🥟 Chao-Down #231 EU reaches historic agreement over AI development, Chinese chip makers look to the fill gap in AI supply due to US curbs of NVIDIA, "Divergence attack" exposes ChatGPT training data

Apparently, you can now get paid to warm your home and train large language models at the same time.

One company, Heatbit, is creating a device that runs silicon chips and generates heat by running AI, mining Bitcoin, and rendering video games.

According to the CEO Alex Busarov, Bitcoin mining and AI training—which has increased over 1 million times in the last seven years—together consume more energy than the entire United Kingdom. All of that energy would go to waste as heat, which would normally need to be cooled in a data center, costing more money.

For Heatbit, they thought it would be a good idea to redirect that heat to warm thousands of people’s homes.

It’s a win-win right?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Venture capitalists get AI tool to answer legal and tax questions (axios.com)

The EU has reached a historic regulatory agreement over AI development (engadget.com)

Exclusive: After US curbs, Tencent and small chip designers chase Nvidia's China crown (Reuters)

The AV industry sends an SOS to Pete Buttigieg (The Verge)

ChatGPT's training data can be exposed via a "divergence attack" (stackdiary.com)

AI Is Pushing Science Into an Age of Uncertainty (The Atlantic)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Towards 100x Speedup: Full Stack Transformer Inference Optimization (notion.site)

7 Ways the Internet Will Get Weirder - by Rex Woodbury (digitalnative.tech)

Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted. Here's how to do it as a software engineer. (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

stellar-amenities/assistants: The ⭐️ Open Source ⭐️ (OpenAI) Assistants API allows you to build AI assistants within your own applications with your own models (Github)

unslothai/unsloth: 5X faster 50% less memory LLM finetuning (Github)

lastmile-ai/aiconfig: aiconfig -- config-driven, source control friendly AI application development (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

LLM360: Towards Fully Transparent Open-Source LLMs (arxiv)

CLoT: Creative Leap-of-Thought - Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation (zhongshsh.github.io)

Using Large Language Models for Hyperparameter Optimization (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Crispr: New Sickle Cell Therapy Is Start of DNA-Editing Revolution (Bloomberg)

More than 15% of teens on YouTube or TikTok almost constantly (CNBC)

Gig work is getting less profitable (businessinsider.com)

STEM worker survey: U.S. losing global science race (Axios)

Revisiting The Death of a Venture Fund - by Kyle Harrison (substack.com)

Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade? - (The New York Times)

One Last Bite 😋