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Trump's Position on AI (a16z), the Political Biases of LLMs, and Must-Know Names in ML 2024
What Trump & Biden really think of AI, Elon's latest video, and the surprising political biases of LLMs
Welcome (back) to AI Minds, a newsletter about the brainy and sometimes zany world of AI, brought to you by the Deepgram editorial team.
In this edition:
🤖 a16z Discuss Trump’s and Biden’s Positions on AI
📈 New Webinar: Unlocking Growth: Mastering AI-Led GTM Workflows
💸 Premium Versions of LLMs have different political biases than Free Versions
📊 A review of AI’s impact on the 2024 electoral landscape
🧠 The Top, Must-Know Names in AI Research
🎞️ Top AI Video Generation Models of 2024
🎩 Elon Musk posts AI-generated fashion show featuring world leaders
🐦 Twitter and Social Media on AI’s role in politics
📲 Three new trending AI Apps for You!
🎙️ New episode of the AI Minds Podcast with RealChar CEO Shaun Wei.
🏢 Zuckerberg explains why you shouldn’t start a company in college
🎹 Bonus Content: AI-generated Music Video
🔎 Navigating the ethical labyrinth of Voice Cloning and Deepfakes
💠 Graph Neural Networks: A Full Survey
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Note: The opinions expressed in the featured content are not the opinions of the AI Minds team, or the AI Minds newsletter itself. All thoughts, opinions, comments, and ideas belong to their original creators, expressers, and authors.
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🎥 Andreessen and Horowitz Discuss Trump's Position on AI
This hour-long podcast teems with gems about Biden's regulatory policies on technology, the importance of little-tech, and Trump's personal position on AI innovation/regulation. We've decided to start the video at 53:33, wherein a16z goes over Trump's thoughts on AI.
Is the United States politically ready to handle the societal impacts of AI?
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📈 New Webinar: Unlocking Growth: Mastering AI-Led GTM Workflows
CMO Marcel Santilli has recently increased the growth of Deepgram by 30x with a unique blend of AI workflows + experts in the loop. Since then, several other startups have seen similar success with this approach.
In just 90 minutes, learn how you can accomplish this growth too! This webinar reveals his AI-led growth approach as well as an AMA. Check it out!
When: Friday, Aug 2 | 9:00am PDT
Where: Zoom
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🧑🔬 Free LLMs have different political biases than their Premium (paid) counterparts
How Artificial Intelligence Can Influence Elections: Analyzing the Large Language Models (LLMs) Political Bias - This study aims to measure the degree of political bias inherent in GPT and Gemini models by analyzing their responses to a standardized set of questions rating the quality and bias of popular news websites.
“Results revealed that while all LLMs displayed a tendency to score left-leaning news sources as more highly credible than right-leaning news sources, there was a notable difference between free and premium models in their assessment of subjectivity and bias.”
The threat of artificial intelligence to elections worldwide: A review of the 2024 landscape - Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential for enhancing polls, campaign methods, and voter registration, but it also presents substantial challenges to the integrity of elections around the globe. This article discusses the political scene of 2024 and AI's role, balancing the pros and cons of AI deployment.
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🏇 The Top Must-Know Names in AI Research and the Best Video Generation Models of 2024
Top Must-Know Names in AI Research - There’s no better way to keep up with the fast-paced world of AI than delving into the primary source of this technology: Research. In this article, we outline the best researchers today, so that you always have the resources available to stay up to speed in the ML community.
Top AI Video Generation Models of 2024 - These incredible AI tools vary in their specific capabilities, with some focusing on avatar-based videos, others on text-to-video generation, and some offering comprehensive video editing suites. If you want the best of the best, check them out!
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Speaking of Elections and Video Generation, Elon Musk recently posted an AI-generated video of many political figures and business leaders in a parody fashion show. And that’s just one of many Tweets buzzing around the intersection of AI, business, and politics.
High time for an AI fashion show
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
12:49 AM • Jul 22, 2024
So much divides us—politics, ethnicity, ideas. #AI is poised to separate us further.
But it doesn't have to ⤵️
#tech
— Mozilla (@mozilla)
1:39 PM • Jul 22, 2024
You think AI just fell out of a coconut tree? It exists in the context of all the laws in which we live and the regulations that came before it
— Nik Marda (@nrmarda)
8:46 PM • Jul 21, 2024
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📲 Trending AI Apps for You!
NewsGPT is an innovative platform that's redefining how we receive news. As the world's first AI-generated news site, NewsGPT promises a refreshingly honest news experience by delivering fact-based content directly to your inbox.
SocialBob News is a news aggregation platform that delivers curated, relevant, and easy-to-digest news summaries. It uses advanced AI to cut through the noise and tailor news feeds based on over 50 interest categories.
Concise scans thousands of news sources to deliver a personalized news briefing each morning tailored to your interests. The AI assistant summarizes the key details so you can get up to speed quickly.
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🎙️ AI Minds Podcast!
In this episode of the AI Minds Podcast, Shaun Wei shares his transition from the autonomous vehicles industry to AI-driven voice assistants. He explains how real-time data processing in autonomous vehicles inspired his advanced voice assistant tech.
Wei provides insights into AI's future, emphasizing trust, reliability, and human-like interaction in AI agents, sharing valuable perspectives from his AI development experience.
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🤖 Bonus Bits and Bytes!
If you've scrolled this far down, we've got some exciting bonus bits of content for you!
Zuckerberg explains why you shouldn’t start a company in college - There are numerous issues with starting a company, and college grades shouldn’t interfere. Mark Zuckerberg delves more deeply into his philosophy on startups.
Candy Land (AI Generated Music Video) - Cool or Creepy? Using Soundraw, ElevenLabs, ChatGPT, and Runway ML, AI Motion Films created this music video.
Navigating the Ethical Labyrinth of Voice Cloning and Deepfakes - With AI impressions of Trump, Biden, Musk, Putin, Clinton, and others on the rise, it’s important to learn about Deepfakes more than ever.
Graph Neural Networks: A Full Survey - Social networks, election data, and even geographic layouts can be represented with graphs. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) represent a leap in neural network architecture, tailored for the unique challenges posed by such graph-structured data.
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