#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?

Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + Links:

• Tools & Apps
• () KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora (the-decoder.com/kling-is-the-latest-ai-video-g…)

• () ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI (theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173528/apple-intellige…)

• () Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features (braintitan.medium.com/udio-introduces-new-udio…)

• () Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages (techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/perplexity-ais-new-f…)

• () ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt (theverge.com/2024/5/31/24168898/elevenlabs-pro…)

• () Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries (techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/googles-ai-powered-n…)

• Applications & Business
• () OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group (therobotreport.com/openai-is-restarting-its-ro…)

• () Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI (ft.com/content/87a40ffe-c791-4c90-8123-3f75aa0…)

• () UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals (ft.com/content/b72ba623-8e3c-4d29-837b-33f6b84…)

• () Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami (techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/zoox-to-test-self-dr…)

• () Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" (futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-layoffs-blamin…)

• () Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink (pcgamer.com/hardware/avengers-assemblegoogle-i…)

• Projects & Open Source
• () GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M (huggingface.co/THUDM/glm-4-9b-chat-1m/blob/mai…)

• () Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores (venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-and-pollen-rob…)

• () Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv (venturebeat.com/ai/zyphra-zyda-open-language-m…)

• () Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design (venturebeat.com/ai/stability-ai-debuts-new-sta…)

• Research & Advancements
• () Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders (arxiv.org/abs/2406.04093v1)

• () Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting (arxiv.org/abs/2406.04313)

• () Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach (arxiv.org/abs/2405.15613)

• () GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile (livescience.com/technology/artificial-intellig…)

• Policy & Safety
• () Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027 (cointelegraph.com/news/agi-realism-by-2027-asc…)

• () OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (nytimes.com/2024/06/04/technology/openai-cultu…)

• () Testing and mitigating elections-related risks (anthropic.com/news/testing-and-mitigating-elec…)

• () Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities (arxiv.org/abs/2406.01637)

• Synthetic Media & Art
• () The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant (wired.com/story/ai-beauty-pageant-world-ai-cre…)

• () Outro + AI Song

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