The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

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Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more government involvement in AI. 
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Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that are expanding creativity and democratizing the capacity to build webapps. Also on this episode, NLW looks at Bill Gates AI thoughts for 2024.
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A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of it impacting their employment. Also on today's show we look at OpenAI's new Preparedness plan.
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Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation about the impact of AI companions on society. Also, ByteDance gets caught using OpenAI API to train a competing model and improved ChatGPT performance sparks 4.5 rumors.
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In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat interfaces with other types of interfaces that are custom designed for specific use cases.
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A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23998493/artificial-intelligence-president-joe-biden-executive-order-ai-safety-openai-google-accelerationists
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OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak-to-strong generalizations, and how they can analogize using weaker models to train more advanced models to simulate humans trying to control superhuman AI. Before that on the Brief...

A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also, Pope Francis calls for a binding treaty on AI.
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Believe it or not, there is some fairly good evidence that ChatGPT is acting lazy (i.e. returning shorter results for example) because it's mimicking the productivity patterns of humans at the holidays. Plus a look at the trends, papers and projects currently interesting OpenAI's...

AI startups have run counter to the trend of decreased VC all year, but even they're now feeling the pinch as well. Here's why it matters more broadly than just for AI startup founders. Before that on the Brief, tension around the EU AI Act, and a CEO gets fired over an AI kerfuf...

NLW looks at rumors from some sources that have previously had OpenAI insider leaks that GPT-4.5 could be coming as soon as this week and likely before the end of the year. Also a look at fast moving open source developments with Mistral closing its fundraise and releasing its AP...