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The White House continues its engagement with the artificial intelligence space today releasing a set of voluntary commitments that a group of leading AI company have formally signed on to. Before that on the Brief: The WSJ reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been spen...

Bloomberg reports that Apple has developed an LLM platform called Ajax upon which they've built a chatbot that engineers internally call "Apple GPT." NLW provides commentary and predictions for how Apple will chose to compete in the generative AI space. Before that on the Brief: ...

The much anticipated Meta Llama 2 model has been released, and as hoped it is available for commercial use. NLW breaks down how Llama 2 compares to other open and closed LLMs and surveys the community's initial response.
Before that on the Brief: Simulation is an AI showrunner th...

The Fermi Paradox refers to the discrepancy between what seems like the high chance of other intelligent life given billions of planets and our total lack of evidence of that life. Some in the AI community (including OpenAI's Sam Altman) think one answer could be AI killing off a...

Jasper and Mutiny have both laid off part of their teams in recent weeks, leading some to question whether it's another example of the AI bubble deflating after ChatGPT saw declines in usage for the first time ever in June. 
Before that on The Brief: Nearly 8000 authors have sign...

LLM competition ratchets up seemingly every week. At this point, the different design choices that models have made have led to different LLMs being better or worse suited for different tasks. NLW builds off a recent viral tweet about which LLMs are good for what tasks.
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Bill Gates has penned another letter about AI, this time arguing that humans are more prepared than we might think for the challenges it brings.
Read the full piece: https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-risks-of-AI-are-real-but-manageable

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused consumer harms in terms of data collection and safety practices as well as disparaging information. A look at what the implications are for the larger state of AI regulation.
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Elon Musk is launching xAI, a new AI company to explore the big questions of the universe. NLW looks at how he's thinking about it differently than some other players in the space. Before that on the Brief: Google has announced a set of updates for Bard that make it vastly more u...

Anthropic has released Claude 2. The model preforms comparably to GPT-4 but offers a 100k context window for 4-5x cheaper. NLW does a roundup of the AI community's first impressions. Before that on the Brief: the OECD's 2023 employment report finds that more than a quarter of job...

Google CEO Sunday Pichai told 60 Minutes that the company is purposefully limiting the power and capabilities of their Bard AI model to ensure society has time to catch up. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis also gives his view of the next wave of AI innovation. Before that on the Brief...

Today NLW reads the companion piece to yesterday's episode -- 5 Ways AI Could Improve the World https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/ai-artificial-intelligence-world-diseases-climate-scenarios-experts
Before that on the Brief: Comedian and actress Sarah Silverman ha...