🥟 Chao-Down #241 AI-created influencers are taking business away from humans, GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available to developers, A deep dive on ChatGPT for AI therapy and mental health

For regular readers of Chaos Theory, you all know my colleagues and I at Microsoft released a 1.0 version of the Semantic Kernel at the end of last year.

Check out my colleague Matthew Bolaños walk through where Semantic Kernel fits in to the rest of the AI ecosystem among other projects like Promptflow and Langchain!

Please reach out with any feedback! Excited to see what the community builds with these tools in 2024!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available, letting devs ask questions about code (TechCrunch)

AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans (Ars Technica)

Chief Justice Roberts Sees Promise and Danger of A.I. in the Courts (The New York Times)

INTERVIEW: AI expert warns of 'digital colonization' in Africa (UN News)

Startups: AI chatbots will eventually become your coworkers (The Register)

What to know about ChatGPT, AI therapy, and mental health (Vox)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Advanced RAG Techniques: an Illustrated Overview (Towards AI)

AI Image Statistics: How Much Content Was Created by AI (everypixel.com)

How to make LLMs go fast (vgel.me)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

SeeAct - GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent, if Grounded (osu-nlp-group.github.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To! (arxiv)

UniSim: Learning Interactive Real-World Simulators (universal-simulator.github.io)

SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues? (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Google Slashes Diversity Programs After Big Promises (Forbes)

Public domain Mickey Mouse is the first meme of 2024 (TechCrunch)

How to make data open? Stop overlooking librarians (Nature)

No one wants to buy used EVs and they’re piling up in weed-infested graveyards (Fortune)

Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

We Are About to Enter the Golden Age of Gene Therapy (inverse.com)

One Last Bite 😋

Effective Prompting Principles for getting the most out of chatting with AI. Read the paper!