#184 - OpenAI's Voice 2.0 + execs quitting, Llama 3.2, To CoT or not to CoT?

Our 184th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and guest host Jon Krohn.

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In this episode:

• OpenAI, Meta, and Google are enhancing their AI assistants with advanced voice modes, while Meta released Llama 3.2, an open-source model capable of processing both images and text.

• Significant AI infrastructure developments include Grok's partnership with Aramco for a massive data center in Saudi Arabia, and Microsoft's plan to power data centers using a reopened Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

• Recent research shows chain-of-thought prompting is most effective for math and symbolic reasoning, while OpenAI's GPT-4 with vision capabilities is being integrated into Perplexity AI's search platform.

• AI is being rapidly integrated into various sectors, with examples including ChartWatch reducing unexpected hospital deaths, Snapchat and YouTube introducing AI video generation tools, and Lionsgate partnering with Runway for AI-assisted film production.

Timestamps + Links:

• () Intro / Banter

• () Response to listener comments / corrections

• Tools & Apps
• () OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look (techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/openai-rolls-out-adv…)

• () Meta’s AI can now talk to you in the voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench (theverge.com/2024/9/25/24253420/meta-ai-celebr…)

• () Gemini’s chatty voice mode is out now for free on Android (theverge.com/2024/9/12/24243018/gemini-live-vo…)

• () AI video rivalry intensifies as Luma announces Dream Machine API hours after Runway (venturebeat.com/ai/ai-video-rivalry-intensifie…)

• () Copilot Wave 2 supercharges productivity with AI across all your Microsoft 365 apps (techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligenc…)

• () Perplexity introduces new 'Reasoning' focus powered by OpenAI's o1 (newsbytesapp.com/news/science/perplexity-integ…)

• Applications & Business
• () OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman (futurism.com/openai-execs-quit)

• () Sam Altman departs OpenAI’s safety committee (techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/sam-altman-departs-o…)

• () Chip Startup Groq Backs Saudi AI Ambitions With Aramco Deal (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-16/chip-st…)

• () Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources (techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/grok-image-generator…)

• () Pudu unveils super semi-humanoid robot with 8-hour battery, 10kg lift power (interestingengineering.com/innovation/pudu-d7-…)

• () Amazon introduces Amelia, an AI assistant for third-party sellers (cnbc.com/2024/09/19/amazon-introduces-amelia-a…)

• Projects & Open Source
• () Meta Releases Llama 3.2—and Gives Its AI a Voice (wired.com/story/meta-releases-new-llama-model-…)

• () Alibaba Unveils Ovis 1.6 – A New Multimodal Language Model (aidisruptionpub.com/p/open-source-today-2024-0…)

• Research & Advancements
• () To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning (arxiv.org/abs/2409.12183v1)

• () LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 on PlanBench (arxiv.org/abs/2409.13373v1)

• () Norwegian Startup 1X Unveils AI World Model for Robot Training (maginative.com/article/norwegian-startup-1x-un…)

• () AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds (cbc.ca/news/health/ai-health-care-1.7322671)

• Policy & Safety
• () Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers (npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-is…)

• () Governor Newsom signs bills to combat deepfake election content (gov.ca.gov/2024/09/17/governor-newsom-signs-bi…)

• () Governor Newsom signs bills to protect digital likeness of performers (gov.ca.gov/2024/09/17/governor-newsom-signs-bi…)

• () Startup behind “world’s first robot lawyer” to pay $193K for false ads, FTC says (arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/startup-be…)

• Synthetic Media & Art
• () Snap is introducing an AI video generation tool for creators (techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/snap-is-introducing-…)

• () YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google’s AI video model (techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/youtube-shorts-to-in…)

• () Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Company Runway, Hopes That AI Can Eliminate Storyboard Artists and VFX Crews (cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/lionsgate-signs-…)

() Outro
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