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A reading of "Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/five-ways-ai-might-destroy-the-world-everyone-on-earth-could-fall-over-dead-in-the-same-second
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A reading of David Brin's "Give Every AI a Soul - or Else" https://www.wired.com/story/give-every-ai-a-soul-or-else/
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After months of waiting, ChatGPT Code Interpreter plugin is coming to all ChatGPT plus users next week. NLW breaks down why people are so excited, and also shares other OpenAI updates including that GPT-4 is now generally available to paying API customers. Before that on The Brie...

Yesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintelligent AI with human intent and values. The company is dedicating 20% of its compute resources to the project and its being led by their chief scientist and co-founder.
Before that on...

Stability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque has predicted that there will be no human coders within 5 years. On today's episode, NLW explores this prediction in terms of what evidence there is for and against it. Before that on The Brief, he looks at why ChatGPT had its first decline in tra...

AI could be a tool for the promotion of freedom, or it could aid in surveillance, control, and an expansion of authoritarianism. Which is more likely? NLW explores on this special July 4th edition of The AI Breakdown.
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The AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scraping. The move follows big changes to the Reddit API that some have called the end of the internet as we know it. Before that on The Brief: Valve has said they won't approve games f...

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...