The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW describes three bits of news from this week that together help us get a preview of the future of large language models, including interpretability research from OpenAI using GPT-4 to better understand how GPT-2 works; Anthropic's "Constitutional AI"...

A check-in on AutoGPT as well as the headline news:
Updates from the US copyright office
Pitchbook VC enthusiasm for AI
Palantir stock price pops after AI announcement
Google I/O Developer conference AI leaks
IBM relaunches AI division as WatsonX in partnership with HuggingFace
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On today's episode, we discuss Warren Buffett's recent comments on AI as well as cover a primer of the geopolitics of AI. On the headline news brief, we cover updates from Google and Amazon as well as new open source LLM's and a new text-to-3D platform Shap-E from OpenAI.

NLW argues Geoffrey Hinton's defection from Google and his progress mainstreaming the AI safety conversation makes this week one of huge, if subtle, significance. 
Also covered: 
Midjourney v5.1 Inflection Pi iBaby AGI Brain-to-video CEBRA research Microsoft Bing updates Microsof...

This week, a Google researcher had a note leaked that argued that Google (and OpenAI) were going to lose AI to the open source community. In this episode, NLW explores the arguments and asks what the implications might be. 
Read the original note: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/g...

Code Interpreter is a new plugin for ChatGPT that is allowing for amazing data analysis and visualization. In today's episode, NLW looks at 6 early use cases, ranging from San Francisco Crime Data to mapping Lighthouses to basic video editing. 
On the Headline Brief, NLW covers:
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The Writers Guild of America is striking after not being able to come to an agreement with TV and film executives. At the heart of the matter is the use of AI, and many believe the issues at stake are broadly relevant for other industries as well.

Our main discussion is focused on new research out of the University of Texas Austin on GPT-like AI that, after being trained on a particular person's brain, can translate their thoughts into text. 
The news brief covers:
IBM replacing 7800 future hires with AI
Dropbox lays off 5...

If you've ever used Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion or another text-to-image generator, you'll know that words are a weakness. Text (such as on signs) tends to be gibberish. DeepFloyd IF has started to solve that problem and it's doing it open source.   Referenced in the vid...

On this episode of The AI Breakdown, NLW is joined by Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal to discuss AI as a disinflationary force, how big companies are reacting to AI, AI safety and more. 
This is an excerpt from a conversation that first appeared on The Breakdown on Tuesday April 25, 20...

On Wednesday night I had a "FaceTime" with Call Annie. It's a new app that matches AI language models with an AI avatar to have a more human conversation. The conversation explores AI alignment, X-risk, and much more.

Discussed on the show:
ChatGPT Privacy - https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1650961357913616402
ChatGPT Browse - https://twitter.com/zacknotes/status/1651360024877203457
HuggingChat - https://twitter.com/ClementDelangue/status/1650908484936908808
Microsoft Designer - https://twi...