🥟 Chao-Down #285 ChatGPT accounts for more than 12% of freelance applications on Upwork, JPMorgan finds AI can cut manual work by 90%, Amazon's new AI chatbot Rufus found to be "mostly useless"

Which models are most egregious in generating copyright content?

In a recent study by Patronus AI, leading AI models, including OpenAI's GPT-4, are frequently generating copyrighted text from popular books. The research, conducted by ex-Meta researchers, tested four prominent AI models (GPT-4, Claude 2.1, Mixtral 8x7B, and Llama2 70B) and found that GPT-4 produced the highest amount of copyrighted content in response to prompts.

This raises concerns about the potential for copyright infringement in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI. The findings come amidst a growing debate over the use of copyrighted material in AI training data and a high-profile lawsuit involving The New York Times and OpenAI.

Will AI model providers be able to fix these issues?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

JPMorgan’s AI-Aided Cashflow Model Can Cut Manual Work by 90% (Bloomberg)

How AI Could Disrupt Hollywood (Vanity Fair)

AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class (noemamag.com)

GPT-4: Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement (CNBC)

We tested Amazon’s new AI shopping chatbot. It’s not good. (The Washington Post)

ChatGPT bots account for more than 12% of Upwork applications (plusdocs.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Google - The Book on Site Reliability Engineering (sre.google)

Don’t design for AI. Design for problems worth solving with AI, distributed cognition, cognitive tasks and human centered intelligent systems (UX Collective)

Get out of the building: Why, when, and how to interview your customers (Uncork Capital)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

google/gemma_pytorch: The official PyTorch implementation of Google's Gemma models (Github)

levihsu/OOTDiffusion: Outfitting Fusion based Latent Diffusion for Controllable Virtual Try-on (Github)

modelscope/agentscope: AgentScope: A Flexible yet Robust Multi-Agent Platform (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

The All-Seeing Project V2: Towards General Relation Comprehension of the Open World (arxiv)

HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time (arxiv)

WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study (The Guardian)

Obesity Drugs Won’t Solve Problem That Affects 1 Billion People, WHO Warns (Bloomberg)

Inside North Korea’s Forced-Labor Program in China (The New Yorker)

Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars? (The New York Times)

Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads (Gizmodo)

Why VCs are investing in startups that help other startups shut down | TechCrunch

One Last Bite 😋

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