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This week Tom and Elliot talk about the $225m that flew into the seed rounds for Stability AI and Jasper AI. They also touch on the rumours about OpenAI's discussions with Microsoft about further financing.
⏲️Timestamps⏲️
00:00 100% more audio introduction
01:30 The three big invesments pieces of news this week
05:00 Two of the biggest seed rounds
06:10 Stability AI's seed round & the universe
12:45 Making an episode fully AI
13:35 Detailed information on the Stability AI round
15:00 Don't pick the hype for your PhD
17:40 The Hedge Fund Play by Stability AI
18:30 4000 GPUs from Stability AI
20:40 Stability delays the release of v1.5 of Stable Diffusion and the consequences
27:15 Elliot's spicy take🌶️ and Stavility AI's competive new future
31:15 OpenAI's discussion with Microsoft
35:00 The release history by OpenAI and the trend of closing
38:45 Imagik Paper and reinventing images
41:00 The challenges of prompt engineering
44:00 Final words on Stability AI's round
48:12 Jasper AI's round
52:00 Marketing dribble just exploded 100x
53:20 Advertising doesn't work that way
54:30 All consumer brand's will be gone in 30 years
59:00 The Sideways effect on the wine market
1:01:30 Pineapples & social signalling
1:03:20 Humans filtering out AI content
1:04:40 Jasper's product demo
1:06:10 Propogating errors through the internet
1:11:00 Wrapping up
⚡Show Notes⚡
- Stability AI's $101m Seed Round https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/stability-ai-the-startup-behind-stable-diffusion-raises-101m/
- Jasper AI's $125m Seed Round https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/18/ai-content-platform-jasper-raises-125m-at-a-1-7b-valuation/
- OpenAI in discussion with Microsoft for further funding https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-valued-at-nearly-20-billion-in-advanced-talks-with-microsoft-for-more-funding
- Not Andrew Street... Andrew Scott https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778831/
- Stable Diffusion Launch https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement
- Dreamstudio https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/home
- Ali Abdaal AI tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/AliAbdaal/status/1582835494475698176
- Moonbeam editing tool https://www.gomoonbeam.com/
- Emad Mostaque CEO of Stability AI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque
- Stability AI demo day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uy_8YPWrXo&t=2415s&ab_channel=RobertScoble
- Why Stability delayed v1.5 release of Stabel Diffusion https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai
- Imagik https://imagick.ai/
- Jasper AI Demo https://www.jasper.ai/demo
- Ads don't work that way https://meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/
- The Sideways Effect on Merlot https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/05/535038513/the-sideways-effect-how-a-wine-obsessed-film-reshaped-the-industry
- The Myth of Spinach https://www.compoundchem.com/2018/07/17/spinach/
-Malcolm Gladwell on memory https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/free-brian-williams
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For the first time in a long time Elliot and Tom are in the same room. This week we talk mostly about Tesla's AI day, as well as touching on the "Data Laundering " that is happening in the image generation world. Warning, we get pretty boozed towards the end.
⏲️Timestamps⏲️
00:00 Drinking in person
02:00 Part 1 - Tesla AI Day intro
07:20 NERF & other Vision AI models
14:50 Lanes languages and using attention in vision
21:15 Data & Training capabilities behind FSD
25:25 The infrastructure behind it all
31:00 Tesla makes their own silicon + NVIDIA rambles
38:35 Final comments on Tesla AI day
43:16 Data Laundering
46:55 OpenAI question to US Patents & Tradmark office
55:42 Stadia died because no one trusts google
⚡Show Notes⚡
Part 1 - Tesla AI Day
- Tesla AI Day stream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSJsviD_SU&ab_channel=Tesla
- Radiance Fields - https://datagen.tech/guides/synthetic-data/neural-radiance-field-nerf/
- LIDAR is doomed, Elon Musk - https://youtu.be/HM23sjhtk4Q
- Elon Musk's perfume - https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-100-burnt-hair-perfume-has-sold-out-1849676199
- Russian army using chips from fridges - https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/xiqhu4/ursula_von_der_leyen_the_russian_army_is_removing/
- Meta announces Legs - https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/meta-announces-legs/
Part 2
- Data Laundering Article - https://waxy.org/2022/09/ai-data-laundering-how-academic-and-nonprofit-researchers-shield-tech-companies-from-accountability/
- OpenAI request for comment - https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/OpenAI_RFC-84-FR-58141.pdf
- Temtem - https://store.steampowered.com/app/745920/Temtem/
Part 3 - Google Stadia
- Stadia died because no one trusts google - https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/01/stadia-died-because-no-one-trusts-google/
- Player with 6k hours of Red Dead Redemption 2 loses everything https://www.cbr.com/red-dead-redemption-2-player-6000-google-stadia-hours-rockstar/
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This week Tom and Elliot cover new models, new hardware and all the interesting things they came across this week.
⏱️Time stamps⏱️
00:00 Introduction
02:53 DALLE-2 removes their wait list
07:42 Meta releases a paper on Make-a-video, a text to video model
12:01 Dreamfusion's text to 3D model generation
16:48 VTOONIFY released for converting portrait videos into caricatures
20:32 StockAI launched and just probably has legal action coming their way
23:33 NVIDIA Launches Cloud SaaS business
26:53 AMD Ryzen700 CPU Launch
29:00 New Intel GPUs
30:48 Reducing 100k equations to 4 using AI
35:25 NVIDIA in the valley
41:38 EchoNet outperforms sonographers
44:30 Learning a language by talking to AI
47:00 Designing the perfect keyboard using AI
49:05 Is Stadia really dead?
