🥟 Chao-Down #85 Google's open-source tool lets you control games with your face, Hollywood battles AI "plagiarism machines", Pharma giants bet big on AI for drug discovery

Gaming just became a lot more accessible thanks to AI.

One under-the-radar announcement from Google IO’s Developer keynote was the release of Gamescape, an open-source project allowing players like Lance Carr, who has a rare form of muscular dystrophy, to be able to enjoy playing games with just face and eye movements.

Before, buying headtracking gear would cost upwards of hundreds of dollars, but now with software, anyone with a webcam can control their computer with head movement and gestures.

Not only does this make games more accessible, but the same technology can also make technology more immersive as well. Definitely one to keep watching.

Check out Lance Carr’s story:

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Access to ChatGPT's 'Eyes and Ears' at last: Plugins finally being rolled out to Plus users. | (Mashable)

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

World’s Pharma Giants Bet on AI to Develop Drugs Faster (Bloomberg)

Open-Source AI Is Gaining on Google and ChatGPT (The Information)

The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last? | (MIT Technology Review)

Alibaba’s autonomous driving lab to focus more on monetization | (TechCrunch)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How to hack Hacker News (and consistently hit the front page) (Indie Hackers)

Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript (simonwillison.net)

Welcome to LLM University! (Cohere)

AI Like ChatGPT Are No Good at ‘Not’ | (Quanta Magazine)

First-principles on AI scaling (Dynomight)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

s-JoL/Open-Llama: The complete training code of the open-source high-performance Llama model, including the full process from pre-training to RLHF. (Github)

conceptofmind/PaLM: An open-source implementation of Google's PaLM models (Github)

DetGPT: Detect What You Need via Reasoning (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

HumanRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields for Humans in Motion (synthesiaresearch.github.io)

Exploiting Diffusion Prior for Real-World Image Super-Resolution (arxiv)

InstructBLIP: Towards General-purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Employers are becoming more open to hiring older workers (Yahoo)

US inflation is once again about used car prices (Quartz)

How to teach Gen Z nonverbal communication skills for work (Quartz)

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey positive about Apple's headset (appleinsider.com)

One Last Bite 😋