At the end of last week, Elon Musk gave a long demo of Tesla’s full-self-driving in action. It sparked a thread on Twitter around the future of software development and how these models are built.
I asked Elon whether he thought solving self-driving would be solved with one giant model (like what OpenAI is pursuing with AGI) or if it would be a combination of multiple models engineered together. Here’s his reply:
Do you agree? Let me know in a comment / email!
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video is getting new AI features (The Verge)
ChatGPT's cancer treatment advice 'potentially dangerous' (nypost.com)
New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy (bleepingcomputer.com)
Ex-Meta Researchers Are Raising $40 Million For An AI Biotech Startup (forbes.com)
AI providers begin to explore new terrain: chatbots in salary negotiations (axios.com)
Alibaba releases two new models in the A.I. arms race (Fortune)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
How to sabotage your salary negotiation efforts before you even start (interviewing.io)
Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation - (Spotify Engineering)
A Paradigm Shift in ML Validation: Evaluating Workflows, Not Tasks (Hazy Research)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
Seamless Communication - SeamlessM4T: The first, all-in-one, multimodal translation model (Meta AI)
facefusion/facefusion: Next generation face swapper and enhancer (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agents (arxiv)
Small Object Detection via Coarse-to-fine Proposal Generation and Imitation Learning (arxiv)
Introducing IDEFICS: An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-art Visual Langage Model (huggingface.co)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
The US sued SpaceX for refusing to hire refugees and asylees (qz.com)
Tech billionaires are buying up land near San Francisco to build their own utopia | (Mashable)
Zillow offers a 1% down payment loan program (CNN Business)
Middle-Aged Adults Are Binge Drinking and Using Marijuana at Record Levels (The New York Times)
American workers are demanding almost $80,000 a year to take a new job (cnbc.com)
Tech's Broken Promises: Streaming, Ride-Hailing, Cloud Computing (businessinsider.com)