🥟 Chao-Down #44 Microsoft launches M365 Copilot and Semantic Kernel SDK, Apple getting into language-generating AI

Super excited to share what my team and I have been working on the last several months: the Semantic Kernel!We're at this cultural moment when it seems like almost anything is possible with AI. The Semantic Kernel is our way of engaging with and sharing our learnings with the open-source community expressed as an SDK.It's still the early innings, and we might get some things wrong, but that's the beauty of building in public and in open-source!I'm incredibly grateful to be working with such amazing teammates and now with the rest of the community!To building the future together!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft 365 Blog)

Ernie Bot: Baidu’s ChatGPT rival fails to wow investors (Fortune)

Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI (TechCrunch)

AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office (PetaPixel)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Inference at the edge - Lessons from creating Whisper and LLaMA inference code (Github discussion)

[D] Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies? (Reddit)

What does skew mean? – Probably Overthinking It (allendowney.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Conformer-1: a robust speech recognition model (Assembly AI)

PiotrNawrot/nanoT5: Fast & Simple repository for pre-training and fine-tuning T5-style models (Github)

openai/evals: Evals is a framework for evaluating OpenAI models and an open-source registry of benchmarks. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Investigating GANsformer: A Replication Study of a State-of-the-Art Image Generation Model (arxiv)

[CVPR 2023] Official code release of our paper "BiFormer: Vision Transformer with Bi-Level Routing Attention" (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Squid Growth Makes Calamari a Climate-Friendly Dinner Option (Bloomberg)

Here’s the new spacesuit that astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon (The Verge)

South Korean government and Samsung to build 'world's largest' chip center (CNN Business)

Inflation Pushes Gen Z Couples to Move In Together at Record Rates (Bloomberg)

One Last Bite 😋