muckrAIkers

By Jacob Haimes and Igor Krawczuk

Join us as we dig a tiny bit deeper into the hype surrounding "AI" press releases, research papers, and more. Each episode, we'll highlight ongoing research and investigations, providing some much nee... more

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October 22, 2024Winter is Coming for OpenAI
Brace yourselves, winter is coming for OpenAI - atleast, that's what we think. In this episode we look at OpenAI's recent massive funding round and ask "why would anyone want to fund a company that is set to lose net 5 billion USD for 2024?" We scrape through a whole lot of muck to find the meaningful signals in all this news, and there is a lot of it, so get ready!

(00:00) - Intro
(00:28) - Hot off the press
(02:43) - Why listen?
(06:07) - Why might VCs invest?
(15:52) - What are people saying
(23:10) - How *is* OpenAI making money?
(28:18) - Is AI hype dying?
(41:08) - Why might big companies invest?
(48:47) - Concrete impacts of AI
(52:37) - Outcome 1: OpenAI as a commodity
(01:04:02) - Outcome 2: AGI
(01:04:42) - Outcome 3: best plausible case
(01:07:53) - Outcome 1*: many ways to bust
(01:10:51) - Outcome 4+: shock factor
(01:12:51) - What's the muck
(01:21:17) - Extended outro
Links
Reuters article - OpenAI closes $6.6 billion funding haul with investment from Microsoft and Nvidia
Goldman Sachs report - GenAI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit
Apricitas Economics article - The AI Investment Boom
Discussion of "The AI Investment Boom" on YCombinator
State of AI in 13 Charts
Fortune article - OpenAI sees $5 billion loss in 2024 and soaring sales as big ChatGPT fee hikes planned, report says
More on AI Hype (Dying)
Latent Space article - The Winds of AI Winter
Article by Gary Marcus - The Great AI Retrenchment has Begun
TimmermanReport article - AI: If Not Now, When? No, Really - When?
MIT News article - Who Will Benefit from AI?
Washington Post article - The AI Hype bubble is deflating. Now comes the hard part.
Andreesen Horowitz article - Why AI Will Save the World
Other Sources
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Transparency Index
Cointelegraph article - Europe gathers global experts to draft ‘Code of Practice’ for AI
Reuters article - Microsoft's VP of GenAI research to join OpenAI
Twitter post from Tim Brooks on joining DeepMind
Edward Zitron article - The Man Who Killed Google Search
...more
1h 23min
October 16, 2024Open Source AI and 2024 Nobel Prizes
The Open Source AI Definition is out after years of drafting, will it reestablish brand meaning for the “Open Source” term? Also, the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry are heavily tied to AI; we scrutinize not only this year's prizes, but also Nobel Prizes as a concept.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:30) - Hot off the press
(03:45) - Open Source AI background
(10:30) - Definitions and changes in RC1
(18:36) - “Business source”
(22:17) - Parallels with legislation
(26:22) - Impacts of the OSAID
(33:58) - 2024 Nobel Prize Context
(37:21) - Chemistry prize
(45:06) - Physics prize
(50:29) - Takeaways
(52:03) - What’s the real muck?
(01:00:27) - Outro
Links
Open Source AI Definition, Release Candidate 1
OSAID RC1 announcement
All Nobel Prizes 2024
More Reading on Open Source AI
Kairos.FM article - Open Source AI is a lie, but it doesn't have to be
The Register article - The open source AI civil war approaches
MIT Technology Review article - We finally have a definition for open-source AI
On Nobel Prizes
Paper - Access to Opportunity in the Sciences: Evidence from the Nobel Laureates
Physics prize - scientific background, popular info
Chemistry prize - scientific background, popular info
Reuters article - Google's Nobel prize winners stir debate over AI research
Wikipedia article - Nobel disease
Other Sources
Pivot.ai article - People are ‘blatantly stealing my work,’ AI artist complains
Paper - GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
Paper - Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science | Computational Brain & Behavior
...more
1h 2min
September 30, 2024SB1047
Why is Mark Ruffalo talking about SB1047, and what is it anyway? Tune in for our thoughts on the now vetoed California legislation that had Big Tech scared.
(00:00) - Intro
(00:31) - Updates from a relatively slow week
(03:32) - Disclaimer: SB1047 vetoed during recording (still worth a listen)
(05:24) - What is SB1047
(12:30) - Definitions
(17:18) - Understanding the bill
(28:42) - What are the players saying about it?
(46:44) - Addressing critiques
(55:59) - Open Source
(01:02:36) - Takeaways
(01:15:40) - Clarification on impact to big tech
(01:18:51) - Outro
Links
SB1047 legislation page
SB1047 CalMatters page
Newsom vetoes SB1047
CAIS newsletter on SB1047
Prominent AI nerd letter
Anthropic's letter
SB1047 ~explainer

Additional SB1047 Related Coverage
Opposition to SB1047 'makes no sense'
Newsom on SB1047
Andreesen Horowitz on SB1047
Classy move by Dan
Ex-OpenAI employee says Altman doesn't want regulation

Other Sources
o1 doesn't measure up in new benchmark paper
OpenAI losses and gains
OpenAI crypto hack
"Murati out" -Mira Murati, probably
Altman pitching datacenters to White House
Sam Altman, 'podcast bro'
Paper: Contract Design with Safety Inspections
...more
1h 20min
September 23, 2024OpenAI's o1, aka. Strawberry
OpenAI's new model is out, and we are going to have to rake through a lot of muck to get the value out of this one!
⚠ Opt out of LinkedIn's GenAI scraping ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epziUeTi
(00:00) - Intro
(00:25) - Other recent news
(02:57) - Hot off the press
(03:58) - Why might someone care?
(04:52) - What is it?
(06:49) - How is it being sold?
(10:45) - How do they explain it, technically?
(27:09) - Reflection AI Drama
(40:19) - Why do we care?
(46:39) - Scraping away the muck
Note: at around 32 minutes, Igor says the incorrect Llama model version for the story he is telling. Jacob dubbed over those mistakes with the correct versioning.
Links relating to o1
OpenAI blogpost
System card webpage
GitHub collection of o1 related media
AMA Twitter thread
Francois Chollet Tweet on reasoning and o1
The academic paper doing something very similar to o1
Other stuff we mention
OpenAI's huge valuation hinges on upending corporate structure
Meta acknowledges it’s scraping all public posts for AI training
White House announces new private sector voluntary commitments to combat image-based sexual abuse
Sam Altman wants you to be grateful
The Zuck is done apologizing
IAPS report on technical safety research at AI companies
Llama2 70B is "about as good" as GPT-4 at summarization tasks
...more
51min

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