The AI Breakdown: Daily Artificial Intelligence News and Discussions

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 Midjourne, ChatGPT and AutoGPT 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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Last Episode : May 28, 2023 7:55am

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AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Actually Be?
Confirmed 3

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

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Published Sunday
The 5 Biggest AI News Stories This Week
Confirmed 3

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

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

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Published Thursday
Mind-Reading AI Generates Videos from Brainwaves
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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 

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Published Wednesday
This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than ChatGPT's Dataset
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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

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Published Tuesday
Can ChatGPT Outperform Wall Street?
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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. 

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Published Monday
How Bad Will AI Jobs Loss Be?
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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. 

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Published 05/21
Are OpenAI Trying for Regulatory Capture?
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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?

 

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Published 05/20
The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How We Use AI
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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. 

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Published 05/19
Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and the Future of Humanity
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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 pause just let autocrats get ahead?

13:05 Conclusion

 

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Published 05/18
The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far
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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.

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Published 05/17
7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing
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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. 

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Published 05/16
Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?
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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

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Published 05/15
Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?
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This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast. It features Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov. 

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Published 05/14