so there's been some really interesting storylines and developments in the world of AI this week and in this video I'm going to break them all down and loop you [Music] in before I really get into it I want to take a moment to really appreciate how far AI generated images have come so this image that we're looking at on the screen right now this was generated with flux which is an AI image generation model that I made a video about earlier this week but the way it can make humans is just mindblowing I mean the only really obvious giveaways in this one is if you look at his lanyard here the text just looks like gibberish and then I think this is supposed to be a microphone right here but it it looks a little off but if you're just looking at the guy's face and you're looking at the hands and you're looking at the shirt it looks really really good here's another image from the same Reddit thread and if we look at this one I mean same thing it is really really difficult to tell that it's AI now if we zoom in really close like I am you can tell maybe there's a little weirdness going on with the teeth especially on the right side where the teeth get a little bigger then if we zoom in on the microphone it looks just kind of like gibberish around the top of the microphone but other than that I mean the Google logo is there the lanyard it's kind of hidden by our hand so you can't see it but dang AI imagery has come so far but it's gotten to a point where most people are not going to be able to tell what was AI generated and what what wasn't we can only tell right now because I'm zooming in super close and looking for little giveaways anyway this is from a Reddit thread over on the stable diffusion subreddit they did follow a very specific process to actually get these images to look this way and look so real but they do break it down in this Reddit thread so I'll make sure it's linked below if you want to try to create images that are this realistic all right now let's talk about open AI we're probably going to spend a few minutes talking about open AI today cuz there's been a lot of weird stuff happening there starting with probably the most like intriguing thing that's come out of open AI this week and that's that Sam mman posted this random image on his Twitter account that just says I love summer in the garden and it has pictures of his strawberries now if you're not familiar or maybe you didn't see some of the older videos where I was talking about what this is in reference to open AI supposedly had this model called qar that was really really good at reasoning there was suspicions that that's what Ilia saw when the board tried to oust Altman and there was claims that this qar model was just too powerful too scary to unleash into the world supposedly that qar model has been rebranded as strawberry so now internally over at open AI they refer to this more advanced better reasoning model as the strawberry model so this post here by Sam is essentially Sam just kind of trolling the people paying attention to open AI acting as if something huge is coming related to Strawberry at least that's the way most people are interpreting it these seemingly are genuine strawberries from his garden and he might have just wanted to post a picture of his strawberries cuz he was proud of them but a lot of people are reading a lot more into this there's also this Twitter account here that has a lot of people baffled so the Twitter username is IR rule theorm Mo but the actual written out username is just three strawberry emojis and this Twitter account grew insanely fast I mean a couple weeks ago I think it was like under a th000 followers and just since all of this strawberry weirdness has started popping up again they've jumped up to over 13,000 followers and if you look through their feed it's pretty much just a nonstop feed of strange trolling memes about strawberries see you in a while Travelers I'll be back strawberry chess boards strawberry Matrix images just lots and lots of random memes and troll posts about strawberries one thing to note is that they do write an all lowercase which is something that Sam ultman is sort of known for on his Twitter account which is led to rumors that maybe this is Sam alman's alternate account there's also been a lot of rumors that this is just a bot and that maybe open AI or Sam mman or somebody created a Twitter bot that just continually post posts memes and random stuff about strawberries and retweets anything related to Ai and strawberries and Sam Alman my personal guess is it's probably just somebody with a little bit too much time on their hands trying to just stir things up and it seems to be working one interesting thing is that Sam Alman himself actually appears to be paying attention to this account welcome to level two how do you feel did I make you feel and then Sam says amazing to be honest again my guest somebody with a lot of time on their hands just screwing around with Twitter trying to see how quickly they can hype things up and get excitement going but I kind of secretly hope that it's some sort of AI bot created by open AI to build additional hype around what they're launching next I'm fairly confident that's not the case but I also kind of want to be wrong moving on there's been a lot of other really interesting news and storylines coming out of open aai I actually made a whole dedicated video about all the sort of drama unfolding over at open AI right now John schan one of the co-founders over at open AI actually left to go join anthropic this week Peter Deng a product manager over at open AI also left and Greg Brockman is going on a extended vacation essentially he's going on sabatical and said that he's stepping away from open AI until the end of the year leaving a lot of people to believe that he's also just ditching and moving on from open AI I don't get that impression there's been a lot of pressure a lot of stress a lot of drama a lot of things have happened