🥟 Chao-Down #96 Several leaders warn AI poses "risk of extinction", Intel's fumbled revival plan, NVIDIA debuts new AI supercomputer, Intuit launches GenAI research lab

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

These 22 words penned by the Center for AI Safety and signed by prominent members in AI and pop culture, capture the sentiment that many share of the growing existential risks posed by this new wave of artificial intelligence.

Some are calling it a “coming-out” moment for industry figures who have voice public concerned about the risks of AI and its impact on jobs and perpetuating algorithmic biases. 

One notable holdout from the list? Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist who has stated on Twitter that AI is “nowhere near the top of the list of existential risks.”

Who is right? We’ll have to see how the future unfolds.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Intel’s Revival Plan Runs Into Trouble. ‘We Had Some Serious Issues.’ (WSJ)

Nvidia debuts new AI supercomputers, services after shares soar (Yahoo)

Intuit launches lab for employees to experiment with generative AI (VentureBeat)

How the media is covering ChatGPT (Columbia Journalism Review)

AI is already making "soundscapes" for major label artists (Freethink)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Lyft’s secret plan to take control of its maps — and its future (link)

Big Tech’s Biggest Bets (Or What It Takes to Build a Billion User Platform) (MatthewBall.co)

Teaching Language Models to use Tools (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Introducing InkyMM, the first open source, commercializable multi-modal model (OctoML)

Memrise launches GPT-powered language-learning chatbot for Discord (The Verge)

Docta-ai/docta: A Doctor for your data (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

RecurrentGPT: Interactive Generation of (Arbitrarily) Long Text (arxiv)

"According to ..." Prompting Language Models Improves Quoting from Pre-Training Data (arxiv)

Adaptive Chameleon or Stubborn Sloth: Unraveling the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Clashes (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Twitter has lost 66% of its value since Elon Musk bought it (Quartz)

Why Don't Rich People Use Phone Cases? (Time)

Finland Electricity Prices Flip Negative After Glut of Hydroelectric Power (Business Insider)

The $500 billion ‘Office real estate apocalypse’: Researchers find remote work’s effect even worse than expected (Fortune)

Chinese apps remain popular in the US despite efforts to ban TikTok (CNBC)

One Last Bite 😋