A reading and discussion based on "For all our fear of AI dystopia, it may help to level up society" https://www.ft.com/content/8f7b9b52-9243-4c34-af80-223522273ab4 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://...
Jan 20, 2024•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Other revelations from an Instagram reel include that Meta will have around $20B worth of compute by the end of 2024; that Llama 3 is being trained, and that it intends to be state of the art -- not just the best open source model. 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/@TheAIB...
Jan 19, 2024•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast A massive improvement in how AI can reason around geometry plus Samsung releases the AI-est AI phone to AI yet. 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/
Jan 19, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sam Altman is among the business and political leaders descending upon Davos for the World Economic Forum. Today NLW looks at a set of comments he made about AGI, energy, GPT-5, and more. Before that on the Brief, Congress questions the Pentagon over support for an AI scientist with connections to China. 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...
Jan 17, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast That's according to new research from the IMF. NLW also covers Elon wanting more control before building advanced AI at Tesla and OpenAI's new election policies. 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://bre...
Jan 16, 2024•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast The wars include the Quality Data Wars, the War of the GPU Rich/Poor, the Multimodality War, the RAG/Ops War Inspired by this excellent framework from our friends at Latent Space https://www.latent.space/p/dec-2023 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...
Jan 14, 2024•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast A reading and exploration of: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/signs-and-portents 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/
Jan 13, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Note: This episode was produced on Wednesday January 10th, but due to an ice storm never came out! Apologies for the delay. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown 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 Th...
Jan 13, 2024•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus a new Congressional working group focused on AI. 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/
Jan 12, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast After a couple months of anticipation and more than 3 million user created GPTs, the GPT store has officially gone live. 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/
Jan 11, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus OpenAI claps back at the New York Times copyright lawsuit. 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/
Jan 10, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is "Intelligence Amplification" a better term? Plus, Nvidia prepares to manufacture new chips for the China market. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown 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 Bre...
Jan 08, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast A reading of two essays that explore this question with very different answers. https://www.newsweek.com/why-nationalizing-ai-bad-idea-opinion-1857495 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/artificial-intelligence-truckers-writers.html Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discu...
Jan 06, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI announced the GPT Store is finally launching next week. NLW gives 5 predictions on how it will play out. Before that on the Brief: rumors of AI-powered Siri updates from Apple and a leaked Bard Advanced powered by Google Gemini Ultra. 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.c...
Jan 05, 2024•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast A new survey asked 2,700+ AI/ML researchers about their fears concerning AI. This is how they responded. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown 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 Y...
Jan 04, 2024•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the peak of inflated expectations comes the trough of disillusionment. After a dismal outing on the first day of public market trading, some wonder if the early indicators of a more sober market take on AI are already taking hold in 2024. 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.youtub...
Jan 03, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast NLW breaks down the industry as 2024 begins, from policy to AI safety to the state of the art in technology. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown 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 ...
Jan 02, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast NLW looks across a range of studies, surveys and predictions to try to parse out what the real impact of AI in the workplace might be. Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown 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.yo...
Dec 29, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. While it's not the first copyright suit of its type, it's certainly the most significant so far. The case -- which will almost certainly end up at the Supreme Court -- could have significant ramifications for how LLMs and generative AI develops. Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts...
Dec 28, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast NLW looks at the state of AI music generators and gives the new Suno.ai a test run for the holidays. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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 communit...
Dec 24, 2023•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast NLW reviews one set of predictions as a way of discussing what's coming next in AI. Built off of https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/8-predictions-for-ai-in-2024/ Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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 YouTub...
Dec 23, 2023•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast NLW builds off of this list of the 10 biggest events of AI of 2023 to do a yearly recap! Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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/ai...
Dec 22, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more government involvement in AI. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in...
Dec 22, 2023•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that are expanding creativity and democratizing the capacity to build webapps. Also on this episode, NLW looks at Bill Gates AI thoughts for 2024. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://...
Dec 20, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of it impacting their employment. Also on today's show we look at OpenAI's new Preparedness plan. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdo...
Dec 19, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation about the impact of AI companions on society. Also, ByteDance gets caught using OpenAI API to train a competing model and improved ChatGPT performance sparks 4.5 rumors. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up here - https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI B...
Dec 18, 2023•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat interfaces with other types of interfaces that are custom designed for specific use cases. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newslette...
Dec 17, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23998493/artificial-intelligence-president-joe-biden-executive-order-ai-safety-openai-google-accelerationists Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up for the waitlist here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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.be...
Dec 16, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak-to-strong generalizations, and how they can analogize using weaker models to train more advanced models to simulate humans trying to control superhuman AI. Before that on the Brief, Intel's latest in the AI chip race. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown ABOUT THE AI BRE...
Dec 15, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also, Pope Francis calls for a binding treaty on AI. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up for the waitlist here - https://bit.ly/aibeta 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 Yo...
Dec 14, 2023•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
