🥟 Chao-Down #120 AI breathes new life to crypto miners, Google's updated privacy policy suggests the entire internet is fair game for LLM training, Insights from OpenAI's CEO's world tour

Over the holiday, I read Paul Graham’s (founder of YCombinator) most recent essay “How to Do Great Work”. It’s a long sit-through, but well worth your time for framing the conversation around doing work that is valuable based off your unique gifts and talents. Some key points:

• Great work is not about being the best in the world, but about doing something that matters to you and that you are uniquely qualified to do.

• The three key ingredients for great work are skill, taste, and luck.

• Skill is the ability to do something well.

• Taste is the ability to judge what is good.

• Luck is the opportunity to do something that matters.

• The best way to find great work is to start by doing something you love and then keep learning and growing until you find your unique calling.

Now back to work.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Crypto Miners Seek a New Life in AI Boom After an Implosion in Mining (WSJ)

AI skills: Tech workers are pivoting to AI with classes, research and learning on the job (Vox)

Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)

Insights from global conversations - OpenAI’s conversations across 22 countries, and how we will be incorporating those insights moving forward. (OpenAI)

Valve Reacts To Reports Of Games Getting Blocked From Steam Over AI Issues (GameSpot)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Market Map and Analysis: Gen AI Business Productivity Companies (substack.com)

June 2023, A Stage Review of Instruction Tuning (notion.site)

An Introduction to Multimodal Models (Comet)

Building Real-time Machine Learning Foundations at Lyft (Lyft Engineering)

Free AI Courses – Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (link)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

0hq/tinyvector: A tiny nearest-neighbor embedding database built with SQLite and Pytorch. (In development!) (Github)

GRVYDEV/S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y: A toolbox for working with WebRTC, Audio and AI (Github)

imoneoi/openchat: OpenChat: Less is More for Open-source Models (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets (arxiv.org)

AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head (arxiv)

Stable Diffusion with Brain Activity (link)

Conditional 3D Shape Generation based on Shape-Image-Text Aligned Latent Representation (neuralcarver.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war (Ars Technica)

Want to start therapy? Here's how to find a therapist that's a good fit for you (NPR)

An Airbnb collapse won’t fix America’s housing shortage - (Vox)

Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans (Ars Technica)

You're Stress Eating Because Your Brain Literally Thinks It Isn't Full Yet (Bon Appétit)

Australia rent crisis sees ‘hot-bedding’ grow in popularity as uni students share beds to beat rising rent (news.com.au)

One Last Bite 😋