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🥟 Chao-Down #153 UK Prime Minister to spend £100m of taxpayer cash on AI chips, Meta to open-source code-generating model, Cruise reduces San Francisco fleet of self-driving cars by 50%

🥟 Chao-Down #153 UK Prime Minister to spend £100m of taxpayer cash on AI chips, Meta to open-source code-generating model, Cruise reduces San Francisco fleet of self-driving cars by 50%

Plus, Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science research lab.

August 21, 2023

I got to have a great conversation with Zain Hasan, a Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate an open-source vector database. We discussed going beyond vector search and emerging patterns in retrieval augmented generation for building AI applications. He also demoed how Weaviate works with Semantic Kernel, the project I work on at Microsoft.

Definitely check it out if you’re interested!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Meta’s Next AI Attack on OpenAI: Free Code-Generating Software (The Information)

AI use rising in influence campaigns online, but impact limited (Reuters)

Researchers discover new vulnerability in large language models (techxplore.com)

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot (Semafor)

As hospitals use AI chatbots and algorithms, doctors and nurses say they can’t be replaced (The Washington Post)

Cruise will reduce robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco (CNBC)

Singapore workers adopting AI skills at the fastest pace: LinkedIn (CNBC)

Sunak to spend £100m of taxpayer cash on AI chips in global race for computer power (telegraph.co.uk)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Network Effects: The Evolution of Online Communities (Substack)

Fintech in AI: Five Lessons For Founders - Lightspeed Venture Partners (lsvp.com)

How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole) (charity.wtf)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

bigcode-project/octopack: 🐙 OctoPack: Instruction Tuning Code Large Language Models (Github)

jamesjg/FoodSAM: FoodSAM: Any Food Segmentation: This innovative approach integrates the coarse semantic mask with SAM-generated masks to enhance semantic segmentation quality. Besides, it can perform instance segmentation on food images. (Github)

varunshenoy/opendream: An extensible, easy-to-use, and portable diffusion web UI 👨‍🎨 (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models (arxiv)

L3DMC: Lifelong Learning using Distillation via Mixed-Curvature Space (arxiv)

MikeWangWZHL/Solo-Performance-Prompting: Repo for paper "Unleashing Cognitive Synergy in Large Language Models: A Task-Solving Agent through Multi-Persona Self-Collaboration" (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Hospitals Shutter Maternity Wards Amid Falling Birthrates (WSJ)

Disney’s Taylor Swift Era (Stratechery by Ben Thompson)

Embracing Tangible Media? From Attention to Intention - by Marie Dollé (Substack)

Employees in Asia are spending the most time looking busy at work (CNBC)