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Leaked memo shows Google CEO Sundar Pichai is asking staffers for help testing its Bard AI chatbot (8 minute read)

Google has started company-wide internal testing of its AI chatbot, Bard. CEO Sundar Pichai has asked all employees to spend 2 to 4 hours helping test the product. The move shows Google's urgency in competing to win the race on AI-based search. The company is competing with Microsoft to lead the next era of AI-based search. A full copy of the memo asking employees to help with Bard is available in the article.

Elon Musk says Twitter should be ready for new CEO by end of year (2 minute read)

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced he may step down from his role at the end of 2023. Various reports indicate a CEO hunt has been underway in recent months with no identified candidates. Musk says he needs to stabilize the organization and make sure it is in a financially healthy place. He plans to continue running Twitter's software and server teams after stepping down as CEO. A video interview with Musk at the World Government Summit is available in the article.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

After a decade in development, Japan’s H3 rocket is ready for its debut (3 minute read)

The introduction of the H2-A rocket in 2001 allowed Japan to tap into the commercial launch market. Manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the medium-lift rocket has seen some success, including the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission in 2020. However, its high cost of $90 million per launch, 50% more than SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, has prevented it from breaking through the commercial launch market. Japan's new H3 rocket is set to take off for the first time at 1:37 UTC on February 17. It was developed to have a cost of $51 million per launch in its base configuration.

Discovery of a New Brain Disease in Children Could Help Us Understand Dementia (3 minute read)

A new genetic disease has been described for the first time in three children who share neurodevelopmental issues. This disease is linked to mutations in both copies of a gene called ATG4D, which is responsible for recycling damaged or defective cells in the brain. It is not well understood how ATG4D contributes to this recycling process. Further research could provide insight into more common brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's, which are thought to occur due to a breakdown in the brain's maintenance.

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Keep (GitHub Repo)

Keep is a command-line tool for creating and managing Alerts. It makes it easy to configure, trigger, and test Alerts. Alerts are managed by simple human-readable yaml files. Keep supports multiple providers and is easily deployable.

Adopting React in the Early Days (8 minute read)

ReactJS was released in 2013, but it wasn't an instant success. This article looks at the early days of React and the difficulties encountered in using it. Adopting React in the early days posed many challenges, including a lack of clear solutions to common problems and primitive APIs. Despite the changes over the years, React's programming model remains largely the same, with many old concepts still existing in different forms.

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Miscellaneous

The maze is in the mouse (17 minute read)

Google employs over 175,000 capable and well-compensated staff, yet its productivity remains low. The company's internal system trains employees to maintain the status quo. Google's internal system revolves around approvals, processes, reviews, documents, meetings, bug reports, triage, OKRs, H1 and H2 plans, summits, and reorgs. While employees are rewarded with promotions, bonuses, and perks, they are discouraged from rocking the boat. There is still hope for the company, but it will require an intervention.

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” (17 minute read)

Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing last week. The chatbot can run searches for users and summarize the results as well as offer other features similar to GPT-3 and ChatGPT. Large language models lack an understanding of truth and are likely to make mistakes with confidence. This article provides some examples of conversations with the new Bing bot and some of the strange interactions people have experienced with the language model.

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Apple’s mixed reality headset will reportedly debut at WWDC (2 minute read)

Apple delayed the launch of the headset due to hardware and software issues, but it looks like the device will be ready to be introduced at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference event.

Do you know that DeepMind has actually open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo & AlphaZero? (2 minute read)

The 'mctx' repository provides a JAX-native Monte Carlo Tree Search that solves for the best move in turn-based games by selecting, expanding, simulating, and updating the nodes in a strategy tree.

Tesla finally agrees to open its charging network to all EVs in US (4 minute read)

The US government has announced new standards for expanding the national electric vehicle charging network, including requirements for all charging stations to adopt the same connector types, payment methods, and data privacy assurances.

allocscope (GitHub Repo)

allocscope is a tool for finding large allocations in C, C++, and Rust codebases to help developers reduce excessive allocations.

Google Fiber comes back to life with 5 gigabit service, plans for 8Gbps soon (2 minute read)

Google's new 5Gbps service is coming to Kansas City, West Des Moines, and all of Google Fiber's existing Utah cities.

What Is ChatGPT Doing… and Why Does It Work? (1.5 hour read)

A rough outline of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it accelerates in producing what we consider to be meaningful text.

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Google CEO's leaked AI memo 📝, Bing AI threatens people 🤖, DeepMind open sources AlphaGo algo 👨‍💻

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