#120 - GigaChat + HuggingChat, a LOT of research, EU Act passed, #promptography
Summary
Hosts Andrei Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris discuss recent AI developments, including Russia’s GigaChat and Hugging Face’s new chat interface. They analyze the trend of platforms like Stack Overflow charging for training data and examine the composition of major datasets. The episode also covers Big Tech’s race for custom AI chips, Snapchat’s controversial AI bot, and advancements in high-resolution video synthesis and autonomous agents.
Topics discussed
Sponsors: OutShift and Box AI
Intro, listener feedback, and episode preview
Stability AI, open-source models, and Hugging Chat
Stack Overflow blocks AI scraping and dataset analysis
AI business models, Microsoft hardware, and Snapchat AI
Runway Gen-1 and NVIDIA video synthesis research
Autonomous agents: Auto-GPT and Baby AGI
Mamba, RNNs, and multimodal AI advancements
GPT-4 performance benchmarks and prompt engineering
Llama data, adversarial prompting, and AI safety limits
AI watermarking and creator rights protection
EU AI Act draft and global regulatory impact
AI alignment, veil of ignorance, and kill switches
Anthropic funding request and NIST AI tracking
AI art controversy, bias, and episode wrap-up
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