🥟 Chao-Down #357 OpenAI takes aim at Google search with SearchGPT, DeepMind creates an AI that earns silver at International Math Olympiad, Anthropic's web crawler bypasses anti-scraping policies

Plus, a look at how Alexa is losing billions despite being in millions of households.

Alex Chao

Jul 26, 2024

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies (The Verge)

Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (WSJ)

OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (The Verge)

AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (Google DeepMind)

Tech's splurge on AI chips has Meta, Alphabet, Tesla in 'arms race' (CNBC)

The Push to Develop Generative A.I. Without All the Lawsuits (The New York Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The Five Stages Of AI Grief - NOEMA (noemamag.com)

Why Big Tech Wants to Make AI Cost Nothing (dublog.net)

The Venturification of Research & The Resulting Prisoner's Dilemma (Michael Dempsey: Blog)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

metaskills/experts: Experts.js is the easiest way to create and deploy OpenAI's Assistants and link them together as Tools to create advanced Multi AI Agent Systems with expanded memory and attention to detail. (Github)

BuilderIO/micro-agent: An AI agent that writes (actually useful) code for you (Github)

microsoft/MInference: To speed up Long-context LLMs' inference, approximate and dynamic sparse calculate the attention, which reduces inference latency by up to 10x for pre-filling on an A100 while maintaining accuracy. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Fine-Tuning and Prompt Optimization: Two Great Steps that Work Better Together (arxiv)

Retrieval Augmented Generation or Long-Context LLMs? A Comprehensive Study and Hybrid Approach (arxiv)

Increasing the LLM Accuracy for Question Answering: Ontologies to the Rescue! (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Actors’ Union to Go on Strike Against Video Game Companies (The New York Times)

What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life (The Atlantic)

Is the Birkin Bag by Hermès Really Worth the Investment? (WSJ)

Loneliness can increase stroke risk by up to 56%, finds research (The Guardian)

39% of Americans worry they can’t pay the bills (CNN Business)

Inside California’s Freedom-Loving, Bible-Thumping Hub of Hard Tech (Vanity Fair)