Tom Hanks Warning. Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI.
China's Chip Advancements. China's chip capabilities are reportedly just 3 years behind TSMC, showcasing rapid advancements.
Investment in AI Companies. Ilya Sutskever's startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B, signaling strong investor confidence in AI.
AI Regulation in California. California's pending AI regulation bill highlights growing governmental interest in AI oversight.
Learning Budget Support. Many companies have a learning budget that you can expense this newsletter to.
Runway AI Upgrade. AI video platform RunwayML has introduced a new video-to-video tool in its latest model, Gen-3 Alpha.
Corporate Structure Change. Sam Altman announced that the company's non-profit corporate structure will undergo changes in the coming year, moving away from being controlled by a non-profit.
AI Potential Advancements. These models represent a major leap forward in AI’s problem-solving potential, paving the way for new advancements in fields like medicine, engineering, and advanced coding tasks.
API Costs High. For developers, however, it’s worth noting that the model takes much longer to produce outputs and the API costs for o1 are significantly higher than GPT-4o.
Training Approach. What sets o1 apart is its training approach—unlike previous GPT models, which were trained to mimic data patterns, o1 uses reinforcement learning to think through problems, step by step.
OpenAI o1 Model. OpenAI has introduced this new model as part of a planned series of 'reasoning' models aimed at tackling complex problems more efficiently than ever before.
Reasoning Capabilities. OpenAI describes this release as a 'preview,' highlighting its early-stage nature, and positioning o1 as a significant advancement in reasoning capabilities.
Autonomous AI Agents. 1,000 autonomous AI agents collaborate to build their own society in a Minecraft server, forming a merchant hub and establishing a constitution.
Humanoid Robot Development. A robotics company in Silicon Valley has made significant progress in developing humanoid robots for real-world work scenarios.
DataGemma Introduction. Google introduces DataGemma, a pair of open-source AI models that address the issue of inaccurate answers in statistical queries.
Adobe Firefly Milestone. Adobe's Firefly Services, the company's AI-driven innovation, has reached a milestone of 12 billion generations.
Poll on SB1047. Poll: 7 in 10 Californians Support SB1047, Will Blame Governor Newsom for AI-Enabled Catastrophe if He Vetoes.
U.S. Restrictions on China. U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component sales.
Chinese GPU Access. Chinese Engineers Reportedly Accessing NVIDIA's High-End AI Chips Through Decentralized 'GPU Rental Services'.
Elon Musk's Support. Elon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models.
Update on Strawberry. OpenAI’s latest, GPT o1, code named Strawberry, came out.
AI Summary Study. The reviewers’ overall feedback was that they felt AI summaries may be counterproductive and create further work because of the need to fact-check and refer to original submissions.
Green Powders Marketing. Good video on the misleading marketing behind Green Powders.
Freedom of Speech Analysis. Tobias Jensen discusses content moderation on social media platforms and recent cases which trend towards preventing the harms that can (and has) been caused by social media messages not being regulated properly.
Survey Participation. Fred Graver is looking into understanding the demand for content around AI and is asking people to fill out a survey.
Community Engagement. We started an AI Made Simple Subreddit.
iPhone 16 Launch. Apple has unveiled its iPhone 16 line, which includes the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max, all designed with the Apple Intelligence mind.
Waymo Collision Data. Waymo's driverless cars have been involved in fewer injury-causing crashes per million miles of driving than human-driven vehicles.
AI Image Creation. AI has led to the creation of over 15 billion images since 2022, with an average of 34 million images being created per day.
Global AI Treaty. US, EU, and UK sign the world's first international AI treaty, emphasizing human rights and democratic values as key to regulating public and private-sector AI models.
Music Producer Arrested. Music producer arrested for using AI and bots to boost streams and generate AI music, facing charges of money laundering and wire fraud.
AI in Healthcare. Google DeepMind has launched AlphaProteo, an AI system that generates novel proteins to accelerate research in drug design, disease understanding, and health applications.
Ilya Sutskever Funding. Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, has successfully raised over $1 billion in funding.
OpenAI AI Chips. OpenAI is reportedly planning to build its own AI chips using TSMC's forthcoming 1.6nm A16 process node, according to United Daily News.
California AI Bill. The controversial California bill SB 1047, aimed at preventing AI disasters, has passed the state's Senate and is now awaiting Governor Gavin Newsom's decision.
Foundation Model Size. Aurora is a 1.3 Billion Foundation Model for environmental forecasting.
Dimension Insensitive Metric. This paper introduces the Dimension Insensitive Euclidean Metric (DIEM) which demonstrates superior robustness and generalizability across dimensions.
New Paradigms in NLP. Sebastian Raschka discusses recent pre-training and post-training paradigms in NLP models, highlighting significant new techniques.
LLM Performance Restrictions. Imposing formatting restrictions on LLMs leads to performance degradation, impacting reasoning abilities significantly.
Risks of Synthetic Training. Training language models on synthetic data leads to a consistent decrease in the diversity of the model outputs through successive iterations.
Community Engagement. We started an AI Made Simple Subreddit.
Standardizing Text Diversity. This work empirically investigates diversity scores on English texts and provides a diversity score package to facilitate research.
Impact of LLMs on Diversity. Writing with InstructGPT results in a statistically significant reduction in diversity.
