🥟 Chao-Down #300 US government requires agencies to have a chief AI officer, Microsoft launches new Azure AI tools for LLM safety and reliability, Deepmind applies latest their AI to soccer

Make sure to take time to enjoy the weekend! And of course today’s slice of the AI internet :)

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

AI hiring craze has reaches U.S. government with new agency rule (qz.com)

Microsoft launches new Azure AI tools to cut out LLM safety and reliability risks (VentureBeat)

Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content (WIRED)

Companies Are Luring Investors by Exaggerating What Their AI Can Do (businessinsider.com)

Google DeepMind's New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner (WIRED)

AI Work Isn’t Yours: A Friendly Reminder (The New York Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models (mobiusml.github.io)

The State of Engineering Productivity in 2024 📊 (refactoring.fm)

Large language models use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge (MIT News)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Introducing Jamba - Debuting the first production-grade Mamba-based model delivering best-in-class quality and performance. (ai21.com)

spiceai/spiceai: A unified SQL query interface and portable runtime to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data tables sourced from any database, data warehouse, or data lake. (Github)

databricks/dbrx: Code examples and resources for DBRX, a large language model developed by Databricks (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent (arxiv)

Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities (arxiv)

AutoGuide: Automated Generation and Selection of State-Aware Guidelines for Large Language Model Agents (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

In Monterey, Ohana Mental Health Clinic Embraces Architecture as Healing - (Bloomberg)

Larger or longer grants unlikely to push senior scientists towards high-risk, high-reward work (Nature)

Child care benefits for workers effectively pay for themselves, new study finds (axios.com)

The surprising effect social media de-influencers might have on the environment (NPR)

China is beating the U.S. on self-driving cars because of lidar (qz.com)

Work-Life Balance Replaces Hustle Culture (Bloomberg)

One Last Bite 😋