🥟 Chao-Down #176 YouTube brings AI tools to content creators, Microsoft launches Copilot - your everyday AI companion, China starts seeing a "war of a hundred models" in push to build generative AI

Next week I’ll be speaking at The AI Conference 2023 and presenting on “Cooking with the Semantic Kernel: Recipes for Building Chatbots, Agents, and More with Large Language Models.”

Especially following Microsoft’s recent announcement for Copilots across many of their products, join me as we dive deep into how these Copilots are built and how you can use the Semantic Kernel to do the same!

If you’re in SF next week, hope to see you there! Feel free to reach out if you want to meet! 🚀

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

TRI is developing a new method to teach robots overnight (TechCrunch)

China's AI 'war of a hundred models' heads for a shakeout (Reuters)

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion (The Official Microsoft Blog)

YouTube is going all in on AI with background and video topic suggestions (The Verge)

Uber Eats to launch Google-powered chatbot in late 2023 (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Securing AI Is The Next Big Platform Opportunity (Lightspeed Venture Partners)

RAG is more than just embedding search (jxnl.github.io)

How to be the favorite engineer among your product manager and designer (Substack)

Midjourney for UI design: Prompts, tips, and ethics (LogRocket Blog)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Free Lunch in Diffusion U-Net - a method that substantially improves diffusion model sample quality at no costs: no training, no additional parameter introduced, and no increase in memory or sampling time. (chenyangsi.top)

GitHub - stas00/ml-engineering: Machine Learning Engineering Guides and Tools (Github)

DreamLLM: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Creation (link)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

UMMAFormer: A Universal Multimodal-adaptive Transformer Framework for Temporal Forgery Localization (arxiv)

Evaluating ChatGPT as a Recommender System: A Rigorous Approach (arxiv)

Can Programming Languages Boost Each Other via Instruction Tuning? (arxiv)

[2309.11446v1] Weight Averaging Improves Knowledge Distillation under Domain Shift (arxiv.org)

[2309.10787v1] AV-SUPERB: A Multi-Task Evaluation Benchmark for Audio-Visual Representation Models (arxiv.org)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

The Tragedy of Google Search - (The Atlantic)

China's gallium, germanium exports drop to zero as tech war simmers (CNN Business)

Eat More Beans: Experts Push to Double Consumption by 2028 (Bloomberg)

In aging Japan, dementia patients staff cafe of mistaken orders (The Washington Post)

One Last Bite 😋

If you want to get a sense of the topics I’ll be talking about in my talk at AI Conference, check out our most recent Semantic Kernel office hours!