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#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen

Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again!

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections (00:05:13) Sponsor Read) Tools & Apps (00:06:22) Anthropic?s latest AI update can use a computer on its own (00:18:09) AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others (00:20:37) Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator (00:23:35) Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users (00:26:16) StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5  (00:28:27) Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for Enterprise Applications & Business (00:32:35) Crusoe?s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs (00:39:08) Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation (00:45:47) Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI (00:49:53) NVIDIA?s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December (00:52:41) Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say (00:55:27) xAI, Elon Musk?s AI startup, launches an API Projects & Open Source (00:58:32) INTELLECT-1: The First Decentralized 10-Billion-Parameter AI Model Training (01:06:34) Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts?Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community (01:10:02) Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source Research & Advancements (01:13:21) OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X (01:17:54) How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it? (01:25:28) Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning (01:33:30) Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation Policy & Safety (01:41:50) Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy (01:48:52) Anthropic is testing AI?s capacity for sabotage (01:56:30) OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says (02:00:05) US Probes TSMC?s Dealings with Huawei (02:03:03) TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia ? the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs (02:06:37) Outro
2024-10-28
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#186 - Adobe AI Tools, Tesla's Cybercab, Nobel Prizes

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.

Check out Jon?s upcoming agent-focused event here - AI Catalyst: Agentic Artificial Intelligence

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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
2024-10-21
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#185 - Movie Gen, ChatGPT Canvas, OpenAI's VC Round, SB 1047 Vetoed

Our 185th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Gavin Purcell from the AI for Humans podcast.

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In this episode:

Meta's MovieGen introduces innovative features in AI video generation, alongside OpenAI's real-time speech API and expanded ChatGPT capabilities. Mio's foundation model and Apple's Depth Pro enhance multimodal AI inputs and precise 3D imaging for AR, VR, and robotics. Microsoft and OpenAI's strategic advancements highlight significant financial moves and AI enhancements, including Microsoft's enhanced Copilot. AI policy discussions intensify as California's vetoed bill sparks debates on regulation, alongside Google's $1 billion investment to expand AI infrastructure in Thailand.

 

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:51) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(00:03:48) Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator (00:14:28) OpenAI launches new ?Canvas? ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects (00:19:31) OpenAI?s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers (00:24:43) Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API (00:28:30) Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet (00:32:36) Pika 1.5 is now live ? AI video generator just got major upgrades Applications & Business(00:37:49) OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time (00:45:23) Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI?s role in search (00:51:05) Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma (00:51:49) OpenAI?s newest creation is raising shock, alarm, and horror among staffers: a new logo (00:53:45) Waymo to add Hyundai EVs to robotaxi fleet under new multiyear deal (00:57:28) Cerebras, an A.I. Chipmaker Trying to Take On Nvidia, Files for an I.P.O. (00:59:18) Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup Research & Advancements(01:03:30) Were RNNs All We Needed? (01:06:52) MIO: A Foundation Model on Multimodal Tokens (01:09:20) Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision Policy & Safety(01:13:08) California Governor Vetoes Sweeping A.I. Legislation (01:18:02) Judge blocks California?s new AI law in case over Kamala Harris deepfake Musk reposted (01:20:41) Google to invest $1 billion in Thailand to build a data center and accelerate AI growth Synthetic Media & Art(01:21:58) AI reading coach startup Ello now lets kids create their own stories (01:25:13) Outro
2024-10-12
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#184 - OpenAI's Voice 2.0 + execs quitting, Llama 3.2, To CoT or not to CoT?

Our 184th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn.

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OpenAI, Meta, and Google are enhancing their AI assistants with advanced voice modes, while Meta released Llama 3.2, an open-source model capable of processing both images and text. Significant AI infrastructure developments include Grok's partnership with Aramco for a massive data center in Saudi Arabia, and Microsoft's plan to power data centers using a reopened Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Recent research shows chain-of-thought prompting is most effective for math and symbolic reasoning, while OpenAI's GPT-4 with vision capabilities is being integrated into Perplexity AI's search platform. AI is being rapidly integrated into various sectors, with examples including ChartWatch reducing unexpected hospital deaths, Snapchat and YouTube introducing AI video generation tools, and Lionsgate partnering with Runway for AI-assisted film production.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:04:45) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(00:07:46) OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look (00:13:32) Meta?s AI can now talk to you in the voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench (00:17:11) Gemini?s chatty voice mode is out now for free on Android (00:21:30) AI video rivalry intensifies as Luma announces Dream Machine API hours after Runway (00:23:35) Copilot Wave 2 supercharges productivity with AI across all your Microsoft 365 apps (00:25:56) Perplexity introduces new 'Reasoning' focus powered by OpenAI's o1 Applications & Business(00:33:47) OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman (00:41:46) Sam Altman departs OpenAI?s safety committee (00:43:04) Chip Startup Groq Backs Saudi AI Ambitions With Aramco Deal (00:46:29) Grok?s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources (00:48:05) Pudu unveils super semi-humanoid robot with 8-hour battery, 10kg lift power  (00:50:56) Amazon introduces Amelia, an AI assistant for third-party sellers Projects & Open Source(00:52:58) Meta Releases Llama 3.2?and Gives Its AI a Voice (00:56:52) Alibaba Unveils Ovis 1.6 ? A New Multimodal Language Model Research & Advancements(01:00:35) To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning (01:06:14) LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 on PlanBench (01:10:15) Norwegian Startup 1X Unveils AI World Model for Robot Training (01:12:44) AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds Policy & Safety(01:15:47) Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers (01:18:23) Governor Newsom signs bills to combat deepfake election content (01:20:12) Governor Newsom signs bills to protect digital likeness of performers (01:22:20) Startup behind ?world?s first robot lawyer? to pay $193K for false ads, FTC says Synthetic Media & Art(01:24:49) Snap is introducing an AI video generation tool for creators (01:25:57) YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google?s AI video model  (01:26:56) Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Company Runway, Hopes That AI Can Eliminate Storyboard Artists and VFX Crews

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2024-10-03
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#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo

Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule.

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In this episode:

- OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses. 

- Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise.

- LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel.

- New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:38) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ?reasoning? abilities (00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year (00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls (00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You Applications & Business(00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup?s Valuation to $150 Billion (00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT (00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report (00:45:14) Japan?s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100M Projects & Open Source(00:47:31) The fable of Reflection 70B (00:53:08) DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations (00:56:31) DeepSeek-V2.5 wins praise as the new, true open source AI model leader Research & Advancements(01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins  (01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining (01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers (01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting Policy & Safety(01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card (01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China?s chip industry (01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047 (01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears' Synthetic Media & Art(01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training (01:45:08) Outro
2024-09-26
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# 182 - Alexa 2.0, MiniMax, Surskever raises $1B, SB 1047 approved

Our 182nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

- OpenAI's move into hardware production and Amazon's strategic acquisition in AI robotics. - Advances in training language models with long-context capabilities and California's pending AI regulation bill. - Strategies for safeguarding open weight LLMs against adversarial attacks and China's rise in chip manufacturing. - Sam Altman's infrastructure investment plan and debates on AI-generated art by Ted Chiang.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:05:15) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:07:32) Amazon Picks Anthropic to Power Alexa 2.0 (00:12:12) Forget Sora ? MiniMax is a new realistic AI video generator and it?s seriously impressive Applications & Business (00:14:56) Ilya Sutskever?s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B (00:22:20) TSMC?s A16 Process Creates a Buzz Before Mass Production, as OpenAI Reportedly Secures Capacity (00:29:13) Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant (00:33:33) OpenAI weighs changes to corporate structure amid latest funding talks (00:37:43) Chinese GPU-maker XCT, once valued at $2.1B, is on the verge of collapse ? shareholders now suing founder (00:40:34) TSMC aims to ready next-gen silicon photonics for AI in 5 years Projects & Open Source (00:44:10) Alibaba releases new AI model Qwen2-VL that can analyze videos more than 20 minutes long Research & Advancements (00:48:32) Fire-Flyer AI-HPC: A Cost-Effective Software-Hardware Co-Design for Deep Learning (00:55:52) 100M Token Context Windows (01:03:50) Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling (01:06:16) AnyGraph : An Effective and Efficient Graph Foundation Model Designed to Address the Multifaceted Challenges of Structure and Feature Heterogeneity Across Diverse Graph Datasets Policy & Safety (01:08:16) California Legislature Approves Bill Proposing Sweeping A.I. Restrictions (01:11:14) Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs (01:17:12) China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows (01:20:50) China Threatens to Cut Off ASML Over New US Chip Curbs (01:23:22) Altman Infrastructure Plan Aims to Spend Tens of Billions in US Synthetic Media & Art (01:26:23) NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools (01:28:54) Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI (01:30:48) Why A.I. Isn?t Going to Make Art (01:34:28) Outro
2024-09-17
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#181 - Google Chatbots, Cerebras vs Nvidia, AI Doom, ElevenLabs Controversy

Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

- Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress.  - Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia.  - Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer.  - AI regulation discussions including California?s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia?s AI chips.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:08)Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(00:09:19) Google?s custom AI chatbots have arrived (00:12:52) Google releases three new experimental AI models (00:17:14) Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again (00:22:32) Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi (00:26:42:) Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pin Applications & Business(00:30:31) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ?world?s fastest? AI inference service (00:41:06) Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback (00:46:24) OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value it at more than $100 billion (00:50:44) OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ?Strawberry,? in Fall (00:52:53) 3 Co-Founders Leave French AI Startup H Amid ?Operational Differences? (00:57:29) Samsung to Adopt High-NA Lithography Alongside Intel, Ahead of TSMC (01:02:11) Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot Projects & Open Source(01:04:59) Meta leads open-source AI boom, Llama downloads surge 10x year-over-year (01:09:08) A_Preliminary_Report_on_DisTrO. Research & Advancements(01:13:56) Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines (01:23:18) LLM Defenses Are Not Robust to Multi-Turn Human Jailbreaks Yet (01:32:21) Interviewing AI researchers on automation of AI R&D (01:40:33) Anthropic releases AI model system prompts, winning praise for transparency Policy & Safety(01:47:12) U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI (01:50:46) China?s Views on AI Safety Are Changing?Quickly (01:56:27) Poll: 7 in 10 Californians Support SB1047, Will Blame Governor Newsom for AI-Enabled Catastrophe if He Vetoes (02:01:31) Elon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models (02:03:55) Chinese Engineers Reportedly Accessing NVIDIA?s High-End AI Chips Through Decentralized ?GPU Rental Services? (02:08:25) U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component sales Synthetic Media & Art(02:11:13) Actors Say AI Voice-Over Generator ElevenLabs Cloned Likenesses (02:14:06) Outro
2024-09-15
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#180 - Ideogram v2, Imagen 3, AI in 2030, Agent Q, SB 1047

Our 180th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.

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Episode Highlights:

Ideogram AI's new features, Google's Imagine 3, Dream Machine 1.5, and Runway's Gen3 Alpha Turbo model advancements. Perplexity's integration of Flux image generation models and code interpreter updates for enhanced search results.  Exploration of the feasibility and investment needed for scaling advanced AI models like GPT-4 and Agent Q architecture enhancements. Analysis of California's AI regulation bill SB1047 and legal issues related to synthetic media, copyright, and online personhood credentials.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:08) Response to Listener Comments / Corrections Tools & Apps (00:03:58) Ideogram AI expands its features with v2 model and color palette options (00:07:48) Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free (00:11:41) Perplexity adds Flux.1 model for Pro users alongside Playground v3 update (00:13:58) Luma drops Dream Machine 1.5 ? here?s what?s new (00:17:49) Runway?s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type (00:20:21) Perplexity?s latest update improves code interpreter, charts included Applications & Business (00:24:14) AMD buying server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as chipmakers strengthen AI capabilities (00:28:55) Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services (00:34:08) Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at  $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say 00:38:32 Stability AI appoints new Chief Technology Officer (00:41:45) Cruise?s robotaxis are coming to the Uber app in 2025 Projects & Open Source (00:44:16) AI21 Introduces the Jamba Model Family: The most powerful and efficient long-context models for the enterprise (00:53:47) Microsoft reveals Phi-3.5 ? this new small AI model outperforms Gemini and GPT-4o (00:57:33) Nvidia?s Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a small language model that punches above its weight (01:00:58) Open source Dracarys models ignite generative AI fired coding Research & Advancements (01:12:35) Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030? (01:15:35) Agent Q: Advanced Reasoning and Learning for Autonomous AI Agents (01:23:58) Transformers to SSMs: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge to Subquadratic Models (01:31:18) Loss of plasticity in deep continual learning Policy & Safety (01:38:20) California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic (01:48:14) Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online (01:52:44) Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs Synthetic Media & Art (01:58:33) Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement (01:59:32) Artists? lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney gets more punch (02:01:43) Outro
2024-09-03
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#179 - Grok 2, Gemini Live, Flux, FalconMamba, AI Scientist

Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.

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Episode Highlights:

- Grok 2's beta release features new image generation using Black Forest Labs' tech.

- Google introduces Gemini Voice Chat Mode available to subscribers and integrates it into Pixel Buds Pro 2.

- Huawei's Ascend 910C AI chip aims to rival NVIDIA's H100 amidst US export controls.

- Overview of potential risks of unaligned AI models and skepticism around SingularityNet's AGI supercomputer claims.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:15) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:24) Grok-2 is out in beta, now with added AI image generation (00:11:28) OpenAI reveals an updated GPT-4o model - but can't quite explain how it's better (00:13:48) Google Gemini?s voice chat mode is here (00:16:18) Google?s Pixel Buds Pro 2 bring Gemini to your ears (00:19:55) Google?s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources (00:23:13) Prompt Caching is Now Available on the Anthropic API for Specific Claude Models Applications & Business (00:26:56) Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk?s unhinged AI image generator (00:26:56) Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports (00:37:53) ASML and Imec Announce High-NA Lithography Breakthrough (00:43:07) Chinese startup WeRide gets nod to test robotaxis with passengers in California (00:45:49) Perplexity?s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google (00:51:55) Lisa Su formally welcomes Silo AI team to AMD after completing $665 million acquisition Projects & Open Source (00:54:31) FalconMamba 7B Released: The World?s First Attention-Free AI Model with 5500GT Training Data and 7 Billion Parameters (00:59:25) OpenAI has introduced SWE-bench Verified to evaluate AI performance (01:04:21) Nous Research presents Hermes 3 (01:11:07) New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeks Research & Advancements (01:14:40) The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (01:30:24) Imagen 3 (01:32:48) The Data Addition Dilemma (01:37:35) LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs Policy & Safety (01:40:55) MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks (01:44:14) Elon Musk addresses power issues at xAI supercomputer facility in Memphis (01:46:52) FCC Proposes New Rules on AI-Powered Robocalls Governments Adjust Policies Amid Flood of AI Record Requests Synthetic Media & Art (01:48:21) SAG-AFTRA Strikes Groundbreaking AI Digital Voice Replica Pact With Startup Firm Narrativ (01:51:52) How ?Deepfake Elon Musk? Became the Internet?s Biggest Scammer (01:56:21) AI Song Outro
2024-08-20
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#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk

Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

NOTE: this is a re-upload with fixed audio, my bad on the last one! - Andrey

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.

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In this episode: - Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible. - OpenAI's dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk. - Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis. - Research advancements such as Google's compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance.

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:14) Response to listener comments / corrections Applications & Business(00:06:56) Google?s hiring of Character.AI?s founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode (00:15:12) Investors in Adept AI will be paid back after Amazon hires startup?s top talent (00:22:36) AI chip start-up Groq?s value rises to $2.8bn as it takes on Nvidia (00:29:22) OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave (00:36:18) Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman (00:41:40) Figure?s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations (00:47:01) ASML, Tokyo Electron dodge new US chip export rules, for now (00:53:10) OpenAI reportedly leads $60M round for webcam startup Opal Tools & Apps(00:55:40) OpenAI cuts GPT-4o prices, launches Structured Outputs amidst price war with Google (01:02:08) Apple Intelligence could get a $20 Plus version (01:04:05) Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature  (01:05:53) Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages Research & Advancements(01:06:35) Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters (01:16:27) Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis (01:20:19) Self-Compressing Neural Networks (01:28:30) Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models (01:32:43) Berkeley Humanoid: A Research Platform for Learning-based Control Policy & Safety(01:33:35) METR announces results of study on comparative capabilities of humans and agents (01:39:35) ?The Godmother of AI? says California?s well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem (01:49:13) Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules (01:54:56) Amazon faces UK merger probe over $4B Anthropic AI investment (01:55:44) GPT-4o System Card (02:03:09) Outro
2024-08-16
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#177 - Instagram AI Bots, Noam Shazeer -> Google, FLUX.1, SAM2

Our 177th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest co-host Jon Krohn from the super data science podcast (https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast)!

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In this episode, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jon Krohn dive into significant updates and discussions in the AI world, including Instagram's new AI features, Waymo's driverless cars rollout in San Francisco, and NVIDIA?s chip delays. They also review Meta's AI Studio, character.ai CEO Noam Shazir's return to Google, and Google's Gemini updates. Additional topics cover NVIDIA's hardware issues, advancements in humanoid robots, and new open-source AI tools like Open Devon. Policy discussions touch on the EU AI Act, the U.S. stance on open-source AI, and investigations into Google and Anthropic. The impact of misinformation via deepfakes, particularly one involving Elon Musk, is also highlighted, all emphasizing significant industry effects and regulatory implications.