over at open AI recently so I genuinely think he's just stepping back to chill out and sort of get out of that mix for a little bit but a lot of people are speculating that he's gone as well on the eth he posted this which also leaves me to believe that he is planning on coming back he says a surprisingly hard part of my break is beginning the fomo for everything happening at open AI right now lots of results cooking I've poured my life for the past 9 years into open AI including the entirety of my marriage work is important to me but so is life I feel okay taking this time in part because our research safety and product progress is so strong I'm super grateful for the team we've built and its unprecedented Talent density and proud of our progress looking forward to completing our mission together all indications point to he's stepping away but planning on coming back there's a lot more to the open AI drama that's happening right now but I broke it down in this video here called open AI seems like it's imploding so check that video out if you want all of the details and sort of my thoughts and opinions on what's going on at open AI right now but in other news that wasn't part of that video open AI got a new board member this week named ziko couter ziko is a professor and director of the machine learning department at Carnegie melon University and they're predominantly focused on AI safety alignment and the robustness of machine learning classifiers we've seen a lot of storylines lately of people claiming that open aai isn't taking safety and alignment seriously Yan Le left wrote up a big X poost about how he doesn't think they're taking safety seriously open AI disbanded their safety and Alignment team it sounds like they are actually taking it fairly seriously by bringing on board members that that is their main focus but not only that they put out this this week called the GPT 40 System card we can see here it says this report outlines the safety work carried out prior to releasing GPT 40 including external red teaming Frontier risk evaluations according to our preparedness framework and in overview of the mitigations we built in to address key risk areas now this is a very long write up here but basically it goes into all of the details and all of the ways that they are focused on safety and Alignment here they even gave themselves a little bit of a scorecard here they feel like when it comes to cyber security it seems to be low risk biological threats low risk persuasion threats a medium risk and model autonomy is a low risk they say that only models with a post mitigation score of medium or below can be deployed and only models with a score of high or lower can be developed further so if something comes back at a critical score apparently they'll just cease development on that thing but if you are a masochist and you do want to read this whole thing here it is linked up in the description so you can dig into all of the details another thing open AI warned about this week is that users could become emotionally hooked on its voice mode if you've seen the movie Her with Wen Phoenix he pretty much falls in love with his Ai and his AI becomes his girlfriend because he got so emotionally attached to that voice mode jumping back to that scor card here that was written up straight in that score card they say that during early testing including red teaming and internal user testing we observed user using language that might indicate forming connections with the model they were saying things like this is our last day together they do have some worry that it could negatively affect healthy relationships but potentially benefit lonely individuals but they do intend to further study the potential for emotional Reliance but it is interesting they're coming out and saying it right now that we haven't rolled out GPT 40 voice to everybody yet but one of the things we have noticed is some people are getting a little little too attached and since we're on the topic for safety I'm going to jump over to anthropic for just a moment because they're also making a big focus on model safety they're creating a bug Bounty program that it sounds like you can apply and if accepted participants will get early access to the latest models before public deployment with the goal of trying to find ways to circumvent the safety measures they're offering up to $115,000 for novel univers ival jailbreak attacks a jailbreak attack is basically convincing the AI the large language model to ignore its guard rails and give you an output that it's not necessarily designed to give you if people can help them find those jailbreaks so that they can close those loopholes they're willing to pay for that information all right back to open AI because they still had some more announcements and things that happened this week they rolled out a new feature for developers they now have structured outputs in the API now if you're not a developer or you're not using the API for any reason this is probably not relevant to you but essentially when you are using their apis and code the data that open AI is sending over to whatever application you're writing the code for the data is a little bit more structured and organized theoretically making it a lot easier to work with one of the big criticisms of open AI lately and I've been one of the people who's been personally criticizing them a lot about this is the fact that they talk about a of cool things that they're doing but then don't actually ship them and give people access to this day we still don't have Sora access to this day most people still don't have GPT 40 advanced voice features they announced a new chat GPT search to go head-to-head with Google we haven't seen access to it yet they keep on showing off these cool interesting things and then not shipping them well it sounds like we should lower our expectations for open AI next Dev day as well they Dev day happens in San Francisco on October 1st