🥟 Chao-Down #40 Bank disaster averted, Open-source alternative to ChatGPT, Machine learning for COVID vaccines

It seems like we’ve averted a banking disaster, at least for now.

For those who missed the headlines, in just the span of 48 hours, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. It required the intervention of the federal government, but as of now, customer deposits are safe and accessible. For a deep dive into what happened, check out the video below:

Now, back to building.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Announcing OpenChatKit - An open-source instruction-tuned large language model, optimized for chat — TOGETHER

'Pan-variant' COVID vaccine could defang future strains thanks to machine learning (yahoo.com)

French surveillance system for Olympics moves forward, despite civil rights campaign (POLITICO)

Microsoft, Google-Backed Group Helps Students Learn to Use AI, ChatGPT (Bloomberg)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

From structured search to learning-to-rank-and-retrieve (Amazon Science)

Creating a data cleaning workflow | Crystal Lewis (cghlewis.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Imaginary Programming, Programming at the speed of thought - Artificial Intelligence for Frontend Devs (link)

Cherrybot - Cherry picking with Reinforcement Learning (goodcherrybot.github.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

TRACT: Denoising Diffusion Models with Transitive Closure Time-Distillation (arxiv)

Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network (link)

Instagram and Facebook will pause their Reels Play bonus programs that paid creators in the US (Business Insider)

Researchers Say They've Created Superconductors At Room Temperature (Futurism)

Scientists find a way to suck up carbon pollution, turn it into baking soda and store it in the oceans (CNN)

One Last Bite 😋