🥟 Chao-Down #329 Google Deepmind announces AlphaFold 3 for disease research and drug discovery, US looks to curb China's access to AI software, Burnout pushes workers to use AI tools
Plus, why the US military has a hard time trusting AI to make decisions.
Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3 AI model (blog.google)
US eyes curbs on China's access to AI software behind apps like ChatGPT (Reuters)
Google's medical AI destroys GPT's benchmark and outperforms doctors (newatlas.com)
Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know (WIRED)
Microsoft is ‘turning everyone into a prompt engineer’ with new Copilot AI features - (The Verge)
Why the Military Can’t Trust AI - Large Language Models Can Make Bad Decisions—and Could Trigger Nuclear War (Foreign Affairs)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
A Primer on the Inner Workings of Transformer-based Language Models (arxiv)
How novelty effects and Dopamine Culture rule the tech industry (Substack)
7 Ways AI-Native Companies Can Improve Retention (a16z.com)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
banagale/FileKitty: GUI for selecting text files for concatenation and submission to LLMs (Github)
Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF: #1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files (Github)
open-compass/Ada-LEval: Ada-LEval: Evaluating long-context LLMs with length-adaptable benchmarks (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic (arxiv)
Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models (arxiv)
Offline Training of Language Model Agents with Functions as Learnable Weights (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
Hunger on campus: why US PhD students are fighting over food (Nature)
Who’s Happiest at Work? Hint: It’s Not Women (WSJ)
30% of the world's electricity is now comes from renewable energy (qz.com)
Google Is Staring Down Its First Serious Threats in Years (nymag.com)
Why China Is So Bad at Disinformation (WIRED)
Scientists pour scorn on mushroom coffee, the latest ‘healthy’ food trend (The Guardian)
One Last Bite 😋
