The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

Today on The AI Breakdown, a research recap of the most interesting recent AI research, including:
DreamDiffusion translating EEG to images - https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.16934

Nemo simulating life in games - https://www.ranmo.me/blog/title-digital-companionship

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The debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of scenarios for if and how humans develop AGI and what happens if and when we do.
A reading of: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SRW9WAEEKJEgHAhSy/60-possible-futures
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Inflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest GPU clusters. OpenAI sets up shop in London, updates their mobile iOS ChatGPT app with Browse with Bing, and gets sued for data scraping. Runway raises $141M. MLB experimenting wit...

The Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claims their next model will eclipse ChatGPT. Unity releases AI platform including Unity Muse.
NOTE: While NLW is traveling this week, The AI Br...

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B
Ramp acquires Cohere.io 
Thompson Reuters acquires legal AI firm CaseText for $650M
Verge surveys 2000 people on AI
MerlynMind releases education focused large language models
Waldo 2.0 is drone object identifi...

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief:
DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive modifications just through dragging has released its source code
Inflection releases a new LLM that competes with GPT3.5
MidJourney gets zoomed out with its 5.2 upgrade
Nvidia says i...

Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12 years old. He founded digital media company Dose which created some of the world's largest viral content sites.   For the past fe...

Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from Ian's writing on AI going back to 2018 to help us understand the perspective he's bringing to the taskforce and its £100...

For more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education revolution. Now as the CEO of Maven, he's helping the world figure out how to reskill for the coming era of artificial intelligence. In this conversation, we talk about the growth i...

Today NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the browser to execute complex tasks.   Learn more: https://multion.ai/   The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. 
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AI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based interaction to intent-based outcome specification. A reading of AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years by Jakob Nielsen   Before that on The Brief Marvel has kicked up significant ...

President Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "decisive action" on AI in the weeks to come. CNN reports that senior advisors have been meeting on AI 2-3 times per week since April. On the Brief: OpenAI Is reportedly considering ...