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OpenAI Sets Moonshot Goal of AI Superalignment in 4 Years

Yesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintelligent AI with human intent and values. The company is dedicating 20% of its compute resources to the project and its being led by their chief scientist and co-founder. Before that on the Brief: Over the weekend, Google updated its policies to basically say that it's allowed to train AI on any public data we put online. At the same time, platforms like Twitter and Reddit are racing to keep other comp

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The AI Daily Brief

Will AI Replace All Coders Within 5 Years?

Stability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque has predicted that there will be no human coders within 5 years. On today's episode, NLW explores this prediction in terms of what evidence there is for and against it. Before that on The Brief, he looks at why ChatGPT had its first decline in traffic ever last month, as well as CNET's push towards AI content. 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 imp

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Will AI Increase Freedom or Help Authoritarians?

AI could be a tool for the promotion of freedom, or it could aid in surveillance, control, and an expansion of authoritarianism. Which is more likely? NLW explores on this special July 4th edition of 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/a

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The AI Data Wars: Why Elon Musk's Rate Limits Are About More Than Twitter

The AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scraping. The move follows big changes to the Reddit API that some have called the end of the internet as we know it. Before that on The Brief: Valve has said they won't approve games for Steam that use AI art that might have copyright issues; Humane shares more information about its Ai Pin wearable; AI enthusiasm in markets is causing some people to worry. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1'

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Translating Brainwaves to Images and Other Cutting Edge AI Research

Today on The AI Breakdown, a research recap of the most interesting recent AI research, including: DreamDiffusion translating EEG to images - https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.16934 Nemo simulating life in games - https://www.ranmo.me/blog/title-digital-companionship Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds - https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.16928 CSM any image to 3D - https://www.csm.ai/any-image-to-3d CSM Discord - https://discord.com/invite/NhJJwmk8gT Playground mixed image editing - https://

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60 Possible AGI Futures

The debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of scenarios for if and how humans develop AGI and what happens if and when we do. A reading of: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SRW9WAEEKJEgHAhSy/60-possible-futures 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.c

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Inflection Raises Monster $1.3 Billion Round to Build One of World's Biggest AI Clusters

Inflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest GPU clusters. OpenAI sets up shop in London, updates their mobile iOS ChatGPT app with Browse with Bing, and gets sued for data scraping. Runway raises $141M. MLB experimenting with AI scouting. 150+ corporate executives write an open letter slamming EU AI Act. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown

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The AI Arms Race Heats Up: US Considers Blocking AI Chip Exports

The Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claims their next model will eclipse ChatGPT. Unity releases AI platform including Unity Muse. NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown will only be releasing The Brief each morning. We'll be back to our regular content at the end of the week. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI

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AI M&A: Billion Dollar Acquisitions Reshape AI Landscape

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B Ramp acquires Cohere.io Thompson Reuters acquires legal AI firm CaseText for $650M Verge surveys 2000 people on AI MerlynMind releases education focused large language models Waldo 2.0 is drone object identification Whale song AI SIGN UP FOR THE AI BREAKDOWN NEWSLETTER: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/ NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown will only be releasing The Brief each morning. We'll be back to ou

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DragGAN's Amazing Drag-to-Edit Photo AI Releases Source Code

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive modifications just through dragging has released its source code Inflection releases a new LLM that competes with GPT3.5 MidJourney gets zoomed out with its 5.2 upgrade Nvidia says it plans to invest in Europe ElevenLabs releases Voice Library NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Breakdown will only be releasing The Brief each morning. We'll be back to our regular content at the end of the

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Is AI "Alien Intelligence?" Emerson Spartz on Mental Models for AI

Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12 years old. He founded digital media company Dose which created some of the world's largest viral content sites. For the past few years, Emerson has been focused on AI, with a particular interest in AI safety, AI alignment and extinction risk. Despite being such a techno-optimist by nature that he's been yelled at for being a techno-optimist in boo

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What the Head of the New UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce Thinks of AI

Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from Ian's writing on AI going back to 2018 to help us understand the perspective he's bringing to the taskforce and its £100M mission to make AI safer and more aligned. Excerpts from: AI Nationalism (2018) We must slow down the race to God-like AI (April 2023) Taskforce announcement thread and post (June 2023) The AI Breakdown helps you under

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