🥟 Chao-Down #321 How AI will show up at the Olympics, Ads for 'AI girlfriends' swarm Facebook and Instagram, Recruiters try to handle an influx of AI-generated applications

Is AI poised to transform the Olympics?

Just a few months before the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced its going to start using AI all across its operations. From finding and screening athletes, to helping competitors build custom training routines, to improving the viewing experiences for people at home, the IOC has big ambitions to make this year’s Olympics the best ever.

One area that AI is posed to (hopefully) add meaningful value is in providing unbiased feedback especially for judges to provide more accurate scores. For instance, in the world of competitive diving, computer vision can help track the exact number of flips an athlete performs and the exact maximum height he or she achieved.

In the areas of practice, robotics is poised to help athletes get better, like how a robot trained in the style of two-time gold medalist Xu Xin, allowed him to compete against himself in practice matches.

The initiatives aren’t without controversy as locals express concerns about the increasing number of AI-powered cameras that’ll be interspersed throughout the city to detect security threats.

Will the show be worth it?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI, Meta and Google Sign On to New Child Exploitation Safety Measures (WSJ)

OpenAI to use FT content for training AI models in latest media tie-up (Reuters)

Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram (WIRED)

AI is about to make app subscription fatigue even worse (Fast Company)

Apple’s OpenAI Talks Intensify as It Seeks to Add AI Features (Bloomberg)

Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload (WIRED)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age (digitalnative.tech)

LLMs and the Harry Potter problem (pyqai.com)

Generative AI for Beginners (microsoft.github.io)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

ziglang/zig: General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. (Github)

e2b-dev/E2B: Secure cloud runtime for AI apps & AI agents. Fully open-source. (Github)

InternLM/xtuner: An efficient, flexible and full-featured toolkit for fine-tuning large models (InternLM, Llama, Baichuan, Qwen, ChatGLM) (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

LongEmbed: Extending Embedding Models for Long Context Retrieval (Github)

Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science (arxiv)

Simple probes can catch sleeper agents (Anthropic)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

ByteDance Would Rather Close Down TikTok in the US Than Sell (Business Insider)

The IRS’ challenge to TurboTax and H&R Block is working (qz.com)

Consulting firms step up efforts to push out their low performers (ft.com)

YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (Ars Technica)

How Neopets’ nostalgic revival tripled users in six months (The Guardian)

Eye Exams: Are the extra tests worth the price? (Bloomberg)

One Last Bite 😋