🥟 Chao-Down #72 Meta's scramble to catch up on AI, Free image database powering modern AI is made by a high school teacher, AI robots autonomously create new materials

Meta’s rushing to catch up in AI, saying that they have a “significant gap” in their AI tooling, workflow, and processes according to a report from Reuters.

Despite high-profile investments in AI research, the social media giant has been slow to adopt expensive AI-friendly hardware and software systems for its main business, hobbling its ability to keep pace with innovation at scale. 

It’s an odd position for Meta to be in, especially because they have one of the leading industry AI research labs. But competition is high, and the bid to stay relevant in this emerging space is crucial.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Inside Meta's scramble to catch up on AI | (Reuters)

A High School Teacher’s Free Image Database Powers AI Unicorns - (Bloomberg)

The UK will spend £100 million to develop its own 'sovereign' AI | Engadget

AI-driven robots start hunting for novel materials without help from humans | Science | (AAAS)

U.S. regulators warn they already have the power to go after A.I. bias (CNBC)

Nvidia releases a toolkit to make text-generating AI ‘safer’ | (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of AI and Deep Learning - (Parand)

Timeline of Transformer Models / Large Language Models (AI / ML / LLM) (v-gar.de)

Stanford CS330: Deep Multi-Task and Meta Learning I Autumn 2022 - (YouTube)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT | TechCrunch

gaomingqi/Track-Anything: Track-Anything is a flexible and interactive tool for video object tracking and segmentation, based on Segment Anything and XMem. (github.com)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Inducing anxiety in large language models increases exploration and bias (arxiv)

huiyu-gao/VisFusion: [CVPR 2023] Code for "VisFusion: Visibility-aware Online 3D Scene Reconstruction from Videos" (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

China makes major push in its ambitious digital yuan project | (CNN Business)

‘The flattening’: tech sector calls time on middle managers | (Financial Times)

Amazon’s quiet open source revolution | InfoWorld

Remote Work Brings Hidden Penalty for Young Professionals, Study Says (The New York Times)

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter finally dying? (Vox)

One Last Bite 😋