🥟 Chao-Down #164 Intuit launches generative AI assistant for small businesses and consumers, Zoom rebrands features to generative AI "companions", OpenAI's moonshot: solving the AI alignment problem

We’re starting to see more traditional businesses getting into GenAI, the latest being Intuit, the tax and financial services software giant.

It’ll be interesting to see how the company positions their new digital assistant alongside their Live Tax Accountant services as one could argue the former might cannibalize the latter, especially if you could in a chat setting directly get an answer in ChatGPT-style fashion.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Zoom rebrands existing — and intros new — generative AI features (TechCrunch)

A.I.’s un-learning problem: Researchers say it’s virtually impossible to make an A.I. model ‘forget’ the things it learns from private user data (Yahoo)

A Startup in the New Jersey Suburbs Is Battling the Giants of Silicon Valley (WSJ)

OpenAI’s Moonshot: Solving the AI Alignment Problem (IEEE Spectrum)

Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI (The Atlantic)

Intuit launches generative AI–powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How Duolingo uses AI to enhance its user experience - Mind the Product

🌐 McKinsey’s Pyramid Framework for storytelling (substack.com)

Optimal Chunk-Size for Large Document Summarization (Vectify AI)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

roboflow/supervision: We write your reusable computer vision tools. 💜 (github.com)

Meta releases a dataset to probe computer vision models for biases (TechCrunch)

e2b-dev/awesome-ai-agents: A list of AI autonomous agents (Github)

Announcing Cloud TPU v5e and A3 GPUs in GA (Google Cloud Blog)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Head-to-Tail: How Knowledgeable are Large Language Models (LLM)? A.K.A. Will LLMs Replace Knowledge Graphs? (arxiv.org)

spcl/graph-of-thoughts: Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models (github.com)

QwenLM/Qwen-VL: The official repo of Qwen-VL (通义千问-VL) chat & pretrained large vision language model proposed by Alibaba Cloud. (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Dual-Income Households in Japan Have More Children: Prognosis (Bloomberg)

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

Return-to-office policies are getting stricter as work from home fades (NPR)

France Plans Disposable Vape Ban to Help Youths Avoid Smoking (Bloomberg)

Cost of Ozempic, Mounjaro Push Some to Take Second Jobs, Pile on Credit-Card Debt for Weight-Loss (WSJ)

One Last Bite 😋

Are Americans more excited or concerned about AI? (Pew Research Center)