🥟 Chao-Down #204 AI Seinfeld show on Twitch devolves into existential horror, Microsoft 365 Copilot is generally available, Chinese AI startup claims to beat OpenAI with larger context model

Google raises their “wartime” urgency in catching up to ChatGPT with Bard! How does this impact their culture and those seeking a work-life balance? The answer: “switch to a different team.”

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Group representing the New York Times and 2,200 others just dropped a scathing 77-page white paper on ChatGPT and LLMs being an illegal ripoff (Fortune)

AI companies want alternatives to OpenAI's GPT (qz.com)

Microsoft 365 Copilot becomes generally available (CNBC)

Chinese AI start-up Baichuan claims to beat Anthropic, OpenAI with model that can process 350,000 Chinese characters (South China Morning Post)

OpenAI’s ChatGPT can look at uploaded files in the latest beta updates (The Verge)

Twitch’s AI Seinfeld Show Has Devolved Into Existential Horror (kotaku.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Why AI Can't Make Human Creativity Obsolete (UX Magazine)

The Top 10 Talks on the Future of AI and Design From 2023 (Designer Fund)

dennybritz/reinforcement-learning: Implementation of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms. Python, OpenAI Gym, Tensorflow. Exercises and Solutions to accompany Sutton's Book and David Silver's course. (Github)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

sayakpaul/caption-upsampling: This repository implements the idea of "caption upsampling" from DALL-E 3 with Zephyr-7B and gathers results with SDXL. (github.com)

AI-Citizen/SolidGPT: Chat everything with your code repository, ask repository level code questions, and discuss your requirements. AI Scan and learning your code repository, provide you code repository level answer🧱 🧱 (Github)

hitz-zentroa/GoLLIE: Guideline following Large Language Model for Information Extraction (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

cliangyu/Cola: [NeurIPS2023] Official implementation of the paper "Large Language Models are Visual Reasoning Coordinators" (Github)

Language Models are Universal Embedders (arxiv)

HKUDS/RLMRec: "Representation Learning with Large Language Models for Recommendation" (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers - The Verge

Thanks to Big Data, Landlords Know How to Squeeze the Most Out of Renters (WSJ)

The surprisingly edible history of fake blood (qz.com)

Listening to moving music may reduce pain, study says (The Guardian)

Virginia teen named top young scientist for cancer-fighting soap (The Washington Post)

One Last Bite 😋