last year's Dev day was when they announced the GPT store which kind of never ended up going anywhere and this year they're basically saying you're not going to get GPT 5 and don't expect anything too crazy from this Dev day basically don't expect to see any massive announcements or new features in chat GPT but if you are a developer who's using open AI Tech and their large language models there's probably going to be some cool stuff to make your development process easier it also came out this week that open AI actually has a tool to recognize whether or not text was generated with AI or not but they've deliberately decided not to release it it says here open AI has built a tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by asking chat GPT to write their assignments but according to the Wall Street Journal the company is debating whether to actually release it they basically say here that they're worried about Bad actors figuring out how to circumvent them they're also worried that it could stigmatize use of AI as a useful writing tool for non-native English speakers who knows if we'll actually see this or not yet another thing open AI says look we've got this but you can't have it but to be honest this isn't one that I'm like super excited about so I'm like really bummed that open AI isn't giving it to us or anything um it's just interesting it's another thing that they're like hey look what we have anyway so you've been hearing about all of this AI stuff but perhaps you're not sure how to apply it yet despite all of the concerns about AI replacing jobs you can actually use AI tools to your advantage and position yourself as an ideal candidate for your dream position that's why I teamed up with HubSpot to Showcase their toolkit designed to help you secure the perfect job using AI this toolkit includes super valuable resources like 20 AI powered tools for job Seekers and I'll admit it as the AI tools guy some of 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new lawsuit elon's basically saying that the open AI guys manipulated musk into co-founding their nonprofit Venture by promising that open AI would be safer and more transparent than profit driven driven Alternatives so while the old lawsuit was kind of claiming that they went against what the company originally stood for the new lawsuit is much more nuanced in saying they basically tricked Elon Musk into investing in a nonprofit that they eventually started figuring out how to make profits for but that's not the only lawsuit that open AI is getting hit with this week a YouTuber named David Mallette is trying to get this class action lawsuit started up against open AI because open AI went and scraped r a whole bunch of transcripts from YouTube videos to use as training data personally I don't think this lawsuit is going to win I think by using the training data from these transcripts it's essentially fair use especially since the output that you're getting from chat GPT when you ask at a prompt isn't the same thing as what was inputed without really really tricking the large language models you're not going to get the large language model to Output word for word exactly what the input data was therefore making it transformative enough that I don't think there's much of a case here but I'm not a lawyer I don't know what I'm talking about that's just based on how I've seen some of these other lawsuits that have come up play out along the same lines Nvidia is in some hot water this week when a leaked document showed that Nvidia was scraping a human lifetime of videos per day to train their AI models so internal emails slack conversations and documents were leaked that show how Nvidia created their yet to be released video Foundation model Nvidia did claim that the practice is in full compliance with the letter of the spirit of copyright law again it's going to be interesting cuz some of these other lawsuits are going to set a precedent for how this is going to move forward in the future because while yes it may have trained on you know thousands and hundreds of thousands of hours of video footage the output that you're going to get when you enter a prompt is going to be so dramatically different from everything that was trained on that it feels like they will consider it to be creating something transformative enough but like I said a minute ago not a legal expert have no clue what I'm talking about just sort of speaking from the experience that I've seen from these other lawsuits outside of essentially three people leaving open AI this week there's been other shuffling among the sort of big names in the AI world this week character AI partnered up with Google and as part of the deal the two co-founders of character AI I are actually moving over to work at Google so it says here character AI co-founder and CEO Noom shazir is returning to Google after leaving the company in October of 2021 to found character AI when he worked at Google previously he worked on helping Google build AI models like Lambda so now he's back at Google this time helping Deep Mind now apparently character AI isn't going anywhere character ai's General council is becoming the interim CEO for now and and most of the staff is staying with character AI so the company's going to continue on just I guess without the two founding members basically my interpretation of what was going on here was that character AI was in the process of building and training their own foundational models over time they've realized how powerful and good some of these other models have become you know GPT 40 llama 3.1 Claud Sonet and of course Google's own Gemini 1.5 and so it sounds s like character AI is going to back off on developing Their Own Foundation models and start to use existing models that are out there and if that is the case then the two sort of brains behind developing these Foundation models don't necessarily need to be working in character all the time that's the way I'm