🥟 Chao-Down #294 OpenAI's GPT Store is filling up with spam, Saudia Arabia plans a $40 billion push into AI, DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman will now run Microsoft's Consumer AI division

Is compute the next precious resource that companies and countries will fight over?

I just finished listening to Sam Altman’s interview on the Lex Fridman podcast and among many of the points mentioned, Sam in particular was adamant that compute resources reflected in OpenAI’s (and many other companies’) insatiable demand for GPUs would effectively become the new oil.

It explains why the OpenAI CEO was in the headlines not long ago for the incredible claim that he was raising $7 trillion for a new advanced AI chip company (which Sam disputed in his talk with Lex). Whatever that number ends up being, Sam has clear ambitions that will require more and more compute.

The full interview is worth listening to, especially if you want to hear Sam’s first-hand account of the events leading to his ousting and return as CEO of OpenAI.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman will run Microsoft’s new consumer AI unit (Ars Technica)

‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch (Nature)

OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam (TechCrunch)

Saudi Arabia Plans $40 Billion Push Into Artificial Intelligence (The New York Times)

AI is helping retailers fight back against organized theft (yahoo.com)

Google Deepens AI Push Into Health Care With Fitbit, Cancer Screenings - (Bloomberg)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Spreadsheets are all you need.ai – A low-code way to learn AI (spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai)

Licensing AI Means Licensing the Whole Economy (From the New World)

How to "build something people want" - by Rob Snyder (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

roboflow/supervision: We write your reusable computer vision tools. 💜 (Github)

zylon-ai/private-gpt: Interact with your documents using the power of GPT, 100% privately, no data leaks (Github)

luijait/DarkGPT: DarkGPT is an OSINT assistant based on GPT-4-200K (recommended use) designed to perform queries on leaked databases (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Evil Geniuses: Delving into the Safety of LLM-based Agents (arxiv)

LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code (arxiv)

PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z (NPR)

Dermatitis: Why Do I Have Itchy, Swollen, Dry, Irritated Skin as I Age? (Bloomberg)

Are your earliest childhood memories still lurking in your mind—or gone forever? | Science (AAAS)

TikTok is paying creators to up its search game (The Verge)

Tech billionaires’ Solano County utopia aims to house 400,000 people (Fast Company)

Apple and Microsoft's industry-defining legal battle (qz.com)

One Last Bite 😋

The latest from NVIDIA in humanoid robotics: GR00T!