🥟 Chao-Down #330 Apple to revamp Siri to catch up to competitors, The booming business of supplying power for AI, Nurses protest the increasing use of AI in hospitals
Plus, a look at how AI labs are fighting to stay ahead of their big tech backers.
OpenAI later today is expected to make a product announcement warranting a full livestream. Some speculate it’ll be their search engine Google competitor while others believe it’s an early precursor to a revamped ChatGPT experience.
All eyes will be glued at 10 AM PST today on the OpenAI livestream. What do you expect to see?
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (The New York Times)
Venture Capitalists Are Playing Matchmaker in the Age of AI - WSJ
Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals (404media.co)
AI Labs Are Fighting to Stay Ahead of Their Big Tech Backers (TIME)
Microsoft's AI Copilot is beginning to automate the coding industry (Bloomberg Professional Services)
For AI, a Few Seconds of Power Becomes a Booming Business (WSJ)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
The agentic era of UX. The future of digital experience is here — but it’s being minced into microscopic use cases. (UX Collective)
The Perils of Moneyballing Everything (forkingpaths.co)
The Disinformation Machine: How Susceptible Are We to AI Propaganda? (stanford.edu)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
Luckfort/CD: Exploring Concept Depth: How Large Language Models Acquire Knowledge at Different Layers? (Github)
abi/secret-llama: Fully private LLM chatbot that runs entirely with a browser with no server needed. Supports Mistral and LLama 3. (Github)
tegonhq/tegon: Tegon is an open-source, AI-first alternative to Jira, Linear (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
Measuring the Persuasiveness of Language Models (Anthropic)
A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic (arxiv)
Extending Llama-3's Context Ten-Fold Overnight (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
Space Junk Poses an Expensive Problem for NASA, Startups (Bloomberg)
Why ‘good enough’ decisions can make you happier (The Washington Post)
Parents Sue Video Game Makers for Purposely Addicting Their Kids (Bloomberg)
McDonald's and other food giants hit hard by inflation (qz.com)
What Ever Happened to Hand-Sanitizer Startups From the Pandemic? (WSJ)
Are robots the solution to the crisis in older-person care? (Nature)
One Last Bite 😋
