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🥟 Chao-Down #12: U.S. and E.U. join forces on AI, Mercedes-Benz becomes first to Level 3 self-driving

Plus, Google's AI that can generate musical accompaniments to vocals

January 31, 2023

Enjoy today’s edition of Chao-Downs!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

The United States and European Union signed an agreement to support AI research in areas like climate forecasting, health care, electric grid optimization, and emergency response. (The White House)

US Needs to ramp up its data collection and labeling efforts to better compete against China in AI, according to Pentagon AI chief Crag Martell (Link)

Mercedes-Benz is the first to bring Level 3 automated driving to the US (The Verge)

The Generative AI Revolution Has Begun. How did we get here? (Arstechnica)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

  • Scaling Laws Literature Review (epochai.org)

  • Using NeRFs (Neural Radiance Fields) for creative filmmaking shots (Twitter)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Thread on cool projects that were built at Scale AI’s Generative AI hackathon (Twitter)

ImageProcessor: Process images in HuggingFace Transformers (Twitter)

SingSong, a system that can generate instrumental accompaniments with input vocals (Twitter)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Catching a Unicorn with GLTR: A tool to detect automatically generated text (link)

SeaFormer: Squeeze-enhanced Axial Transformer for Mobile Semantic Segmentation (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Inside NASA’s Voyage to an Asteroid Worth 70K Times the Global Economy – Robb Report

Japan, Netherlands to Join US in Chip Export Controls on China (Bloomberg)

One Last Bite 😋