Podcast Updates and Industry Insights

Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn from the SuperDataScience Podcast.

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:04:14) News Preview
• (00:05:28) Response to listener comments / corrections
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:07:10) Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro
  • (00:11:52) Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear
  • (00:15:43) Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos
  • (00:17:05) YouTube expands AI audio generation tool to all U.S. creators
  • (00:20:29) All Gemini users can now generate images with Imagen 3
  • (00:22:27) Meta AI will launch in six more countries today, including the UK
  • (00:24:27) OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt—And It’s Very Different From Anthropic's Approach
• Applications & Business
  • (00:27:46) Tesla’s big ‘We, Robot’ event criticized for ‘parlor tricks’ and vague timelines for robots, Cybercab, Robovan
  • (00:37:25) OpenAI announces content deal with Hearst, including content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:47:59) OpenR: An Open-Source AI Framework Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models
  • (00:49:54) MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
  • (00:56:29) OpenAI Releases Swarm: An Experimental AI Framework for Building, Orchestrating, and Deploying Multi-Agent Systems
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:59:23) Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists
  • (01:05:22) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins
  • (01:09:09) LLMs can’t perform “genuine logical reasoning,” Apple researchers suggest
  • (01:13:05) GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:14:34) Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI
  • (01:23:04) Google will help build seven nuclear reactors to power its AI systems
  • (01:24:11) LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:26:26) Adobe Pushes Content Authenticity Forward With a Free Web App Designed for Creators
• (01:29:13) Outro