Welcome back to another week in the world of AI, and what a week it was. One question you might be asking is, are we at AGI now? Some people think so and given all the news of the week from OpenAI and Google, you could be forgiven for thinking the same
Biggest news of the week was from OpenAI, a flirty, feature filled journey with their new updates. More info on that here.
So many of the videos online covered the updates and here’s one that we saw.
More as well from another AI YouTuber with Wes Roth coverage.
The official OpenAI blog has more details too – see more here.
Not to be outdone, Google had plenty to show at Google IO event and we again go to Wes Roth for the breakdwon.
Not everyone was happy with the updates though and even called it disappointing – see here.
It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows for OpenAI this week though. Later in the week Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike from the alignment team focusing on AI safety at OpenAI abruptly quit. Bindu Reddy on Twitter has this take on it here.
Back home, the Federal budget was announced on Tuesday with safe and responsible AI getting $40m in funding. More coverage here from Raymond Sun – link.
We also used SIKE to dive into it showing how you can run your own queries or get team of AI agents to do so and also how you can use the Dreams area for some ideation (in this case what would an economist think).
Speaking of our videos, we also had some AI coverage in the 2nd half of our podcast, The NC Show. In this episode it was all about AI as the ultimate translator.
Great to see the National AI Centre doing more with the younger generation and their Day of AI event coming up soon. More info here.
And speaking of education and AI, MIT covers this in this 3hr love stream.
Interesting video comparing the internet boom to the AI boom and who better to ask than folks who were there for both. The analogy doesn’t quite work though. They see it being more like the early days of computers as opposed to the network that was the internet.
What a week. We’ll leave you with this summary from TechCrunch which brings it together pretty well (link).
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