🥟 Chao-Down #157 Woman regains voice thanks to AI, Korean tech giant Naver reveals own generative AI products, HuggingFace and Modular see huge funding rounds in boom for open-source

Sometimes the advances in AI are literally life-changing.

Ann Johnson, a woman paralyzed after suffering a severe stroke 18 years ago, was able to speak again thanks to AI. In a study published in Nature, scientists were able to use a brain implant and signal processing to decode her brain signals and display them as an avatar talking on a computer screen.

Many are calling this a hallmark moment for the creation of future brain-computer-interfaces that will leverage AI to help people who’ve lost their abilities for speech regain their voice. 

Let’s see more of this type of work please!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

She Didn’t Speak for 18 Years. A Computer Helped Find Her Voice. (WSJ)

Korea’s internet giant Naver unveils generative AI services (TechCrunch)

OpenAI names Scale AI 'preferred partner' to fine-tune GPT-3.5 (VentureBeat)

The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI (WIRED)

Microsoft might bring AI to apps like Paint and Photos (Windows Central)

Bletchley Park to host AI safety talks in November - (BBC News)

Modular secures $100M to build tools to optimize and create AI models (TechCrunch)

Hugging Face raises $235M from investors, including Salesforce and Nvidia (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Generative AI applications: an investing framework (Mosaic Ventures)

Automating creativity - There is now strong evidence that AI can help make us more innovative. (One Useful Thing)

How ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool” (Ars Technica)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

ABaldrati/CLIP4Cir: CLIP for Composed image retrieval training code (Github)

roboflow/inference: An easy-to-use, production-ready inference server for computer vision supporting deployment of many popular model architectures and fine-tuned models. (Github)

Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot (github.com)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Diversifying AI: Towards Creative Chess with AlphaZero (arxiv)

ChatHaruhi: Reviving Anime Character in Reality via Large Language Model (arxiv)

JacobYuan7/RLIPv2: [ICCV 2023] RLIPv2: Fast Scaling of Relational Language-Image Pre-training (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

“Project Moohan” is Google and Samsung’s inevitable Apple Vision Pro clone (Ars Technica)

Why you have to walk so far to your gate at the airport (CNN Business)

Home-schooling's growth fueled by money from investors, nonprofits, vouchers (Washington Post)

Lab-grown diamonds are pushing down prices (qz.com)

Swifties Can Now Study Literature (Taylor's Version) (Smithsonian Magazine)

One Last Bite 😋