🥟 Chao-Down #63 Universal Music Group orders takedown of AI-generated music, Biden administration wants public input on AI safety

Open-source AI is having a cultural moment.

These models can generate text or images on almost any topic and are available for anyone to use, modify, and share.

However, some AI giants are withholding their models, creating a huge gap between those who have access and those who do not.

While open-source AI is not perfect, it is necessary for a more transparent, accountable, and diverse AI landscape. As we navigate the future of AI, it is up to us to make responsible choices about how we use and share these powerful tools.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Streaming services urged to clamp down on AI-generated music (Financial Times)

Biden administration seeks input on AI safety measures | (AP News)

Tech Companies Raid Top University Campuses for Rare AI Talent (Business Insider)

OpenAI looks beyond diffusion with ‘consistency’-based image generator | (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Scaffolded LLMs as natural language computers (beren.io)

A Recipe for Training Large Models | report – (Weights & Biases)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Free Dolly: Introducing the World's First Open and Commercially Viable Instruction-Tuned LLM (The Databricks Blog)

AI Image Classification & Authenticity Detection | (AI or Not (optic.xyz))

ravenscroftj/turbopilot: Turbopilot is an open source large-language-model based code completion engine that runs locally on CPU (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Video-kMaX: A Simple Unified Approach for Online and Near-Online Video Panoptic Segmentation (arxiv)

Baldur: Whole-Proof Generation and Repair with Large Language Models (arxiv.org)

Inst-Inpaint: Instructing to Remove Objects with Diffusion Models (abyildirim.com)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

American IQ Scores Rapidly Decline: What Is Reverse Flynn Effect? (popularmechanics.com)

Junior to senior: An action plan for engineering career success (Github)

2023 State of Crypto Report: Introducing the State of Crypto Index - (a16z crypto)

Open source is fueling the future of nuclear physics (Github)

One Last Bite 😋