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Jul 12, 2023 • 19min

ChatGPT's First True Competitor? Anthropic Releases Claude 2

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 jobs in their member countries have the highest level of risk to be automated away by AI; OpenAI strikes a 6-year deal with Shutterstock and Senators reflect on yesterday's classified White House AI briefing. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.    Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe   Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown   Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown   Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
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Jul 11, 2023 • 18min

Why Google Is Intentionally Limiting the Power of Bard AI

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: the White House is holding its first classified briefing for the Senate; China is considering new AI content rules; Netflix has released a documentary about AI and the military. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.    Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe   Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown   Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown   Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
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Jul 10, 2023 • 21min

5 Ways AI Could Improve Humanity

This episode discusses a lawsuit against Meta and OpenAI for using copyrighted material, the growing priority of AI spending for companies, the potential of humanoid robots in leadership and medical settings, and AI's potential to improve humanity by addressing climate change, revolutionizing healthcare, and accelerating technological progress.
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Jul 9, 2023 • 16min

5 Ways AI Could Destroy Humanity

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 Featuring Max Tegmark, Elizerer Yudkowsky, Joshua Bengio and more.    ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.    Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe   Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown   Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown   Learn more: http://breakdown.network/cc
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Jul 8, 2023 • 19min

Forget Alignment, Here's Why Every AI Needs an Individual "Soul"

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/ ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.    Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe   Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown   Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown   Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
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Jul 7, 2023 • 19min

ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Finally Coming Next Week!

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 Brief -- Is AI in a bubble? According to analysts at Goldman Sachs, AI isn't overhyped and backs up all the excitement. Also on this Brief, Morgan Stanley says Microsoft heading to $3T market cap, Alibaba launches an image generation AI and more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.    Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe   Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown   Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown   Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
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Jul 6, 2023 • 21min

OpenAI Sets Moonshot Goal of AI Superalignment in 4 Years

OpenAI announces 'Superalignment' goal to align superintelligent AI with human intent and values. Google's updated policies allow training AI on public data while platforms like Twitter and Reddit restrict access to data. The transformation of the internet into walled gardens and decline in venture capital funding. Financial challenges, upskilling, military testing, and OpenAI's initiative. Allocating resources and addressing risks of superintelligence through OpenAI's Super Alignment project. Importance of co-founder and chief scientist in achieving AI superalignment goal.
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Jul 5, 2023 • 20min

Will AI Replace All Coders Within 5 Years?

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 traffic ever last month, as well as CNET's push towards AI content.  Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.    Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe   Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown   Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown   Learn more: http://breakdown.network/ Quick LinksGet Embed PlayerShare on SocialDownload Audio File
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Jul 4, 2023 • 24min

Will AI Increase Freedom or Help Authoritarians?

Exploring the impact of AI, the podcast discusses the debate between AI enhancing freedom or aiding authoritarians. It covers the threat of AI to open societies, the differences between crypto and AI, concerns about capitalist competition and AI safety, and the potential of AI in promoting freedom.
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Jul 3, 2023 • 16min

The AI Data Wars: Why Elon Musk's Rate Limits Are About More Than Twitter

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 for Steam that use AI art that might have copyright issues; Humane shares more information about its Ai Pin wearable; AI enthusiasm in markets is causing some people to worry. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.    Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe   Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown   Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown   Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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