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Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the forthcoming battle to get local LLMs on our mobile devices. Before that on the Brief: DALL-E 3 is available now for free for Bing users, with 100 speed boosts per week; Apple appears to be hiring for AI roles in the United Kingdom. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artificial intelligence. He reads excerpts from "The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/opinion/ai-safety-ethics-effective.html and then discusses what the authors might have missed. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being taken by some authors, publishers, and policymakers may not hold up long term. Including excerpts from: Does the First Amendment Confer a ‘Right to Compute’? The Future of AI May Depend on It - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-the-first-amendment-confer-a-right-to-compute-the-future-of-ai-may-depend-on-it/ The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/opinion-dont-exclude-ai-generated-art-from-copyright/ My Books Were Used to Train Meta’s Generative AI. Good. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-meta-training-ai/675461/ TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are showing off some amazing use cases. Before that on the Brief: have the AI phone wars begun? TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta suite of apps including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. NLW counts down the top 5 new features. Before that on the Brief: ChatGPT's ability to browse the internet is back; Biden talks about his forthcoming executive order on AI and a survey of 1600 scientists. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/breakdown TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90b valuation; discussing an AI hardware device with iPod designer Jony Ive; and scaring the hell out of people with a troll that "AGI has been achieved internally." Before that on the Brief: Apple is the most AI acquisitive Silicon Valley giant, and the CIA is working on a chatbot for intelligence agencies. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation for podcasts. NLW explores the news, as well as what it says about the challenge of being a startup. Before that on the Brief: Getty Images launches a rights-ready image generation platform. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

The race towards multimodal LLMs is heating up! With rumors of a big impending launch of Google Gemini, OpenAI is racing to push out their multimodal features. Today they launched the ability for ChatGPT to carry on audio conversations, as well as to use images as inputs. Before that on the Brief, Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

On today's episode, NLW looks at a set of recent survey results surrounding attitudes towards AI. They range from broad based surveys of the general American public to more specific industry and profession-level studies. Links: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/19/23879648/americans-artificial-general-intelligence-ai-policy-poll https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/mitre-harris-poll-ai-security-risks https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/19/nearly-half-of-ceos-believe-ai-could-replace-their-own-jobs-poll.html https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/2023/sep/18/three-quarters-of-firms-delay-ai-due-to-ethics-concerns/ https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/fintech/23-of-senior-finance-professionals-fear-ai-could-put-them-out-of-a-job/ TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

Six months ago, a group of scientists and other leaders signed a letter asking for a six month pause in the development of advanced AI. Now, six months after the letter, when the pause would have expired, they reflect on what, if anything, has changed in the AI safety discourse. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/