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🥟 Chao-Down #245 Duolingo lays off translation contractors in favor of AI, OpenAI claims NYTimes lawsuit is without merit, Waymo begins testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways
Plus, a survey from AI researchers on the state of the field shows mixed beliefs on progress
Will the future of dining be completely autonomous?
A new concept out in Pasadena, California might give us a hint at what the future of eating might look like.
“CaliExpress by Flippy” is a fully autonomous restaurant powered by AI that features a short-order cooking robot called Flippy along with a BurgerBot for grilling patties.
The holding company Cali Group owns Miso Robotics, the firm behind Flippy, and says that its robots can cut labor costs and improve safety by avoiding potential workplace hazards. Payments will be done through biometric stations through their partner PopID.
All of this culminates in the restaurant itself being considered as a "pseudo-museum experience presented by Miso."
Would you eat at a restaurant that had no human workers?
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
AI fueling dating and social media fraud, EU police agency says (The Guardian)
Duolingo Job Cuts: 10% of Contractors Laid Off With AI Features Added (Bloomberg)
A survey of 2,778 researchers shows how fragmented the AI science community is (the-decoder.com)
Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos (The Verge)
OpenAI claims New York Times copyright lawsuit is without merit (TechCrunch)
Waymo will start testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways (TechCrunch)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
A New Frontier: Service-as-Software, powered by AI Agents (substack.com)
Why Trust Is The Currency Of Product Management (Product Coalition)
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
EternityYW/Gemini-Commonsense-Evaluation: Official implementation of "Gemini in Reasoning: Unveiling Commonsense in Multimodal Large Language Models" (Github)
CambioML/pykoi: pykoi: Active learning in one unified interface (Github)
tyxsspa/AnyText: AnyText: Multilingual Visual Text Generation And Editing (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
Mixtral of Experts (arxiv.org)
LLaMA Pro: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion (arxiv)
GUESS:GradUally Enriching SyntheSis for Text-Driven Human Motion Generation (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
Inside Apple's Massive Push to Transform the Mac Into a Gaming Paradise (inverse.com)
Hong Kong's New World Development Creates Mental Health First Responders - (Bloomberg)
Revealed: almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media, study says | Science (The Guardian)
Finding a New Job Is Getting Harder (WSJ)
Why Is TikTok Parent ByteDance Moving Into Science and Drug Discovery? (Forbes)
Inside The New York Times’ Big Bet on Games (Vanity Fair)