🥟 Chao-Down #70 ChatGPT reads financial headlines and Federal Reserve speeches, Google uses generative AI for ads, IBM and Moderna develop vaccines with AI and quantum computing

Have you wondered what sort of websites and data are used to train large language models like ChatGPT?

One of those datasets, Google’s C4, is a massive text corpus created by crawling and scraping the web that was used to train models like Google’s T5 and Facebook’s LLaMA.

The Washington Post provided a search tool to help people find out what exactly is in it:

It’s an interesting look at what is behind the “brains” of models like ChatGPT and can help us better understand how the model is able to generate its knowledge.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

ChatGPT Can Decode Fed Statements, Predict Stock Moves From Headlines - (Bloomberg)

Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns | (Financial Times)

IBM and Moderna explore quantum computing and generative AI with new partnership | VentureBeat

Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now generate and debug code | (TechCrunch)

Department of Homeland Security Announces First-Ever AI Task Force - (Nextgov)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting – (Mitchell Hashimoto)

derwiki/layoff-runbook: Being laid off can be overwhelming and it's easy to miss important tasks. This runbook will help make sure you stay on track. (github.com)

Understanding Database Types - by Alex Xu (bytebytego.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Humane’s wearable screenless AI assistant leaks in first demo clips - The Verge

Introducing W&B Prompts | wb-announcements – Weights & Biases (wandb.ai)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning (arxiv.org)

Learning Neural Duplex Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesis (link)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck (substack.com)

Gen Z Is Buying up Homes. They Got Lucky, and Millennials Got Screwed. (businessinsider.com)

School Chromebooks are creating huge amounts of e-waste - (The Verge)

Impersonators Run Wild on Twitter Thanks to Sabotaged Verification System (yahoo.com)

One Last Bite 😋