Notable Content Creator. Artem Kirsanov produces high-quality videos on computational neuroscience and AI, and offers very new ideas/perspectives for traditional Machine Learning people.
California AI Bill Weakening. California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic.
Authors' Lawsuit. Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement.
Anysphere Funding. Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say.
OpenAI's New Deal. Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services.
AMD Acquisition. AMD buying server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as chipmakers strengthen AI capabilities.
Efficient Small Models. Nvidia's Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B performs comparably to larger models while being more efficient to train and deploy.
Open-Source AI Definition. Open-source AI is defined as a system that can be used, inspected, modified, and shared without restrictions.
Authors Sue Anthropic. Authors are suing AI startup Anthropic for using pirated texts to train its chatbot Claude, alleging large-scale theft.
AI Ethical Concerns. Google DeepMind employees are urging the company to end military contracts due to concerns about AI technology used for warfare.
AI in Ad Creation. Creatopy, which automates ad creation using AI, has raised $10 million and now serves over 5,000 brands and agencies.
Google's AI Image Generator. Google has released a powerful AI image generator, Imagen 3, for free use in the U.S., outperforming other models.
Content Partnership. OpenAI has partnered with Condé Nast to display content from its publications within AI products like ChatGPT and SearchGPT.
OpenAI's Regulatory Stance. OpenAI has opposed the proposed AI bill SB 1047 aimed at implementing safety measures, despite public support for regulation.
California AI Regulation. Anthropic's CEO supports California's AI bill SB 1047, stating the benefits outweigh the costs, despite some concerns.
AI for Coding Tasks. Open source Dracarys models are specifically designed to optimize coding tasks and significantly improve performance of existing models.
Advanced Long-Context Models. AI21's Jamba 1.5 Large model has demonstrated superior performance in latency tests against similar models.
Outperforming Competitors. Microsoft's Phi-3.5 outperforms other small models from Google, OpenAI, Mistral, and Meta on several key metrics.
OpenAI's Opposition. OpenAI has just announced that it is opposed to California's SB-1047 despite Altman's public support for AI regulation at the Senate.
Future Whistleblower Protections. One of the most important reasons for passing SB-1047 in California was its whistleblower protections.
Gemini Live Introduction. Google has introduced a new voice chat mode for its AI assistant, Gemini, named Gemini Live.
Deepfake Scams. Elderly retiree loses over $690,000 to digital scammers using AI-powered deepfake videos of Elon Musk to promote fraudulent investment opportunities.
AI Codec Proposal. Using canonical codec representations like JPEG, this article proposes a method to directly model images and videos as compressed files, showing its effectiveness in image generation.
Procreate Stance. Procreate vows to never incorporate generative AI into its products, taking a stand against the technology.
US AI Lead. US leads in AI investment and job postings, surpassing China and other countries.
AI Image Licensing. OpenAI CEO's warning about the use of copyrighted content in AI models is highlighted as Anthropic faces a lawsuit for training its Claude AI model using authors' work without consent.
AI Risks Repository. MIT researchers release a comprehensive AI risk repository to guide policymakers and stakeholders in understanding and addressing the diverse and fragmented landscape of AI risks.
Research Automation Phases. The AI Scientist operates in three phases: idea generation, experimental iteration, and paper write-up.
AI Scientist Development. "The AI Scientist" is a novel AI system designed to automate the entire scientific research process.
AI Artist Claim Approved. The judge allowed a copyright claim against DeviantArt, which used a model based on Stable Diffusion.
Lawsuit Progress. The lawsuit against AI companies Stability and Midjourney, filed by a group of artists alleging copyright infringement, has gained traction as Judge William Orrick approved additional claims.
Conversational Features. Gemini Live can also interpret video in real time and function in the background or when the phone is locked.
AI-driven Features. The company plans to deploy Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in AI-driven features on X, including improved search capabilities, post analytics, and reply functions.
Image Tolerance. Compared to other image generators on the market, the model is far more permissive with regards to what images it can generate.
Image Generation Capabilities. Grok has also integrated FLUX.1 by Black Forest Labs to enable users to generate images.
Premium Access. Access to Grok is currently limited to Premium and Premium+ users.
Grok-2 Release. Elon Musk's company, X, has launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta, both of which are AI models capable of generating images on the X social network.
Research Engineer Openings. Haize Labs is looking for research scientists to join their teams based in NYC.
Shoutout.io Page. Shoutout.io is a very helpful tool that allows independent creators to gather testimonials in one place.
FCC AI Robocall Rules. FCC Proposes New Rules on AI-Powered Robocalls.
MIT AI Risks Repository. MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks.
Popular AI Search Startup. Perplexity's popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google.
Prompt Caching Launch. Prompt Caching is Now Available on the Anthropic API for Specific Claude Models.
AI Search Evolution. Google's AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources.
Deepfake Scams. How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet's Biggest Scammer.
AI Adoption by Courts. The Attorney General's Office of São Paulo adopted GPT-4 last year to speed up the screening and reviewing process of lawsuits.
Audio Version Available. There is also an audio only version, here.
Keynote Video. Here’s the video (well-produced by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) of a talk I gave on Friday, as a keynote at AGI-Summit 24.
Differing Views. Interesting to see where his take and mine differ.
New Humanoid Robot. Figure's new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations.
UK Merger Probe. Amazon faces UK merger probe over $4B Anthropic AI investment.
Google Antitrust Ruling. Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules.
California AI Bill Impact. 'The Godmother of AI' says California's well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem.
OpenAI Co-founder Exit. OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave.
Adept AI Returns. Investors in Adept AI will be paid back after Amazon hires startup's top talent.
Character.AI Founders. Google's hiring of Character.AI's founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode.
Mass Surveillance Impact. A recent study in The Quarterly Journal of Economics suggests that fewer people protest when public safety agencies acquire AI surveillance software to complement their cameras.
New Supercomputing Initiatives. A new supercomputing network aims to accelerate the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) through a worldwide network of powerful computers.
AI Emotional Attachment Concerns. OpenAI is concerned about users developing emotional attachments to the GPT-4o chatbot, warning of potential negative impacts on human interactions.
AI Assistant at JPMorgan. JPMorgan Chase has rolled out a generative AI assistant to tens of thousands of its employees, designed to be as ubiquitous as Zoom.
WeRide IPO Plans. WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company, is seeking a $5.02 billion valuation in its U.S. IPO, aiming to raise about $96 million from the offering.
AI-Driven 3D Generation. A research paper by scientists from Meta and Oxford University introduces VFusion3D, an AI-driven technique capable of generating high-quality 3D models from 2D images in seconds.
Falcon Mamba 7B Launch. The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has introduced Falcon Mamba 7B, a new large language model that uses a State Space Language Model (SSLM) architecture, marking a shift from traditional transformer-based designs.
Figure 02 Introduction. Figure has introduced its latest humanoid robot, Figure 02, which is designed to work alongside humans in a factory setting.
Waymo Rollout. Waymo's driverless cars have rolled out in San Francisco.
Misinformation Impact. The impact of misinformation via deepfakes, particularly one involving Elon Musk, is also highlighted.
Open-Source AI Stance. The White House says there is no need to restrict 'open-source' artificial intelligence — at least for now.
AI Law in Europe. The world's first-ever AI law is now enforced in Europe, targeting US tech giants.
New AI Tools. Black Forest Labs releases Open-Source FLUX.1, a 12 Billion Parameter Rectified Flow Transformer capable of generating images from text descriptions.
NVIDIA Chip Issues. Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw.
Instagram AI Features. Instagram's new AI features allow people to create AI versions of themselves.
LLM Paper Notes. Jean David Ruvini posts his notes on LLM/NLP related papers every month, providing valuable insights.
Airbnb Architecture Shift. In 2018, Airbnb began its migration to a service-oriented architecture due to challenges with maintaining their Ruby on Rails 'monorail'.
Emergent Garden. Emergent Garden puts out very interesting videos on Life simulations, neural networks, cellular automata, and other emergent programs.
AI Law in Europe. Europe enforces the world's first AI law, targeting US tech giants with regulations on AI development, deployment, and use.
Autonomous Driving Milestone. Stanford Engineering and Toyota Research Institute achieve a milestone in autonomous driving by creating the world’s first autonomous Tandem Drift team, using AI to direct two driverless cars to perform synchronized maneuvers.
Concerns Over AI Alteration. Elon Musk shares deepfake video of Kamala Harris, potentially violating platform's policies against synthetic and manipulated media, sparking concerns about AI-altered content in the upcoming election.
Meta's AI Studio Launch. Meta has launched a new tool called AI Studio, allowing users in the US to create AI versions of themselves on Instagram or the web.
Funding for Black Forest Labs. Black Forest Labs, a startup founded by the creators of Stable Diffusion, has launched FLUX.1, a new text-to-image model suite for the open-source artificial intelligence community and secured $31 million in seed funding.
Musk's Revived Lawsuit. Elon Musk has reinitiated a lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, reigniting a longstanding dispute that originated from a power conflict within the San Francisco-based startup.
OpenAI Departures. OpenAI co-founder John Schulman has left the company to join rival AI startup Anthropic, while OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman is taking an extended leave until the end of the year.
Investment in Hardware. OpenAI just put in money in a $60M fundraise with a Webcam company and is planning hardware joint venture with them.
Image Link. OpenAI's challenges appear visually notable.
Election Misinformation. Five states suggested that Musk's AI chatbot has spread election misinformation.
Elon Musk's Lawsuit. Elon sued OpenAI again; the most interesting thing is that the suit could force a discussion of what AGI means – in court.
AGI Predictions. OpenAI tempered expectations for its next event, and said we wouldn't see GPT-5 then.
Google Antitrust Case. Google lost its antitrust case; it could have implications for Google's storehouse of AI training data.
Nvidia Stock Decline. Nvidia dropped 6%, 20% over the last month.
OpenAI's SearchGPT. OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine.
Strike Over AI. Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns.
Legislative Actions. Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power.
Impact of AI on Jobs. As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid.
AI Safety Concerns. Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe.
AI in Mathematics. AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems.
Cohere's Funding. AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion.
Meta's New AI Model. Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech.
Google's Gemini Model. Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model.
Historical Predictions. In December 2022, at the height of ChatGPT's popularity I made a series of seven predictions about GPT-4 and its limits, such as hallucinations and making stupid errors, in an essay called What to Expect When You Are Expecting GPT-4.
