🥟 Chao-Down #240 Researchers turn to Harry Potter to understand AI, Startups use AI to predict responses to cancer drugs, Chinese professor wins national competition with an AI-written novel

Hope everyone had a happy new year and a great holiday spent with friends and family!

We ended 2023 with quite a few eye-catching headlines that will certainly shape the direction of AI in 2024. From the New York Times suing Microsoft and OpenAI over copyright infringement, to new products like Microsoft Copilot on mobile and research from Apple to run AI models locally on your devices, we’re set to see another massive year in AI for both the consumer and enterprise. Will all progress be good progress? We’ll have to see to find out.

Excited to go on this journey with you all!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Inside the culture clash dominating the AI debate (POLITICO)

A Chinese professor used AI to write a science fiction novel. Then it was a winner in a national competition (South China Morning Post)

Researchers Have a Magic Tool to Understand AI: Harry Potter (Bloomberg)

Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material (404media.co)

Building AI safely is getting harder and harder (The Atlantic)

Startups Are Using AI to Predict Responses to Cancer Drugs (WSJ)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

2023 AI wrap-up for designers - by Mia Blume (substack.com)

Psyc 6135: Psychology of Data Visualization (friendly.github.io)

GoogleCloudPlatform/generative-ai: Sample code and notebooks for Generative AI on Google Cloud (github.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

s-casci/tinyzero: Easily train AlphaZero-like agents on any environment you want! (Github)

elfvingralf/macOSpilot-ai-assistant: Voice + Vision powered AI assistant that answers questions about any application, in context and in audio. (Github)

apple/ml-ferret: Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity (github.com)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks (arxiv)

Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs (arxiv)

Generative AI for Math: Part I MATHPILE: A Billion-Token-Scale Pretraining Corpus for Math (gair-nlp.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Lab-grown diamonds drive cost of all diamonds down (axios.com)

Have Tech Jobs Lost Their Luster? (crunchbase.com)

How people laugh online (Rest of World)

Before Drinking Coffee, People Washed Their Hands With It (atlasobscura.com)

Is cannabis bad for teens? Here’s what the data say (Nature)

Remote Work Hurts Innovation Among Work Teams, Massive New Study Finds (businessinsider.com)

One Last Bite 😋