🥟 Chao-Down #20: Falling in love with a Chatbot, Learning how to talk with AI

Happy Friday! After a flurry of announcements and new releases, today’s a relatively light day in the news cycle for AI.

But what caught my eye today was an article highlighting how some people are putting aside dating apps and swiping right on AI chatbots. One ecstatic user says that his cyber sweetheart was the best thing that happened to him. Looks like the heart wants what the heart wants, even if it's a bunch of ones and zeros.

See you next week!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Talking to AI might be the most important skill of this century (The Atlantic)

I'm Dating an AI Chatbot. It's One of the Best Things to Happen to Me (Business Insider)

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (The New Yorker)

UChicago Launches Transform Accelerator for Data Science & Emerging AI Startups (Newswise)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend (link)

GPT in 60 lines of Numpy (Jay Mody’s Blog)

Understanding and Coding the Self-Attention Mechanism of Large Language Models From Scratch (sebastianraschka.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Introducing Fixie.ai: A new way to build with Large Language Models (Fixie.ai Blog)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

In-N-Out: Face Video Inversion and Editing with Volumetric Decomposition (arxiv)

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Nuclear fusion breakthrough with world-first ‘super’ magnet (Yahoo News)

What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record (Substack)

GATTACA is still pertinent 25 years later (Nature Genetics)

One Last Bite 😋