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🥟 Chao-Down #267 Taylor Swift deepfakes originated from an AI challenge on 4chan, OpenAI forms a team to study child safety, Github CEO says how AI tools are rewiring coders' brains

🥟 Chao-Down #267 Taylor Swift deepfakes originated from an AI challenge on 4chan, OpenAI forms a team to study child safety, Github CEO says how AI tools are rewiring coders' brains

Plus, OpenAI's CEO is reportedly looking to raise trillions(!) of dollars for his AI chip project.

February 09, 2024

What’s the latest happening in AI humanoid robotics?

One company (1x) is leading the charge.

From their site:

1X's mission is to provide an abundant supply of physical labor via safe, intelligent androids. Our environments are designed for humans, so we design our hardware to take after the human form for maximum generality. To make the best use of this general-purpose hardware, we also pursue the maximally general approach to autonomy: learning motor behaviors end-to-end from vision using neural networks.

Check out their latest demo below!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Taylor Swift Deepfakes Originated From AI Challenge, Report Says (Bloomberg)

OpenAI forms a new team to study child safety (TechCrunch)

AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next | (WIRED)

White House to 'Cryptographically Verify' Official Communications As AI Deep Fakes Surge (businessinsider.com)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly seeks trillions of dollars for AI chip project (CNBC)

Google Assistant Just Got Supercharged With AI. It Might Be the Biggest Update in Google's History. (Gizmodo)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications (oneusefulthing.org)

How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck: Helix Project Report, Feb 2024 (Substack)

AI Design Patterns by @ttunguz (tomtunguz.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

danielmiessler/fabric: fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. (Github)

FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models (Google DeepMind)

phidatahq/phidata: Build AI Assistants using function calling (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Spotting LLMs With Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text (arxiv)

CMMMU: A Chinese Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark (arxiv)

Unitxt: Flexible, Shareable and Reusable Data Preparation and Evaluation for Generative AI (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

China’s Consumer Prices Drop at Fastest Pace Since 2009 (Bloomberg)

Why the mental cost of a STEM career can be too high for women and people of colour (Nature)

Two Ph.D.s Launched Nuggets and Slurpees Into Near Space. Now They’re in Hot Demand. (WSJ)

GoFundMe Is a Health-Care Utility Now (The Atlantic)

Loud budgeting is in, quiet luxury is out. Meet the TikToker who started the financial trend (CNN Business)

Zillow now listing individual room rentals to ease housing costs (USA Today)