🥟 Chao-Down #187 An inside look at the rise of NVIDIA, AI spurs rise of the novice coder, Researchers use Harry Potter to make AI forget material, Los Angeles tries to use AI to predict homelessness

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Can AI predict, and try to prevent, homelessness? (NPR)

How Nvidia Got Huge—and Almost Invincible (WSJ)

AI is spurring the rise of the novice coder (Semafor)

New data shows that without intervention, generative AI jobs will continue to cluster in the same big tech hubs (Brookings)ChatGPT provided better customer support than his employees, so he fired them (Washington Post)

AI Chatbots are learning to spout authoritarian propaganda (Wired)

Researchers use Harry Potter to make AI forget material (VentureBeat)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Open Source AI Business Models & Brand Moats (Michael Dempsey: Blog)

The shape of the shadow of The Thing. We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like. - by Ethan Mollick (oneusefulthing.org)

Open-source, general LLM companies might not be viable (interconnects.ai)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

tomaarsen/attention_sinks: Extend existing LLMs way beyond the original training length with constant memory usage, and without retraining (Github)

richardyc/Chrome-GPT: An AutoGPT agent that controls Chrome on your desktop (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

PC-NeRF: Parent-Child Neural Radiance Fields under Partial Sensor Data Loss in Autonomous Driving Environments (arxiv.org)

Controlling Vision-Language Models for Universal Image Restoration (algolzw.github.io)

Can large language models provide useful feedback on research papers? A large-scale empirical analysis (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers – The Markup

How Ozempic and other weight loss drugs could reshape the food business (Axios)

Why No One’s Going Into Accounting (WSJ)

Food Inflation Is Still High Around the World (Bloomberg)

The Standard Advice for Concussions Is Wrong (The Atlantic)

One Last Bite 😋