🥟 Chao-Down #56 Estimating training costs of large models, Germany could block ChatGPT

We need more open-source AI.

We’ve covered in previous issues the increasing influence of big tech on modern AI development. To many that can look like the technology is becoming more closed-source and behind company firewalls. But there's an increasing movement among the community to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Definitely check out today’s “Projects to Keep an Eye On” for several open-source Github projects on chatbot assistants. Hopefully we see more of these come out over the coming months.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Germany could block ChatGPT if needed, says data protection chief (Reuters)

ChatGPT plugins explained: A detailed review of OpenAI's new feature (interestingengineering)

Can ChatGPT fill in mentorship gaps for Gen Z workers? (WorkLife)

Temporary Markets and "Easy" Problems (sarahguo.com)

AI is entering an era of corporate control (The Verge)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

From Deep to Long Learning? · Hazy Research (stanford.edu)

A Survey of Large Language Models (arxiv)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

project-baize/baize: Baize is an open-source chatbot trained with ChatGPT self-chatting data, developed by researchers at UCSD and Sun Yat-sen University. (Github)

lm-sys/FastChat: The release repo for "Vicuna: An Open Chatbot Impressing GPT-4" (Github)

LAION-AI/Open-Assistant: OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so. (Github)

Prompt Engineering Job Board (link)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Scaling vision transformers to 22 billion parameters – Google AI Blog (Google Blog)

Robots that learn from videos of human activities and simulated interactions (Facebook)

CHAMPAGNE: Learning Real-world Conversation from Large-Scale Web Videos (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Asia’s Most Overworked Country Wants to Improve Work-Life Balance—By Raising Work Hours (Vice)

Pinduoduo: One of China's most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users, say experts (CNN Business)

Google Flights’ price guarantee could pay you back if your tickets get cheaper (The Verge)

One Last Bite 😋