🥟 Chao-Down #3: Azure OpenAI makes ChatGPT tech generally available, TikTok tries to make algorithm more transparent, Getty sues creators of Stable Diffusion

Welcome to the third edition of the “Chao”-Downs newsletter, a bite-sized digest of stories at the intersection of Tech, AI, Business and Life. It is the companion to Chaos Theory, the weekly newsletter featuring longform, original content from your resident Chaos Coordinator.

One of today’s stories highlights how Getty Images is taking to court the creators of Stable Diffusion for content scraping without permission. This marks what will likely be a wave of legislation in the coming year around companies being more protective of their data. We can’t forget that many of the latest innovations in AI have been built on the foundations of curated datasets privately owned by enterprises. I wouldn’t be surprised if more companies take similar legal action as a way to wrestle back some of the control and cash in on the money that can be made in this space.

-Alex

What happened in AI? 📰

Microsoft announces general availability of Azure OpenAI Services to customers (WSJ)

TikTok introduces more transparency to try to appease US regulators (WSJ)

Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content (The Verge)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

A Statistician Teaches Deep Learning (link)

Python Data Science Handbook (free ebook)

Understanding Deep Learning (free book)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Tabletalk - Copilot for your data with a familiar chat interface (link)

Explain Like I’m Five (ELI5) - Tool that explains difficult concepts in easier to understand language (Link)

Soundful - Create AI generated music royalty-free (Link)

The Latest In AI Research 💡

When M.D. is a Machine Doctor - by Eric Topol (Substack)

FlashAttention, a fast and memory-efficient attention algorithm with no approximation (Twitter)

Do Dall-E and Flamingo Understand Each Other? (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Monetary Policy Transmission in the The Korean Jeonse System (Twitter)

A decades-long broken economy screwed over millennials and their decision to delay having kids is fueling America's historically low birth rate (Fortune)

Population Slowdown - China’s population shrinks for the first time in decades (NYTimes); India's population growth slows as world reaches 8 billion (Reuters)

Apple announces new Mac Mini and Macbook Pro using upgraded M2 chip (Wired)

One Last Bite 😋