🥟 Chao-Down #92 Microsoft's Build conference features Copilots everywhere, Google experiments with ads in AI chatbots, Uber and Waymo partner to bring autonomous driving to riders

Introducing the Copilot stack.

Among the flurry of Copilot announcements from Day 1 of Microsoft’s Build Conference from updates to Bing to the revamping of Windows, one part that CTO Kevin Scott brought up that I’m quite excited for was his talk on the architecture powering all of these Copilot experiences.

I shared in a previous issue some updates on the Semantic Kernel, Microsoft’s open-source framework for foundation model orchestration. In his talk, Scott revealed how that framework would be a key part in enabling Copilot intelligence across all of Microsoft’s products.

It’ll be exciting to see how the Copilot stack evolves. It’s truly never a boring day in AI!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters (wccftech.com)

Google to experiment with ads that appear in its AI chatbot in Search (TechCrunch)

Waypoint - The official Waymo blog: Waymo and Uber partner to bring Waymo’s autonomous driving technology to the Uber platform (Waymo)

Microsoft embraces OpenAI's ChatGPT plugin standard (ZDNET)

AI is headed to the Microsoft Store on Windows (Engadget)

Microsoft bakes its Bing/ChatGPT bot into Windows 11 (TechCrunch)

Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT (The Verge)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

p Values Are Useful for A/B Tests, Sometimes (Harlan D. Harris)

The Little Book of Deep Learning (Fleuret)

Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing? | Hacker News (YCombinator)

Google’s Generative AI Updates Will Shatter Organic SEO and Marketing Pipeline (Entrepreneur's Handbook)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Dream bigger: Get started with Generative Fill, powered by Adobe Firefly Generative AI now in Photoshop (Adobe Blog)

csunny/DB-GPT: Interact your data and environment using the local GPT, no data leaks, 100% privately, 100% security (Github)

iryna-kondr/scikit-llm: Seamlessly integrate powerful language models like ChatGPT into scikit-learn for enhanced text analysis tasks. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

RWKV (Receptance Weighted Key Value): Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era (arxiv)

cg1177/VideoLLM: VideoLLM: Modeling Video Sequence with Large Language Models (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Dollar Tree, Dollar General bring in more products from big brands (Axios)

Amazon’s palm-scanning payment tech will now be able to verify ages, too (TechCrunch)

The loneliness epidemic threatens our health as well as our happiness (Financial Times)

Surgeon General Warns That Social Media May Harm Children and Adolescents | (The New York Times)

Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M after buying it for $400M (TechCrunch)

One Last Bite 😋