🥟 Chao-Down #152 Generative AI is at the Peak of Inflated Expectations according to Gartner, Bing AI has yet to dent Google's dominance in search, NYTimes considers legal action on OpenAI

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Definitely give it a listen if you want to learn more about what I’m building with the Semantic Kernel at Microsoft!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies (Gartner)

Snapchat users terrified after ‘My AI’ chatbot posts ‘scary’ picture (The Independent)

Even AI Hasn’t Helped Microsoft’s Bing Chip Away at Google’s Search Dominance (WSJ)

Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo (Reuters)

Microsoft pulls AI-written article telling tourists to visit the Ottawa Food Bank (The Verge)

'New York Times' considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl (NPR)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How is LLaMa.cpp possible? (finbarr.ca)

Open challenges in LLM research (huyenchip.com)

The Engineering behind Instagram's Recommendation Algorithm (quastor.org)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

normal-computing/outlines: Generative Model Programming, Fast and reliable neural text generation (Github)

MLC | GPU-Accelerated LLM on a $100 Orange Pi (MLC Blog)

lllyasviel/Fooocus: Fooocus is an image generating software. Focus on prompting and generating (github.com)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

DatasetDM: Synthesizing Data with Perception Annotations Using Diffusion Models (weijiawu.github.io)

Bayesian Flow Networks: a new class of generative model in which the parameters of a set of independent distributions are modified with Bayesian inference in the light of noisy data samples (arxiv)

Taming the Power of Diffusion Models for High-Quality Virtual Try-On with Appearance Flow (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Russia launches first Moon mission in half a century: what it means for science (Nature)

YouTube Music rolling out new 'Samples' feed (9to5google.com)

Video: Why America’s Gun Violence Is a Rising Public Health Crisis - Bloomberg

US Suicides Rose to a Record High in 2022 Following Reprieve (Bloomberg)

We’re Drinking More Water. How to Hold It: That’s the Question. (The New York Times)

Japan's taste for whale meat is threatening a new US trade deal (Quartz)

One Last Bite 😋