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🥟 Chao-Down #327 Microsoft prepares to train a new AI model to compete with Google and OpenAI, The teens making friends with AI chatbots, The impact of AI on the climate

Plus, a look at the burnout AI engineers face in the high-stakes race to stay ahead.

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT (The Verge)

AI engineers face burnout in 'rat race' to stay competitive hits tech (CNBC)

New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (Ars Technica)

Microsoft Is Building a New Energy-Intensive AI Model

How Bad Is A.I. for the Climate? (The New York Times)

The teens making friends with AI chatbots (The Verge)

AI spending grew 293% last year. Here's how companies are using AI to stay ahead. (Ramp)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Distracting software engineers is much more harmful than you think (Substack)

Modern Advances in Prompt Engineering (Substack)

cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. (Github)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

phospho-app/phospho: Text analytics for LLM apps. PostHog for prompts. Extract evaluations, intents and events from text messages. (Github)

FlowTestAI/FlowTest: GenAI powered OpenSource IDE for API first workflows (Github)

pytorch/executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

AdvPrompter: Fast Adaptive Adversarial Prompting for LLMs (arxiv)

A Survey on Vision Mamba: Models, Applications and Challenges (arxiv)

On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Singapore's Burnout Rate Shows the Price of Success (Bloomberg)

Are AirPods actually a subscription business? (Sherwood News)

Why the Game Boy's design is so iconic (Creative Bloq)

Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation (The New Yorker)

Young Parents Are Becoming the Face of Luxury in America. (Business Insider)

Why is exercise good for you? Scientists are finding answers in our cells (Nature)

One Last Bite 😋