🥟 Chao-Down #340 China unveils a OpenAI Sora competitor for video generation, Google cracks down on deepfake apps, Microsoft makes upcoming "Recall" for AI PCs opt-in by default following backlash

Plus, Silicon Valley is in uproar over California's "kill switch" AI bill.

Alex Chao

Jun 10, 2024

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Microsoft's controversial AI tool will be turned off by default (qz.com)

Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill (Ars Technica)

Chinese App Kling Emerges as Rival to OpenAI's Video Generator Sora (PetaPixel)

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Google Play cracks down on AI apps after circulation of apps for making deepfakes (TechCrunch)

AI chatbots got questions about the 2024 election wrong 27% of the time, study finds (NBC News)

Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing (WIRED)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Extracting Concepts from GPT-4 - We used new scalable methods to decompose GPT-4’s internal representations into 16 million oft-interpretable patterns. (OpenAI)

Stop designing chat-based AI tools (UX Planet)

Deep Dive: Creator Economy - The Next Phase of Media (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Mesop - Quickly build web UIs in Python (google.github.io)

TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro - A more robust and challenging massive multi-task understanding dataset tailored to more rigorously benchmark large language models' capabilities. (Datasets at Hugging Face)

ishaan1013/sandbox: A cloud-based code editing environment with an AI copilot and real-time collaboration. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Mora: Enabling Generalist Video Generation via A Multi-Agent Framework (arxiv)

HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models (arxiv)

Buffer of Thoughts: Thought-Augmented Reasoning with Large Language Models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Tokyo Government Launching Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates (Business Insider)

Why Do So Many Parents Think Kids Need Their Own Bedroom? (The Atlantic)

Left Turns Are Dangerous on City Streets, A Case to Restrict Them (WSJ)

Singapore Airlines turbulence: why climate change is making flights rougher (Nature)

Ozempic, Other Weight-Loss Drugs Are Coming to Bite a Sugar Industry in Denial (Bloomberg)

How homeowners are maximizing spaces as starter homes flip to forever homes (Axios)