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🥟 Chao-Down #1: Layoffs Hit AI Giants, Tesla "Phantom Braking" Crash, and ChatGPT's First Co-Author Citation
Plus great courses on Foundation Models and doing AI Research
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the “Chao”-Downs newsletter, a bite-sized digest of stories at the intersection of Tech, AI, Business and Life. It is the companion to Chaos Theory, the weekly newsletter featuring longform, original content from your resident Chaos Coordinator.
With so much happening in the world, it can be hard to find the signal through the noise. This newsletter is an attempt at serving up what I found to be the most interesting stories in recent memory, with a bent towards highlighting the latest developments in the area of AI and Machine Learning.
Thank you for giving it a read and be sure to subscribe for future releases!
-Alex
What happened in AI? 📰
Hours after Musk announces Full Self Driving, a Tesla crashed on the Bay Bridge due to “phantom braking”
The first public citation of ChatGPT as an author in an academic paper:
Layoffs continue - Alphabet’s Intrinsic, maker of industrial robots, laid off 20% of their workforce. Follows another set of layoffs at Alphabet’s life-sciences subsidiary Verily, affecting 200 employees. Data Labeling company Scale AI laid off 20% of staff after achieving a $7 Billion valuation in 2021.
Mental health startup Koko accused of unethical behavior for testing AI chatbot without notifying patients.
Turnitin, one of the pioneers in anti-cheating software, looks to create a service that can determine whether a student used ChatGPT to write their homework.
German vaccine maker BioNTech SE is acquiring British AI software maker InstaDeep for £562M ($682M)
DeepL, maker of translation-as-a-service to enterprises, raises $100 million
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
CS 324, Stanford’s latest course on Advances in Foundation Models (link)
CS197, Harvard course on practical tips and experiences for doing AI Research (link)
Free Book on Multimodal Machine Learning (link)
AI Pioneer Andrew Ng wrote a free book on building a career in AI (link)
Chat GPT prompts for Data Scientists (link)
Google Shares their 2022 AI Principles Progress Update featuring practical resources for researchers interested in AI Governance (link)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
so excited to share with you all: a new @GitHubNext addition to Copilot Labs...
✨ Code Brushes ✨
We wondered how we could make editing your code feel as tactile and easy as paint with a brush in Photoshop?
writeup: githubnext.com/projects/code-…
and 🧵
— Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 (@Wattenberger)
4:58 PM • Jan 12, 2023
The Latest In AI Research 💡
Introducing DreamerV3: the first general algorithm to collect diamonds in Minecraft from scratch - solving an important challenge in AI. 💎
It learns to master many domains without tuning, making reinforcement learning broadly applicable.
Find out more: dpmd.ai/dreamerv3
— DeepMind (@DeepMind)
1:04 PM • Jan 11, 2023
Tracr: Compiled Transformers as a Laboratory for Interpretability" (link)
An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion (link)
"Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers" (link)
VALL-E, Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers (link)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
Sam Bankman-Fried, disgraced founder of FTX, launches a Substack (link)
3D printing reaches new heights with two-story home (link)
China wrapping up its 2-year tech crackdown (link)
Rideshare & Delivery SBC and Dilution Hell (link)
JP Morgan sues fintech founder for fraud after aquiring startup for $175 million (link)
One Last Bite 😋
