The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI B...

A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.

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Apple AI? Apple Didn't Say "Artificial Intellig...
Those expecting a big AI announcement at Apple's WWDC were disappointed today, however those waiting for a mixed reality headset have much to celebrate. On this episode, NLW discusses how Apple VisionPro might converge with AI, and where AI did show...
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AI Gaming Lights Up: The Biggest AI News This Week
AI news continues to come fast and furious. On today's weekly recap, NLW covers the biggest stories from the previous week, including cutting edge research, 2d video-to-3D modeling, OpenAI corporate secrets and more.   The AI Breakdown helps you...
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TIME Asks: Is AI the End of Humanity?
TIME Magazine's current cover story is titled "The End of Humanity: How Real Is The Risk?" It's a marker of how much the AI risk and safety conversation has gone mainstream. On this episode, NLW reads two pieces:   - Katja Grace - Dan Hendrycks...
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BONUS: Riley Goodside on The Art of Prompting C...
This is a special preview episode of The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Changes Everything. Hosted by Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz, TCR hosts in-depth interviews with the creators, builders and thinkers pushing the bleeding edge of AI. On this...
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An AI Drone Killed Its Operator In A USAF Simul...
A bogus story about an AI simulation gone wrong made headlines around the world, until the progentior of the story said it was actually just a thought experiment. Oops. On the Brief, a look at Neuralangelo, a new NeRF/Photogrammetry type technology...
16 min
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Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math ...
A look at the latest developments from OpenAI, including new features, a cybersecurity grant program, and their new process rewards model for trading. Before that on the Brief, Japan declines to enforce copyright around AI model training, Australia...
19 min
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Are ChatGPT Plugins Overhyped?
ChatGPT Plugins are one of the most hyped things in AI -- but are they overhyped? In this episode, NLW explores how the default interfaces of the internet have changed over time, the issues with the current implementations of ChatGPT Plugins, and what...
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Nvidia Is Building an AI Supercomputer and Gami...
Nvidia made a huge number of AI related announcements at Computex, including new chips, a new AI supercomputer, a partnership with the world's biggest advertising agency WPP, and a new AI gaming platform. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the...
21 min
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AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Ac...
A reading of Max Tegmark's essay The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter:  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube:  Join the community:...
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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 ...
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The 9 AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day As A Co...
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....
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NVIDIA Sets Off An AI Stock Frenzy While Elon W...
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...
12 min
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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...
17 min
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This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than C...
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...
15 min
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How...
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...
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Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and th...
Find the complete presentation here: 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...
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The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plug...
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...
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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...
15 min
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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...
21 min
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Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI C...
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. ...
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The Most Important AI News From A Week Where We...
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  ...
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"How I Went from Non-Technical to Building an A...
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...
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