Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:04:14) News Preview
(00:05:28) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
- (00:27:46) Tesla’s big ‘We, Robot’ event criticized for ‘parlor tricks’ and vague timelines for robots, Cybercab, Robovan
- (00:37:25) OpenAI announces content deal with Hearst, including content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle
Projects & Open Source
- (00:47:59) OpenR: An Open-Source AI Framework Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models
- (00:49:54) MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
- (00:56:29) OpenAI Releases Swarm: An Experimental AI Framework for Building, Orchestrating, and Deploying Multi-Agent Systems
Research & Advancements
- (00:59:23) Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists
- (01:05:22) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins
- (01:09:09) LLMs can’t perform “genuine logical reasoning,” Apple researchers suggest
- (01:13:05) GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
Policy & Safety
- (01:14:34) Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI
- (01:23:04) Google will help build seven nuclear reactors to power its AI systems
- (01:24:11) LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:26:26) Adobe Pushes Content Authenticity Forward With a Free Web App Designed for Creators
(01:29:13) Outro

#186 - Adobe AI Tools, Tesla's Cybercab, Nobel Prizes

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