🥟 Chao-Down #291 Adobe's Firefly repeats the same AI mistakes as Google Gemini, Chip startup Cerebras unveils their latest AI accelerator, Amazon to allow sellers to create product pages with AI

In the latest in humanoid robotics, the startup Figure AI recently showed off their Figure 01 machine hold a real-time conversation while performing tasks like putting dishes away.

The progress in this space is accelerating and it’ll be fascinating to see what robots can do in the near future. Check out the video for Figure’s latest demo!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Adobe Firefly repeats the same AI blunders as Google Gemini (Semafor)

Cerebras CS-3: the world’s fastest and most scalable AI accelerator (Cerebras)

How OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society (Nature)

Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect (Nature)

Amazon will let sellers paste a link so AI can make a product page (The Verge)

Artificial intelligence improves real-time drilling data analysis (Offshore)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Beyond Self-Attention: How a Small Language Model Predicts the Next Token (Shyam's Blog)

Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs (oneusefulthing.org)

The Extremes Inform the Mean - The power of exploring the fringes to unleash creative progress and innovation (Better by Design)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot: The first real AI developer (Github)

lavague-ai/LaVague: Automate automation with Large Action Model framework (Github)

geekan/MetaGPT: 🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: Given one line Requirement, return PRD, Design, Tasks, Repo (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

MoAI: Mixture of All Intelligence for Large Language and Vision Models (arxiv)

Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series (arxiv)

Algorithmic progress in language models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

One Twin Was Hurt, the Other Was Not. Their Adult Mental Health Diverged. (The New York Times)

The New Science on What Ultra-Processed Food Does to Your Brain (WSJ)

Fake Ozempic Shows Dark Side of Weight-Loss Frenzy (Bloomberg)

Bluesky launches Ozone, a tool that lets users create and run their own independent moderation services (TechCrunch)

The Mystery of the $2,000 Ikea Shopping Bag (hbr.org)

How Covid Changed Nursing | Jess McAllen (thebaffler.com)

One Last Bite 😋