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Elon Musk Announces xAI: Here's Everything We Know So Far
Thu Jul 13 2023Description
The episode covers updates to Google's BARD LLM tool, AI developments in various companies, Elon Musk's new venture X.AI, and the strengths of Elon Musk's XAI. It also discusses concerns about 'Woke AI', the importance of understanding the universe, and China's approach to AI regulation.
Insights
Google BARD LLM Updates
Google announces updates to its BARD LLM tool, including availability in more languages and the ability to listen to responses. BARD now offers more granular controls for response modification, such as complexity, length, and tone. Users can pin and rename Conversations in BARD, and developers can export Python code to replit. BARD introduces multi-modality by incorporating Google Lens capabilities for image prompts.
AI Developments in Companies
Adobe testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on intellectual property, supporting artists' ability to opt out of AI training on their work. Vice President Kamala Harris holds a conversation with civil rights leaders and consumer protection advocates about AI risks to vulnerable populations. Shopify launches an AI assistant called Sidekick for merchants, while Meta plans to launch a commercial version of their llama model. NVIDIA invests $50 million in biotech company Recursion for AI drug discovery.
Elon Musk's X.AI
Elon Musk announced a new company called X.AI, his big push into the AI space. The details of X.AI are currently scarce, but the website mentions their goal is to understand the true nature of the universe. Elon Musk has had a contentious relationship with OpenAI, which he was one of the original funders of. X.AI's team members were mum on Twitter, emphasizing exploration and finding answers. There was discussion about the lack of diversity in X.AI's all-male team and whether it represents a broader cross-section of the universe. The move to create X.AI is seen as part of Elon Musk's master plan to create an Everything app called X, leveraging tools like Twitter, Starlink Satellite Network, and top AI researchers from X.AI.
Strengths of XAI
Elon Musk's XAI is a heavyweight player in AI with unique strengths. XAI has access to multimodal data on Twitter and a growing corpus of data. Tesla FSD team has experience in building huge training clusters and has high-quality Tesla fleet data for machine perception. Elon bought Twitter for its data to train artificial intelligence. Twitter data includes interactions, making it different from research papers. Elon has been concerned about 'Woke AI' and wants to build a 'truth-seeking' AI. He believes that an AI curious about understanding the universe will be pro-humanity. Elon prefers this approach over explicitly programming morality into AI due to the morality inversion problem. China understands the risk of super-intelligent AI and may be interested in a global regulatory regime for AI. China unveiled rules requiring generative AI providers to adhere to core socialist values.
Chapters
Google BARD LLM Updates
00:01 - 06:36
- Google announces updates to its BARD LLM tool, including availability in more languages and the ability to listen to responses
- BARD now offers more granular controls for response modification, such as complexity, length, and tone
- Users can pin and rename Conversations in BARD, and developers can export Python code to replit
- BARD introduces multi-modality by incorporating Google Lens capabilities for image prompts
AI Developments in Companies
00:01 - 06:36
- Adobe testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on intellectual property, supporting artists' ability to opt out of AI training on their work
- Vice President Kamala Harris holds a conversation with civil rights leaders and consumer protection advocates about AI risks to vulnerable populations
- Shopify launches an AI assistant called Sidekick for merchants, while Meta plans to launch a commercial version of their llama model
- NVIDIA invests $50 million in biotech company Recursion for AI drug discovery
Elon Musk's X.AI
06:12 - 12:37
- Elon Musk announced a new company called X.AI, his big push into the AI space.
- The details of X.AI are currently scarce, but the website mentions their goal is to understand the true nature of the universe.
- Elon Musk has had a contentious relationship with OpenAI, which he was one of the original funders of.
- X.AI's team members were mum on Twitter, emphasizing exploration and finding answers.
- There was discussion about the lack of diversity in X.AI's all-male team and whether it represents a broader cross-section of the universe.
- The move to create X.AI is seen as part of Elon Musk's master plan to create an Everything app called X, leveraging tools like Twitter, Starlink Satellite Network, and top AI researchers from X.AI.
Strengths of XAI
12:20 - 18:24
- Elon Musk's XAI is a heavyweight player in AI with unique strengths.
- XAI has access to multimodal data on Twitter and a growing corpus of data.
- Tesla FSD team has experience in building huge training clusters and has high-quality Tesla fleet data for machine perception.
- Elon bought Twitter for its data to train artificial intelligence.
- Twitter data includes interactions, making it different from research papers.
- Elon has been concerned about 'Woke AI' and wants to build a 'truth-seeking' AI.
- He believes that an AI curious about understanding the universe will be pro-humanity.
- Elon prefers this approach over explicitly programming morality into AI due to the morality inversion problem.
- China understands the risk of super-intelligent AI and may be interested in a global regulatory regime for AI.
- China unveiled rules requiring generative AI providers to adhere to core socialist values.