🥟 Chao-Down #122 Self-driving car critics use traffic cones to disable AVs, OpenAI makes GPT4 generally available, USC researchers use AI to translate the Bible into rare languages

My friend and colleague John Maeda, VP of Design and AI at Microsoft, recently interviewed two CEOs who are at the forefront of building Vector Databases, a key component of Microsoft’s announced Copilot Stack for building AI applications. I’d definitely recommend checking them out!

• Enhancing AI Models with Chroma: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Huber | Semantic Kernel (microsoft.com)

• Revolutionizing AI Search with Weaviate: An Interview with CEO Bob van Luijt | Semantic Kernel (microsoft.com)

And let us know what topics you’d like to see covered next on our dev blog!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

2023 Chief Executive Officer Study: Decision-making in the age of AI (IBM)

GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API (OpenAI)

USC researchers use AI to help translate Bible into very rare languages (The Washington Post)

Robotaxi haters in San Francisco are disabling the AVs with traffic cones (TechCrunch)

The AI Boom Isn’t Breaking the Memory-Chip Slump—Yet (WSJ)

Billionaires push AI apocalypse risk through college student groups (The Washington Post)

Never underestimate a droid: robots gather at AI for Good summit in Geneva | Robots (The Guardian)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Models generating training data: huge win or fake win? (Substack)

Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling (pragmaticengineer.com)

The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership (Semaphore)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

DragonDiffusion: Enabling Drag-style Manipulation on Diffusion Models (mc-e.github.io)

declare-lab/flacuna: Flacuna was developed by fine-tuning Vicuna on Flan-mini, a comprehensive instruction collection encompassing various tasks. (Github)

InternLM/InternLM: InternLM has open-sourced a 7 billion parameter base model, a chat model tailored for practical scenarios and the training system. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

LongNet: Scaling Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens (arxiv)

Rerender A Video - Zero-Shot Text-Guided Video-to-Video Translation (anonymous-31415926.github.io)

An ML approach to resolution of singularities (arxiv)

WavePaint: Resource-efficient Token-mixer for Self-supervised Inpainting (arxiv)

UniFine: A Unified and Fine-grained Approach for Zero-shot Vision-Language Understanding (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

China Sees Suicide Rise Among Young Facing School Pressure (Bloomberg)

TikTok Dangles Zero Seller Fees Ahead of US Marketplace Debut (Bloomberg)

Amazon sellers suspended over stolen goods caught in crime ring (CNBC)

The ‘Great Resignation’ Is Over. Can Workers’ Power Endure? (The New York Times)

Apple Car will have a superb Spatial Audio sound system (appleinsider.com)

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions - (HBS Working Knowledge)

One Last Bite 😋