• The OpenAI Shakeup
    Nov 23 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/

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    20 mins
  • The Chip Wars and Other Developments
    Nov 19 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 Intelligencehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenceNVIDIA: GPU Supply Issues Involve Packaging, Not Chip Wafershttps://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-supply-packaging-chip-wafersElon Musk "GPUs are harder to buy than Drugs"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=nxbZVH9kLaoHBM High Bandwidth Memoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_MemorySK hynix Develops Industry’s First 12-Layer HBM3, Provides Samples to Customershttps://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-develops-industrys-first-12-layer-hbm3/(Video) Behind the Scenes: Scaling ChatGPThttps://youtu.be/PeKMEXUrlq4?si=tU1SGvk1vKDrzyooChatGPT Cancels Subscriptions due to Usagehttps://tech.co/news/openai-stops-new-chatgpt-plus-subscriptions#:~:text=Too%20Much%20Interest%20in%20ChatGPT,based%20on%20its%20new%20abilitiesNvidia unveils H200, its newest high-end chip for training AI modelshttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/13/nvidia-unveils-h200-its-newest-high-end-chip-for-training-ai-models.htmlU.S. in game of "catch me if you can" with Nvidia on rules, state-controlled China newspaper sayshttps://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 Nvidiahttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/15/microsoft-reveals-maia-ai-processor-and-cobalt-arm-based-chip.htmlMeasuring Hallucinations in RAG Systemshttps://vectara.com/measuring-hallucinations-in-rag-systems/Musk says X subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grokhttps://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 Barretthttps://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1836Anime Rock, Paper Scisors (YouTube)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48YDid We Just Change Animation Forever? (YouTube)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWoTurn drawings into code with GPT-4 Vision (Tweet) https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1725073435951534143LangChain Expands Collaboration with Microsofthttps://blog.langchain.dev/langchain-expands-collaboration-with-microsoft/Microsoft Semantic Kernelhttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/Github Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platformhttps://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/Github Copilot Workspacehttps://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace/
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    29 mins
  • Announcements from OpenAI DevDay and Other News
    Nov 10 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/
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    55 mins
  • What's Next?
    Nov 3 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 Conferencehttps://openai.com/blog/announcing-openai-devdayIntroducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for workhttps://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/Google Bard ingests your Drive and Gmail datahttps://bard.google.com/updatesOpenAI acquires Global Illumination (August, 2023)https://openai.com/blog/openai-acquires-global-illumination(Video) The AI Bot Show episode 5 - The State of Agentshttps://youtu.be/s68clRjPS1sAnthropic Raises Big Moneyhttps://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2307.03172/(Video) Behind the Scenes: Scaling ChatGPThttps://youtu.be/PeKMEXUrlq4?si=tU1SGvk1vKDrzyooBoston Dynamics Talking Dog videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EHprsM948sShield AI raises $165M at a $2.3B valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systemshttps://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 Otherhttps://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=704446232938Ukraine Drone Losses Are '10,000 Per Month'https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/05/22/ukraine-drones-losses-are-10000-per-month/?sh=2345d0be384aUkraine's "Army of Drones" tells CBS News $40 million worth of Russian military hardware destroyed in a monthhttps://cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-drone-unit-tells-cbs-40-million-dollars-russia-military-hardware-destroyed/White House Issues Executive Order on AIhttps://insidehpc.com/2023/10/white-house-issues-executive-order-on-ai/Countries at a UK summit pledge to tackle AI's potentially 'catastrophic' riskshttps://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/uk-summit-aims-tackle-thorny-issues-cutting-edge-104532457
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    23 mins