🥟 Chao-Down #262 OpenAI cautions on the role of AI for biological threat creation, Amazon debuts its shopping assistant "Rufus", Microsoft researchers introduce LASER to make AI models more accurate

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Tim Cook confirms Apple’s generative AI features are coming ‘later this year’ (The Verge)

Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies (The Verge)

OpenAI study reveals surprising role of AI in future biological threat creation | (VentureBeat)

Generative A.I.’s Biggest Impact Will Be in Banking and Tech, Report Says (The New York Times)

Arc is building an AI agent that browses on your behalf (TechCrunch)

Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Why 2023 Was AI Video’s Breakout Year, and What to Expect in 2024 (Andreessen Horowitz)

How AI Works - An entirely non-technical explanation of LLMs (every.to)

New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text (Quanta Magazine)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

argmaxinc/WhisperKit: Swift native speech recognition on-device for iOS and macOS applications. (Github)

100x Faster Clustering with Lilac Garden - Lilac (lilacml.com)

AugustDev/enchanted: Enchanted is iOS app for chatting with private self hosted language models such as Llama2, Mistral or Vicuna using Ollama. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Continual Learning with Pre-Trained Models: A Survey (arxiv)

OLMo: Open Language Model. A State-Of-The-Art, Truly Open LLM and Framework (AI2 Blog)

ymy-k/Hi-SAM: Hi-SAM: Marrying Segment Anything Model for Hierarchical Text Segmentation (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro (Vanity Fair)

Mark Zuckerberg’s persistent power in Silicon Valley (The Atlantic)

Businesses Need a Better Way to Measure Worker Productivity (Bloomberg)

Higher tax filing costs could take a bite out of your refund (nbcnews.com)

Colleges Are Lying to Their Students (The Atlantic)

One Last Bite 😋