🥟 Chao-Down #253 Sam Altman looks to raise billions for AI chip factories, AI-generated products are coming to video podcast advertising, Amazon's struggles with making a next-gen "remarkable" Alexa

It seems like even Sam Altman cannot definitively say what humans do better than AI anymore.

In an interview the OpenAI CEO gave at Davos this year, Altman was asked “What’s the core competence of human beings?” This turned into an hour-long discussion over the future of technology which had at its core theme that Fortune points out:

Altman’s responses centered around humanity’s central-role in decision-making but conceded that “general purpose cognition” feels “different this time” and that new models could soon exceed people’s ability to do reasoning and cognitive tasks.

Is Sam right? Are we that much closer to a completely AI-excelled world?

Check out the full interview for yourself if you have the time:

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Silicon Valley insiders are trying to unseat Biden with help from AI (The Washington Post)

WHO releases AI ethics and governance guidance for large multi-modal models (World Health Organization)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips (The Verge)

AI-Generated Virtual Products From Rembrand Are Coming to a Podcast Near You - (Bloomberg)

Amazon Is Struggling With Its Next-Gen "Remarkable Alexa' (Business Insider)

AlphaFold found thousands of possible psychedelics. Will its predictions help drug discovery? (Nature)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Evaluation Metrics for LLM Applications In Production (Parea AI)

‘We can do more and do it faster’: How AI will transform the cookie-free future | The Current

What's new with ML in production? | (Vicki Boykis)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

TencentARC/PhotoMaker: PhotoMaker - Customizing Realistic Human Photos via Stacked ID Embedding (Github)

KRTirtho/spotube: 🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile! (Github)

RVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS: 1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning) (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Soaring from 4K to 400K: Extending LLM's Context with Activation Beacon (arxiv)

CRUXEval: A Benchmark for Code Reasoning, Understanding and Execution (arxiv)

Narrowing the Knowledge Evaluation Gap: Open-Domain Question Answering with Multi-Granularity Answers (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

‘Plant-Based’ Has Lost All Meaning (The Atlantic)

NASA Reveals Incredible X-59: A Unique, Experimental Supersonic Jet (ScienceAlert)

The Vision Pro’s most important app is Safari, whether Apple likes it or not (The Verge)

Japan becomes the fifth nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon (Ars Technica)

California governor sacks effort to limit tackle football for kids (NPR)

Workplace Wellness Programs Have Little Benefit, Study Finds (The New York Times)

One Last Bite 😋

Camera makers look to fight against AI fakes with new tech!