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🥟 Chao-Down #319 Apple releases OpenELM for on-device AI, GenZ picks AI over managers for career advice, WHO's new health chatbot SARAH gets many medical questions wrong

Plus, how Americans feel about AI's role in their careers and K-12 schooling.

I recently just watched Adobe’s latest generative AI features for video editors in Premiere Pro and was honestly quite impressed! Being able to dynamically edit a video timeline with generative AI elements felt (almost) natural as adding or removing items in post becomes a lot easier with these AI tools.

Check out the preview video to see what I’m talking about.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Gen Z workers pick genAI over managers for career advice (Computerworld)

Artificial intelligence can predict political beliefs from expressionless faces (psypost.org)

Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI for devices (VentureBeat)

How Americans feel about AI’s role in their careers and in K-12 schooling (YouGov)

Lethal AI weapons are here: how can we control them? (Nature)

WHO’s New AI Health Chatbot SARAH Gets Many Medical Questions Wrong (Bloomberg)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

A Visual Guide to Vision Transformers (MDTURP)

How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? (Quanta Magazine)

How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team. (The Pragmatic Engineer)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

unslothai/unsloth: Finetune Llama 3, Mistral & Gemma LLMs 2-5x faster with 80% less memory (Github)

mendableai/firecrawl: 🔥 Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown (Github)

leiyu0210/FinLangNet - A Novel Deep Learning Framework for Credit Risk Prediction Using Linguistic Analogy in Financial Data (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Pre-training Small Base LMs with Fewer Tokens (arxiv)

Self-Reasoning Tokens, teaching models to think ahead. (reasoning-tokens.ghost.io)

Manipulating Large Language Models to Increase Product Visibility (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Airlines Will Now Have to Give You Cash When They Screw Up (Gizmodo)

Judge approves NAR settlement on broker commissions (CNN Business)

Doritos and Oreos for Dinner? Big Junk Food Steps Up Its Push (Bloomberg)

Heat-Related ER Visits Rose in 2023, CDC Study Finds (The New York Times)

Anxiety and depression is spiking among young people. No one knows why.(POLITICO)

California is Losing Tech Jobs (apricitas.io)

One Last Bite 😋

This line chart shows the $1 trillion in U.S. debt interest payments.