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(00:00:00) AI Song / Intro Banter (00:05:32) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:10:16) Apple Intelligence to Miss Initial Launch of Upcoming iOS 18 Overhaul (00:16:35) Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves Lighting round (00:22:49) Runway just dropped image-to-video in Gen3 (00:25:41) Midjourney drops surprise v6.1 update ? now humans look more real than ever (00:28:07) AI-Powered Necklace Will Be Your Friend for $99 (00:30:06) Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results Applications & Business (00:31:44) Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google (00:39:41) Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations Lighting round (00:43:30) Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw (00:41:08) Neura shows off humanoid robot 4NE-1 (00:46:0) Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F. Here?s how busy they are (00:57:27) Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI efforts Projects & Open Source (00:59:19) Black Forest Labs Open-Source FLUX.1: A 12 Billion Parameter Rectified Flow Transformer Capable of Generating Images from Text Descriptions (01:01:59) Google releases new ?open? AI models with a focus on safety Lighting round (01:05:09) Stability AI releases super-fast model for 3D asset image generation (01:09:29) OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents Research & Advancements (01:12:10) Meta AI Introduces Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2): The First Unified Model for Segmenting Objects Across Images and Videos (01:19:20) MoMa: Efficient Early-Fusion Pre-training with Mixture of Modality-Aware Experts Lighting round (01:25:00) AssistantBench: Can Web Agents Solve Realistic and Time-Consuming Tasks? (01:26:19) Trust or Escalate: LLM Judges with Provable Guarantees for Human Agreement (01:31:15) Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget Policy & Safety (01:33:03) World's First-Ever AI Law Now Enforced in Europe, Targeting US Tech Giants (01:39:12) White House says no need to restrict ?open-source? artificial intelligence ? at least for now Lighting round (01:41:12) With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans (01:44:03) UK antitrust body probes Google?s ties with AI rival Anthropic (01:45:20) Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy (01:50:10) AI Outro
2024-08-11
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#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2

Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

 

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(00:00:00) Intro Song (00:00:34) Intro Banter Tools & Apps(00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model (00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ?More About This Account? feature (00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities (00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop (00:14:25) Meta AI gets new ?Imagine me? selfie feature Projects & Open Source(00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech (00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math (00:34:00) Groq?s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling (00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings Applications & Business(00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI ? if shareholders approve (00:43:01) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market (00:46:28) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations (00:49:09) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion Research & Advancements(00:52:01) AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (00:56:47) A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent (01:00:56) MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens Policy & Safety(01:02:56) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards (01:06:39) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe (01:10:59) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning (01:13:08) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid (01:17:33) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power Synthetic Media & Art(01:20:58) Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns (01:23:03) Outro (01:23:58) AI Song
2024-08-03
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#175 - GPT-4o Mini, OpenAI's Strawberry, Mixture of A Million Experts

Our 175th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

In this episode of Last Week in AI, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris explore recent AI advancements including OpenAI's release of GPT 4.0 Mini and Mistral?s open-source models, covering their impacts on affordability and performance. They delve into enterprise tools for compliance, text-to-video models like Hyper 1.5, and YouTube Music enhancements. The conversation further addresses AI research topics such as the benefits of numerous small expert models, novel benchmarking techniques, and advanced AI reasoning. Policy issues including U.S. export controls on AI technology to China and internal controversies at OpenAI are also discussed, alongside Elon Musk's supercomputer ambitions and OpenAI?s Prover-Verify Games initiative.  

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(00:00:00) AI Song Intro (00:00:40) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:03:57) OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a small AI model powering ChatGPT (00:11:38) Meet Haiper 1.5, the new AI video generation model challenging Sora, Runway (00:16:32) Anthropic releases Claude app for Android (00:18:59) Google Vids is available to test out Gemini AI-created video presentations (00:20:27) YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI ?conversational radio? in testing  Applications & Business(00:23:30) OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ?Strawberry? (00:30:45) Inside Elon Musk?s Mad Dash To Build A Giant xAI Supercomputer In Memphis (00:37:15) Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models (00:41:05) After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy?s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education (00:43:40) Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund Projects & Open Source(00:46:27) Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation (00:50:36) Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Mistral NeMo 12B, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model (00:52:51) Hugging Face Releases SmoLLM, a Series of Small Language Models, Beats Qwen2 and Phi 1.5 (00:56:11) Stable Diffusion 3 License Revamped Amid Blowback, Promising Better Model Research & Advancements(01:01:49) FlashAttention-3 unleashes the power of H100 GPUs for LLMs (01:06:38) Mixture of A Million Experts (01:12:51) AutoBencher: Creating Salient, Novel, Difficult Datasets for Language Models (01:18:23) SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language >Models Policy & Safety(01:20:50) Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs (01:28:05) Trump allies draft AI order to launch ?Manhattan Projects? for defense (01:34:40) On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs (01:36:24) Google, Microsoft offer Nvidia chips to Chinese companies, the Information reports (01:38:26) U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report (01:48:47) OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say (01:44:59) Outro + AI Song
2024-07-25
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#174 - Odyssey Text-to-Video, Groq LLM Engine, OpenAI Security Issues

Our 174rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.

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(00:00:00) Intro AI Song (00:00:41) Pre News Banter Tools & Apps(00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha (00:10:28) Anthropic?s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps (00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy (00:18:30) Quora?s Poe now lets users create and share web apps (00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app ? now you can make AI music on the go Applications & Business(00:21:42) Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months (00:27:03) Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny (00:29:39) OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ?AI health coach? (00:33:38) AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say (00:37:01) Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz Clash Over AI Chip Supplies Amid Gen AI Boom (00:43:30) Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Make World?s ?Most Powerful? 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Cluster (00:46:25) AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in $665 million deal (00:48:00) AI robotics startup raises US$300 million, including from Jeff Bezos (00:52:11) Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections Research & Advancements(00:55:21) Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States (01:03:12) Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning (01:09:11) CopyBench: Measuring Literal and Non-Literal Reproduction of Copyright-Protected Text in Language Model Generation (01:13:25) Just read twice: closing the recall gap for recurrent language models (01:15:25) CodeUpdateArena: Benchmarking Knowledge Editing on API Updates (01:18:31) Composable Interventions for Language Models (01:24:09) Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy Policy & Safety(01:26:49) Covert Malicious Finetuning (01:31:23) OpenAI?s week of security issues (01:36:39) Here?s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are (01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs (01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab (01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders? DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub (01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sell Synthetic Media & Art(01:52:46) Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels (01:54:50) Tech Startup Aims to Help Media License Content for AI Training (01:57:23) Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy  (01:59:44) Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos (02:02:05) Outro + AI Song
2024-07-17
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#173 - Gemini Pro, Llama 400B, Gen-3 Alpha, Moshi, Supreme Court

Our 173rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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In this episode of Last Week in AI, we explore the latest advancements and debates in the AI field, including Google's release of Gemini 1.5, Meta's upcoming LLaMA 3, and Runway's Gen 3 Alpha video model. We discuss emerging AI features, legal disputes over data usage, and China's competition in AI. The conversation spans innovative research developments, cost considerations of AI architectures, and policy changes like the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Chevron deference. We also cover U.S. export controls on AI chips to China, workforce development in the semiconductor industry, and Bridgewater's new AI-driven financial fund, evaluating the broader financial and regulatory impacts of AI technologies.  

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:03:24) Google opens up Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro with 2M tokens to the public (00:08:47) Meta is about to launch its biggest Llama model yet ? here?s why it?s a big deal (00:12:38) Runway?s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available ? but there?s a catch (00:16:28) This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9 (00:17:30) AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates (00:20:06) Perplexity?s ?Pro Search? AI upgrade makes it better at math and research (00:23:12) Gemini?s data-analyzing abilities aren?t as good as Google claims Applications & Business(00:26:38) Quora?s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand (00:32:04) Huawei and Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips amid US restrictions (00:34:57) Alibaba?s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face (00:39:01) Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera (00:43:35) Apple?s Phil Schiller is reportedly joining OpenAI?s board (00:47:26) AI Video Startup Runway Looking to Raise $450 Million Projects & Open Source(00:48:10) Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Real-Time Native Multimodal Foundation AI Model that can Listen and Speak (00:50:44) MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation (00:53:47) Anthropic Pushes for Third-Party AI Model Evaluations (00:57:29) Mozilla Llamafile, Builders Projects Shine at AI Engineers World's Fair Research & Advancements(00:59:26) Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs (01:05:55) AI Agents That Matter (01:12:09) WARP: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Rewarded Policies (01:17:20) Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas (01:24:16) Found in the Middle: Calibrating Positional Attention Bias Improves Long Context Utilization Policy & Safety(01:26:32) With Chevron?s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water (01:33:40) Nvidia to make $12bn from AI chips in China this year despite US controls (01:37:52) Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players (01:40:57) U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with new program (01:42:42) Bridgewater starts $2 billion fund that uses machine learning for decision-making and will include models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity (01:47:57) Outro
2024-07-08
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#172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic

Our 172nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant (00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps (00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July (00:15:40) OpenAI?s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users (00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco (00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI Applications & Business (00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World?s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC (00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others (00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say (00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions (00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same Projects & Open Source (00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization (00:47:54) Google?s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options?a 9B and 27B (00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model Research & Advancements (00:56:57) Finding GPT-4?s mistakes with GPT-4 (01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks (01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again (01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination (01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws Policy & Safety (01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep (01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California?s AI safety bill (01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools (01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI (01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement (01:42:43) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels (01:45:07) Toys ?R? Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI?s Text-to-Video Tool (01:49:12) Outro + AI Song
2024-07-01
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#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc

Our 171st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:03:13) Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac (00:10:03) ?We don?t need Sora anymore?: Luma?s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut (00:14:48) Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips (00:18:21) Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode ? here?s how it works (00:22:31) Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor Applications & Business(00:28:23 ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company (00:31:19) Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc. (00:38:53) OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO) (00:41:44) Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months (00:44:30) AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft (00:48:55) Mistral closes ?600m at ?5.8bn valuation with new lead investor (00:53:12) Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA?s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China (00:56:58) Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform Projects & Open Source(01:01:03) Announcing the Open Release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Our Most Sophisticated Image Generation Model to Date (01:05:53) Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking (01:09:39) ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos Research & Advancements(01:12:02) Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling (01:22:07) Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision (01:28:01) Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations (01:30:32) An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models (01:31:57) BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners (01:33:33) SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals Policy & Safety(01:35:16) Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (01:42:26) Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole (01:45:53) Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe (01:46:44) Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (01:51:38) Huawei exec concerned over China?s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools Synthetic Media & Art(01:55:07) It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop. (01:57:39) Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won?t train AI on customers? work (01:59:31) Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets (02:02:23) Outro + AI Song 
2024-06-24
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#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?

Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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Tools & Apps(00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora (00:09:16) ?Apple Intelligence? will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI (00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features (00:14:38) Perplexity AI?s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages (00:16:35) ElevenLabs? AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt (00:18:37) Google?s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries Applications & Business(00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI (00:29:34) UAE seeks ?marriage? with US over artificial intelligence deals (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami  (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble?Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink Projects & Open Source(00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design Research & Advancements(00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders (01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting (01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach (01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests ? it didn't even break the 70th percentile Policy & Safety(01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027 (01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ?Reckless? Race for Dominance (01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks (01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Synthetic Media & Art(01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant (01:46:25) Outro + AI Song
2024-06-10
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#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:33) Google?s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul ? and a monthly subscription price (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you?re watching them (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled Applications & Business (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans ? China continues to move forward despite US sanctions (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits (00:48:16) Elon Musk?s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round Projects & Open Source (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code Research & Advancements (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What?s Important (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says Policy & Safety (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting (01:46:36) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic (01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees (01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee (01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden?s Voice Fined $6 Million (01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation?s Firms Synthetic Media & Art (02:02:23) Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI (02:04:21) Outro + AI Song
2024-06-03
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#168 - OpenAI vs Scar Jo + safety researchers, MS AI updates, cool Anthropic research

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (00:16:14) Microsoft?s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft?s key to unlocking the future of PCs (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it?s impressive (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles Applications & Business (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors. (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B Projects & Open Source (00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo (00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts (00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures Research & Advancements (00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box' (01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models (01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model (01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models (01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning (01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:15:01) World?s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light (01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill (01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation (01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models (01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments ? including a ?kill switch? if they can?t mitigate risks Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over ?unauthorized? use of its content to train AI (01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses (01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? (01:42:01) Outro + AI Song
2024-05-28
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#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!

And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.

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Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that?s free for all ChatGPT users (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine ? and it?s AI all the way down (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console Applications & Business (00:31:02) OpenAI?s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes (00:43:58) Waymo?s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps Projects & Open Source (00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE?s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta?s New Llama 3 (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 Research & Advancements (00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture Policy & Safety (00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They?re Split on How to Do It Synthetic Media & Art (00:58:54) Google?s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright (01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech (01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey (01:42:00) AI Outro Song
2024-05-19
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#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec

Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (00:09:31) Mysterious ?gpt2-chatbot? AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand Applications & Business(00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI Projects & Open Source(00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models Research & Advancements(00:50:02) Google DeepMind?s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Policy & Safety(01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models (01:17:30) OpenAI?s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ?Deepfake? Detector to Disinformation Researchers Synthetic Media & Art(01:28:15) Audible?s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3 (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam  (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men (01:40:18) AI Outro Song
2024-05-12
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#165 - Sora challenger, Astribot's S1, Med-Gemini, Refusal in LLMs

Our 165th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Tools & Apps(00:01:27) GitHub releases an AI-powered tool aiming for a 'radically new way of building software' (00:07:05) China unveils Sora challenger able to produce videos from text similar to OpenAI tool, though much shorter (00:12:23) ChatGPT?s AI ?memory? can remember the preferences of paying customers (00:14:21) Rabbit R1 review: Avoid this AI gadget (00:18:30) Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available (00:19:54) Yelp?s Assistant AI bot will do all the talking to help users find service providers Applications & Business(00:21:31) Video of super-fast, super-smooth humanoid robot will drop your jaw (00:25:22) Tesla?s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny (00:29:32) Tesla shares soar as Elon Musk returns from China with FSD 'Game Changer' (00:32:11) OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK?s Financial Times, including content use (00:35:21) OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M (00:37:00) Huawei backs HBM memory manufacturing in China to sidestep crippling US sanctions that restrict AI development Research & Advancements(00:39:20) Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine (00:45:34) Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models (00:52:20) NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution (00:55:08) SenseNova 5.0: China?s latest AI model surpasses OpenAI?s GPT-4 (00:57:20) Octopus v4: Graph of language models (01:00:28) Better & Faster Large Language Models via Multi-token Prediction Policy & Safety(01:03:15) Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction (01:09:19) Rishi Sunak promised to make AI safe. Big Tech?s not playing ball. (01:15:09) DOE Announces New Actions to Enhance America?s Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (01:18:21) The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects (01:20:50) Analysis-Second global AI safety summit faces tough questions, lower turnout (01:24:03) Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and more join the federal AI safety board Synthetic Media & Art(01:26:30) Air Head creators say OpenAI's Sora finicky to work with, needs hundreds of prompts, serious VFX work for under 2 minutes of cohesive story ? (01:29:50) Eight newspaper publishers sue OpenAI over copyright infringement
2024-05-06
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#164 - Meta AI, Phi-3, OpenELM, Bollywood Deepfakes

Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Tools & Apps (00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps (00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now (00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 (00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months (00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgrades Applications & Business (00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World?s Most Advanced Chips (00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I. (00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters (00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams (00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chips Projects & Open Source (00:39:03) Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device (00:44:12) Snowflake launches Arctic, an open ?mixture-of-experts? LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3 Research & Advancements (00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions (00:55:11) Groq?s breakthrough AI chip achieves blistering 800 tokens per second on Meta?s LLaMA 3 (00:59:52) Microsoft shows off VASA-1, an AI framework that makes human headshots talk, sing (01:01:59) Intel Builds World?s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI Policy & Safety (01:05:11) Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election (01:08:51) LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities (01:15:27) The Necessity of AI Audit Standards Boards (01:19:45) A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI (01:22:45) COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING (01:26:40) China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders show Synthetic Media & Art (01:29:08) Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac
2024-04-30
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#163 - Llama 3, Grok-1.5 Vision, new Atlas robot, RHO-1, Medium ban

Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey

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Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it?s among the best open models available (00:14:01) Elon Musk?s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI?s GPT-4V (00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus (00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model (00:23:48) Amazon Music?s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists (00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools Applications & Business (00:25:52) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use (00:30:32) TSMC?s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle (00:36:30) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China ? three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military (00:38:37) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train (00:40:22) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon?s Board of Directors (00:41:55) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise Big Projects & Open Source (00:44:08) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models (00:50:03) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community Research & Advancements (00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need (00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts (01:03:20) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt (01:07:18) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence ? where AI is smarter than humans (01:10:45) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments Policy & Safety (01:13:44) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team (01:17:18) NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security (01:19:19) Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (01:24:11) Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies (01:27:35) SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:30:25) Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program
2024-04-25
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#162 - Udio Song AI, TPU v5, Mixtral 8x22, Mixture-of-Depths, Musicians sign open letter

Our 162nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Tools & Apps (00:02:50) AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music (00:07:42) Anthropic launches external tool use for Claude AI, enabling stock ticker integrations and more (00:11:51) Building LLMs for Code Repair (00:14:16) Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren?t Impressed (00:16:23) Microsoft 365?s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation (00:18:41) AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users Applications & Business (00:19:21) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (00:23:32) Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up (00:27:27) Intel Unveils New AI Accelerator in Bid to Challenge Nvidia (00:30:46) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (00:32:55) OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (00:36:23) Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday (00:37:23) OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund Projects & Open Source (00:39:51) Mistral AI Stuns With Surprise Launch of New Mixtral 8x22B Model (00:43:54) Google updates its Gemma AI model family with variants for coding and research (00:47:04) Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order Research & Advancements (00:52:08) Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models (00:57:41) Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention (01:03:31) Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent (01:07:54) Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models (01:09:54) Many-shot Jailbreaking Policy & Safety (01:15:08) Schiff unveils AI training transparency measure (01:20:25) Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. He was also a prolific thief of trade secrets, say prosecutors. (01:26:11) Responsible Reporting for Frontier AI Development (01:30:08) US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands ? eyes nuclear fusion and fission (01:32:39) Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (01:36:45) Trudeau announces $2.4 billion for AI-related investments Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:26) Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices Fun! (01:41:52) OpenAI's Sora just made its first music video and it's like a psychedelic trip
2024-04-15
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#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI

Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface (00:10:00) Adobe?s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers (00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference (00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features (00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones (00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week Applications & Business (00:22:36) Stability AI CEO resigns to ?pursue decentralized AI? (00:26:43) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (00:31:16) Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerators Showcase Competitive Performance Per Dollar Against NVIDIA H100 In MLPerf 4.0 GenAI Benchmarks (00:33:43) Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M Series C (00:36:10) Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans (00:37:44) Humanoid robots are joining the Mercedes-Benz workforce Projects & Open Source (00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM (00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs (00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset (00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report Research & Advancements (00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics (00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial (00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development (01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse (01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference (01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction Policy & Safety (01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence (01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza (01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS (01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei?s Secretive Chinese Chip Network (01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis ? but only with safety drivers (01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:17) BBC Will Stop Using AI For ?Doctor Who? Promotion After Receiving Complaints
2024-03-31
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#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan

Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Tools & Apps (00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D?s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures (00:05:04) OpenAI?s chatbot store is filling up with spam (00:11:02) Apple?s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI Applications & Business (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ?world?s most powerful chip? for AI (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics! (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids Projects & Open Source (00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1 (00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D (00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation (00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes Research & Advancements (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding Policy & Safety (01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning (01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ?Decisively? to Avert ?Extinction-Level? Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says (01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities (01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ?red lines? on AI risks (01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content (01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes Synthetic Media & Art (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool Fun! (01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts)
2024-03-24
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#159 - Inflection-2.5, Devin, OpenAI board update, SIMA, EU AI Act passed

Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world's best personal AI (00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer (00:11:00) DoorDash?s new AI-powered ?SafeChat+? tool automatically detects verbal abuse (00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability (00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos ? here?s how it sounds (00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors Applications & Business (00:17:33) Sam Altman Rejoins OpenAI Board Along With Three New Directors (00:21:15) Cohere releases powerful ?Command-R? language model for enterprise use (00:23:16) Building Meta?s GenAI Infrastructure (00:25:53) Baidu Launches China's First 24/7 Robotaxi Service Projects & Open Source (00:26:54) Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets (00:29:40) SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law (00:31:45) Kai-Fu Lee?s AI Company ?01.AI? Announces the Open Source of the Yi-9B Model Research & Advancements (00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments (00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production Language Model (00:42:01) Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science (00:43:54) ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect (00:44:55) PixArt-?: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation Policy & Safety (00:46:24) World?s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers (00:48:57) US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence ? aimed at ensuring equal access (00:51:27) Google restricts election-related queries for its Gemini chatbot Synthetic Media & Art (00:52:43) Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst (00:55:27) Nvidia Says NeMo AI Platform Complies With Copyright After Authors? Complaint (00:57:23) Five of this year?s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered Fun! (00:58:12) I made by Superman action figure talk with Pika Labs? new AI lip sync tool ? watch this
2024-03-18
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#158 - Claude 3, Elon Musk sues OpenAI, StarCoder 2, AI-Generated Spam

Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Tools & Apps (00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude (00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper (00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini (00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3 (00:24:25) Wix?s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts (00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic?and you can too Applications & Business (00:27:40) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity , OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails (00:35:42) Inside the Crisis at Google (00:38:36) It?s official: Waymo robotaxis are now free to use freeways and leave San Francisco (00:40:33) Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase ? Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call (00:42:43) AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence Projects & Open Source (00:45:13) StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation (00:49:05) Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images (00:51:21) H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications Research & Advancements (00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components (00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper (01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models (01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms (01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics (01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and the Reasoning Gap Policy & Safety (01:15:18) India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches (01:19:16) When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges with Partial Observability of Human Evaluators in Reward Learning (01:24:45) OpenAI signs open letter to build AI responsibly just days after Elon Musk sued the company for putting profit ahead of people (01:27:37) AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET?s reliability rating (01:29:40) Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users? machines (01:32:25) China offers AI computing ?vouchers? to its underpowered start-ups Synthetic Media & Art (01:34:18) Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images (01:37:10) AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon (01:39:55) Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers (01:43:35) Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet Fun! (01:46:35) Man tries to steal driverless car in L.A., doesn?t get far: police
2024-03-10
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#157 - Gemini controversy, new Mistral models, Deepmind's Genie & Griffinn, AI Warfare is here

Our 157th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:04:55) Google apologizes for ?missing the mark? after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator (00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant (00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos (00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio (00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs Applications & Business (00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France?s Mistral AI (00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI (00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business (00:39:54) MediaTek?s latest chipsets are now ?optimized? for Gemini Nano (00:41:28) Tumblr?s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report (00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock Projects & Open Source (00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ?Open-Source? 7.3B Parameter LLM (00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model (00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public (00:54:25) Introducing Phind-70B ? closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster Research & Advancements (00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments (01:07:08) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models (01:15:16) Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor (01:20:56) Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs (01:22:10) Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings Policy & Safety (01:25:45) AI Warfare Is Already Here (01:29:36) Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall (01:32:45) Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety (01:34:53)  Facebook whistleblower, AI godfather join hundreds calling for deepfake regulation US regulators investigate whether OpenAI investors were misled, say reports (01:36:51)  Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped Synthetic Media & Art (01:40:23) The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft (01:41:15) A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake ? and of course made by AI Fun! (01:42:54) Impossible AI Food
2024-03-03
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#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!

Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model (00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google?s next-gen AI model ? and it?s already almost ready (00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk?s Grok (00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds (00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product (00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ?easily chat with documents? Applications & Business(00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund (00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs (00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show (00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms (00:50:06)  AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding (00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ?agents? to business Projects & Open Source(00:51:41) BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains (00:54:33) Nomic AI Releases the First Fully Open-Source Long Context Text Embedding Model that Surpasses OpenAI Ada-002 Performance on Various Benchmarks Research & Advancements(00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video (01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting (01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement (01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention (01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities" Policy & Safety(01:17:15) Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says (01:21:15) House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force (01:25:08) Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen ? Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks (01:27:05) States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week (01:28:12) Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets (01:30:26) The FTC warned about ?quiet? TOS changes for AI training. Here?s why it might not be enough Synthetic Media & Art(01:32:13) Sarah Silverman?s lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissed Fun & Miscellaneous (01:36:14) A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models (01:38:00) Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident (01:40:50) Helen Mirren Rips Up AI-Generated Speech at American Cinematheque Awards (01:41:40) Microsoft's game-changing Super Bowl ad
2024-02-25
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#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit

Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ?memory? to remember who you are and what you like (00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model (00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs Applications & Business(00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI (00:26:12) Report: China?s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy Projects & Open Source(00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages (00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS? CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY (00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters (00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade Research & Advancements(00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models Policy & Safety(01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers (01:23:49) In Big Tech?s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds Synthetic Media & Art(01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit (01:42:25) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have ?Public Interest? In Pursuing Lawsuits (01:44:42) Outro
2024-02-16
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#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks

Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant (00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images (00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails (00:12:40) Brilliant Labs?s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant (00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos (00:16:18) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro Applications & Business(00:19:04) A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco ? here?s what happened (00:23:30) Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost ?stamp? machine (00:27:33) US industry group calls for multilateral chip export controls to address disadvantage over Korea, other allies (00:30:10) U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company (00:32:24) Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production ? could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month Projects & Open Source(00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model (00:42:46) Meet ?Smaug-72B?: The new king of open-source AI (00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5 (00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI?s custom GPTs (00:53:20)  Apple releases ?MGIE?, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing Research & Advancements(00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors (01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks (01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences (01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design (01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents (01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data Policy & Safety(01:13:22) EU?s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption (01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation (01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices (01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute (01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails Synthetic Media & Art(01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ?beyond anything we imagined? (01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads (01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (01:34:38)  Following lawsuit, rep admits ?AI? George Carlin was human-written  (01:36:20) Outro
2024-02-11
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#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills

Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00)  Intro / Banter Synthetic Media & Art (00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes (00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads (00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead (00:12:20) Guns N? Roses share AI-generated video for ?The General? Tools & Apps (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ?lazy? GPT-4 that refused to work (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant (00:23:47)  ChatGPT finally has competition ? Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones Applications & Business (00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report (00:34:25) Cruise wasn?t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators ? it just had bad internet (00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development (00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI (00:47:22)  AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia Projects & Open Source (00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind?s AlphaCode (00:53:00) Meta?s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4 (00:54:30) DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence Lighting round Research & Advancements (00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding (01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty (01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems? (01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models (01:20:30) A ?Shocking? Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine Policy & Safety (01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models (01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order (01:33:06) Rep. Jeff Jackson Introduces Bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to Stop China from Remotely Using American Technology to Build AI Tools (01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake (01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation (01:45:15) Outro
2024-02-04
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#152 - live translation on phones, Meta aims at AGI, AlphaGeometry, political deepfakes

