🥟 Chao-Down #183 Insurance companies to financially cover when AI goes wrong, User bypasses Bing Chat to solve captchas with creative prompt trick, Inside Project Nile: Amazon's AI for shopping

In the ongoing Google Antitrust trial, we learned a bit more about how Microsoft sees its longtime rival Google.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified that Google could dominate the future AI-powered search market and shut out competitors because of its vast amount of search data and by flexing its financial capacity through exclusive content rights from publishers.

Liking it to the early days of distribution deals, big tech companies are in a race to strengthen their content libraries for training large language models.

Will this cause the government to step in and even the playing field? We’ll have to see to find out.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Google accidentally leaking Bard AI chats into public search results (Fast Company)

Is Your AI Model Going Off the Rails? There May Be an Insurance Policy for That (WSJ)

Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle (Ars Technica)

'AI Anxiety' Is on the Rise--Here's How to Manage It (Scientific American)

Project Nile: Amazon's Secret AI Plan to Change How You Shop Online. (Business Insider)

Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is Ubiquitous (The New York Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Llama from scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying) (Brian Kitano)

anthropics/anthropic-cookbook: A collection of notebooks/recipes showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude. (Github)

What is a Vector Database? 8 of the best Vector DBs in 2023 and how to use them (vercel.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Workers AI: serverless GPU-powered inference on Cloudflare’s global network (Workers AI)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

RankVicuna: Zero-Shot Listwise Document Reranking with Open-Source Large Language Models (arxiv)

QA-LoRA: Quantization-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (arxiv)

UnitedHuman: Harnessing Multi-Source Data for High-Resolution Human Generation (link)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Inflation's latest victim: Girl Scout cookies (NYPost)

MrBeast is putting his snack brand’s logo on NBA jerseys - The Verge

Gen X isn't financially prepared for retirement (CNN Business)

They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? (The New Yorker)

Airbnb Is Broken, Its CEO Says. Here Are His Plans to Fix It (Bloomberg)

One Last Bite 😋

For those interested in following my work with the Semantic Kernel, watch as Gina Triolo and I walk through the latest feature: OpenAI Function Calling!