🥟 Chao-Down #119 Breakthrough in 3D scene reconstruction, Vatican releases AI Ethics Handbook, TSA will use facial recognition at 400 airports, European companies slam EU's incoming AI regulations

Researchers from the University of Maryland have made a breakthrough in 3D scene reconstruction using artificial intelligence (AI) and reflections in a person's eyes.

By imaging the eyes of a moving individual, the team collected multiple views of the surrounding environment through the reflections in the eyes. Overcoming challenges such as accurate eye pose estimation and iris texture, they developed a method that utilizes the approximate geometry of the cornea and trains a radiance field on eye reflections.

The technique, based on previous neural radiance field (NeRF) research, successfully reconstructed a room in 3D, offering intriguing possibilities for leveraging accidental visual signals to enhance scene reconstruction.

Exciting times ahead!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

AI profile photos ineligible for national ID cards, govt. says (Korea Herald)

Scientists Can Now Reconstruct Rooms from Eye Reflections in Photos (PetaPixel)

Melinda Gates wants more women in the AI race (CNN Business)

The Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics Handbook (Gizmodo)

AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists (Vice)

The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports (The Verge)

European companies slam the EU’s incoming AI regulations in open letter (The Verge)

Could a New Religion Develop around AI? (The Walrus)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The Founder’s Guide to Navigating Co-founder Conflict (OUTLANDER)

Generative AI with LLMs (DeepLearning.AI)

How to Do Great Work (paulgraham.com)

Building Boba AI - Some lessons and patterns learnt in building an LLM-powered generative application (Martin Fowler)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Introducing English as the New Programming Language for Apache Spark (Databricks Blog)

Reduce Your Model Training Costs With Comet (Comet ML)

0xpayne/gpt-migrate: Easily migrate your codebase from one framework or language to another. (github.com)

CognoSpeak: AI tool uses speech technology to quickly assess dementia risk (news-medical.net)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

HyenaDNA: learning from DNA with 1 Million token context · Hazy Research (stanford.edu)

Towards Measuring the Representation of Subjective Global Opinions in Language Models (Anthropic)

Shadows of quantum machine learning (arxiv)

Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Elon Musk imposes daily limits for Twitter users (AP News)

How Roblox Grows: From Virtual Playground to Global Empire (Substack)

China’s Sweetener Makers Advance on WHO Aspartame Speculation (Bloomberg)

The Supreme Court Killed the College-Admissions Essay - (The Atlantic)

Silicon Valley elites are reportedly taking ketamine and attending psychedelic parties to bolster their focus and creativity. Here’s what the drugs do to your brain (Fortune Well)

Linda Yaccarino’s vision for Twitter 2.0 emerges (Ars Technica)

One Last Bite 😋