Our 152nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:15) Samsung?s latest Galaxy phones offer live translation over phone calls, texts (00:06:16) The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity?s AI ?answer engine? (00:10:31) Google is using AI to organize and customize your Chrome browser (00:12:10) Adobe?s new AI-powered Premiere Pro features eradicate boring audio editing tasks (00:13:16) Waymo looks to launch full fleet of robotaxis in LA (00:15:16) Tesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving Applications & Business(00:19:45) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips (00:25:00) Mark Zuckerberg?s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence (00:32:43) AI voice startup ElevenLabs lands $80M round, launches marketplace of cloned voices (00:35:03) Anthropic?s Margins Raise Questions on AI Startups? Long-Term Profitability (00:38:00) Cohere in talks to raise as much as $1bn as AI arms race heats up (00:39:40) DOJ and FTC push to investigate Microsoft's OpenAI partnership- Politico (00:41:30)  Figure announces commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to bring general purpose robots into automotive production Projects & Open Source(00:43:28) Stability AI unveils smaller, more efficient 1.6B language model as part of ongoing innovation Research & Advancements(00:48:58) AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry (00:54:02) Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation (00:56:33) ChatQA: Building GPT-4 Level Conversational QA Models (00:59:13) Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model (01:01:28) VMamba: Visual State Space Model (01:03:40) Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data Policy & Safety(01:04:40) OpenAI suspends developer behind Dean Phillips bot (01:06:49) Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote Tuesday  (01:09:10)  Sharing Fake Nude Images Could Become a Federal Crime Under Proposed Law (01:11:00) San Francisco takes legal action over ?unsafe,? ?disruptive? self-driving cars (01:13:40) Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election (01:15:55) AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati Synthetic Media & Art(01:20:27) Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? (01:23:48) AI models that don?t violate copyright are getting a new certification label
2024-01-28
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#151 - Copilot Pro, LLama.cpp, conversational diagnostic AI, secret AI diplomacy

Our 151st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:55) Microsoft?s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us (00:04:43) Microsoft Copilot is now using the previously-paywalled GPT-4 Turbo, saving you $20 a month (00:07:02) Amazon launches generative AI tool to answer shoppers? questions Applications & Business(00:08:07) DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals (00:13:16) China planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer ? similar to American company Cerebras 'wafer-scale' designs (00:17:12)  ChatGPT will have video functionality and more accuracy in future versions ? Sam Altman says GPT-5 will be a big improvement (00:19:38) Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China (00:22:15) OpenAI?s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year (00:25:04) Inside AI Unicorn Anthropic?s Unusual $750 Million Fundraise (00:28:46) Microsoft executive Dee Templeton joins OpenAI board - Bloomberg News (00:31:33) OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots Projects & Open Source(00:34:25) Meet LLama.cpp: An Open-Source Machine Learning Library to Run the LLaMA Model Using 4-bit Integer Quantization on a MacBook (00:38:06) LLAMA PRO: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion (00:43:48) One of the world?s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ?substantially better? Research & Advancements(00:47:52) Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI (00:51:50)  Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training (00:56:27) LLM Augmented LLMs: Expanding Capabilities through Composition (01:02:23) Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models (01:05:16) Clinical predictive models created by AI are accurate but study-specific, researchers find (01:09:01) Secure, Governable Chips Policy & Safety(01:14:01) US companies and Chinese experts engaged in secret diplomacy on AI safety (01:18:28) China Cyberspace Security Association releases first batch of Chinese basic corpus (01:22:33) OpenAI Bans Use of AI Tools for Campaigning, Voter Suppression (01:24:49) OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for ?Military and Warfare? Synthetic Media & Art(01:27:20) Musicians Set to Begin Contract Negotiations With Studios On AI, Streaming Priorities (01:29:26) Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon (01:33:15) Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube (01:35:15) Outro
2024-01-21
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#150 - GPT Store, new Nvidia chips, DeepMind?s robotics progress, bad uses of AI

Our 150th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:49) OpenAI?s custom GPT Store is now open for business (00:06:52) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams Lighting round(00:09:18) The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you (00:11:18) Amazon?s Alexa gets new generative AI-powered experiences (00:12:55) Google appears to be working on an ?advanced? version of Bard that you have to pay for Applications & Business(00:14:24) Nvidia's newest chips are designed to run AI at home as competition from Intel, AMD looms (00:16:52) Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI Lighting round(00:19:16) AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M (00:21:33) Waymo will start testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways (00:23:24) Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos Research & Advancements(00:25:10) DeepMind is trying to train robots for real-world activities (00:29:03) MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts Lighting round(00:33:18) PIXART-?: Fast and Controllable Image Generation with Latent Consistency Models (00:35:20)  InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes (00:37:06) The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models (00:39:33) Mixtral of Experts Policy & Safety(00:40:38) Meta and OpenAI have spawned a wave of AI sex companions?and some of them are children (00:46:30) ?Impossible? to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Lighting round(00:49:52) Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions (00:51:43) Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive Synthetic Media & Art(00:55:09) A list going viral reveals famous artists whose work was used to train AI generator (00:58:28) YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated true crime deepfakes Lighting round(01:00:27) AI-Generated George Carlin Comedy Special Slammed by Comedian?s Daughter (01:01:56) SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games (01:03:26) Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain?and AI is already on the case
2024-01-14
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#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI

Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:08:13) Reflections on 2023 Tools & Apps (00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text! (00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users (00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI (00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked (00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android Applications & Business (00:39:00) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end (00:42:25) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation (00:44:10) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion (00:44:46) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China (00:47:30) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions (00:50:16) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company?s Self-Built Fabrication Plants (00:52:36) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement Research & Advancements (00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action (00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore (01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks (01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones (01:09:47) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models (01:10:41) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation Policy & Safety (01:13:23) The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work (01:18:12) Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank (01:21:48) Elon Musk?s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups 'Benefiting Humanity' (01:23:40) Outro
2024-01-08
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#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ?Preparedness Framework?, campaigning voice clone

Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:43) Google Deepmind unveils its most advanced AI image generator, Imagen 2 (00:08:21) Anthropic will help users if they get sued for copyright infringement (00:13:50) Midjourney Alpha is here with AI image generations on the web (00:16:34) Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool (00:17:09) Microsoft drastically expands Azure AI Studio to include Llama 2 Model-as-a-Service, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision (00:18:54) ChatGPT Is Apparently Becoming Lazy as It Has Started Asking Users to Solve Their Own Problems (00:22:17) You can create your own AI songs with this new Copilot extension (00:23:57) Stability AI announces paid membership for commercial use of its models Applications & Business(00:25:42) ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI?s tech to build a competitor (00:31:55) Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD (00:36:36) Chinese chip-related companies shutting down with record speed ? 10,900, or around 30 per day, shut down in 2023 (00:40:11) TSMC mentions 1.4nm process tech for the first time, says 2nm remains on track (00:42:57) Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried ? it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration (00:46:17) Nvidia rushes to deliver modified AI GPU chips to China customers, allegedly places 'Super Hot Run' priority order with TSMC (00:49:17) Sam Altman?s OpenAI agrees to pay German media giant Axel Springer for using its content to train AI models Projects & Open Source(00:52:20) Introducing DeciLM-7B: The Fastest and Most Accurate 7 Billion-Parameter LLM to Date (00:57:27) Introducing Stable Zero123: Quality 3D Object Generation from Single Images Research & Advancements(01:00:42) FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models (01:09:12) OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI (01:16:41) Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests (01:18:13) SwitchHead: Accelerating Transformers with Mixture-of-Experts Attention (01:20:04) CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents (01:21:10) Limits to the Energy Efficiency of CMOS Microprocessors Policy & Safety(01:24:24) OpenAI announces ?Preparedness Framework? to track and mitigate AI risks (01:32:08) Pro-China YouTube Network Used A.I. to Malign U.S., Report Finds (01:37:07) AI is a danger to the financial system, regulators warn for the first time (01:38:42) Anonymous Sudan hacking group sets sights on ChatGPT (01:40:33) Scenario planning for an AGI future (01:42:51) The widening web of effective altruism in AI security Synthetic Media & Art(01:49:22) Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (01:52:34) Pakistan?s former prime minister is using an AI voice clone to campaign from prison
2023-12-24
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#147 - Google?s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta?s ?Seamless? translator

Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Correction: Gemini also supports audio

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(00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read Tools & Apps (00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT (00:14:15) Google?s best Gemini demo was faked  (00:19:33) Early impressions of Google?s Gemini aren?t great (00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini (00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro ? the first smartphone with AI built in ? is now running Gemini Nano (00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds (00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT (00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke" (00:34:51) Gmail?s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years (00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache Applications & Business (00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD?s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia?s (00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier ? Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions (00:46:44) OpenAI?s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions (00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side (00:51:46)  Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (00:54:08) Tesla?s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts (00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models (00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M Projects & Open Source (00:59:20) Mixtral of experts (01:05:50) Meta AI unveils ?Seamless? translator for real-time communication across languages (01:07:07) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers (01:10:15) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development Research & Advancements (01:13:21) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image ? you have to see it to believe it (01:14:20) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1 (01:17:40) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning (01:19:04) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders (01:21:20) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models (01:23:40) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research Policy & Safety (01:26:41) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules (01:33:58) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment (01:39:12) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ?Forever? Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (01:41:22)  US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China (01:44:12) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI (01:47:25) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:49:03) High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed (01:52:55) Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle (01:55:57) Outro
2023-12-17
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#146 - ChatGPT?s 1 year anniversary, DeepMind GNoME, Extraction of Training Data from LLMs, AnyDream

Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Note: this one is coming out a bit late, sorry! We'll have a new ep with coverage of the big news about Gemini and the EU AI Act out soon though.

