🥟 Chao-Down #118 Meta details the algorithms influencing what you see on Facebook and Instagram, Steam rejects games that use AI generated art, Harvard introduces AI chatbot computer science teacher

One use case that is not often mentioned with self-driving cars is the increased ability for surveillance and law enforcement.

The San Francisco police department have made multiple requests to companies like Waymo and Cruise for videos from their logs to help them solve crimes like robberies and even murders. Because these robot cars are outfitted with a ton of different sensors, many of them capturing video, cities have found them to be useful tools in resolving some of law enforcement’s trickiest cases.

The question is, are we okay with this level of encroachment in privacy in exchange for more security?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

How AI Influences What You See on Facebook and Instagram (Meta)

Steam Is Reportedly Rejecting Games Using AI Art (Forbes)

AI Is Next Tech Battle for US and China on ChatGPT Frenzy (Bloomberg)

Bing will now surface AI-generated buying guides (The Verge)

US lawmaker urges labelling, restrictions on AI content (Reuters)

Harvard's New Computer Science Teacher Is a Chatbot (PCMag)

Self-Driving Car Video From Waymo, Cruise Give Police Crime Evidence (Bloomberg)

Your next job interview could be with AI instead of a person (ZDNET)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Junior to senior: An action plan for engineering career success (Github)

The economic impact of the AI-powered developer lifecycle and lessons from GitHub Copilot (The GitHub Blog)

Choosing the Right Vector Index For Your Project* (Substack)

Microsoft is already offering a generative AI certification program (Engadget)

Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface - by Varun (Substack)

What is Temperature in NLP / LLMs? | by Lazy Programmer (Medium)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Lakehouse AI: A Data-Centric Approach to Building Generative AI Applications (Databricks Blog)

uwdata/mosaic: An extensible framework for linking databases and interactive views. (Github)

poloclub/wizmap: Explore and interpret large embeddings in your browser with interactive visualization! 📍 (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

ChatLaw: Open-Source Legal Large Language Model with Integrated External Knowledge Bases (arxiv)

mbzuai-oryx/XrayGPT: XrayGPT: Chest Radiographs Summarization using Medical Vision-Language Models. (Github)

Vision Augmented Language Models: Computer vision through the LENS of natural language (Contextual AI)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Supreme Court Rejects Affirmative Action at U.S. Colleges (NY Times)

Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports | Health (The Guardian)

Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private (The Verge)

FTX Spent Its Crypto Money on Yachts, E-Sports and Margaritaville (Bloomberg)

Silicon Valley Investors Say an 'Extinction Event' Is Coming for Startups (Business Insider)

It's a messy travel out of New York, blame the FAA (Quartz)

YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (The Verge)

One Last Bite 😋