🥟 Chao-Down #246 Microsoft discovers a potential new battery material using AI, Samsung shows off new smart home features including household maps and "AI characters", OpenAI responds to the NYTimes

Are we already in the post-smartphone era? One startup thinks we are and is launching a new mobile consumer device with AI front and center.

The AI startup Rabbit is launching the “R1” which will be about the size of a post-it note and use a homegrown proprietary AI model called a “Large Action Model” or LAM for its natural language operating system.

The key distinguishing feature is that the device will be able to perform tasks on behalf of users autonomously (of course with user permission). The LAM would learn how a user interacts with their apps and reproduce it via Rabbit’s custom cloud platform.

Part of the value proposition is that this would eliminate the need for users to download multiple apps as the AI operating system would access various services through a private web portal. Some initial use cases include complex requests involving multiple aps like ordering an Uber while texting.

Are devices like the R1 and the recently announced Humane Pin the future of personal computing?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Your classmate could be an AI student at this Michigan university (mlive.com)

OpenAI Turmoil Pushes Customers to Diversify (WSJ)

OpenAI responds to New York Times lawsuit, says ‘regurgitation’ of content is a ‘rare bug’ (CNBC)

Samsung’s new smart home features include household maps with ‘AI characters’ | (TechCrunch)

How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI (The Verge)

Workers Can't Get Hired for America's Semiconductor Jobs of the Future (businessinsider.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Part One: One-Year Anniversary of ChatGPT. Has AI Become the New Tech Platform? (substack.com)

AI Vertigo: where do we go from here as designers? (UX Collective)

How Lyft Processes Terabytes of Real Time Data (quastor.org)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

dvmazur/mixtral-offloading: Run Mixtral-8x7B models in Colab or consumer desktops (Github)

mnotgod96/AppAgent: AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users, an LLM-based multimodal agent framework designed to operate smartphone apps. (Github)

joaomdmoura/crewAI: Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

LLaVA-$ϕ$: Efficient Multi-Modal Assistant with Small Language Model (arxiv)

Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models (arxiv)

Steering Llama-2 with contrastive activation additions (AI Alignment Forum)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Japan earthquakes: the science behind the deadly tremors (Nature)

The Biggest Election Year in History (The New Yorker)

Just How Healthy Is Salmon? (The New York Times)

Hedge Funds for the Masses Deliver Ho-Hum Returns—and Have High Costs - WSJ

Biden administration revamps gig worker rule (axios.com)

US credit card balances hit a new record as delinquencies rise in the background (qz.com)

One Last Bite 😋