🥟 Chao-Down #244 ChatGPT could soon be a replacement to Google Assistant on Android, Young people turn to AI for therapy, Google is bringing AI to Seattle to reduce traffic and emissions

One awesome headline that came across the newswire was that my colleague Dee Templeton, a VP at Microsoft, just joined OpenAI’s board as a nonvoting observer! As the corporate vice president of technology and research partnerships and operations inside the Office of the CTO (my organization), Dee brings a wealth of experience and a steady hand to what has been a turbulent ride for OpenAI.

Excited to see what comes out of this!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Leaked: the names of more than 16,000 non-consenting artists allegedly used to train Midjourney’s AI (theartnewspaper.com)

How Google is using AI to help one U.S. city reduce traffic and emissions (CBS News)

ChatGPT could soon replace Google Assistant on your Android phone (androidauthority.com)

AI-driven weather and climate prediction facing new tests (axios.com)

Character.ai: Young people turning to AI therapist bots (bbc.com)

What developers using AI chatbots can tell us about how it’s changing work (qz.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Seismic Waves for 2024: "Optimistic Nihilism" and Consumer Spending (digitalnative.tech)

hackerllama - The Random Transformer (osanseviero.github.io)

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2023 (FlowingData)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Portkey-AI/gateway: A Blazing Fast AI Gateway. Route to 100+ LLMs with 1 fast & friendly API. (Github)

CoderWZW/ARLib: An open-source framework for conducting data poisoning attacks on recommendation systems, designed to assist researchers and practitioners. (Github)

bclavie/RAGatouille: Easily use and train state of the art retrieval methods in any RAG pipeline. Designed for modularity and ease-of-use, backed by research. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Context-Aware Interaction Network for RGB-T Semantic Segmentation (arxiv.org)

3D-Aware Visual Question Answering about Parts, Poses and Occlusions (arxiv.org)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Full return to office isn't only work model dying. So is fully remote (CNBC)

Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing (Ars Technica)

Why You Stay Up So Late, Even When You Know You Shouldn’t (WIRED)

US investment concerns in China are rising. Except for fast food (AP News)

Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Now Work for Insurers, Deciding If They’ll Pay for Care (ProPublica)

How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now - (The Verge)

One Last Bite 😋