🥟 Chao-Down #151 Saudi Arabia and UAE make huge purchase of NVIDIA AI chips, Southwest England deploys police AI system to catch bad drivers, OpenAI acquires design studio making a Minecraft clone

AI is coming to law enforcement. 

Police in the southwest of England recently dispatched an AI system called Acusensus to identify law-breaking drivers. The project has been successful and has led to identifying nearly 300 violations over three days among which include images of speeding vehicles and driver’s using their mobile phones.

Is this going to be a bigger part of our AI-driven future? And will people now start driving more carefully with an always-on, 24-hour system always monitoring the roads?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Police detect almost 300 drivers breaking law in three days using new artificial intelligence system (The Independent)

Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions (Financial Times)

OpenAI bought the makers of a Minecraft clone (The Verge)

Consulting giant McKinsey unveils its own generative AI tool for employees: Lilli (VentureBeat)

Which A.I. is most reliable: Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic or Cohere (CNBC)

Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice (The New York Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Cloud GPU Guide · GPU Utils ⚡️- Which GPU Cloud Should I Use? (llm-utils.org)

ML⇄DB Seminar Series: Machine Learning for Databases + Databases for Machine Learning – Fall 2023 (cmu.edu)

A guide to designing and shipping AI developer tools (The GitHub Blog)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

microsoft/Llama-2-Onnx: This is an optimized version of the Llama 2 model, available from Meta under the Llama Community License Agreement found on this repository (Github)

mshumer/gpt-llm-trainer: Simply input a description of your task, and the system will generate a dataset from scratch, parse it into the right format, and fine-tune a LLaMA 2 model for you. (Github)

modelscope/facechain: FaceChain is a deep-learning toolchain for generating your Digital-Twin. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Spatial-information Guided Adaptive Context-aware Network for Efficient RGB-D Semantic Segmentation (arxiv)

darrenjkt/MS3D: Auto-labeling of point cloud sequences for 3D object detection using an ensemble of experts and temporal refinement (GitHub)

Foundation Model is Efficient Multimodal Multitask Model Selector (arxiv)

The World Outmside of AI 🌎

NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices (The Verge)

How to tell your network you caught Covid-19 (Vox)

Getting Paid Not to Work: Consulting Firms Offer $25,000 Stipend for Start Delay (Bloomberg)

Uber and Lyft Drivers Have Some Advice for Autonomous Vehicles Set to Swarm the Streets (WIRED)

80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans (CNBC)

UPS driver job searches are spiking (qz.com)

Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature (BBC News)

One Last Bite 😋