Warning About AI. Almost exactly a year ago, in August 2023, I was (AFAIK) the first person to warn that Generative AI could be a dud.
Survey Findings. The Upwork survey highlighted during the week reflects shifting sentiments around Generative AI.
Warning on Deep Learning. Gary Marcus has been warning that deep learning was oversold since November 2012. Looks like he was right.
Opportunity for Resources. The fact that the GenAI bubble is apparently bursting sooner than expected may soon free up resources for other approaches, e.g., into neurosymbolic AI.
Canceled Deal Reported. Business Insider reported a canceled deal, exacerbating concerns for the sector.
Generative AI Decline. Generative AI might be a dud; I just didn't expect it to fade so fast.
SearchGPT Launch. OpenAI has announced its entry into the search market with SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine that organizes and makes sense of search results rather than just providing a list of links.
FTC AI Investigation. FTC investigates how companies use AI to implement surveillance pricing based on consumer behavior and personal data, seeking information from eight major companies.
AI Scraping Backlash. AI companies are facing a growing backlash from website owners who are blocking their scraper bots, leading to concerns about the availability of data for AI training.
Regulatory Pressure. Elon Musk's X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app.
OpenAI Bankruptcy Risk. OpenAI faces potential bankruptcy with projected $5 billion losses due to high operational costs and insufficient revenue from its AI ventures.
AI Funding Surge. AI startups have raised $41.5 billion worldwide in the past five years, surpassing other industries and indicating a significant role for AI in the future development and modernization of various sectors.
Adobe Generative AI. Adobe introduces new generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop, including tools like Generative Shape Fill and Text to Pattern in Illustrator.
YouTube Search Deal. Google has become the exclusive search engine capable of surfacing results from Reddit, one of the internet's most significant sources of user-generated content.
Mistral Large 2. Mistral AI has launched Mistral Large 2, a new generation of its flagship model, boasting 123 billion parameters and a 128k context window.
Study Reference. Read Bjarnason's new essay here.
Progress by Google DeepMind. To do this GDM used not one but two separate systems, a new one called AlphaProof, focused on theorem proving, and an update (AlphaGeometry 2) to an older one focused on geometry.
AI Video Model. Haiper 1.5 is a new AI video generation model challenging Sora and Runway.
Open Source Advancements. Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation.
Internal Controversies. Whistleblowers say OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks.
Policy Issues. The U.S. is considering 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry.
Elon Musk's Supercomputer. Elon Musk is working on a giant xAI supercomputer in Memphis.
GPT-4o Mini Release. OpenAI's release of GPT-4o Mini is a small AI model powering ChatGPT.
AI Health Uncut. Sergei Polevikov publishes super insightful and informative reports on AI, Healthcare, and Medicine as a business.
Active Subreddits. We started an AI Made Simple Subreddit. Come join us over here.
OpenAI's Financial Issues. I have long suspected that OpenAI was losing money, and lots of it, but never seen an analysis, until this morning.
AI Security Standards. Top tech companies form a coalition to develop cybersecurity and safety standards for AI, aiming to ensure rigorous security practices and keep malicious hackers at bay.
Market Demand for Small Models. The trend toward small language models is accelerating as Arcee AI announced its $24M Series A funding only 6 months after a $5.5M seed round in January 2024.
OpenAI Reasoning Project. OpenAI is developing a new reasoning technology called Project Strawberry, which aims to enable AI models to conduct autonomous research and improve their ability to answer difficult user queries.
AI Training Data Ethics. A massive dataset containing subtitles from over 170,000 YouTube videos was used to train AI systems for major tech companies without permission, raising significant ethical and legal questions.
Hugging Face SmoLLM. Hugging Face has introduced SmoLLM, a new series of compact language models available in three sizes: 130M, 350M, and 1.7B parameters.
Meta Llama 3.1 Release. Meta has released Llama 3.1, the largest open-source AI model, claiming it outperforms top private models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
GPT-4o Mini Launch. OpenAI has launched GPT-4o mini, a smaller, faster, and more cost-effective AI model than its predecessors.
Global AI Regulation. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveils an international framework for the regulation and use of generative AI, emphasizing the need to address the potential risks and promote cooperation for safe and trustworthy AI.
AI in Healthcare. AI system trained on heart's electrical activity reduces deaths in high-risk patients by 31% in hospital trial, proving its potential to save lives.
AI Notetaking Revolution. 'I will never go back': Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job.
Meta's Ad Tool Issues. Meta's automated ad tool, Advantage Plus, has been overspending on ad budgets and failing to deliver sales, causing frustration among marketers and businesses.
Lawsuit Against OpenAI. Eight U.S. newspaper publishers, all under the ownership of investment firm Alden Global Capital, have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement.
Vibe-Eval Suite. Reka AI introduces Vibe-Eval, a new evaluation suite designed to measure the progress of multimodal language models.
Burnout in AI Industry. AI engineers in the tech industry are experiencing burnout and rushed rollouts due to the intense competition and pressure to stay ahead in the generative AI race.
Microsoft's AI Policy Change. Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition due to concerns about potential pitfalls and racial biases.
Funding for Autonomy. Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion.
AI Music Generation. ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model.
Mystery Chatbot. Mysterious 'gpt2-chatbot' AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts.
New AI Model. New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini.
AI Content Labeling. TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3.
