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How The AI Backlash Killed This Literary Startup

Prosecraft is the first casualty of the AI backlash. Was it justified, or simply inevitable? Before that on the Brief: Amazon announces generative AI summaries of reviews as well as previews their chip production facility, and OpenAI is *not* going bankrupt. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discus

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As WormGPT Goes White Hat, Evil-GPT Emerges

WormGPT was initially advertised as an LLM for doing bad things. According to a recent interview with founders, however, they're trying to push it for more above-board use-cases. In that vacuum, a new LLM for bad things called, appropriately Evil-GPT has stepped into the mix. 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 Breakdow

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The AI Daily Brief

AI and the Turning Point Moment in Human History

A reading of and discussion around Tyler Cowen's "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history." 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.network/

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The AI Daily Brief

The Alignment Problem: How To Tell If An LLM Is Trustworthy

New research attempts to put together a complete taxonomy for trustworthiness in LLMs. Before that on the Brief: The FEC is considering new election rules around deepfakes. Also on the Brief: self-driving cars approved in San Francisco; an author finds fake books under her name on Amazon; and Anthropic releases a new model. 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 dis

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The AI Daily Brief

76% of Americans Think AI Might Kill Us

A new survey from the AI Policy Institute shows that Americans are extremely concerns about AI and support regulation to slow it down. Before that on The Brief: Disney explores AI; DARPA starts a $20M cybersecurity challenge; and a New Zealand Grocery AI app goes horribly awry. 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 n

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The AI Daily Brief

The LLM for Coding Competition Heats Up!

On the Brief: Stability AI releases StableCode as Google opens the waitlist for its in-browser AI-powered coding environment; Google is in talks with major record labels around AI music and AI discovers an asteroid. On our main episode: NVIDIA announces its state of the art Grace Hopper superchip is coming next year, alongside a slew of other generative AI updates. NLW explores how the AI chip competitive space is developing, including the latest from AMD, startups like Tenstorrent, and efforts

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

GPTBot AI Data Controversy and the Remaining Challenges of LLMs

NLW reviews a recent research paper which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of LLM development and organizes remaining challenges and problems to be solved -- along with prospective solutions. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI launches GPTBot to crawl the web for AI training purposes; Zoom has to back off ToS changes that would allow them to collected data for AI training purposes. Plus a terrifying new cyberattack that can tell what you typed just by listening to your keystrokes. Re

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The AI Daily Brief

Apple Reveals It Spent Billions on AI R&D

During last week's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple anticipated putting generative AI into every product, and intimated that they had spent billions on artificial intelligence research and development. Before that on The Brief: after the community questioned some art from an upcoming book, Wizards of the Coast and D&D Beyond are clarifying their AI art policies; Morgan Stanley says AI bubble may be peaking, University College London study says 27% can't recognize deepfakes, and

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The AI Daily Brief

Why We're Radically Underestimating the Political Implications of AI Job Displacement

NLW opines on the increasingly popular canard "AI won't take your job; someone using AI will" and finds it lacking. 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.network/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/n

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The AI Daily Brief

Why Do People Who Think AI Could Kill Us All Still Work on AI?

A reading of "Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons" by Daniel Eth. 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.network/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nlw / ht

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The AI Daily Brief

Code Interpreter is GPT-4.5: A Summer AI Technical Roundup [feat. Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space]

Today NLW is joined by Swyx and Alessio, the hosts of the Latent Space podcast to discuss the key technical developments from the last month of AI, including code interpreter; llama 2; the latest in AI agents; growing interest in AI companions, and more. Latent Space podcast -https://www.latent.space/podcast / https://twitter.com/latentspacepod Swyx - https://twitter.com/swyx Alessio Fanelli - https://twitter.com/FanaHOVA ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most impo

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The AI Daily Brief

The Frontier of AI-Generated Music Models

On today's episode NLW explores Meta's newly launched AudioCraft compared to Google MusicLM. Before that on the Brief, Goldman Sachs predicts AI investment will reach 4% of GDP by 2025; a 9-figure investment for an Nvidia competitor; new Alibaba AI models 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 in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: ht

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