The Open Source AI Definition is out after years of drafting, will it reestablish brand meaning for the “Open Source” term? Also, the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry are heavily tied to AI; we scrutinize not only this year's prizes, but also Nobel Prizes as a concept.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:30) - Hot off the press
• (03:45) - Open Source AI background
• (10:30) - Definitions and changes in RC1
• (18:36) - “Business source”
• (22:17) - Parallels with legislation
• (26:22) - Impacts of the OSAID
• (33:58) - 2024 Nobel Prize Context
• (37:21) - Chemistry prize
• (45:06) - Physics prize
• (50:29) - Takeaways
• (52:03) - What’s the real muck?
• (01:00:27) - Outro

Links

• Open Source AI Definition, Release Candidate 1
• OSAID RC1 announcement
• All Nobel Prizes 2024

More Reading on Open Source AI

• Kairos.FM article - Open Source AI is a lie, but it doesn't have to be
• The Register article - The open source AI civil war approaches
• MIT Technology Review article - We finally have a definition for open-source AI

On Nobel Prizes

• Paper - Access to Opportunity in the Sciences: Evidence from the Nobel Laureates
• Physics prize - scientific background, popular info
• Chemistry prize - scientific background, popular info
• Reuters article - Google's Nobel prize winners stir debate over AI research
• Wikipedia article - Nobel disease

Other Sources

• Pivot.ai article - People are ‘blatantly stealing my work,’ AI artist complains
• Paper - GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
• Paper - Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science | Computational Brain & Behavior

Why is Mark Ruffalo talking about SB1047, and what is it anyway? Tune in for our thoughts on the now vetoed California legislation that had Big Tech scared.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:31) - Updates from a relatively slow week
• (03:32) - Disclaimer: SB1047 vetoed during recording (still worth a listen)
• (05:24) - What is SB1047
• (12:30) - Definitions
• (17:18) - Understanding the bill
• (28:42) - What are the players saying about it?
• (46:44) - Addressing critiques
• (55:59) - Open Source
• (01:02:36) - Takeaways
• (01:15:40) - Clarification on impact to big tech
• (01:18:51) - Outro

• SB1047 legislation page
• SB1047 CalMatters page
• Newsom vetoes SB1047
• CAIS newsletter on SB1047
• Prominent AI nerd letter
• Anthropic's letter
• SB1047 ~explainer

Additional SB1047 Related Coverage

• Opposition to SB1047 'makes no sense'
• Newsom on SB1047
• Andreesen Horowitz on SB1047
• Classy move by Dan
• Ex-OpenAI employee says Altman doesn't want regulation

Other Sources

• o1 doesn't measure up in new benchmark paper
• OpenAI losses and gains
• OpenAI crypto hack
• "Murati out" -Mira Murati, probably
• Altman pitching datacenters to White House
• Sam Altman, 'podcast bro'
• Paper: Contract Design with Safety Inspections

OpenAI's new model is out, and we are going to have to rake through a lot of muck to get the value out of this one!

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:25) - Other recent news
• (02:57) - Hot off the press
• (03:58) - Why might someone care?
• (04:52) - What is it?
• (06:49) - How is it being sold?
• (10:45) - How do they explain it, technically?
• (27:09) - Reflection AI Drama
• (40:19) - Why do we care?
• (46:39) - Scraping away the muck

Links relating to o1

• OpenAI blogpost
• System card webpage
• GitHub collection of o1 related media
• AMA Twitter thread
• Francois Chollet Tweet on reasoning and o1
• The academic paper doing something very similar to o1

Other stuff we mention

• OpenAI's huge valuation hinges on upending corporate structure
• Meta acknowledges it’s scraping all public posts for AI training
• White House announces new private sector voluntary commitments to combat image-based sexual abuse
• Sam Altman wants you to be grateful
• The Zuck is done apologizing
• IAPS report on technical safety research at AI companies
• Llama2 70B is "about as good" as GPT-4 at summarization tasks