ai chatbots

A year ago, a chatbot tried to break up Kevin Roose’s marriage. Ever since, chatbots haven’t been the same. We’ll tell you how. Then, we’ll talk through the latest ways the world is adapting to artificial intelligence. And finally, Aravind Srinivas, the chief executive of Perplexity, will discuss his company’s “answer engine,” a challenger to Google’s search engine that could reshape the web as we know it.

Today’s guest:

• Aravind Srinivas, chief executive of Perplexity 

Additional Reading: 

• The Year Chatbots Were Tamed
• OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Better ‘Memory’
• Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant
• Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
• Lawmakers propose anti-nonconsensual AI porn bill after Taylor Swift controversy
• Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissed
• Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me.

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant
  • (00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images
  • (00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
  • (00:12:40) Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
  • (00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos
  • (00:16:18) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro
• Applications & Business
  • (00:19:04) A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened
  • (00:23:30) Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost “stamp” machine
  • (00:27:33) US industry group calls for multilateral chip export controls to address disadvantage over Korea, other allies
  • (00:30:10) U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company
  • (00:32:24) Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model
  • (00:42:46) Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI
  • (00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5
  • (00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
  • (00:53:20)  Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors
  • (01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks
  • (01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
  • (01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design
  • (01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
  • (01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:13:22) EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption
  • (01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
  • (01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
  • (01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute
  • (01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
  • (01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
  • (01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
  • (01:34:38)  Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written
•  (01:36:20) Outro

Business in the U.S. House of Representatives has come to a standstill after Kevin McCarthy was removed as speaker Tuesday. Fallout has been messy, to say the least. We’ll get into what this historic moment could mean for the health of our democracy. Plus, some jobs are more at risk of being automated by AI than others. And NASA astronauts on the Artemis III mission will head to the moon in style, with a little help from Prada.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “Playbook PM: Jordan and Scalise make their moves” from Politico

• • “Vote to oust McCarthy as speaker is a warning sign for democracy, scholars say” from The Washington Post

• • “ChatGPT provided better customer service than his staff. He fired them.” from The Washington Post

• • “Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer” from BBC News

• • “Prada to Help Design Spacesuits for NASA Moon Mission” from The Wall Street Journal

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The new AI wave got you scratching your head? With Everyday AI, you don't need to be confused anymore. Join Jordan Wilson as we dive into an AI chatbot 101, covering the basic functionality of the big 3: ChatGPT, Google Bard and Bing Chat.

Time Stamps:

[00:03:03] Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on AI regulation

[00:04:23] Senators' lack of tech understanding exposed

[00:05:28] OpenAI to Release Open Source AI Model

[00:09:00] Getting Answers From Chatbots

[00:10:13] How Chatbots Work

[00:12:54] Breakdown of ChatGPT and GPT4

[00:15:50] Why Bing Chat May Have Competitive Advantages

[00:18:56] Pros and Cons of Bing: Coding & Accuracy

[00:20:10] Google Bard Breakdown

[00:23:00] Google's Bard: Exceptionally Fast But Changing

[00:26:36] Google Bard European Release Uncertain Amid Regulations

[00:27:32] Accessing Google Bard in Europe: VPN Solution

For full show notes, head to YourEverydayAI.com

“It’s different because it’s Google.” Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, could prove to be more consequential than any large language model to date — but it isn’t there yet.

Then, we hear from listeners on how they are using A.I. to negotiate their rent, understand medical results and affirm their gender identity.

Plus: Why Spotify’s A.I. D.J. may be a tipping point for artificial intelligence taking control of our lives.

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Additional reading:

• Google released a new chatbot, Bard. Here’s what it does well — and not so well.
• After a conversation with Google’s executives, Casey Newton answers six questions about the large language model.
• Interior AI is a design tool that makes interior design mock-ups using artificial intelligence.
• Spotify unveiled a new A.I.-powered D.J.
• In his book “Futureproof,” Kevin Roose outlines the concept of “machine drift” — the concept that people will gradually turn over more of their life to the decisions of algorithms.