Chaos Theory
Posts
🥟 Chao-Down #200 Adobe, Stability AI, and Canva to compensate AI trainers, Waymo proposes how autonomous vehicles will talk to pedestrians, Nature explores the AI revolution brewing in medicine

🥟 Chao-Down #200 Adobe, Stability AI, and Canva to compensate AI trainers, Waymo proposes how autonomous vehicles will talk to pedestrians, Nature explores the AI revolution brewing in medicine

Plus, AI firms are paying professional actors $150 per hour to give emotions to digital avatars

October 26, 2023

🎙️ New Humans of AI Podcast episode dropped!

A great episode with Sudip Chakrabarti an early-stage investor and partner at Decibel where he focuses on enterprise and infrastructure companies!

Check it out if you have the time!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Adobe, Stability AI, and Canva provide AI training compensation (qz.com)

AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’ (The Guardian)

Generative AI like Midjourney creates images full of stereotypes (Rest of World)

AI firms are paying professional actors $150 an hour to lend emotions to avatars (qz.com)

How will driverless cars ‘talk’ to pedestrians? Waymo has a few ideas (The Verge)

An AI revolution is brewing in medicine. What will it look like? (Nature)

As Google pushes deeper into AI, publishers see fresh challenges (Reuters)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Midjourney vs. the new generators (Firefly 2 vs DALL-E 3) (Substack)

15 principles for managing up (Wes Kao's Newsletter)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

langfuse/langfuse: Open source observability and analytics for LLM applications (github.com)

Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to 'poison' AI models (VentureBeat)

jxnl/instructor: openai function calls for humans (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Retrieval meets Long Context Large Language Models (arxiv)

ToRA: A Tool-Integrated Reasoning Agent for Mathematical Problem Solving (arxiv)

Eureka | Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models (eureka-research.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

The bendy phone is back, baby - The Verge

Close-up of a Lenovo bendable phone concept on a person’s wrist. The phone has an orange fabric on the back.

Demand for home loans in the US hasn't been this low since the 90s (qz.com)

Why Permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST) Has Pros and Cons (Bloomberg)

Milkshake neuroscience: how the brain nudges us toward fatty foods (Nature)

If You’ve Ever Heard a Voice That Wasn’t There, This Could Be Why (The New York Times)

China restricts exports of graphite as it escalates a global tech war (CNN Business)