🥟 Chao-Down #27: Supreme Court hints at Generative AI Liability, HuggingFace joins hands with Amazon

A brief comment during a Supreme Court hearing could ripple across the generative AI landscape. In a hearing on a case about Google and free speech, Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch briefly mentioned that generative AI tech could be an example of what's not protected under Section 230.

The Communications Decency Act protects internet services and tech providers from liability for what users post on their platforms. It’s a hallmark legislation and has allowed companies to escape legal issue for hosting inappropriate content on their websites.

However as generative AI is producing more and more text, images, and media on the open web, that content is being indexed by search engines and surfaced to users as recommendations. 

Definitely worth watching this space.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Could Big Tech be liable for generative AI output? Hypothetically 'yes,' says Supreme Court justice (VentureBeat)

Amazon's AWS Joins With AI Startup Hugging Face as ChatGPT Competition Heats Up (Bloomberg)

A new AI-powered gene-editing technique could be set to replace CRISPR (Interesting Engineering)

ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon (Reuters)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Tutorial on Pipeline Parallelism with DeepSpeed (link)

How Instacart Uses Embeddings to Improve Search Relevance (Instacart)

Build a free Stable Diffusion app with a GPU backend (Assembly AI)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

FlexGen: Running large language models like OPT-175B/GPT-3 on a single GPU. Up to 100x faster than other offloading systems. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

pix2pix-3D: 3D-aware Conditional Image Synthesis (CMU)

ChatGPT for Robotics (Microsoft)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars (The Economist)

Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlsson (Substack)

Companies Decide to Keep Four-Day Workweek After Finding It's Better (Gizmodo)

One Last Bite 😋