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(00:00:00) Intro/Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:03) ChatGPT?s 1-year anniversary: how it changed the world (00:06:15) Perplexity AI Introduces New Online LLMs for Real-Time Information Access  (00:11:45) Intuit Adds Generative AI-Powered Tax Prep to TurboTax (00:12:57) Microsoft Paint?s DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out on Windows 11 (00:13:56) Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI to help consumers find the perfect gift (00:14:54) Voicemod will now let you create and share your own AI voices (00:16:15) Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator Applications & Business(00:17:48) Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit (00:20:39) Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (00:25:48) Google is reportedly pushing the launch of its Gemini AI to 2024 (00:27:38) OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (00:29:03) US Compels Saudi Fund to Exit AI Chip Startup Backed by Altman (00:30:15) OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2 Billion Valuation With Andreessen Horowitz Backing (00:31:57) US artificial intelligence leader OpenAI applies for GPT-6, GPT-7 trademarks in China (00:32:59) CoreWeave backed by Fidelity and Jane Street at $7 billion valuation as cloud provider bolsters status as one of AI?s hottest startups (00:34:14) AWS debuts next-generation Graviton4 and Trainium2 chips for cloud and AI workloads (00:35:08) Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI (00:36:09) Indian AI Video Startup Rephrase.ai Announces Acquisition by Adobe (00:36:40) Report: Stability AI Positioning Itself for Acquisition Projects & Open Source(00:39:31) ChatGPT's One-year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching up? (00:43:50) China Open Sources DeepSeek LLM, Outperforms Llama 2 and Claude-2 Research & Advancements(00:48:37) Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for thousands of new materials (00:54:11) Researchers quantify the carbon footprint of generating AI images (00:56:40) Adopting and expanding ethical principles for generative artificial intelligence from military to healthcare (00:57:51) White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction: Compression Is All There Is? (01:00:09) Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? Case Study in Medicine (01:02:30) MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI Policy & Safety(01:05:19) ChatGPT can leak training data, violate privacy, says Google's DeepMind (01:12:45) UK to invest £500M more in AI compute capacity, launch five new quantum projects (01:13:39) Microsoft's $3.2 bln UK investment to drive AI growth (01:14:35) A new Pentagon program aims to speed up decisions on what AI tech is trustworthy enough to deploy (01:16:06) US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day' (01:19:13) The UAE?s leading AI CEO addresses bombshell New York Times report alleging China ties, says he didn?t finish reading the story (01:21:07) Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos Synthetic Media & Art(01:22:34) AnyDream: Secretive AI Platform Broke Stripe Rules to Rake in Money from Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfakes (01:25:02) Outro
2023-12-12
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#145 - OpenAI?s Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements

Our 145th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, this time around with guest co-hosts Kevin and Gavin from AI For Humans podcast

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Tools & Apps (06:00) OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful (12:33) Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview (16:33) Generative Video Startup Pika Labs Launches Version 1.0, Raises $55 Million in Funding (25:25) Screenshots show xAI?s chatbot Grok on X?s web app (30:37) Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies Applications & Business (34:28) Unpacking the hype around OpenAI?s rumored new Q* model (47:37) NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2024 (52:40) Nvidia Delays Rollout Of China-Focused AI Chip: Report (56:31) Share sale set to test financial impact of OpenAI?s leadership turmoil (58:55) Amazon and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Add New AI Capabilities (59:55) AI21 takes Series C to $208 million with additional $53 million in funding Projects & Open Source (01:03:15) Starling-7B: Increasing LLM Helpfulness & Harmlessness with RLAIF (01:12:10) Defending your voice against deepfakes Research & Advancements (01:16:07) Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason (01:22:16) New technique can accelerate language models by 300x (01:23:35) DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence (01:27:00) GAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants (01:30:45) Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch Policy & Safety (01:33:42) US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design' (01:36:07) Chinese GPU recycling factories have a workaround for the US government's newly imposed export rules ? modified NVIDIA RTX 4090 cards serve as great AI accelerators (01:39:00) The EU AI Act needs Foundation Model Regulation Putin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is ?unacceptable and dangerous? Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant?s Ties to China (01:41:55) More than half of Americans are worried about AI than excited (01:46:10) State Dept prioritizes ?AI-ready workforce? in its first AI strategy US chip export ban is hurting China?s AI startups, not so much the giants yet Synthetic Media & Art (01:48:18) Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block In AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta (01:52:23) Outro
2023-12-02
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#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates

Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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(00:00) Intro/Banter Applications & Business (01:30)  Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI?s Chief Executive Before Altman?s Ouster, OpenAI?s Board Was Divided and Feuding (20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns GM Cruise cofounder, senior exec Dan Kan quits day after CEO exit (22:30) GM?s Self-Driving Car Unit Skids Off Course (24:00) Leaked email shows Amazon is cutting 'several hundred' jobs across Alexa business, including the newly launched Artificial General Intelligence team (25:35) US Chip Ban Fallout Spreads as Alibaba Scraps Cloud Spinoff (27:48) Tencent Stockpiled Enough NVIDIA AI GPUs To Last Them A Couple More Generations (29:44) Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever ? no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse (31:37) US Launches $3 Billion Effort to Boost Advanced Chip Packaging (34:50) Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team Tools & Apps (38:15) Meta launches AI-based video editing tools (39:48) Discord is already killing Clyde, its experimental OpenAI chatbot (40:50) Be My Eyes AI offers GPT-4-powered support for blind Microsoft customers Projects & Open Source (42:25) Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source Research & Advancements (45:43) Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure (53:35) Meet JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-Task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models (58:10) NVIDIA?s ?NeMo? Model Now Tuned For Chip Development, Showing Exceptional Results (01:00:33) UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs Policy & Safety (01:02:35) President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (01:12:44) Tech firms to allow vetting of AI tools, as Musk warns all human jobs threatened As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits (01:16:41) France, Germany and Italy join forces to propose unified AI regulation in the EU (01:22:02) UK will refrain from regulating AI ?in the short term? (01:24:31) If you get sued for an AI-generated creative work, OpenAI says it will protect you while Anthropic says you're on your own (01:29:41) China tightens rare-earth export curbs amid tension with U.S. Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:45) Microsoft AI Image Generator Blocks ?Disney? After Viral Movie Poster Trend
2023-11-24
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#143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI?s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over

Our 143rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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Applications & Business(02:53) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI (12:00) Everything announced at OpenAI?s first developer event (16:05) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes (18:30) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van (20:55) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU (21:35) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota (22:38) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe?s third-largest AI round ever (23:22) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others (24:16) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation Tools & Apps(25:00) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others (27:38) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ?anonymous and secure? AI chatbot (30:03) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ?Voltron-style? chat (31:01) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job (32:07) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss (33:33) Humane?s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable Projects & Open Source(36:06) Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee?s LLM startup unveils open source model Research & Advancements(40:03) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence (42:35) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ?Mirasol3B? for advanced video analysis (45:15) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products (46:06) Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation (47:54) Title:One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion (49:12) Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models Policy & Safety(51:37) Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards (56:10) Amy Klobuchar and John Thune introduce legislation for creating generative AI framework (57:55) Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists ? but the fight continues (01:00:19) At UK's AI Summit developers and govts agree on testing to help manage risks (01:02:15) White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey Synthetic Media & Art(01:04:12) Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal (01:07:46) Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music (01:10:10) YouTube previews AI tool that clones famous singers ? with their permission (01:11:08) Microsoft is bringing AI characters to Xbox (01:11:49) CBS News Launches New Venture To Identify AI Deepfakes And Misinformation
2023-11-20
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#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning

Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new.

Apologies for this one coming out after a pause, episodes will resume being released regularly as of this week.

