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🥟 Chao-Down #49 Microsoft researchers uncover sparks of AGI in GPT-4, ChatGPT introduces plugins, Meta and Deepmind scientists collaborate on AI and Biology

Plus, Elon's failed attempt in 2018 to take over OpenAI

Microsoft researchers did some early experiments with the text-only version of GPT-4 and uncovered several “sparks of artificial general intelligence.” I dive into some of their findings in the video below: 

Is AGI coming closer to being a reality? We’ll have to see to find out.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more (The Verge)

Scientists at DeepMind and Meta Press Fusion of AI, Biology (WSJ)

Elon Musk reportedly tried and failed to take over OpenAI in 2018 (The Verge)

An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About AI’s iPhone Moment – (Stratechery by Ben Thompson)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Modular: AI’s compute fragmentation: what matrix multiplication teaches us (link)

Run LLaMA LLM chatbots on any cloud with one click (SkyPilot Blog)

Ray solves Generative AI and LLM Infrastructure Challenges (Anyscale)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

modelscope/modelscope: ModelScope: bring the notion of Model-as-a-Service to life. (Github)

Sequoia’s latest map of AI in the software development life cycle:

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The Latest in AI Research 💡

RepoCoder: Repository-Level Code Completion Through Iterative Retrieval and Generation (Arxiv)

Pix2Video: Video Editing using Image Diffusion (duyguceylan.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory (WIRED)

How TikTok broke social media (The Economist)

Meta’s new VR hand tracking feature almost feels like touching the future (The Verge)

JPMorgan Tests Letting Consumers Pay With Palm or Face Instead of Card (JPM) - (Bloomberg)

“Click-to-cancel” rule would penalize companies that make you cancel by phone (Ars Technica)

One Last Bite 😋