🥟 Chao-Down #239 The world's first AI-powered political campaign caller, Google limits election queries that its AI Bard can answer, The scientists who refuse to use ChatGPT

This is the last edition of Chao-Downs for 2023! Thank you to all the readers who’ve joined me along this journey! Look forward to the new year where we’ll continue to dive head-first into this new era of AI!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7+ million miles of rider-only driving (Waypoint - The official Waymo blog)

Meet Ashley, the world's first AI-powered political campaign caller (Reuters)

Alphabet to limit election queries Bard and AI-based search can answer (CNBC)

The age of weaponized LLMs is here (VentureBeat)

These scientists aren’t using ChatGPT — here’s why (Nature)

Anthropic Could Be Headed for an OpenAI-Style Showdown (Gizmodo)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How to Use ChatGPT as a Copilot for Learning (every.to)

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays (Buttondown)

Six Types of Competition That You Must Be Aware Of (Product Coalition)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

baaivision/tokenize-anything: Tokenize Anything via Prompting (Github)

open-mmlab/Amphion: Amphion (/æmˈfaɪən/) is a toolkit for Audio, Music, and Speech Generation. Its purpose is to support reproducible research and help junior researchers and engineers get started in the field of audio, music, and speech generation research and development. (Github)

aklivity/zilla: 🦎 A multi-protocol, event-native proxy. Securely interface web apps, IoT clients, & microservices to Apache Kafka® via declaratively defined, stateless APIs. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Llama Guard: LLM-based Input-Output Safeguard for Human-AI Conversations (arxiv)

Self-Evaluation Improves Selective Generation in Large Language Models (arxiv)

Mathematical Language Models: A Survey (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Biology, Anatomy, and Finance? More Med Students Want Business Degrees Too (KFF Health News)

We’re Not Ready for a Society Where Living to 100 Is Common (Bloomberg)

To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth (Nature)

What Cardboard Prices Tell Us About the State of the Economy (WSJ)

Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? (The New York Times)

Are "buy now pay later" plans really helping to raise people's credit scores? (qz.com)

One Last Bite 😋