23 NOV 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/

19 NOV 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 Intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence NVIDIA: GPU Supply Issues Involve Packaging, Not Chip Wafers https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-supply-packaging-chip-wafers Elon Musk "GPUs are harder to buy than Drugs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=nxbZVH9kLao HBM High Bandwidth Memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory SK hynix Develops Industry’s First 12-Layer HBM3, Provides Samples to Customers https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-develops-industrys-first-12-layer-hbm3/ (Video) Behind the Scenes: Scaling ChatGPT https://youtu.be/PeKMEXUrlq4?si=tU1SGvk1vKDrzyoo ChatGPT Cancels Subscriptions due to Usage https://tech.co/news/openai-stops-new-chatgpt-plus-subscriptions#:~:text=Too%20Much%20Interest%20in%20ChatGPT,based%20on%20its%20new%20abilities Nvidia unveils H200, its newest high-end chip for training AI models https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/13/nvidia-unveils-h200-its-newest-high-end-chip-for-training-ai-models.html U.S. in game of "catch me if you can" with Nvidia on rules, state-controlled China newspaper says https://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 Nvidia https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/15/microsoft-reveals-maia-ai-processor-and-cobalt-arm-based-chip.html Measuring Hallucinations in RAG Systems https://vectara.com/measuring-hallucinations-in-rag-systems/ Musk says X subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok https://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 Barrett https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1836 Anime Rock, Paper Scisors (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y Did We Just Change Animation Forever? (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWo Turn drawings into code with GPT-4 Vision (Tweet) https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1725073435951534143 LangChain Expands Collaboration with Microsoft https://blog.langchain.dev/langchain-expands-collaboration-with-microsoft/ Microsoft Semantic Kernel https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/ Github Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/ Github Copilot Workspace https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace/

10 NOV 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/

3 NOV 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 Conference https://openai.com/blog/announcing-openai-devday Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/ Google Bard ingests your Drive and Gmail data https://bard.google.com/updates OpenAI acquires Global Illumination (August, 2023) https://openai.com/blog/openai-acquires-global-illumination (Video) The AI Bot Show episode 5 - The State of Agents https://youtu.be/s68clRjPS1s Anthropic Raises Big Money https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2307.03172/ (Video) Behind the Scenes: Scaling ChatGPT https://youtu.be/PeKMEXUrlq4?si=tU1SGvk1vKDrzyoo Boston Dynamics Talking Dog video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EHprsM948s Shield AI raises $165M at a $2.3B valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systems https://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 Other https://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=704446232938 Ukraine Drone Losses Are '10,000 Per Month' https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/05/22/ukraine-drones-losses-are-10000-per-month/?sh=2345d0be384a Ukraine's "Army of Drones" tells CBS News $40 million worth of Russian military hardware destroyed in a month https://cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-drone-unit-tells-cbs-40-million-dollars-russia-military-hardware-destroyed/ White House Issues Executive Order on AI https://insidehpc.com/2023/10/white-house-issues-executive-order-on-ai/ Countries at a UK summit pledge to tackle AI's potentially 'catastrophic' risks https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/uk-summit-aims-tackle-thorny-issues-cutting-edge-104532457