New Benchmark Evaluates Multimodal AI Understanding, Personal Journey with AI’s Dark and Helpful Sides

CMU researchers introduce MMMU-Pro, an advanced version of the MMMU benchmark for evaluating multimodal understanding in AI models. Plus, a thought-provoking article explores the positive and negative implications of AI, and Sergey Brin discusses his daily work on AI at Google. Also, Senate leaders ask the FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive.

Sources:
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/09/11/cmu-researchers-introduce-mmmu-pro-an-advanced-version-of-the-massive-multi-discipline-multimodal-understanding-and-reasoning-mmmu-benchmark-for-evaluating-multimodal-understanding-in-ai-models/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/11/fearing-ai-i-was-reluctant-to-use-chatgpt-but-friends-it-changed-my-life
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/10/sergey-brin-says-hes-working-at-google-pretty-much-every-day-on-ai/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/10/senate-leaders-ask-ftc-to-investigate-ai-content-summaries-as-anti-competitive/

Outline:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:46) Fearing AI, I was reluctant to use ChatGPT. But friends, it changed my ADHD-hit life
(00:03:28) Sergey Brin says he’s working on AI at Google ‘pretty much every day’
(00:05:36) Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive