🥟 Chao-Down #345 McDonalds pulls out of AI ordering drive-thrus, TikTok begins rolling out AI avatars to sell ads, Runway's latest Gen3 video generation model offers more control to users
Plus, how AI is becoming go-to tool for mathematicians with AI programs and proof checkers.
Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
McDonald’s pulls AI ordering from drive-thrus — for now (CNN Business)
TikTok ads may soon contain AI avatars of your favorite creators (The Verge)
Runway's new video-generating AI, Gen-3, offers improved controls (TechCrunch)
Google DeepMind Shifts From Research Lab to AI Product Factory (Bloomberg)
AI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’ (Scientific American)
Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step. (WSJ)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
Maintaining large-scale AI capacity at Meta (Engineering at Meta)
Why Hollywood and gaming struggle with AI (Substack)
AI chat or not? If it’s a form, it should stay a form. (UX Planet)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI: A Modular Stable Diffusion Web-User-Interface, with an emphasis on making powertools easily accessible, high performance, and extensibility. (Github)
jackyzha0/quartz: 🌱 a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites (Github)
zauberzeug/nicegui: Create web-based user interfaces with Python. The nice way. (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3? (arxiv)
WildBench: Benchmarking LLMs with Challenging Tasks from Real Users in the Wild (arxiv)
NATURAL PLAN: Benchmarking LLMs on Natural Language Planning (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
YouTube to test letting users add notes to videos for context (qz.com)
A Day in the Life of a California Fast-Food Manager Who Makes Up to $174,000 (WSJ)
Harvard, Google create artificial brain to mind control virtual rat (Interesting Engineering)
Why Older Adults Are Uniquely Vulnerable to Extreme Heat (Bloomberg)
Four Astronauts Spent 3 Days in Space. Here’s What It Did to Their Bodies and Minds. (The New York Times)
Wells Fargo Bet on a Flashy Rent Credit Card. It Is Costing the Bank Dearly. (WSJ)
One Last Bite 😋
