Google just had their “Empire Strikes Back” moment.
The search giant hosted their massive Google IO event and if you had any doubt that AI isn’t a key part of their strategy, watch this 15 second highlight reel.
Some highlights:
Google AI: What to know about the PaLM 2 large language model (blog.google)
Google makes its text-to-music AI public (TechCrunch)
Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features (The Verge)
AI is coming to Google search through Search Generative Experience (The Verge)
The one that I’m looking forward to the most is getting access to the PALM 2 API and the teaser of their latest “Gemini” foundation model and seeing how they compare to GPT4, Claude, and the alternatives.
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Spotify has reportedly removed tens of thousands of AI-generated songs (Engadget)
China arrested a man for using ChatGPT to spread fake news (qz.com)
Wendy’s tests an AI chatbot that takes your drive-thru order (The Verge)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to testify to Congress for first time (The Washington Post)
Claude’s Constitution approach to training Large Language Models (Anthropic)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
Will Universal Basic Income Save Us from AI? (The Walrus)
Life after "Golden Handcuffs" (RadReads)
How to spend your Series B funding (Sifted)
Advice for data scientists (Reddit)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
Introducing the HuggingFace Transformers Agent (huggingface.co)
FranxYao/chain-of-thought-hub: Benchmarking large language models' complex reasoning ability with chain-of-thought prompting (Github)
sobelio/llm-chain: `llm-chain` is a powerful rust crate for building chains in large language models allowing you to summarise text and complete complex tasks (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
InternChat: Solving Vision-Centric Tasks by Interacting with Chatbots Beyond Language (arxiv)
A data augmentation perspective on diffusion models and retrieval (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
Elon Musk’s Goal for Twitter: ‘Unregretted User-Minutes’ - WSJ
Fortnite is now an Olympic esport | Eurogamer.net
Jane Street, Jump Slow Crypto Trading As US Regulators Crack Down - Bloomberg (archive.ph)
New study shows what happens to turnover when colleagues leave (qz.com)
The brief Age of the Worker is over – employers have the upper hand again | US small business | (The Guardian)
One Last Bite 😋
