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Carl Franklin and Brian MacKay discuss the week's newsworthy stories in the world of AI from a software engineering perspective.
23 NOV 2023 · Carl and Brian explain what the Sam Altman drama means for software develoipers.
OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-board-approached-anthropic-ceo-about-top-job-merger-sources-2023-11-21/
OpenAI Charter
https://openai.com/charter
New Yorker Radio Hour Podcast with Geoffrey Hinton:
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/a-rise-in-antisemitism-and-a-conversation-with-the-ai-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton
Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-board-fight.html
Toner's Paper:
https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-Decoding-Intentions.pdf
Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/
UPDATE: OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/
19 NOV 2023 · This week we talk about the Chip Wars, HBM memory, develolpments in China, Microsoft Semantic Kernel, crazy uncle Elon, Github, and "This week in hallucinations."
Super Intelligence (Book)
https://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom/dp/0199678111/
The Age of Spriitual Machines (Book)
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Spiritual-Machines-Computers-Intelligence/dp/0670882178/
AGI Artificial General Intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
NVIDIA: GPU Supply Issues Involve Packaging, Not Chip Wafers
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-supply-packaging-chip-wafers
Elon Musk "GPUs are harder to buy than Drugs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=nxbZVH9kLao
HBM High Bandwidth Memory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory
SK hynix Develops Industry’s First 12-Layer HBM3, Provides Samples to Customers
https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-develops-industrys-first-12-layer-hbm3/
(Video) Behind the Scenes: Scaling ChatGPT
https://youtu.be/PeKMEXUrlq4?si=tU1SGvk1vKDrzyoo
ChatGPT Cancels Subscriptions due to Usage
https://tech.co/news/openai-stops-new-chatgpt-plus-subscriptions#:~:text=Too%20Much%20Interest%20in%20ChatGPT,based%20on%20its%20new%20abilities
Nvidia unveils H200, its newest high-end chip for training AI models
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/13/nvidia-unveils-h200-its-newest-high-end-chip-for-training-ai-models.html
U.S. in game of "catch me if you can" with Nvidia on rules, state-controlled China newspaper says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-game-catch-me-if-you-can-with-nvidia-rules-china-media-2023-11-11/
Microsoft announces custom AI chip that could compete with Nvidia
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/15/microsoft-reveals-maia-ai-processor-and-cobalt-arm-based-chip.html
Measuring Hallucinations in RAG Systems
https://vectara.com/measuring-hallucinations-in-rag-systems/
Musk says X subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/03/musk-says-twitter-subscribers-will-get-early-access-to-xais-chatbot-grok/
The Inflection Point of Large Language Models with Grant Barrett
https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1836
Anime Rock, Paper Scisors (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y
Did We Just Change Animation Forever? (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWo
Turn drawings into code with GPT-4 Vision (Tweet)
https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1725073435951534143
LangChain Expands Collaboration with Microsoft
https://blog.langchain.dev/langchain-expands-collaboration-with-microsoft/
Microsoft Semantic Kernel
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/
Github Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/
Github Copilot Workspace
https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace/
10 NOV 2023 · There were a lot of announcements this week:
- GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and 3x lower prices
- Increased rate limits
- New APIs: Assistants, Dall-E 3, Whisper 3, Text to Speech with 6 voices.
- Reproducible outputs, seeds
- Fine-tuning for GPT 3.5 16k, GPT-4
- Copyright Shield
- Updated knowledge to April 2023
New models and developer products announced at OpenAI DevDay
https://openai.com/blog/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday
Introducing GPTs
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts
Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window
https://www.anthropic.com/index/prompting-long-context
Greg Kamradt on Twitter
https://twitter.com/GregKamradt
Sam Altman on Twitter
https://twitter.com/sama
Meet Grok: Elon Musk's AI offering
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/06/grok-elon-musk-ai-xai
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot: What you need to know about xAI’s ChatGPT competitor
https://www.fastcompany.com/90978299/grok-ai-chatbot-sign-up-waitlist-elon-musk-chatgpt-alternative-explained
Chinese AI unicorn’s 34B LLM outperforms larger Llama 2 and Falcon models
https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinese-ai-unicorns-34b-llm-outperforms-larger-llama-2-and-falcon-models/
3 NOV 2023 · New leaks about upcoming developments with OpenAI, GitHub, and Microsoft.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/17ht56t/new_leaks_about_upcoming_developments_with_openai/
OpenAI DevDay Conference
https://openai.com/blog/announcing-openai-devday
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/
Google Bard ingests your Drive and Gmail data
https://bard.google.com/updates
OpenAI acquires Global Illumination (August, 2023)
https://openai.com/blog/openai-acquires-global-illumination
(Video) The AI Bot Show episode 5 - The State of Agents
https://youtu.be/s68clRjPS1s
Anthropic Raises Big Money
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2307.03172/
(Video) Behind the Scenes: Scaling ChatGPT
https://youtu.be/PeKMEXUrlq4?si=tU1SGvk1vKDrzyoo
Boston Dynamics Talking Dog video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EHprsM948s
Shield AI raises $165M at a $2.3B valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systems
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/09/shield-ai-raises-165m-at-a-2-3b-valuation-to-fuel-development-of-its-military-autonomous-flying-systems/
There Are So Many Explosives-Laden Drones Flying Over Southern Ukraine That They’re Running Into Each Other
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/08/28/there-are-so-many-explosives-laden-drones-flying-over-southern-ukraine-that-theyre-running-into-each-other/?sh=704446232938
Ukraine Drone Losses Are '10,000 Per Month'
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/05/22/ukraine-drones-losses-are-10000-per-month/?sh=2345d0be384a
Ukraine's "Army of Drones" tells CBS News $40 million worth of Russian military hardware destroyed in a month
https://cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-drone-unit-tells-cbs-40-million-dollars-russia-military-hardware-destroyed/
White House Issues Executive Order on AI
https://insidehpc.com/2023/10/white-house-issues-executive-order-on-ai/
Countries at a UK summit pledge to tackle AI's potentially 'catastrophic' risks
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/uk-summit-aims-tackle-thorny-issues-cutting-edge-104532457
Carl Franklin and Brian MacKay discuss the week's newsworthy stories in the world of AI from a software engineering perspective.
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