AI - 2024AD: 212-page Report (from this morning) Fully Read w/ Highlights

Just 14 highlights from the 212-page report (in its 7th edition) on the State of AI in 2024. I add my own analysis, bringing in the latest reports of OpenAI behind-the-scenes finances, Chai-1, a new AI Consciousness job listing, the Nobel prize winners speaking out, my own predictions, and much more. Lead author of report: Nathan Benaich.

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Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:43 – o1 changed the game
01:37 – OpenAI costs revealed
02:39 – MovieGen and Pika 1.5
03:39 – Nobel Prize Winners + job listing
06:51 – BrainLM
08:20 – Open Chai-1
08:48 – Stacked Accelerations
10:10 – China Enters Stage Left
10:55 – 100x Drop in Price? Or 80%? + Transformers
12:16 – Copyright Models + Zuck Warning
14:12 – Interesting Climate in AI
16:48 – Jailbreaking still an Issue
17:42 – GenAI Actual Harms DeepMind
18:37 – Predictions

State of AI Report: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GmZmoWOa2O92BPrncRcTKa15xvQGhq7g4I4hJSNlC0M/preview?slide=id.g309a25a756d_0_85
Pike 1.5: https://pika.art/
OpenAI Projections: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-projections-imply-losses-tripling-to-14-billion-in-2026?rc=sy0ihq
Hinton Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7DgMFqrON0
https://simple-bench.com/
Alphafold 3: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic-alphafold-3-ai-model/
Chai-1: https://www.chaidiscovery.com/blog/introducing-chai-1
BrainLM: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.12.557460v1.full.pdf
Calliope Networks: https://calliopenetworks.ai/
NYT Authors: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/books/authors-guild-created-by-humans-artificial-intelligence.html
Zuckerberg Warning: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254042/mark-zuckerberg-creators-value-ai-meta
Schmidt on Climate: https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1842401670225125539
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC46CzxT750
Altman and Sutskever 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC-0XqTAeMQ&t=2507s
AI Cooling: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-centre-cooling-bill-by-40/#:~:text=Our%20machine%20learning%20system%20was,and%20other%20non%2Dcooling%20inefficiencies.
Your Bills will Rise: https://www.yahoo.com/news/explosion-power-hungry-data-centers-100028011.html
GenAI Harms: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.13843
Hassabis Warning: https://www.safe.ai/work/press-release-ai-risk
Consciousness Google Job: https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/137348742553445062-research-scientist-machine-learning-and-cognition
Jailbreaking Amodei: https://x.com/liron/status/1682433957772800000
My 2023 State of AI Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRuiu-3VDU


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