55:00 Closing bants
⚡Show Notes⚡
💿Model News
- DALL-E removes their wait list… https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/28/23376328/ai-art-image-generator-dall-e-access-waitlist-scrapped
- Meta releases a paper on a model called Make-a-video - https://ai.facebook.com/blog/generative-ai-text-to-video/
- Dreamfusion text to 3D model https://dreamfusion3d.github.io/
- VTOONIFY https://www.mmlab-ntu.com/project/vtoonify/
- StockAI launched https://www.stockai.com/
- Original tweet showing the copyright issues StockAI faces https://twitter.com/frantzfries/status/1574557008950329354
🖥️ Hardware News
- NVIDIA releases cloud service for metaverse creators https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-omniverse-cloud-services-for-building-and-operating-industrial-metaverse-applications
- AMD new CPU launch https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/everything-you-need-to-know-about-zen-4-socket-am5-and-amds-newest-chipsets/
- New Intel GPUs https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/arc.html
🔬 Science News
- Researchers reduce equations from 100k to 4 https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/09/26/artificial-intelligence-reduces-a-100000-equation-quantum-physics-problem-to-only-four-equations/
🪣Misc. Bucket
- NVIDIA in the valley, Stratechery https://stratechery.com/2022/nvidia-in-the-valley/
- EchoNet outperforming sonographers for LV function test https://www.tctmd.com/news/echonet-ai-algorithm-beats-sonographers-estimating-lv-function
- Learning a language by talking to AI https://talk.quazel.com/chat/try
- Stadia is officially dead https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023
In a new format, Tom and Elliot talk about a collection of interesting new releases from the last couple of weeks. Hope you're enjoying the show.
⌛Timestamps
00:00:00 - Start
00:03:04 - New NVIDIA GPUs
00:15:00 - Deepmind investigates Emergent Abilities of AI
00:30:23 - Getty Images Bans AI Content
00:35:57 - Chal-E & Blender Textures Using AI
00:44:20 - OpenAI Whisper
00:46:33 - McKinsey Report on AI in China
00:53:02 - New Fast AI Course & ACT-1 Preview
⚡Show Notes⚡
New NVIDIA chip releases
— NVIDIA 4000 series - https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/
— Coreteks breakdown of NVIDIA performance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATS-fyQZuwA&ab_channel=Coreteks
— Tom breaks down the new GPU perfromance - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7raAVrdilSw
— Ada Lovalace Architecture - https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/ada-lovelace-architecture/
— Ada Lovelace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
— Google Colab - https://colab.research.google.com/
— Buy Elliot's coffee machine...
— Wikitext-2 - https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/wikitext-2
Emerging AI
— Emerging AI by DeepMind- https://bdtechtalks.com/2022/08/22/llm-emergent-abilities/
— Getty Images bans AI generated images - https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/21/23364696/getty-images-ai-ban-generated-artwork-illustration-copyright
— Ian Goodfellow & GANs - https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661
AI Plugins for Designer tools
— CHARL-E - https://www.charl-e.com/
— Blender Stable Diffusion plugin - https://carlosedubarreto.gumroad.com/l/ceb_sd
— Stable Diffusion for Photoshop - https://www.flyingdog.de/sd/
— Competition - https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/x4swd7/a_man_won_an_art_competition_in_colorado_using/
OpenAI Whisper
— OpenAI Whisper - https://openai.com/blog/whisper/
— Elliot's live dev stream of OpenAI Whisper - https://youtu.be/VlC1wMLI9NY
McKinsey Report
— McKinsey report on AI in China - https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-next-frontier-for-ai-in-china-could-add-600-billion-to-its-economy
Misc.
— Fast AI Course - https://course.fast.ai/
— Adept.ai
— Google assistant that could call and make bookings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d40jgFZ5hXk&ab_channel=BusinessStandard
Tom and Elliot talk about the release of stable diffusion, some of its strengths and weaknesses and an AI model that can learn fundamental equations of real world systems from video.
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Tom and Elliot talk about the recent acquisition of One Medical. Why Amazon would want it, where AI might fit into the picture and some tin hat theories of what their master plan entails.
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The cursed episode… This is V3 of this episode after a couple of tech failures…
Tom and Elliot talk about two papers, one looking at AI in marketing and another in yield prediction for grapes. Both toe the line of "did we really need AI for this".
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Tom and Elliot talk about DALLE-2’s new pricing model, and explore the topic of not only introducing data biases but also reasoning biases.
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Tom and Elliot talk about a Steve Jobs speech and his thoughts on intelligence and whether explainability will save us from stochastic parrots.
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This week Tom and Elliot dig into the new Copilot feature from GitHub and discuss a recent report from McKInsey that shows how the US spends nearly $1 Trillion on admin in the healthcare sector.
00:00:00 - Start
00:02:13 - Topic 1 - Github Copilot
00:03:37 - What is Copilot
00:07:01 - What's causing a push back
00:09:25 - What is Microsoft's plan here
00:11:16 - Does Copilot copy paste code?
00:12:35 - The risk for enterprise dev teams
00:15:47 - How do I know if my code was used to train
00:16:56 - Similarity to Oracle vs Google
00:18:51 - Copilot protection lessons from Nintendo
00:31:15 - Topic 2 McKinsey Healthcare Report
00:32:47 - How we spend 1T a year in health admin
00:36:00 - Calculating health admin spend
00:41:05 - How'd it get so bad?
00:46:26 - Criticisms of the report
01:07:22 - Wrapping Up
⚡Links mentioned
- Mckinsey Report https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/claiming-the-1-trillion-prize-in-us-health-care
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