interpreting what's going on don't know anybody at character AI haven't talked to anybody that's just me putting puzzle pieces together there's a new large language model fine-tuned for math called Quin 2 math when it comes to actually doing math it pretty much beats every existing model on the market in Benchmark testing specifically for math all right let's talk about AI video cuz there's been a few small things that came out in the world of AI video this week bite dance the company behind Tik Tok debuted a new AI video generation model called jimang Ai and this article here basically claims that it's similar to open AI Sora now I haven't actually been able to find videos generated with this yet but here's a sidebyside compar that I found on another article that shows side by side with Sora right being sora's output left being jang's output I think it's pretty safe to say that Sora still has it beat just based on these screenshots here's some other screenshots here where they're just still images but outside of a few news articles that say this exists and is as good as Sora I actually haven't found outputs that it's made I've only found screenshots of outputs runway on the other hand has rolled out a new feature this week that you can see what it does and actually use it initially they rolled out gen 3 Alpha which gave us good text to video and then they rolled out the Gen 3 Alpha with image to video well now the newest update lets you actually pick an ending frame so for example this video that you see here on the screen the ending frame was this disassembled camera here and then Runway generated the camera in the beginning and then generated the video of it disassembling into this image here we can see it says all examples below demonstrate using an image as the last frame here's another one where we see all of this stuff pushed into a paper bag here with a face inside of the paper bag but apparently that was the final image that they started with was this face inside of a paper bag here's another one of like a deconstructed hamburger here and we can see as it animates a hamburger essentially deconstructing itself so if we head on over to Runway ml.com log ourselves in get started here with Gen 3 Alpha I'll throw in this random image that I generated here and then we have the option to use it as the first frame or the last frame let's go ahead and set it as the last frame and let's just describe the prompt as a man's head opens up and brilliant colors flood out and see what this generates for us I'm actually going to bring it down to 5 Seconds just so it generates a little faster and here's our final output it actually starts with a guy whose head's not exploding and then if we play it we can see uh my face or the face here sort of explodes into colors and then ends with this final image that we have over here on the left pretty cool you can see that our final frame is pretty close to this Frame that we uploaded and we get an animation of it actually getting to that frame as the final frame that's a cool new feature in Runway right now the company Opus clip which if you're not familiar with them they have a tool where you can upload long form videos and then it uses AI to find clips that would make a good short form and then Cuts them into that portrait short form View and gives us you know a 60 second or less clip that can be used as a short they just rolled out some new features this week as well so they rolled out what they call clip anything and according to this you can clip any moment from any video using visual audio and sentiment cues it claims that it uses state-of-the-art video understanding that analyzes each frame through Visual audio and sentiment cues identifying objects scenes action sounds emotions text and more and you can use natural language prompts to find any scene action character event emotional moment viral topic and more so just kind of looking at their demo video here it's got like an image recognition model built in and can actually understand emotions and various characters and various actions and various sounds from the videos and you can give it a prompt like compile all the dunks it will look through all the video footage that you uploaded and create short form content with the dunks in it another example find Casey's airplane shower it looks through the video and finds the clip where Casey is in the shower here you can be even as broad as find all the craziest moments find all the Penguins find all the Applause and it will create shorts based on what you asked it to create the short around now it's not available to everybody yet you do have to apply for Access but once I have access this sounds like something fun to play with and I'll put it through its motions and share my findings with you all right now that's pretty the biggest news of the week but I do have a handful of like smaller items that I'm going to kind of wrapid fire at you here automatic the company who makes WordPress launched an AI writing tool that aims to make WordPress blogs more readable and succinct you can see that it uses AI to make suggestions and fixed complex words long sentences unconfident words things like that Amazon music launched topics which is a new AI powered feature that makes it easier to discover podcasts basically if you listen to your podcasts over on Amazon music and you tap on an episode it will use AI to help you find similar episodes from other podcasts along the same vein audible is testing an AI powered search feature as well it says us customers can interact with Maven audible's new personal recommendation expert that surfaces title suggestions based on user specific requests the user can use natural language to enter queries and Maven will respond by providing tailored recommendations pulled from audible's catalog of nearly 1 million titles Reddit is also testing AI powered search features inside of the Reddit platform it says here Reddit users will soon see AI generated