🥟 Chao-Down #172 BCG Consultants proven to be more effective with GPT-4, Adobe Firefly becomes generally available, NASA uses AI to study UFOs, More writers sue OpenAI for copyright claims

How well do consultants perform when they use AI to complete their work?

Check out my breakdown of the latest research from Harvard research scientists with top-tier management consulting company Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

The AI Hype Train Has Stalled in China (WIRED)

Adobe's Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans (TechCrunch)

NASA Will Study UFOs Using AI and Crowdsourcing (WSJ)

Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI (TechCrunch)

Another group of writers is suing OpenAI over copyright claims (The Verge)

The Bumpy Road Toward Global AI Governance - NOEMA (noemamag.com)

TSMC bets on silicon photonics to enable more powerful ChatGPT (Financial Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Can Large Language Models Reason? - by Melanie Mitchell (substack.com)

The Importance of Founder Pedigree In Emerging Technologies (Michael Dempsey: Blog)

GitHub - ray-project/llm-applications: A comprehensive guide to building RAG-based LLM applications for production. (Github)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection - Project Gutenberg, Microsoft, and MIT have worked together to create thousands of free and open audiobooks using new neural text-to-speech technology. (windows.net)

GitHub - Yifan-Song793/RestGPT: An LLM-based autonomous agent controlling real-world applications via RESTful APIs (Github)

v0.dev - Prompt based tool to automatically build websites (Vercel Labs)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report (arxiv)

When Less is More: Investigating Data Pruning for Pretraining LLMs at Scale (arxiv)

Does Writing with Language Models Reduce Content Diversity? (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

California fast food and health care workers poised to win major salary increases | AP News

CTE’s Impacts On Young Football Players Can Be Chronic And Deadly – Rolling Stone

Tech’s Middle Managers Feel the Squeeze as Easy Days End (WSJ)

Is Turmeric Good for You? What We Know About Its Health Benefits - The New York Times 

Tesla is experimenting with 3D printing its car bodies (qz.com)

One Last Bite 😋

I recently did a Humans of AI Podcast interview with Aayush Mudgal, a senior machine learning engineer at Pinterest on how he is building modern recommendation systems using the latest in AI.

Definitely check it out if you’re interested!