🥟 Chao-Down #205 Instagram looks to develop a customizable "AI friend", LinkedIn launches AI chatbot to coach people how to find a job, Major countries sign Bletchley Declaration warning of AI

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the AI Conference 2023 in San Francisco. This was my talk: “Cooking with Semantic Kernel: Recipes for Building Chatbots, Agents, and more with LLMs.

If you’re interested, give it a listen!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Tesla Wins Suit That Blamed Its Software for Deadly Crash (The New York Times)

LinkedIn launches an AI chatbot to coach people on getting a new job (SiliconANGLE)

Shutterstock will now let you transform real photos using AI (The Verge)

Biden’s AI Order May Have Wide Impact For Startups (Crunchbase)

UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI’s ‘catastrophic’ danger (The Guardian)

Instagram spotted developing a customizable ‘AI friend’ (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How People Create and Destroy Value with Generative AI (BCG)

How QLoRA, a Revolutionary Fine-Tuning Method, Works (Brev docs)

The architecture of today's LLM applications (The GitHub Blog)

How to (and how not to) design REST APIs · stickfigure/blog Wiki (Github)

What stage startup offers the best risk-reward tradeoff? (Prospect Blog)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

polyfire-ai/polyfire-js: 🔥 A managed backend for AI apps. Call AI models from the frontend (Github)

Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot: Dev tool that writes scalable apps from scratch while the developer oversees the implementation (Github)

Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B) (twelvelabs.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

PDFTriage: Question Answering over Long, Structured Documents (arxiv)

CommonCanvas: An Open Diffusion Model Trained with Creative-Commons Images (arxiv)

LLM-FP4: 4-Bit Floating-Point Quantized Transformers (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

DoorDash now warns customers that not tipping ahead of time may result in slower delivery (The Verge)

US Infant Mortality Rate Rose for First Time in Two Decades (Bloomberg)

How is Taylor Swift affecting the US economy? (qz.com)

Japanese research is no longer world class — here’s why (Nature)

Dermatologist removes tattoos to give former gang members fresh start (Harvard Gazette)

One Last Bite 😋

You can drink the tap water in these 50 countries — maybe (Big Think)