🥟 Chao-Down #133 OpenAI's head of trust and safety steps down, Amazon brings palm-scanning tech to Whole Foods, The unfair working conditions of AI gig workers

Is Google experiencing a “Return of the King” moment?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is taking a more active role in the company's AI efforts especially as it seeks to compete against ChatGPT with their own LLM-powered chatbot Bard.

Despite historically maintaining a hands-off approach to the company, Brin has been frequently present at Google offices, dedicating three to four days a week to work with the AI team responsible for developing the next-generation AI model, Gemini.

The move comes after Bard was criticized for its lack of sophistication and errors compared to its competitor.

What will the Brin-effect have on Google’s AI push? We’ll have to see to find out. 

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI’s head of trust and safety Dave Willner steps down (TechCrunch)

Amazon’s palm-scanning payment technology is coming to all 500+ Whole Foods (TechCrunch)

AI Gig Workers Face ‘Unfair Working Conditions,’ Study Says (Time)

Bay Area Is the Best Place for A.I. Jobs, Report Says (The New York Times)

Sergey Brin is back at Google to help advance its AI efforts (androidpolice.com)

Large majority of Americans have strong reservations about A.I. emergence (CNBC)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (gto76.github.io)

Why GPT-3.5 is (mostly) cheaper than Llama 2 (cursor.so)

Regulating Frontier AI: To Open Source or Not? (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

AntonOsika/gpt-engineer: Specify what you want it to build, the AI asks for clarification, and then builds it. (Github)

karpathy/llama2.c: Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C (Github)

Meet FreeWilly, Our Large And Mighty Instruction Fine-Tuned Models (Stability AI)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

MERT: Acoustic Music Understanding Model with Large-Scale Self-supervised Training (arxiv)

On the Origin of LLMs: An Evolutionary Tree and Graph for 15,821 Large Language Models (arxiv)

Towards A Unified Agent with Foundation Models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Twitter is being rebranded as X (The Verge)

Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits (The Verge)

Amazon is reportedly making employees relocate for return-to-office (Engadget)

ESPN had talks with NBA, NFL, MLB in search for strategic partner (CNBC)

Survey: 64% Of U.S. Adults Think CBD Is Safer Than Alcohol, Despite Legality Concerns (Forbes Health)

Threads Is Already Losing Its Allure for Users, Adding Urgency for New Features (WSJ)

One Last Bite 😋