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Is AI "Alien Intelligence?" Emerson Spartz on Mental Models for AI Jun 26, 2023

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Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12 years old. He founded digital media company Dose which created some of the world's largest viral content sites. For the past few years, Emerson has been focused on AI, with a particular interest in AI safety, AI alignment and extinction risk. Despite being such a techno-optimist by nature that he's been yelled at for being a techno-optimist in books, he has come to have real concerns about the speed and way that AI is developing. In this sprawling conversation, Emerson provides a set of mental models he uses to try and understand AI broadly. Recommended resources: https://aisafety.info/ Robert Miles YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/robertmilesai The A.I. Dilemma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ 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/

What the Head of the New UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce Thinks of AI Jun 25, 2023

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Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from Ian's writing on AI going back to 2018 to help us understand the perspective he's bringing to the taskforce and its £100M mission to make AI safer and more aligned. Excerpts from: AI Nationalism (2018) We must slow down the race to God-like AI (April 2023) Taskforce announcement thread and post (June 2023) 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/

"AI Will Modify Our Interface For Information" A Conversation with Maven CEO Gagan Biyani Jun 24, 2023

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For more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education revolution. Now as the CEO of Maven, he's helping the world figure out how to reskill for the coming era of artificial intelligence. In this conversation, we talk about the growth in Maven's AI courses as well as how AI is transforming the platform and how they run the company. 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/

Multi-On is What You Wanted AutoGPT to Be - Interview with Founder Div Garg Jun 23, 2023

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Today NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the browser to execute complex tasks. Learn more: https://multion.ai/ 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/

AI is the First UI Paradigm Shift in 60 Years Jun 22, 2023

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AI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based interaction to intent-based outcome specification. A reading of AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years by Jakob Nielsen Before that on The Brief Marvel has kicked up significant controversy around the AI generated title sequence for the new Secret Invasion show on Disney+; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced SAFE Innovation framework; Wimbledon launches AI-powered commentary, and Dropbox starts a $50M AI venture fund. 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/

Biden Meets AI Safety Experts As White House Promises Decisive Action Jun 21, 2023

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President Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "decisive action" on AI in the weeks to come. CNN reports that senior advisors have been meeting on AI 2-3 times per week since April. On the Brief: OpenAI Is reportedly considering opening an app store for custom models build on top OpenAI; a new LLM beats GPT3.5 with 1/1000th the training data; Opera releases a new AI browser and more. 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 Faux Outrage Around OpenAI's EU Lobbying Jun 20, 2023

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Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW argues that the story is not only not some smoking gun, but is the type of nothingburger that makes people drop out of otherwise important conversations because they're feeling like the media is trying to manipulate their feelings. Before that a new research study reveals some unexpectedly positive attitudes towards AI. Also on The Brief, AI adds $150B to the net worth of the world's richest. 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/

GPT Engineer Generates An Entire Codebase Based On A Prompt Jun 19, 2023

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GPT-Engineer is the latest AI project to have Github developers going nuts. The project promises to create entire code bases with a single prompt, reigniting excitement around the potential for more powerful AI agents. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. 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 Most Interesting AI Research This Week Jun 18, 2023

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A Research Roundup including: -AssistGPT -LLaMA multimodal adapter -Meta Voicebox -Text-to-Video -LLM agent teaching weaker AIs -AI art QR code generator 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/

A Critique of Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save The World" Jun 17, 2023

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Last week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save the World." This week we read Dwarkesh Patel's "Contra Marc Andreessen on AI." The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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