#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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Timestamps + Links:

• () Intro / Banter

• () Response to listener comments / corrections

• Tools & Apps

• () Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online (nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-ov…)

• () Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser (engadget.com/opera-is-adding-googles-gemini-ai…)

• (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (cnbc.com/2024/05/22/amazon-plans-to-give-alexa…)

• () Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them (theverge.com/2024/5/21/24160664/microsoft-edge…)

• () Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled (techcrunch.com/2024/05/27/iyo-thinks-its-gen-a…)

• Applications & Business

• () PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user (cnbc.com/2024/05/29/pwc-to-become-openais-firs…)

• () Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI (theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167072/openai-content…)

• () OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits (theverge.com/2024/5/31/24168574/openai-chatgpt…)

• () Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/huawei-patent-r…)

• () Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits (nytimes.com/2024/05/22/technology/nvidia-quart…)

• () Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round (forbes.com.au/news/innovation/elon-musks-xai-r…)

• Projects & Open Source

• () Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains (siliconangle.com/2024/05/29/scale-ai-publishes…)

• () Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release (cohere.com/blog/aya23)

• () Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model (nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01555-x)

• () Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code (techcrunch.com/2024/05/29/mistral-releases-its…)

• Research & Advancements

• () The Road Less Scheduled (arxiv.org/abs/2405.15682v1)

• () Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year (epochai.org/blog/training-compute-of-frontier-…)

• () gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws (arxiv.org/abs/2405.16684)

• () Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI (arxiv.org/abs/2405.14005v1)

• () Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important (arxiv.org/abs/2405.18719)

• () New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says (bbc.com/news/articles/c511x4g7x7jo)

• Policy & Safety

• () Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting (businessinsider.com/openai-board-member-detail…)

• () OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic (theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166370/jan-leike-open…)

• () Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees (futurism.com/sam-altman-silencing-former-emplo…)

• () OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee (openai.com/index/openai-board-forms-safety-and…)

• () Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden’s Voice Fined $6 Million (theaiwired.com/robocaller-who-used-ai-to-clone…)

• () Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (futurism.com/hackers-jailbroken-chatgpt-godmode)

• () China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation’s Firms (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-27/china-c…)

• Synthetic Media & Art

• () Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-23/alphabe…)

• () Outro + AI Song

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