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Could AI be the cause of world war? Some foreign policy experts studied LLMs and found that if left unchecked, that could be a likely possibility.

A new study using AI in foreign policy decision-making found how quickly large language models would call for war instead of finding peaceful resolutions. Some AI models from OpenAI even launched nuclear warfare with little to no warning, giving bizarre explanations for doing so.

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Northeastern University, and the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative tested several AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta in war simulations where they acted as the main decision makers. They found that OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 were more likely to escalate situations into severe military conflicts than other models. On the other hand, Claude-2.0 and Llama-2-Chat behaved more peacefully and predictably. The study also observed that AI models tend to exhibit “arms-race dynamics” that lead to increased military spending and escalation.

It’s a glimpse of how AI can be used in the military. The question is, are we ready for it?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets (ft.com)

Cedars-Sinai utilizes Apple Vision Pro and AI to create mental health companion (MobiHealthNews)

What Do Fashion Trend Forecasters Do? How AI is Reshaping the Job (Bloomberg)

Exclusive: Nvidia pursues $30 billion custom chip opportunity with new unit (Reuters)

Silicon Valley’s Housing Market Reawakens With AI Boom (Bloomberg)

ChatGPT and AI replacing jobs is a worry for workers, per survey (Axios Seattle)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

A Distributed Systems Reading List (ferd.ca)

donnemartin/system-design-primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards. (Github)

a16z Consumer Abundance Agenda - How AI will transform consumer technology (gamma.app)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

huggingface/lighteval - LightEval is a lightweight LLM evaluation suite from Hugging Face (Github)

microsoft/sudo: It's sudo, for Windows (Github)

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

The Latest in AI Research 💡

MambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model (arxiv)

WARM: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Reward Models (arxiv)

Small Language Model Meets with Reinforced Vision Vocabulary (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Australians Get Right to Ignore Office Calls, Emails After Hours (Bloomberg)

New evidence shows COVID-19 isn’t done with us yet (Harvard Gazette)

How to test a Moon landing from Earth (Nature)

How empty office space became the new bogeyman on Wall Street (CNN Business)

Cloud repatriation: Why companies are leaving the cloud (InfoWorld)

The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities (The New York Times)

One Last Bite 😋