The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

The standard discourse around AI and politics is one of fear. Deepfakes. Election tampering. Misinformation. Yet the two pieces NLW reads today suggest a different path is possible.
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Meta is launching a new open source AI specifically for code generation which could undercut paid tools like Microsoft GitHub Copilot (powered by OpenAI's Codex). Before that on the Brief: a jailbroken Nest that shows the future of AI-powered devices; states form an AI regulatory...

Users were not stoked when Snapchat's My AI chatbot posted a story yesterday -- something it wasn't supposed to be able to do. Before that on the Brief: the AI Twitter community debates whether OpenAI's acquisition of Global Illumination is about talent or a push towards autonomo...

In today's episode, NLW explores the factors that have driven AI past its peak of hype, and what's actually going on behind the scenes.
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On today's episode, NLW looks at Metaculus prediction markets around various AI events. Before that on the Brief: Gulf states race to acquire compute; Iowa school district uses AI to figure out which books to ban; and did Microsoft just release ChatGPT for business?
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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.
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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.
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A reading of and discussion around Tyler Cowen's "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history."
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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 o...

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.
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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...

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 t...