🥟 Chao-Down #81 AI helps people who lost their ability to speak, Hollywood studios and writers battle over the future of AI, The Investor Gold Rush in AI

It’s boom time for AI startups.

We’re seeing companies be formed and funded in AI with no business plan and no product. But that hasn’t stopped investors from chasing after and throwing money at researchers who have authored fundamental papers in the space, believing that these people will just figure it out along the way.

But with every boom, will there also be a bust? We’ll have to see to find out.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

No Business Plan? No Problem. ChatGPT Spawns an Investor Gold Rush in AI (WSJ)

New AI system could help people who lost their ability to speak (CBS News)

‘Remarkable’ AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable (nature.com)

'Plagiarism machines': Hollywood writers and studios battle over the future of AI | (Reuters)

The jobs most likely to be lost and created because of AI | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Eight things to know about LLMs | (Swizec Teller)

Advanced Prompt Engineering - by Cameron R. Wolfe (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Meet scGPT: A Cutting-edge Foundation Model for Single-cell Multiomics using Generative AI (CBIRT)

Luodian/Otter: 🦦 Otter, a multi-modal model based on OpenFlamingo (open-sourced version of DeepMind's Flamingo), trained on MIMIC-IT and showcasing improved instruction-following ability and in-context learning. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

AI Chat Assistants can Improve Conversations about Divisive Topics (arxiv)

ZipIt! Merging Models from Different Tasks without Training (arxiv)

Shap-E: Generating Conditional 3D Implicit Functions (arxiv)

HiPool: Modeling Long Documents Using Graph Neural Networks (arxiv)

Vera: A General-Purpose Plausibility Estimation Model for Commonsense Statements (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Bird Flu, Dead Birds Raise Fears of Next Global Pandemic. Are We Prepared? - (Bloomberg)

Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances (Eric Pauley)

For Top VCs, ByteDance’s Historic Windfall Remains A $220 Billion Mirage (Forbes)

Series D Hits Lowest Point In Years. What Does That Mean? (crunchbase)

One Last Bite 😋