Have we reached peak ChatGPT?
Reuters is reporting that ChatGPT's explosive growth is showing its first decline in traffic since launch. Many factors can be at play here: from increased competition to students being on summer break, to the launch of the separate ChatGPT iOS app. Either way, it’s a data point that perhaps point to a saturation point to how far AI can go (at least for now).
Watch my breakdown here:
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Authors sue OpenAI, allege ChatGPT was trained on their books (CNBC)
Grammys CEO on new AI guidelines: Music that contains AI-created elements is eligible. 'Period.' | AP News
Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis (WIRED)
New York employers must now tell applicants when they encounter AI (CBS News)
Introducing Superalignment - We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. (openai.com)
SoftBank Spent $140 Billion on AI With Little to Show. Now It Is Trying Again. (WSJ)
Celebrities Use AI to Take Control of Their Own Images (WSJ)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
How Coders Can Survive—and Thrive—in a ChatGPT World (IEEE Spectrum)
The Golden Age of Open Source in AI Is Coming to an End (Towards Data Science)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
Livegrep is a tool, partially inspired by Google Code Search, for interactive regex search of ~gigabyte-scale source repositories. (Github)
paul-gauthier/aider: aider is GPT powered coding in your terminal (Github)
PiotrNawrot/nanoT5: Fast & Simple repository for pre-training and fine-tuning T5-style models (Github)
databrickslabs/pyspark-ai: English SDK for Apache Spark (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
Personality Traits in Large Language Models (arxiv)
Filtered-Guided Diffusion: Fast Filter Guidance for Black-Box Diffusion Models (arxiv)
Stay on topic with Classifier-Free Guidance (arxiv)
Detect Any Deepfakes: Segment Anything Meets Face Forgery Detection and Localization (arxiv)
Let's Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to Improve Moral Reasoning (arxiv)
xymsh/GraMMaR: The official repo for "GraMMaR: Ground-aware Motion Model for 3D Human Motion Reconstruction" (github.com)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
Instagram’s Threads app is available now for iPhone and Android (The Verge)
The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office is Worse Than We Thought (Entrepreneur)
The billion-dollar search for immortality (UnHerd)
It’s Not Just You: Many People Confront Health Insurance Obstacles on Care and Bills (The New York Times)
Explainer: How Extreme Heat, Humidity, High Wet Bulb Temperatures Kill People (Bloomberg)
‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme hoarding? Housing (The Guardian)
YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (The Verge)
One Last Bite 😋
