🥟 Chao-Down #116 Unity announces new AI-powered platforms for developing games, Baidu claims that its LLM Ernie is superior to ChatGPT, US considers tougher export restrictions on AI chips to China

I caught up with my colleague Husain Zaidi, a software engineer at Microsoft, and how he built an AI agent to play the word-guessing game Wordle like a human! See how he used the Semantic Kernel to achieve this.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

US weighs tougher restrictions on AI chip exports to China (Financial Times)

Unity Announces Big 'AI' Plans, Developers Have Some Concerns (Kotaku)

Consultants Emerge as Early Winners in Generative AI Boom (WSJ)

Baidu’s Ernie Beats OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Key Tests, Company Says (Bloomberg)

Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. Talks About New Award Rules For AI (Rolling Stone)

Y Combinator’s Latest Batch Is 35% AI Startups (Bloomberg)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements (Stack Overflow Blog)

A Framework for Making Decisions with Data — (Haystacks by Caitlin Hudon)

A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype (Medium)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

XingangPan/DragGAN: Official Code for DragGAN (SIGGRAPH 2023) (github.com)

voxel51/fiftyone: The open-source tool for building high-quality datasets and computer vision models (github.com)

Introducing: Voice Library - Leveraging our proprietary Voice Design tool, Voice Library brings together a global collection of vocal styles built for countless applications (elevenlabs.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

OpenMotionLab/MotionGPT: MotionGPT: Human Motion as a Foreign Language, a unified motion-language generation model using LLMs (github)

Kosmos-2: Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models to the World (arxiv)

Bring Your Own Data! Self-Supervised Evaluation for Large Language Models (arxiv)

Aligning Large Multi-Modal Model with Robust Instruction Tuning (fuxiaoliu.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

4 volunteers just entered a virtual "Mars" made by NASA. They won't come back for one year. (CBS News)

Whey Cool: Gen Z Discovers Cottage Cheese (WSJ)

The Buffet Is Back in the U.S., From Las Vegas to Small Southern Towns (The New York Times)

NYC rules crack down on coal-, wood-fired pizzerias -- must cut carbon emissions up to 75% (NYPost)

Lots of Hiring, but Not So Much Working (WSJ)

One Last Bite 😋