🥟 Chao-Down #168 California may ban driverless autonomous trucks, Researchers explore using AI to talk to animals, Time releases list of 100 Most Influential People in AI

Will we start seeing AnimalGPT soon?

So far, all the advances in large language models and AI have centered around analyzing and understanding human languages. However, some researchers are starting to use the technology to study animal communication, with researchers hoping to decipher animal languages to support conversation and sustainability efforts.

Organizations like the Earth Species Project (ESP) are at the forefront of this to develop machine learning systems that can decode animal communication by identifying patterns in behavioral ecology research.

It’ll be interesting to see how this space evolves.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

California bill to ban driverless autonomous trucks goes to Newsom’s desk (TechCrunch)

Can We Talk to Whales? - Researchers believe that artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species. (The New Yorker)

The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023 (TIME)

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous (WIRED)

Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds (The Verge)

Researchers use AI to find new magnetic materials without critical elements (phys.org)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How to pass the interview for software engineering roles in Big Tech - Handbook (Lambros Petrou)

Report on Frontier Model Training (LessWrong)

“The Power of Superconsumers” – Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, & Katrina Kirsch (marketingjournal.org)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

jzhang38/TinyLlama: The TinyLlama project is an open endeavor to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3 trillion tokens. (Github)

georgian-io/LLM-Finetuning-Hub: Repository that contains LLM fine-tuning and deployment scripts along with our research findings. (Github)

explodinggradients/ragas: Evaluation framework for your Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

A Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Evaluation of ChatGPT on Reasoning, Hallucination, and Interactivity (arxiv.org)

MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation (mv-dream.github.io)

OpenRobotLab/PointLLM: [arXiv 2023] PointLLM: Empowering Large Language Models to Understand Point Clouds (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

The Deadliest Eating Disorder Is Drug-Resistant (The Atlantic)

How The NFL Became A $20 Billion Annual Business (Substack)

Rotten Tomatoes Still Has Hollywood in Its Grip (Vulture)

Daybreak: Venture Capital for the Next Generation (Substack)

Messi Drives Jump in Apple TV+ and MLS Subscriptions (WSJ)

One Last Bite 😋