AI Audiobooks. Audible's Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles.
Deepfake Detector Release. OpenAI Releases 'Deepfake' Detector to Disinformation Researchers.
AI Export Bill. US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models.
OpenAI & Stack Overflow. OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT.
Robotaxi Plans Delayed. Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring.
Siri Revamp. Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors.
AlphaFold 3 Overview. Google's DeepMind has unveiled AlphaFold 3, an advanced version of its protein structure prediction tool, which can now predict the structures of DNA, RNA, and essential drug discovery molecules like ligands.
Robot Dogs Testing. The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is testing rifle-armed 'robot dogs' supplied by Onyx Industries.
TikTok AI Labeling. TikTok has announced that it will automatically label AI-generated content created on other platforms, such as OpenAI's DALL·E 3, using a technology called Content Credentials from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).
Microsoft Copilot Upgrade. Microsoft is introducing new AI features in Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help users create better prompts and become prompt engineers, aiming to improve productivity and efficiency in the workplace.
Wayve's $1 Billion Raise. Wayve, a London-based AI start-up for autonomous driving, raised an eye-popping $1 billion from investors like SoftBank, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
AI Model Competition. Microsoft is developing a new large-scale AI language model called MAI-1, potentially rivaling state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
AI Deepfake Detector. OpenAI releases a deepfake detector tool to combat the influence of AI-generated content on the upcoming elections, acknowledging that it's just the beginning of the fight against deepfakes.
Safety Tool Release. U.K. Safety Institute releases an open-source toolset called Inspect to assess AI model safety, aiming to provide a shared, accessible approach to evaluations.
AI and Deception. AI systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their capacity for deception, raising concerns about potential dangers to society and the need for AI safety laws.
Guest Host. With guest host Daliana Liu from The Data Scientist Show!
AI Copyright Issues. How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright.
AI Watermark. Google's invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video.
AI Model Safety. U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety.
New AI Models. Falcon 2: UAE's Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta's New Llama 3.
Waymo Investigation. Waymo's robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps.
Zoox Probe. US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes.
Robotaxi Testing. GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board.
Anthropic Leadership. Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer.
OpenAI Leadership Change. OpenAI's Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company.
Anthropic AI Tool. Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console.
AI Music Sandbox. Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts.
Google Media Models. Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models.
AI in Search. Google is redesigning its search engine — and it's AI all the way down.
Google AI Astra. Project Astra is the future of AI at Google.
OpenAI GPT-4o. OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that's free for all ChatGPT users.
OpenAI's GPT-4o Release. OpenAI has announced the release of GPT-4o, an enhanced version of the GPT-4 model that powers ChatGPT.
AI Legislation in Colorado. Colorado lawmakers have passed a landmark AI discrimination bill, which would prohibit employers from using AI to discriminate against workers.
AI in Journalism. Gannett is implementing AI-generated bullet points at the top of journalists' stories to enhance the reporting process.
AI Emissions Concerns. Microsoft's emissions and water usage spiked due to the increased demand for AI technologies, posing challenges to meeting sustainability goals.
Investment in AI. Microsoft announces a 4 billion euro investment in cloud and AI infrastructure, AI skilling, and French Tech acceleration.
Waymo Investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has initiated an investigation into Alphabet's Waymo self-driving vehicles following reports of unexpected behavior and traffic safety violations.
Project Astra Launch. Google's Project Astra, a real-time, multimodal AI assistant, is the future of AI at Google, according to Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind.
Fetch AI Assistant. Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US.
AI Regulation Bill. Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill.
AI Likeness Management. Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses.
AI Safety Commitments. Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can't mitigate risks.
Groundbreaking AI Law. World's first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light.
Emotional AI Initiative. Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots.
AI Voice Concerns. OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson.
Anthropic Research. A new research paper published by Anthropic aims to demystify the 'black box' phenomenon of AI's algorithmic behavior.
First AI Regulation. EU member states have approved the world's first major law for regulating artificial intelligence, emphasizing trust, transparency, and accountability.
Universal Basic Income. AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton advocates for universal basic income to address AI's impact on job inequality and wealth distribution.
AI and Education. AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, offering affordable and personalized assistance for school assignments.
AI-Language Model War. Tencent and iFlytek have entered a price war by slashing prices of large-language models used for chatbots.
Generative AI Upgrade. Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee.
OpenAI's Response. OpenAI has temporarily halted the use of the Sky voice in its ChatGPT application due to its resemblance to actress Scarlett Johansson's voice.
Google's AI Errors. Google's recent unveiling of its new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for search has sparked controversy due to a series of errors and untruths.
Content Deals with OpenAI. Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI.
Hollywood AI Partnerships. Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI.
AI Cloning Fines. Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden's Voice Fined $6 Million.
AI Safety Concerns. OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic.
Training Compute Growth. Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year.
AI Model Rankings. Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains.
xAI Funding. Elon Musk's xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round.
Nvidia Revenue Surge. Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits.
ChatGPT Discounts. OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits.
PwC and OpenAI. PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user.
AI Earbuds Innovation. Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled.
Real-time Video Translation. Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them.
Alexa's AI Overhaul. Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price.
Opera's AI Integration. Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser.
Telegram Copilot Bot. Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot.
Google AI Controversy. Google's A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online.
AI Video Generator. KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora.
AI Beauty Pageant. The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant.
