🥟 Chao-Down #279 Apple cancels decade-long work on self-driving electric car, Tumblr and Wordpress ink deals to sell data to train AI tools, Google expects more AI models to arrive on phones in 2025

Will accelerating AI create a water crisis? One thing that’s true about current and future AI systems is that the water requirements for cooling the datacenters housing these models will only increase.

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-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort (Bloomberg)

Google expects more advanced AI models to arrive on phones in 2025 (CNBC)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls AI tool’s responses ‘completely unacceptable’ (Semafor)

Microsoft's deal with Mistral AI faces EU scrutiny (Reuters)

OpenAI says New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit (Reuters)

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (404media.co)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

AI won't eat your job, but it will eat your salary (Substack)

Special report: how design agencies are actually using AI in 2024 (Creative Boom)

Ten AI Insights from Databricks, Anyscale, and Microsoft (Foundation Capital)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl: Axolotl is a tool designed to streamline the fine-tuning of various AI models, offering support for multiple configurations and architectures. (Github)

Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard - GorillaLLM (berkeley.edu)

ChatMusician - Fostering Intrinsic Musical Abilities Into LLM (shanghaicannon.github.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs (arxiv)

AlphaFold Meets Flow Matching for Generating Protein Ensembles (arxiv)

Not All Experts are Equal: Efficient Expert Pruning and Skipping for Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

We finally know why live music makes us so emotional (New Scientist)

Drug Drastically Reduces Children’s Reactions to Traces of Food Allergens (The New York Times)

Nendo Designed The Perfect Obsessively Ergonomic Fork For Eating Cup Noodles (Yanko Design)

Mind-reading devices are revealing the brain’s secrets (Nature)

Scientists Create Beef-Infused Rice With Cow Cells (Gizmodo)

The hollowing out of Vice and BuzzFeed marks the end of the digital media revolution (CNN Business)

One Last Bite 😋