🥟 Chao-Down #266 Microsoft secures a Super Bowl ad for Copilot, Google unveils the Gemini Era with Gemini Advanced, OpenAI makes moves towards building AI agents that will automate tasks

Microsoft is going to be at the Super Bowl, and it’s all about Copilot.

After a year’s worth of learnings from ChatGPT, Microsoft is focusing their attention away from Bing and towards Copilot, an "AI companion" that is now being integrated into its core software and services. The company recently unveiled a Super Bowl ad for Copilot, emphasizing creativity and productivity over traditional search engines.

Unlike previous ads that showcased Windows PCs and emotional narratives, this one centers solely on a smartphone, shows people trying to get work done, and ultimately pushes users to download the Copilot app on iOS and Android. The ad walks a fine line between empowering users and addressing concerns about AI replacing jobs, especially in creative fields.

The marketing move reflects Microsoft's commitment to positioning Copilot as the future of its AI efforts, distinct from the search rivalry with Google. 

How will the public receive it? We’ll have to see on Super Bowl Sunday.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Google Gemini update: Sundar Pichai introduces Ultra 1.0 in Gemini Advanced (blog.google)

Exclusive: Meta to deploy in-house custom chips this year to power AI drive - memo (Reuters)

OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks (The Information)

ChatGPT will digitally tag images generated by DALL-E 3 to help battle misinformation (Engadget)

Waymo driverless car strikes bicyclist in San Francisco, causes minor injuries (The Verge)

Ikea’s AI assistant gives design inspiration — at least it tries to (The Verge)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

A systematic overview of prompt engineering through programming (ploomber.io)

Generative AI In The Workplace: 5 Takeaways From Pioneers In Microsoft Copilot Adoption (Forbes)

The Techno-Industrial Revolution - Leveraging Technology for Higher Margins in Big Industries (notboring.co)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

YangLing0818/RPG-DiffusionMaster: Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs (PRG) (Github)

Apple releases 'MGIE', a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing | (VentureBeat)

google/oss-fuzz-gen: LLM powered fuzzing via OSS-Fuzz. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards (arxiv)

Medusa: Simple LLM Inference Acceleration Framework with Multiple Decoding Heads (arxiv)

From GPT-4 to Gemini and Beyond: Assessing the Landscape of MLLMs on Generalizability, Trustworthiness and Causality through Four Modalities (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Silicon Valley’s New Start-Ups: City-States (The Atlantic)

Southwest Airlines thin seats can fit more people on Boeing 737 Max 8 (qz.com)

The Bitter Brawl Over the Origin of Butter Chicken (WSJ)

Coca-Cola is adding its first permanent flavor in three years (CNN Business)

How Twitter’s descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web (TechCrunch)

Everyone is using headsets like Apple’s Vision Pro wrong, a study says (The Washington Post)

Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King (WIRED)

One Last Bite 😋