summaries at the top of search results the company plans to test AI powered search result pages to summarize and recommend content they claim that this helps users dive deeper into content and discover new Reddit communities I thought this was an interesting story you all remember the Humane pin which kind of got destroyed by every reviewer most notably Marquez brownley well it turns out that now the Humane pin is actively getting more refunds and Returns on a daily basis than they're getting sales of it they sold $9 million worth and they've already passed $1 million in total returns of the AI pin Google showed off a new Gemini AI powered TV streamer it sounds like it's a new product that's going to replace the chomecast so it's like Google's version of a Roku or Amazon Fire stick or Apple TV and it says here to simplify content Discovery the Google TV streamer leverages Google AI to curate personalized content suggestions based on user preferences conveniently organized in one place interesting to me because we kind of already have this right when you're using Hulu when you're using Amazon Prime when you're using Netflix when you're using YouTube all of these video platforms have a recommendation algorithm they see what you like and then recommend more content like what you like I guess some of this new AI that generative AI that's coming out I guess makes that better because I'm not sure how using generative AI is going to be a huge improvement over the existing sort of algorithmic method that they used for Content recommendations in the past I mean that was already a sort of form of AI it wasn't generative AI but it was a recommendation algorithm AI why is using the newer generative AI going to be better I'm not sure yet we'll we'll find out together I guess last week I talked about how Taco Bell is going to be integrating AI into their drive-throughs well I came across this tweet from Olivia Moore here where she actually showed off a video of somebody using a new AI drive-thru at Wendy's and it's quite improved over the old memes that we used to see where people would go through the drive-thru and they would order like an ice cream and it would say oh so you want a cup of milk and they're like no I want an ice cream and they're like all right two milks and it just like couldn't figure out what they were trying to order seems a lot better better now take a look welcome to Wendy's what would you like can I have a chocolate frosty which size for the chocolate frosty medium can I get you anything else today no thank you great please pull up to the next window oh it seems like it works pretty well I also love robots here's a new robot that uh Google Deep Mind was showing off claiming that it's solidly amateur at table tennis you know at this point we've seen AI destroy people at chess we've seen it destroy people at go we've seen it destroy people at Jeopardy we also even saw AI recently beating Formula 1 drivers and drone Racers right so AI is sort of taking over all of this stuff and it looks like now it's coming to Table Tennis thanks to Deep Mind here's a video out of Nvidia that shows off how we can use things like the Apple Vision Pro to actually control robots now I know this isn't specifically AI but we can see that humans could put on the Apple Vision Pro actually take actions with their hands and the Apple Vision Pro sees the motion they're doing at the hands and translates it to the robot and the robot can do that I just thought that was really cool wanted to share it with you this is from the Apple Insider website I'll make sure it's linked up below if you want to take a peek at this to me this is just like fun nerd stuff and finally there is a new humanoid robot in the world we got the figure O2 from figure robotics we can get a little peek at what it looks like they just revealed it this week it's got a whole new look from the figure 01 I think it looks pretty cool I mean very similar to the Tesla Optimus robot you can see it can move its hand in all sorts of directions just like a human can it's got six cameras so it's got Aid driven Vision so ideally it doesn't you know bump into stuff and it can see what it's picking up and things like that walks a little clunky but pretty much all the humanoid robots do still it's got speech to speech reasoning so it should be able to listen to you and also reply to you and apparently they're already starting to use these on the BMW production lines pretty cool we're already seeing this embodied AI in robots being used on production lines for you know theoretically unsafe jobs for humans let's let the robots do it anyway that's what I got for you this week a lot of interesting story lines played out some interesting stuff with open AI some cool new video tech that we're seeing lots of fun stuff next month I think we're going to see some other announcements as well meta connect is at the end of next month I'm excited to see what meta is going to unveil at meta connect according to Greg brockman's tweet that I showed off earlier in this video open AI has some really interesting stuff they're going to be revealing pretty soon so I think some exciting stuff's about to happen I'm excited by it all everything I showed off in this video is the stuff that I found personally interesting that I thought I would show you there was some other little bits and pieces of news that I probably cut out cuz after I watched back the video I went Ah that's not that interesting cut it the stuff that I left in is the stuff that I thought was cool and nerdy that I thought nerdy people like you would think is cool also cuz if you're watching my channel you're probably a little bit nerdy like me as well but I have so much fun with this stuff I love playing around with it I love seeing what's new I love trying the new tools if you like stuff like that make sure you like this video subscribe to this channel I'll keep all the 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