🥟 Chao-Down #55 Twitter open-sources its recommendation algorithm, FTC warns AI firms against deception

Twitter just open-sourced their recommendation algorithm!

This followed Elon Musk’s promise to make the platform more transparent, and nothing is more revealing for a tech platform than releasing the code.

There’s a lot to unpack and I made a video covering some of the most interesting highlights:

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Chatbots, deepfakes, and voice clones: AI deception for sale | Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Publishers Worry AI Chatbots Will Slash Readership - The New York Times (NYTimes)

Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on the A.I. Moment: ‘You Will See Us Be Bold’ - The New York Times (NYTimes)

Big tech companies cut AI ethics staff, raising safety concerns (Financial Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Building Airbnb Categories with ML & Human in the Loop (The Airbnb Tech Blog)

ChatGPT Survey: Performance on NLP datasets (opensamizdat)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Ask Rewind - What if you had perfect memory? What if you could ask any question about anything you've seen said or heard? (link)

UnPrompt. It’s like Unsplash but for AI - Search Stable Diffusion prompts (link)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

PRESTO – A multilingual dataset for parsing realistic task-oriented dialogues – Google AI Blog (Google Blog)

ART: Automatic multi-step reasoning and tool-use for large language models (arxiv)

HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

TikTok’s Behind-the-Scenes Help in Washington: Former Obama, Disney Advisers (WSJ)

TikTok and Amazon Bet on China’s Ecommerce Model. It’s a Dud (WIRED)

Workers are largely happy with their jobs — but not their paychecks, survey finds (Yahoo)

One Last Bite 😋