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In today’s Daily Report:
⚙️OpenAI’s “GPT” Improvements Are Slowing Down
🎙a16z General Partner Says AI Regulations Focus on Fantasy, Not Reality
🦾Nvidia Unveils Robotics AI Toolkit
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💰Funding Frontlines
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OPENAI
⚙️OpenAI’s “GPT” Improvements Are Slowing Down
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According to The Information, OpenAI is reportedly exploring new dataset creation methods as “GPT” improvements slow down.
Key Details:
Employees who tested OpenAI’s next flagship AI model, codenamed “Orion” or “GPT-5,” claim it displayed less impressive improvements than they saw between “GPT-3” and “GPT-4.”
In response, OpenAI has created a Foundations Team to figure out how the company can continue improving AI models despite the lack of new training data.
All high-quality data could be exhausted by 2026. So, Tech Giants are searching for real-world videos to continue training their AI models.
OpenAI is reportedly using “OpenAI o1” to generate high-quality synthetic training data (i.e., artificially created information) for “Orion.”
A lack of training data could cause Overfitting in AI models, which occurs when AI models learn the training data too well, leading to poor performance on unseen data.
Why It’s Important:
During a Y Combinator fireside chat, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman boldly stated that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is coming in 2025. However, the company’s employees claim the “rapid pace of innovation” is slowing down.
Experts believe Large Language Models (LLMs) aren’t the true path to AGI because of their overreliance on data, lack of self-awareness, and lack of real-world understanding.
AI REGULATIONS
🎙a16z General Partner Says AI Regulations Focus on Fantasy, Not Reality
Image Source: TechCrunch/YouTube/Tech Crunch Disrupt 2024/“Why AI Regulation Is Every Startup’s Business”/Screenshot
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, a16z General Partner Martin Casado discussed why so many AI regulations are so wrong.
Key Details:
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a Venture Capital (VC) firm that invests in technology startups in exchange for equity (i.e., “ownership”).
Casado leads the VC firm’s $1.25 billion infrastructure practice. Notably, he’s invested in ActionIQ, Ambient.ai, Braintrust, Coactive, and Ideogram.
“I think we’re a little bit early,” he said. “We need to understand what we’re going to regulate.”
Casado believes AI hasn’t matured enough to regulate it. “How can we regulate something we don’t understand yet?”
“Have you actually seen the definitions for AI in these policies? Like, we can’t even define it,” he said.
“Like, how is AI today different than someone using the Internet? If we’ve got a framework for how it’s different…we can apply policies that address those differences,” he said.
Casado and several Silicon Valley founders rejoiced when California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed “SB 1047,” a law that put a kill switch into AI models to turn them off at any moment.
Why It’s Important:
During the PC Revolution, many experts feared job loss, social unrest, and even the end of humanity. However, this fear didn’t lead to robust regulations of PCs before they caused harm.
If not for the patience of regulators in the 1980s resisting the urge to vet each PC, we may not have had widespread, affordable PCs in our homes as quickly as we did.
🚨Watch Casado’s discussion on AI regulations here.
🩺 PULSE CHECK
Do you agree with Casado’s stance on AI regulations?
NVIDIA
🦾Nvidia Unveils Robotics AI Toolkit
Image Source: NVIDIA/YouTube/“The Next Wave of AI: Physical AI”/Screenshot
Nvidia unveiled a Robotics AI Toolkit to help developers accelerate their AI-enabled robotic workflows. It includes the general availability of NVIDIA Isaac Lab and six new robot learning workflows for Project GR00T.
NVIDIA Isaac Lab is a robot learning framework built on NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform to design, develop, and deploy Physical AI, which refers to AI applications that interact with the physical world.
Project GR00T is a multimodal AI system designed to equip humanoid robots with the ability to understand natural language and emulate human movements by observing human actions.
The six new Project GR00T workflows include:
GR00T-Gen: Create diverse, realistic digital environments for training robots.
GR00T-Mimic: Equips robots with imitation learning to observe human behavior.
GR00T-Control: Ensures the robot’s limbs and joints work in harmony.
GR00T-Mobility: Empowers robots to move efficiently through various terrains.
GR00T-Dexterity: Enables robots to interact with delicate items.
GR00T-Perception: Enables robots to perceive their surroundings through multiple sensors.
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