🥟 Chao-Down #99 Chatbot for eating disorders gets taken down after bad advice, The end of the Softbank-backed pizza robot, AI deepfakes used for true crime TikToks

Despite the myriad challenges that plague AI chatbots (i.e. hallucinations, inability to stay on topic and remember past conversations), one major challenge is simply cost. Today’s AI chatbots lose money on every chat.

Because of the infrastructure needed, like advanced AI chips that only a small number of hyperscalers have access to, the ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard bots of the world represent a huge cost. And that does not mention the potential legal liabilities that can pile on in the event the AI produces a bad response.

Companies are still finding ways they can actually monetize AI with the usual culprits being advertising and subscriptions. But even with all that, the question remains, will chatbots ever make money?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

True Crime TikTok: AI Deepfakes Victims Are a Waking Nightmare (Rolling Stone)

I Asked AI Chatbots to Help Me Shop. They All Failed (WIRED)

Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After Its Advice Goes Horribly Wrong (gizmodo.com)

Startups are using ChatGPT to meet soaring demand for chatbot therapy (Semafor)

SoftBank’s Onetime Pizza-Robot Darling Shuts Down (The Information)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Why open-source projects are your best marketing (Medium)

How to Build an Effective Pitch Deck for Devtool Startups (Heavybit)

Generative AI learning path | Google Cloud Skills Boost (link)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI (Ars Technica)

Introducing PostgresML Python SDK: Build End-to-End Vector Search Applications without OpenAI and Pinecone (PostgresML)

UniControl: A Unified Diffusion Model for Controllable Visual Generation In the Wild (canqin001.github.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

GeneFace++: Generalized and Stable Real-Time Audio-Driven 3D Talking Face Generation (arxiv)

Distill or Annotate? Cost-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compact Models (arxiv)

Brainformers: Trading Simplicity for Efficiency (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Bluesky’s Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media (WIRED)

How ‘ghost students’ are applying to colleges to steal financial aid (sfchronicle.com)

New psychology research reveals the "BS blind spot" (psypost)

What reviews foretell about opening weekend box office revenue: the harbinger of failure effect in the movie industry (SpringerLink)

Millennials, Gen Z Drag Down Beer Sales (Insider)

One Last Bite 😋