🥟 Chao-Down #339 Companies are enthralled with AI teammates and clones at work, OpenAI's whistle-blowers speak out on internal culture, Apple's upcoming WWDC is all about AI

Plus, a look at how AI was used to predict new antibiotics

Jun 07, 2024

All eyes will be on Apple next week as they are poised to unveil what should be an AI-filled Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC).

Many expect an appearance by OpenAI’s Sam Altman as the iPhone maker announces a partnership with the AI company and a possible ChatGPT integration into Siri. According to Bloomberg, the enhanced Siri will be able to take more useful actions on behalf of the user inside of Apple’s own apps and be even more conversational than before.

If Apple is able to pull it off, they’ll more closely arrive at the vision laid out by Siri over a decade ago. The question is, will they?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Asana’s new ‘AI teammate’ can tell people what to do at work (The Verge)

AI Is Your Coworker Now. Can You Trust It? (WIRED)

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings (The Verge)

OpenAI Whistle-Blowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture (The New York Times)

Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI face antitrust probe — but Apple avoids it (qz.com)

AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study (The Guardian)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The Agent Development Life Cycle (Sierra)

Optimizing LLM Accuracy - How to maximize correctness and consistent behavior when working with LLMs (OpenAI API)

The AI Designer is a powerful notion, but it is incomplete. (chrbutler.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

openkoda/openkoda: Open source business application platform for fast development (Github)

An entirely open-source AI code assistant inside your editor (Ollama Blog)

chrispsn/mesh-spreadsheet: A data and code editor that feels like a spreadsheet. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Instruct-MusicGen: Unlocking Text-to-Music Editing for Music Language Models via Instruction Tuning (arxiv)

State Space Duality (Mamba-2) Part I - The Model (Goomba Lab)

TAIA: Large Language Models are Out-of-Distribution Data Learners (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

‘Show me the money!’ how unofficial merch is cashing in on movie quotes (The Guardian)

China’s volunteer programmers work in the shadows to set the internet free (Al Jazeera)

Why It Pays to Be a Double Major in College (WSJ)

TikTok Sister App CapCut Is Used By Many In The U.S. It May Be Banned (Forbes)

Costco plans to stop selling books for most of the year (qz.com)

Why Prescription Drug Prices in the US Are So High (Bloomberg)