🥟 Chao-Down #148 Hackers descend on DEFCON to uncover errors in AI models, AI Bots are better at solving CAPTCHA tests than humans, News outlets demand rules for AI training data

A New Zealand supermarket is learning the hard way of how not to build an AI app.

Pak ‘N’ Save has been experimenting with AI to generate meal plans using shoppers’ leftovers. Users are prompted to enter various ingredients found in their homes and the AI will auto-generate a recipe with cheery commentary.

The result? The app has produced some strange and undeniably dangerous dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, “poison bread sandwiches” and mosquito-repellent roast potatoes.

Since release, the company has had to amend their guidelines by saying that the meals generated are “not suitable for human consumption.”

Building in AI is not easy.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

China’s internet giants order $5bn of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions (Financial Times)

CAPTCHA: Bots are better at beating 'are you a robot?' tests than humans are (New Scientist)

U.S. Bans Future Investments in Chinese AI, Semiconductor, and Quantum Computing (Tom's Hardware)

Hackers Are Trying to Root Out Bias and Errors in AI Models (Bloomberg)

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (The Guardian)

DoD Creates New Generative AI Task Force (MeriTalk)

News outlets demand new rules for AI training data (The Verge)

Wait, ChatGPT Didn't Take My Job? - Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a job killer. But companies are likely to use the technology to get more done with the same number of people (Big Technology)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How we built better GenAI with programmatic data development (snorkel.ai)

Pinecone’s journey from seed to 10,000 sign-ups per day (Substack)

The Future of Technology Looks a Lot Like...Pixar? (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

RCGAI/SimplyRetrieve: An Easy-to-use Private and Lightweight Retrieval-Centric Generative AI Tool. Create chat tool with your documents and open-source LLMs, highly customizable. (Github)

jackmpcollins/magentic: Seamlessly integrate LLMs as Python functions (Github)

mquan/api2ai: Create an API assistant from any OpenAPI Spec (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

AmirMansurian/AICSD: AICSD: Adaptive Inter-Class Similarity Distillation for Semantic Segmentation (Github)

LP-MusicCaps: LLM-Based Pseudo Music Captioning (arxiv)

Follow Anything: Open-set detection, tracking, and following in real-time (arxiv)

ImageNet-Hard: The Hardest Images Remaining from a Study of the Power of Zoom and Spatial Biases in Image Classification (Taesiri.ai)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Organized retail crime: Nine states pass laws to crack down on theft (cnbc.com)

Maui wildfires: why fire is a growing risk in Hawaii - The Verge

Walking 4,000 steps enough to boost cardiovascular health (qz.com)

Why Some People Are Born to Run (Bloomberg)

Study suggests that rise in antibiotic resistance is linked to pollution | Science & Tech | (EL PAÍS English)

Is it time for tenure to evolve? - After a spate of high-profile tenure denials, US academics are rethinking how this beleaguered academic process can be made more fair. (Nature)

One Last Bite 😋