GPT-4 Exam Performance. GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile.
Election Risks. Testing and mitigating elections-related risks.
OpenAI Whistleblowers. OpenAI Insiders Warn of a 'Reckless' Race for Dominance.
AGI by 2027. Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027.
Tech Giants Collaboration. Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink.
Microsoft Layoffs. Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames 'AI Wave'.
Zoox Self-Driving Cars. Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami.
UAE AI Partnership. UAE seeks 'marriage' with US over artificial intelligence deals.
Saudi Investment. Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI.
OpenAI Robotics Group. OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group.
Google's NotebookLM. Google's updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries.
ElevenLabs Sound Effects. ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt.
Perplexity AI Feature. Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages.
Udio 130 Model. Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features.
Apple's AI Features. 'Apple Intelligence' will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI.
Right to Warn. Thirteen current and former employees of OpenAI and Google DeepMind have published a proposal demanding the right to warn the public about the potential dangers of advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
Anticipating AGI. Former OpenAI researcher predicts the arrival of AGI by 2027, foreseeing AI machines surpassing human intelligence and national security implications.
ChatGPT Outage. OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced multiple outages, including a major one during the daytime in the US, but the issues were eventually resolved.
Amazon AI Impact. Amazon's use of AI and robotics in its warehouses isolates workers and hinders union organizing, according to a new report by Oxford University researchers.
FTC Antitrust Investigations. FTC and DOJ open antitrust investigations into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia, with the FTC looking into potential antitrust issues related to investments made by technology companies into smaller AI companies.
Microsoft's AI Investment. Microsoft plans to invest $3.2 billion in AI infrastructure in Sweden, including training 250,000 people and increasing capacity at its data centers.
AI Chatbot Accuracy. AI chatbots, including Google’s Gemini 1.0 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-3, provided incorrect information 27% of the time when asked about voting and the 2024 election.
Concept Storage Method. A new research paper from OpenAI introduces a method to identify how the AI stores concepts that might cause misbehavior.
Deepfake Impact. AI played a significant role in the Indian election, with political parties using deepfakes and AI-generated content for targeted communication, translation of speeches, and personalized voter outreach.
OpenAI Revenue Growth. OpenAI's annualized revenue has more than doubled in the last six months, reaching $3.4 billion.
OpenAI Partnership. OpenAI and Apple announce partnership to integrate ChatGPT into Apple experiences.
Luma AI Launch. Luma AI has launched the public beta of its new AI video generation model, Dream Machine, which has garnered overwhelming user interest.
Apple AI Features. Apple has announced 'Apple Intelligence,' a suite of AI features for iPhone, Mac, and more at WWDC 2024.
Reward Tampering Research. Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models.
Meta's AI Models. Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking.
Adept and Microsoft Deal. AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft.
OpenAI Revenue Growth. Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months.
Claude 3.5 Release. Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor.
Luma's Dream Machine. 'We don’t need Sora anymore': Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut.
Runway Video Model. Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips.
Perplexity Controversy. Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets.
Huawei's Chip Concerns. Huawei exec concerned over China's inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools.
Waymo's Recall. Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole.
New Apple Features. Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac.
Publisher Backlash. AI search startup Perplexity, backed by Jeff Bezos and other tech giants, is facing backlash from publishers like The New York Times, The Guardian, Condé Nast, and Forbes for allegedly circumventing blocks to access and repurpose their content.
AI-Generated Script Backlash. London premiere of AI-generated script film cancelled after backlash from audience and industry, highlighting ongoing debate over AI's role in the film industry.
Emotion Detection Controversy. AI-powered cameras in UK train stations, including London's Euston and Waterloo, used Amazon software to scan faces and predict emotions, age, and gender for potential advertising and safety purposes, raising concerns about privacy and reliability.
AI Influencer Ads. AI-generated avatars are being introduced on TikTok for brands to use in ads, allowing for customization and dubbing in multiple languages.
AI Models Comparison. Fireworks AI releases Firefunction-v2, an open-source function-calling model designed to excel in real-world applications, rivaling high-end models like GPT-4o at a fraction of the cost and with superior speed and functionality.
Brave AI Enhancement. Brave's in-browser AI assistant, Leo, now incorporates real-time Brave Search results, providing more accurate and up-to-date answers.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Launch. Anthropic has launched its latest AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it claims can match or surpass the performance of OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Google’s Gemini across a broad range of tasks.
AI Music Lawsuits. Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement.
AI Safety Bill. Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California's AI safety bill.
Stock Sale Policies. OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same.
Advanced AI Chip. China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say.
Figma AI Redesign. Figma announces big redesign with AI.
Waymo Robotaxis. Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco.
ChatGPT for Mac. OpenAI's ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users.
Voice Mode Delay. OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July.
Gemini Side Panels. Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps.
Collaboration Tools. Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant.
CriticGPT Introduction. OpenAI has introduced a new AI model, CriticGPT, designed to identify errors in the outputs of ChatGPT, an AI system built on the GPT-4 architecture.
AI Music Lawsuits. Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Records have filed lawsuits against AI music-synthesis companies Udio and Suno, accusing them of mass copyright infringement.
Gaming AI Capabilities. MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks believes that people are overestimating the capabilities of generative AI and that it's flawed to assign human capabilities to it.
AI Scaling Myths. The belief that AI scaling will lead to artificial general intelligence is based on misconceptions about scaling laws, the availability of training data, and the limitations of synthetic data.
Formation Bio Investment. Formation Bio raises $372M in Series D funding to apply AI to drug development, aiming to streamline clinical trials and drug development processes.
Humanoid Robot Deployment. Agility Robotics' Digit humanoids have landed their first official job with GXO Logistics Inc., marking the industry's first formal commercial deployment of humanoids.
Google Translate Expansion. Google Translate has added 110 new languages, including Cantonese and Punjabi, bringing the total of supported languages to nearly 250.
AI Voice Imitations Controversy. Morgan Freeman expresses gratitude to fans for calling out unauthorized AI imitations of his voice, highlighting the growing issue of AI-generated voice imitations in the entertainment industry.
Ethical AI Positioning. Anthropic aims to enable beneficial uses of AI by government agencies, positioning itself as an ethical choice among rivals.
New Collaboration Tools. Anthropic has launched an update to enhance team collaboration and productivity, introducing a Projects feature that allows users to organize their interactions with Claude.
Waymo Expansion. Waymo announced that its robotaxi service in San Francisco is now open to the public, eliminating the need for customers to sign up for a waitlist.
Gemini 1.5 Launch. Google's release of Gemini 1.5, Flash and Pro with 2M tokens to the public.
Workforce Development. U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with a new program.
Nvidia's Revenue. Nvidia is expected to make $12 billion from AI chips in China this year despite US controls.
AI Regulation Issues. With Chevron's demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water.
AI Video Fund. Bridgewater starts a $2 billion fund that uses machine learning for decision-making.
Runway's Gen 3 Alpha. Runway's Gen-3 Alpha AI video model is now available, but there’s a catch.
LLaMA 3 Release. Meta is about to launch its biggest LLaMA model yet, highlighting its significance.
Apple's Board Role. Apple Inc. has secured an observer role on OpenAI's board, with Phil Schiller, Apple's App Store head and former marketing chief, appointed to the position.
AI Bias in Medical Imaging. AI models analyzing medical images can be biased, particularly against women and people of color, and while debiasing strategies can improve fairness, they may not generalize well to new patient populations.
Democratizing AI Access. Mozilla's Llamafile and Builders Projects were showcased at the AI Engineer World's Fair, emphasizing democratized access to AI technology.
Mind-reading AI Progress. AI can accurately recreate what someone is looking at based on brain activity, greatly improved when the AI learns which parts of the brain to focus on.
AI Model Evaluation Advocacy. Anthropic is advocating for third-party AI model evaluations to assess capabilities and risks, focusing on safety levels, advanced metrics, and efficient evaluation development.
AI Coding Startup Valuation. AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, aiming to develop AI models for writing software.
AI Music Generation. Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the go, which allows users to generate full songs from text prompts or sound.
New AI Model Release. Kyutai has open-sourced Moshi, a real-time native multimodal foundation AI model that can listen and speak simultaneously.
Security Flaw Discovered. OpenAI's ChatGPT macOS app was found to be storing user conversations in plain text, making them easily accessible to potential malicious actors.
AI Lawsuits Implications. AI music lawsuits could shape the future of the music industry, as major labels sue AI firms for alleged copyright infringement.
Concerns Over AI Safety. OpenAI is facing safety concerns from employees and external sources, raising worries about the potential impact on society.
AMD Acquisition News. AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in a $665 million deal.
AI-generated Content Labels. Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels.
OpenAI and Health Coach. OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an 'AI health coach.'
Mind-Reading AI. Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy.
New AI Features. Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy.
AI Coding Startup. AI coding startup Magic seeks a $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say.
Elon Musk's GPU Plans. Elon Musk reveals plans to make the world's 'Most Powerful' 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI cluster.
Neural Nets Critique. Gary Marcus criticizes neural nets, stating, 'Neural nets don't really understand anything, they read on the web.'
Unmet Safety Promises. OpenAI promised to devote 20% of its efforts to AI safety, but never delivered, according to a recent report.
Governance Promises Broken. Altman once promised that outsiders would play an important role in the company's governance; that key promise has not been kept.
Restrictive Employee Contracts. OpenAI had highly unusual contractual 'clawback' clauses designed to keep employees from speaking out about any concerns about the company.
Misuse of Artist's Voice. OpenAI proceeded to make a Scarlett Johansson-like voice for GPT-4o, even after she specifically told them not to, highlighting their overall dismissive attitude towards artist consent.
OpenAI's Misleading Name. OpenAI called itself open, and traded on the notion of being open, but even as early as May 2016 knew that the name was misleading.
Governance Representation. Sam Altman, 2016: 'We’re planning a way to allow wide swaths of the world to elect representatives to a new governance board.'
Nonprofit Status. If they cannot assemble a board that respects the legal filings they made, and cannot behave in keeping with their oft-repeated promises, they must dissolve the nonprofit.
Board Attacks. At least two proxies have gone after Helen Toner, one in The Economist, highbrow, one low (a post on X that got around 200,000 views).
Deep Learning Critique. The ridicule started with my infamous 'Deep Learning is Hit a Wall' essay.
Lackluster Fireside Chat. Melissa Heikkilä at Technology Review more or less panned Altman’s recent fireside chat at AI for Good.
