🥟 Chao-Down #147 California regulators give green light for self-driving cars in SF, Amazon has a 'generated by AI' book problem, FEC could limit AI in political ads before 2024 elections

Today is a big day for the self-driving industry.

San Francisco is set to be the first US city where driverless cars are able to drive around the city and ferry paying passengers without restriction. This follows a 3-1 vote by the California Public Utilities Commission and gives the greenlight to Waymo and Cruise.

While several of these cars can already be seen roaming the streets of SF, they previously could only operate under certain conditions and could not always charge passengers for rides. This historic decision lifts those conditions completely. This is in face of the protest and call for the industry to slow down from transit authorities and the mayor’s office.

What do you think? Is this a welcome move or should we still apply the brakes to widely deploying the technology?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

FEC could limit AI in political ads ahead of 2024 (The Verge)

Google’s Brain2Music AI interprets brain signals to reproduce the music you liked (The Indian Express)

Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name (The Guardian)

Microsoft debuts AI for frontline workers (Yahoo)

Google’s Arts & Culture app adds AI-generated poem postcards (The Verge)

AI supercharges drug discoveries, potentially changing medicine (Semafor)

California clears way for driverless taxis in San Francisco (Financial Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Llama from scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying) (Brian Kitano)

What is a 'AI drift' and why is it making ChatGPT dumber? (ZDNET)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

huggingface/candle: Minimalist ML framework for Rust (Github)

lukechilds/humanscript: A truly natural scripting language (Github)

THUDM/AgentBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark to Evaluate LLMs as Agents (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize? (pair.withgoogle.com)

PUG: Photorealistic and Semantically Controllable Synthetic Data for Representation Learning (arxiv)

Simple synthetic data reduces sycophancy in large language models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Is There a Covid Surge This Summer? What Experts Say About Staying Safe (The New York Times)

Tired of Dating Apps, Some Turn to ‘Date-Me Docs’ (The New York Times)

Millions of older workers are nearing retirement with nothing saved (CBS News)

For Once, Rookie Consultants Don’t Have Enough to Do (WSJ)

People who donate to charity seem to have one thing in common (Quartz)

Supreme Court says Apple can keep its App Store payment rules for now (The Verge)

One Last Bite 😋