChatGPT that is allowing for amazing data analysis and visualization. In today's episode, NLW looks at 6 early use cases, ranging from San Francisco Crime Data to mapping Lighthouses to basic video editing. On the Headline Brief, NLW covers: Microsoft Bing Upgrades Meta's ChatGPT malware warning Google Deepmind CEO on AGI

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