🥟 Chao-Down #192 No Fakes Act seeks to protect actors and artists from AI replicas, Character AI sees huge daily usage for its AI chatbots, Googlers raise doubts of the usefulness of Bard

For those following what I’m doing with the Semantic Kernel, during our last community office hours, my colleague Fabian Williams showed off how to query for changes in the Microsoft Graph with natural language.

It’s a great showcase of multiple products and what an AI-driven experience could look like. Check it out!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Baidu Seeks Edge in China’s Crowded Race for AI Dominance (The Information)

Character.AI says users spend an average of two hours a day on the site (Quartz)

Exclusive: Biden eyes adding AI chip curbs to Chinese companies abroad (Reuters)

Googlers Raise Doubts About Usefulness of Bard, Messages Show (businessinsider.com)

Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI (The Verge)

The New AI Panic - (The Atlantic)

No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas - (The Verge)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

3 ways to hire AI talent (qz.com)

8 ways SaaS companies can use AI to get ahead (Canny Blog)

System Design Case Study #2: How GitHub Indexes Code For Blazing Fast Search & Retrieval - Scaleyourapp

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

mit-han-lab/streaming-llm: Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks (github.com)

GitHub - YingqingHe/ScaleCrafter: Official implementation of ScaleCrafter for higher-resolution visual generation at inference time. (Github)

Mini DALL•E 3 Interactive Text to Image by Prompting Large Language Models (minidalle3.github.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Using large language models in psychology (Nature)

Conceptual Framework for Autonomous Cognitive Entities (arxiv)

Learning to Predict Concept Ordering for Common Sense Generation (arxiv)

Mistral 7B (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

How to be a good remote boss (qz.com)

Why many ultra-processed foods are so unhealthy (The Washington Post)

Replacing Engineering Managers with AI Agents (engineeringcalm.com)

Spotter raises $200M to invest $1 billion into YouTubers’ back catalogs (TechCrunch)

Gap between U.S. income taxes owed and paid is set to keep growing, IRS says (NPR)

2024 COLA: Social Security announces 3.2% cost-of-living adjustment (CNBC)

One Last Bite 😋