🥟 Chao-Down #154 AI Bots are better at solving CAPTCHA puzzles than humans, Snap launches new generative AI selfie product called Dreams, YouTube ponders AI strategy with music labels

I got to chat with Semantic Kernel community member Joowon Kim on why it’s difficult for Korean companies to build their own versions of GPT language models.

Give it a listen if you’re interested!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

The Nvidia H100 chip is the world's most sought-after hardware (qz.com)

AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models (TechCrunch)

AI bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles (qz.com)

YouTube is figuring out its AI strategy by working with music labels (The Verge)

Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’ (TechCrunch)

The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler (The Verge)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Introducing the Safer: A Better Alternative to Safes for Startup Financing (nextwave.partners)

How Google Unlocks and Measures Developer Productivity (The New Stack)

Why You (Probably) Don't Need to Fine-tune an LLM (Tidepool by Aquarium)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

mr-gpt/deepeval: Unit Testing For LLMs (Github)

morph-labs/rift: Rift: an AI-native language server for your personal AI software engineer (Github)

neuml/txtai: 💡 All-in-one open-source embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

JetBrains-Research/commit_message_generation: 🌟 replication package for 📜 From Commit Message Generation to History-Aware Commit Message Completion, ASE 2023 (Github)

DeDoDe: Detect, Don't Describe -- Describe, Don't Detect for Local Feature Matching (arxiv)

ZechengLi19/CIM: [IJCAI'23] Complete Instances Mining for Weakly Supervised Instance Segmentation (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Canada asks Meta to reverse news ban as Yellowknife fires burn - (The Washington Post)

YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures (The Verge)

New Covid Variant: What to Know About BA.2.86, Highly-Mutated Strain - (Bloomberg)

How Global Warming Makes Hurricane Hilary, Other Weather Events Worse - (Bloomberg)

Companies are hiring for skills, not degrees—but it can't end there (Quartz)

One Last Bite 😋