🥟 Chao-Down #320 Los Angeles to get AI-powered cameras on Metro buses to help ticket parked cars, OpenAI leans into new enterprise features, Synthesia video avatars now feature emotions

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

AI-powered cameras on Metro buses will help ticket parked cars (Los Angeles Times)

U.S. and China to hold first AI talks amid ongoing TikTok stalemate (NBC News)

OpenAI shrugs off Llama 3's ascent with new enterprise AI features (VentureBeat)

Machine learning speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s treatment (Innovation News Network)

Adobe launches Firefly 3 with full AI image generation in Photoshop (VentureBeat)

Watch it and weep (or smile): Synthesia’s AI video avatars now feature emotions (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The Silver Surge - Catalyzed by the graying of our population, there is a massive shift occurring within health towards more innovative and holistic models of care. (Substack)

Mastering RAG: How to Select A Reranking Model (rungalileo.io)

Building reliable systems out of unreliable agents (Rainforest QA)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

McGill-NLP/webllama: Llama-3 agents that can browse the web by following instructions and talking to you (Github)

apple/corenet: CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks (Github)

rjmacarthy/twinny: The ultimate straightforward, locally or API-hosted AI code completion plugin for Visual Studio Code (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions (arxiv)

Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena (arxiv)

LLMs Know What They Need: Leveraging a Missing Information Guided Framework to Empower Retrieval-Augmented Generation (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Chipotle Tells Staff to Skip Chicken as Demand Surges (Bloomberg)

NASA launch of solar sail will test sunlight-powered space travel (qz.com)

The world is so hot scientists need a scary new color for extreme heat (qz.com)

The Fascinating Decade in Cybercrime- 2010 to 2020 (arcticwolf.com)

Why queasiness kills hunger: brain circuit identified (Nature)

Social Media Has Overwhelmed America’s Main Nonprofit Fighting Child Exploitation (WSJ)

One Last Bite 😋