🥟 Chao-Down #313 People love their phones more than Humane's AI pin, How AI is speeding up emergency response times, AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality

According to the latest report from the Stanford Human-Centered AI Institue, AI has now exceeded human performance at basic tasks, like image recognition, visual reasoning, and English understanding. Where it still falls short is advanced math and planning. But even now, there is significant effort from tech giants in closing the gap.

It’s a fascinating look at the rate of progress in AI. Check out the full report here.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

People Love Their Phones Too Much to Use Humane's Flawed AI Pin (Lifewire)

How AI Is Speeding Up 911 Call Response Times in Cities (Bloomberg)

Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools (TechCrunch)

AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality (The Register)

The impact of AI on disinformation and democracy (POLITICO)

Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed (MIT Technology Review)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

I asked 100 devs why they aren’t shipping faster. Here’s what I learned (Greptile)

Fall in love with the user, not the technology (UX Collective)

AI won't eat your job, but it will eat your salary (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

nilsherzig/LLocalSearch: LLocalSearch is a completely locally running search aggregator using LLM Agents. (Github)

paul-gauthier/aider: aider is AI pair programming in your terminal (Github)

dvlab-research/MiniGemini: Official implementation for Mini-Gemini (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Generative Knowledge Extraction, Graph-Based Representation, and Multimodal Intelligent Graph Reasoning (arxiv)

Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length (arxiv)

Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

2024 WNBA Draft smashes record with 2.4 million viewers, a 307 percent increase over 2023 (The Athletic)

New York Tops Destinations for Relocating Tech Workers (WSJ)

These Tech Startups Are Lowering Emergency Response Times (Bloomberg)

3 charts: The US has more startups than VCs can support (PitchBook)

The Quiet Danger of Noise-Canceling Headphones (Gizmodo)

The Psychology of Short-Form Content: Why We Love Bite-Sized Videos (hubspot.com)

One Last Bite 😋