🥟 Chao-Down #360 Can AI tell a good joke? AI music startups strike back claiming fair use on training with copyright data, How Perplexity aims to share ad revenue with publishers cited by its AI
Plus, more AI startups look for bailouts from big tech.
How good is AI at telling jokes?
A recent study by Google DeepMind highlights the limitations of artificial intelligence in generating comedy, cementing (at least for now) that jokes are a deeply human endeavor.
The research involved 20 professional comedians collaborating with AI models like ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, and Google Bard to create comedic material during a 45-minute session. The findings revealed that while AI can assist in structuring jokes, its humor falls short with one comedian likening them to "cruise ship comedy from the '50s, just a tad less racist".
Humor requires "frame-shifting" between different contexts and perspectives, a skill that top comedians are exceptionally good at.
As a result, the researchers suggest a new benchmark for AI intelligence: the "Seinfeld test," where AI would need to entertain a discerning New York audience at an open mic.
Will we see an AI be ready to step up?
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
A.I. Music Startup Suno Fires Back at Record Labels (Rolling Stone)
Perplexity details plan to share ad revenue with outlets cited by its AI chatbot | (TechCrunch)
AI startups swap independence for Big Tech's deep pockets (The Economic Times)
How AI Speeds Up Forecasting for Hurricanes and Global Weather Patterns (The New York Times)
Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI (404media.co)
Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3 (TechCrunch)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
How to understand/retain complex concepts 10x better (Learn How To Learn)
Why high growth, high churn products never seem to work (Substack)
9 Software Architecture Patterns for Distributed Systems - DEV Community
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
lovasoa/SQLpage: SQL-only webapp builder, empowering data analysts to build websites and applications quickly (Github)
cgzirim/seek-tune: An implementation of Shazam's song matching algorithm. (Github)
character-ai/prompt-poet at research.character.ai (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
A Benchmark to Understand the Role of Knowledge Graphs on Large Language Model's Accuracy for Question Answering on Enterprise SQL Databases (arxiv)
Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons (arxiv)
Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
Why we choke under pressure, according to a cognitive scientist (NPR)
California's DMV is using the blockchain to prevent title fraud (qz.com)
Perfectionists, Type A employees more likely to become workaholics (The Washington Post)
A Look Into Ultraprocessed Foods and Their Effect on Health (The New York Times)
No One Is Ready for Digital Immortality (The Atlantic)
Severance Is Just One Cost Companies Pay During Layoffs (Bloomberg)
One Last Bite 😋