Kara Swisher's Bias. Paris Marx echoed my own feelings about Kara Swisher’s apparent lack of objectivity around Altman.
Slowing Innovation. Christoper Mims echoed a lot of what I have been arguing here largely, writing that 'The pace of innovation in AI is slowing, its usefulness is limited, and the cost of running it remains exorbitant.'
Financial Conflicts. The Wall Street Journal had a long discussion of Altman’s financial holdings and possible conflicts of interest.
Key Contributors. The letter itself, cosigned by Bengio, Hinton, and Russell.
Gift Link Provided. Roose supplied a gift link.
Funding Decline. Generative AI seed funding drops.
Read Marcus's Book. Gary Marcus wrote his new book Taming Silicon Valley in part for the reason of addressing regulatory issues.
Proposed Bill SB-1047. State Senator Scott Wiener and others in California have proposed a bill, SB-1047, that would build in some modest restrains around AI.
OpenAI's CTO Admission. OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati acknowledged that there is no mind blowing GPT-5 behind the scenes as of yet.
Kurzweil's New Projection. In an interview published in WIRED, Kurzweil let his predictions slip back, for the first time, to 2032.
Opposing Views on AGI. Gary Marcus stands by his own prediction that we will not see AGI by 2029, per criteria he discussed here.
Current AI Errors. Businesses are finally finding this out, too. (Headline in WSJ: 'AI Work Assistants Need a Lot of Handholding', because they are still riddled with errors.)
AI Ignored. Neither president even mentioned AI, which was a travesty of a different sort.
Call for Metacognition. Scaling is not the most interesting dimension; instead, we need techniques, such as metacognition, that can reflect on what is needed and how to achieve it.
Generative AI Limitations. Leaving more and more code writing to generative AI, which grasps syntax but not meaning, is not the answer.
LLM Reading Notes. The May edition of my LLM reading note is out.
Fractal Molecule Discovery. Researchers from Germany, Sweden, and the UK have discovered an enzyme produced by a single-celled organism that can arrange itself into a fractal.
C*-Algebraic ML. Looks like more and more people are looking to integrate Complex numbers into Machine Learning.
Generative AI Insights. Some really good insights on building Gen AI LinkedIn.
AlphaFold 3 Predictions. In a paper published in Nature, we introduce AlphaFold 3, a revolutionary model that can predict the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy.
Spotlight on Aziz. Mohamed Aziz Belaweid writes the excellent, 'Aziz et al. Paper Summaries', where he summarizes recent developments in AI.
AI Made Simple Community. We started an AI Made Simple Subreddit.
Emerging LLM Techniques. Microsoft's GENIE achieves comparable performance with state-of-the-art autoregressive models and generates more diverse text samples.
Diffusion Models Explained. Diffusion Models are generative models that follow 2 simple steps: First, we destroy training data by incrementally adding Gaussian noise. Training consists of recovering the data by reversing this noising process.
AlphaFold 3 Innovation. Google's AlphaFold 3 is gaining a lot of attention for its potential to revolutionize bio-tech. One of the key innovations that led to its performance gains over previous methods was its utilization of diffusion models.
Pay What You Can. We follow a 'pay what you can' model, which allows you to support within your means.
Venture Capital Overview. A great overview by Rubén Domínguez Ibar about how Venture Capital make decisions.
Community Spotlight Resource. Kiki's Bytes is a super fun YouTube channel that covers various System Design case studies.
Friendship Statistics. People with no friends or poor-quality friendships are twice as likely to die prematurely, according to Holt-Lunstad's meta-analysis of more than 308,000 people.
Client Payment Process. I am monetizing this newsletter through my employer- SVAM International (USA Work Laws bar me from taking money from anyone who is not my employer).
Current Gen Z Struggles. 67% of people 18 to 34 feel 'consumed' by their worries about money and stress, making it hard to focus, as part of the Gen Z mental health crisis.
Haize Labs Automation. Haize Labs seeks to rigorously test an LLM or agent with the purpose of preemptively discovering all of its failure modes.
Marriage Proposals. A good portion of those even said they would marry her.
Alexa Love. Amazon reported that half a million people told Alexa they loved her.
Data Contextuality in Healthcare Algorithms. A bombshell study found that a clinical algorithm many hospitals were using to decide which patients need care was showing racial bias.
Inflection AI's Revenue Failure. Inflection AI’s revenue was, in the words of one investor, “de minimis.” Essentially zilch.
Reading Interest. If you want to keep your finger on your pulse for the tech-bio space, she’s an elite resource.
Community Engagement. We started an AI Made Simple Subreddit.
Spotlight on Expertise. Hai Huang is a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, working on their AI for productivity projects.
Security Challenges. Demand for high-performance chips designed specifically for AI applications is spiking.
SWE-Bench Overview. SWE-bench is a comprehensive evaluation framework comprising 2,294 software engineering problems sourced from real GitHub issues and their corresponding pull requests across 12 popular Python repositories.
Deepfake Market Growth. Deepfake-related losses are expected to soar from $12.3 billion in 2023 to $40 billion by 2027, growing at an astounding 32% compound annual growth rate.
Adversarial AI Rise. Deepfakes typify the cutting edge of adversarial AI attacks, achieving a 3,000% increase last year alone; incidents are projected to rise by 50% to 60% in 2024.