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(00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(03:00) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ?? - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API (07:15) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI (09:23) Sick of meetings? Microsoft?s new AI assistant will go in your place (11:54) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)  Applications & Business(14:55) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon?s Digit pilots (18:40) Figure 01 humanoid takes first public steps (22:31) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding (23:35) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi?s G42 in Middle East AI Push (25:00) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs (26:38) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China?s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding (30:35) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds (32:13) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation Projects & Open Source(35:00) Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B) (39:35) Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents (42:03) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning (44:53) Meta?s Habitat 3.0 simulates real-world environments for intelligent AI robot training (48:22) DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters  (49:13) Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI (51:13) Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics Research & Advancements(53:22) Eliciting Human Preferences with Language Models (57:23) New Nvidia AI agent, powered by GPT-4, can train robots (01:01:38) Unveiling the General Intelligence Factor in Language Models: A Psychometric Approach (01:04:48) AgentTuning: Enabling Generalized Agent Abilities for LLMs (01:09:51) Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL (01:11:25) ?Mind-blowing? IBM chip speeds up AI  Policy & Safety(01:14:57)  GM Cruise unit suspends all driverless operations after California ban (01:18:52) AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets (01:22:22) AI Safety Summit: day 1 and 2 programme (01:25:23) Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is posting lyrics to popular songs, lawsuit claims (01:26:38) Mike Huckabee says Microsoft and Meta stole his books to train AI (01:27:10) Clearview AI Successfully Appeals $9 Million Fine in the U.K. (01:28:11) North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official (01:30:17) OpenAI forms new team to assess ?catastrophic risks? of AI UK poised to establish global advisory group on AI Synthetic Media & Art(01:32:22) This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (01:34:32) Amazon now lets advertisers use generative AI to pretty up their product shots (01:36:36) The Beatles: ?final? song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology

2023-11-16
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#141 - Adobe AI upgrades, Ernie 4.0, TimeGPT, No Fakes Act, AI drones

Our 141st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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(00:00) Intro / Banter (01:00) SuperDataScience podcast ad Tools & Apps(02:55) Adobe is upgrading Photoshop?s generative AI model ? and releasing more for Illustrator and Express (07:52) Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other (14:15) Kendall Jenner becomes "Billie": Meta's AI celebrities face more resistance than enthusiasm (18:22) Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta Applications & Business(20:22) Google Cloud pledges a ?shared fate,? offering legal indemnification for customers (25:00) Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4 (31:05) Key Arm China Staff Quit to Create Government-Backed Startup (33:30) AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia (34:47) Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails (37:20) ChatGPT?s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing (38:46) TSMC: ecosystem for 2nm chip development is nearing completion (41:50) OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut Research & Advancements(46:35) LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music (50:20) TimeGPT-1 (55:25) How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind? (01:00:17) HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time (01:04:33) PaLI-3 Vision Language Models: Smaller, Faster, Stronger (01:05:42) A Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF (01:08:20) Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity Policy & Safety(01:12:05) No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas (01:15:03) Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight (01:19:59) How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington (01:28:38) China targets 50% boost in computing power as AI race with U.S. ramps up (01:31:03) China proposes blacklist of sources used to train generative AI models (01:34:44) Biden to cut China off from more Nvidia chips, expand curbs to more countries (01:37:51) TSMC expects permanent U.S. approval to supply chip tools to its China factory (01:40:34) Southeast Asia eyes hands-off AI rules, defying EU ambitions Synthetic Media & Art(01:44:05) AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War (01:47:03) Outro
2023-10-26
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#140 - Yasa vs ChatGPT, Waymo expands, scaling robot learning, AI watermarks

Our 140th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Note: the CEO of GitHub disputes "Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month"

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(00:00)  Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (03:00) Reka launches Yasa-1, a multimodal AI assistant to take on ChatGPT (06:48) Arc browser?s new AI-powered features combine OpenAI and Anthropic?s models (11:00) ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers for Content (13:11) Canva?s new AI tools automate boring, labor-intensive design tasks (16:32) Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh (20:45) Google Bard is gaining a new 'Memory' toggle to remember key details (22:22) Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant (24:14) Android 14?s AI-generated wallpapers might be its coolest new feature Applications & Business (24:50) Waymo?s robotaxi service is now available to tens of thousands of people in San Francisco (28:54) Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month (32:34) TSMC Sales Fell Less Than Feared as AI Demand Offsets Slump (34:54) Microsoft could debut its AI chip next month: Report (37:06) Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips (39:08) Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors Projects & Open Source (40:05) Replit?s new AI Model now available on Hugging Face (43:46) Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices (46:30)  Protesters Decry Meta?s ?Irreversible Proliferation? of AI Research & Advancements (52:10) Scaling up learning across many different robot types (59:35) Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components (01:06:54) Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution (01:11:45) China's First 28nm Lithography Tool to Be Delivered This Year (01:15:03) LLMs can?t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds (01:18:07) Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To! Policy & Safety (01:22:08) RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war (01:26:48) Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes (01:33:44) Five Takeaways From Bellwether AI Copyright Case (01:36:19) A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country (01:38:12) Governments race to regulate AI tools (01:40:09) US curbs on chip tools to China nearly finalized, government posting shows Synthetic Media & Art (01:45:35) WGA Ratifies Three-Year Deal With Studios, Officially Ending Hollywood Strike (01:47:50)  AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers (01:50:00) Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI (01:51:36) How an AI deepfake ad of MrBeast ended up on TikTok (01:53:53) Disney?s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI
2023-10-17
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#139 - Multimodal ChatGPT, Meta chatbots, AMD GPUs, bipartisan AI bill, WGA deal

Our 139th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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(00:00) Intro / Banter (01:30) SuperDataScience podcast ad (03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(05:59) ChatGPT goes multimodal: now supports voice, image uploads (10:44) ChatGPT can now search the web in real time (13:30) Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps (18:26) Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts (19:32) Windows 11?s next big update is now available with Copilot, AI-powered Paint, and more (20:21) Adobe launches Photoshop?s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools (21:32) YouTube Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Tools For Video Creators (23:20) Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers Applications & Business(25:00) AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs (29:28) Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic  (36:24) China to Challenge ASML with a better technology than EUV (40:00) Intel says newest laptop chips, software will handle generative AI (43:03) Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images (46:02) AI Startup Writer Pens $100M Round (46:40) AI chip startup Kneron secures $49M investment (48:45) AI startup AlphaSense valued at $2.5 billion after latest funding round (51:01) A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device (52:42) Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers (55:24) Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data Projects & Open Source(56:11) Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone (01:01:12) Adept AI Labs Open-Sources Persimmon-8B: A Powerful Fully Permissively-Licensed Language Model with <10 Billion Parameters (01:03:20) BTLM-3B-8K: 7B Parameter Performance in a 3B Parameter Model Research & Advancements(01:07:10) AnyMAL: An Efficient and Scalable Any-Modality Augmented Language Model (01:09:35) DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation / Text-to-3D using Gaussian Splatting (01:12:40)  Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential (01:15:38) Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window (01:17:26) John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence Policy & Safety(01:19:46) Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ?light-touch? AI bill (01:24:03) AI facial recognition tech leads to wave of lawsuits from Black plaintiffs after mistaken identities end in arrests (01:26:20) California governor vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety drivers (01:27:47) Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town (01:29:00) AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency (01:30:36) We Can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nuclear Catastrophe   Synthetic Media & Art(01:33:19) Hollywood?s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I. (01:35:10) Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness (01:36:24) Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake (01:37:36) Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns (01:39:59) Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors (01:42:17) Meta?s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy (01:45:22) Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI (01:48:55) OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List (01:50:16) Outro
2023-10-10
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#138 - DALLE-3, YouAgent, Gemini, NExT-GPT, AI book labeling

Our 138th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, with guest host Jon Krohn of the the SuperDataScience podcast!!

Note: this one is coming out a week late, but we'll be back on schedule going forward!

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(00:00) Intro / Banter (04:30) Preview of news Tools & Apps (05:40) DALLE-3 (12:47) YouAgent (Richard Socher thread) Applications & Business (20:03) Google's Gemini AI surpasses Chat GPT-4 fivefold: Report (25:16) Google begins external testing of its GPT-4 competitor "Gemini" (26:30) From sanctions to silicon: China?s semiconductor breakthrough (35:41) AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the U.S. (41:19) SoftBank planning OpenAI investment: Financial Times (44:30) OpenAI Hustles to Beat Google to Launch ?Multimodal? LLM (46:40) The AI Detection Arms Race Is On (51:30) Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups (55:15) AI chip startup Enfabrica raises $125 mln, with backing from Nvidia (56:41) Databricks raises over $500 mln at $43 bln valuation Projects & Open Source (01:01:15) Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates Research & Advancements (01:10:19) NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM (01:15:35) On measuring situational awareness in LLMs (01:22:50) Language Modeling Is Compression (01:26:22) How AI can Revolutionize Science  (Jeremie?s gift link) Policy & Safety (01:33:33) Inside the Senate?s Private AI Meeting With Tech?s Billionaire Elites (01:36:08) Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy (01:41:45) Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit (01:43:48) EU to let ?responsible? AI startups train models on its supercomputers (01:44:26) Biden-?Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI     (01:45:23) Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist to testify in Senate AI hearings  (01:46:40) AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government?and Making Everyone Nervous (01:47:27) Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI (01:50:18) Gary Gensler confirms SEC?s use of AI for financial surveillance Synthetic Media & Art (01:50:55) Self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon?s site is AI-generated

 

2023-10-03
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