🥟 Chao-Down #312 How AI is reshaping national intelligence agencies, Adobe pays artists for videos to train their AI models, AI's huge appetite for electricity and its impact on the environment

Enjoy today’s slice of the internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Is Google's AI Actually Discovering 'Millions of New Materials?' (404media.co)

Adobe pays for artists for videos to train AI models (qz.com)

AI means intelligence agencies must rethink how they work, report finds (Axios)

AI Is a Humongous Electricity Hog, and the Environment Can Benefit (Bloomberg)

A.I. Has a Measurement Problem (The New York Times)

Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment? (MIT Technology Review)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

AI Index Report 2024 – Artificial Intelligence Index (stanford.edu)

The Golden Age of Deep Tech - by Leo Polovets (Coding VC)

Notes on how to use LLMs in your product. | Irrational Exuberance (lethain.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

jina-ai/reader: Convert any URL to an LLM-friendly input with a simple prefix (Github)

goharbor/harbor: An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content. (Github)

FlowiseAI/Flowise: Drag & drop UI to build your customized LLM flow (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

CodecLM: Aligning Language Models with Tailored Synthetic Data (arxiv)

Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention (arxiv)

RULER: What's the Real Context Size of Your Long-Context Language Models? (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Why some people have a better sense of direction (Knowable Magazine)

US topples China as Taiwan’s largest export market due to chips, AI demand (Dawn)

Countering an 'Anxious Generation': more autonomy and fewer screens (NPR)

Startup Looking to Launch Stadium-Sized Space Habitats on SpaceX (Futurism)

The Taylor Swift Economy of Bootleg Concert T-Shirts and Bodysuits (Bloomberg)

The golden age of dictation (The Atlantic)

One Last Bite 😋