🥟 Chao-Down #140 Meta looks to launch chatbots with personas, How AI is restoring voices otherwise lost to disease, US government agencies look to AI to handle public record requests

Today’s read from the Washington Post is a great look at one of the amazing use cases of AI, giving people who have suffered from diseases like ALS the ability to speak in their own voice again.

It centers around a product called a voice bank which records people’s voices while they can still verbally speak and then re-creates those voices for text-to-speech software.

I’d love to see AI solve more problems like this. Where have you seen AI be used for good?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Meta prepares chatbots with personas to try to retain users (Fortune)

The AI rules that Congress is considering, explained (Vox)

How AI is restoring voices damaged by ALS (Washington Post)

Some U.S. government agencies are testing out AI to help fulfill public records requests (NBC News)

Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of new regulations (TechCrunch)

Intel CEO: “We’re going to build AI into every platform we build” (The Verge)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Understanding the functional programming paradigm (itnext.io)

The Fall of StackOverflow, Explained (Substack)

The History of Open-Source LLMs: Better Base Models (Part Two) (Substack)

Why GPT-3.5 is (mostly) cheaper than Llama 2 (Cursor)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

A GIL-less Future for Python Beckons Developers (Analytics India Mag)

stoyan-stoyanov/LLMFlows - Simple, Explicit and Transparent LLM Apps (GitHub)

FacTool: Factuality Detection in Generative AI (GitHub)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

SEED-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs with Generative Comprehension (arxiv)

LLM-Rec: Personalized Recommendation via Prompting Large Language Models (arxiv)

MovieChat: From Dense Token to Sparse Memory for Long Video Understanding (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

SEC Reportedly Asked Coinbase to Halt All Trading—Except for Bitcoin (Gizmodo)

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (Reuters)

Amazon achieved its ‘fastest Prime speeds ever’ last quarter, plans to double same-day delivery sites (TechCrunch)

Fewer countries see China as the world's top economic power (qz.com)

Threads has to change user habits to compete with Twitter (qz.com)

One Last Bite 😋