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🥟 Chao-Down #318 Tesla teases its Uber-like robotaxi app, How the Olympics are navigating incorporating AI at the Games, Adobe shows off its most capable image generation model
Plus, how banks are looking to use AI to replace entry-level analyst work.
Are we about to see Teslas roaming the streets looking for people to taxi?
Elon Musk has long touted the company’s autonomous driving capabilities and has envisioned a future where Tesla owners would be able to earn money by having their cars Uber people around. In Tesla’s latest quarterly results, that vision took one step closer to becoming a reality.
The company showed off several screenshots of what the experience would be using a Tesla based ride-hailing app. While these are initial designs, they show off the company’s ambition to be more than just an electric vehicle automaker.
From their report:
We have been investing in the hardware and software ecosystems necessary to achieve vehicle autonomy and a ride-hailing service…
We are currently working on ride-hailing functionality that will be available in the future. We believe the Tesla software experience is best-in-class across all our products, and plan to seamlessly layer ride-hailing into the Tesla App.
Will this app actually come out? And for Tesla owners, would you put your car on the robotaxi network?
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Adobe claims its new image-generation model is its best yet (TechCrunch)
The Olympics and AI: Games at ‘crossroads of change’ from judging to security (The Athletic)
AI Is Poised to Replace the Entry-Level Grunt Work of a Wall Street Career (NYTimes)
Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions? (Nature)
AI was supposed to make police bodycams better. What happened? (MIT Technology Review)
Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon for AI Servers (MacRumors)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
AI Writing Will Feel Real—Eventually (every.to)
Latency numbers every frontend developer should know (Vercel)
Diffusion Models for Video Generation | Lil'Log (lilianweng.github.io)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
Adobe's VideoGigaGAN AI Model Can Upscale Videos with Stunning Detail and Smooth Consistency (maginative.com)
DuangZhu/MAexp: MAexp is a generic platform for RL-based multi-agent exploration (Github)
mishushakov/llm-scraper: Turn any webpage into structured data using LLMs (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment (arxiv)
TransformerFAM: Feedback attention is working memory (arxiv)
On Speculative Decoding for Multimodal Large Language Models (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
Your perception of time is skewed by what you see (Nature)
Noncompetes Are Dead—and Tech Workers Are Free to Roam (WIRED)
Amazon takes aim at Target, Walmart with low-cost delivery subscription (qz.com)
A Massive Therapy Hack Shows Just How Unsafe Patients’ Files Can Be (Bloomberg)
Why Are Elo Ratings Everywhere Now? (The Atlantic)
How climate change is beginning to be added to employee pay and perks (CNBC)
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