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Study Reveals Pros and Cons of Using Generative AI to Draft Patient Responses.

Oncologists who reviewed the AI-generated responses thought many of them were sufficient, but human oversight remains of the utmost importance. A new study from Mass General Brigham, published in The Lancet Digital Health and reported in a press release from the hospital, investigates the pros and cons of using large language models (LLMs), a type of generative AI, to draft repliesContinue reading “Study Reveals Pros and Cons of Using Generative AI to Draft Patient Responses.”

Apple’s ‘Ferret’ is a new open-source machine learning model,

Researchers working for Apple and from Cornell University quietly pushed an open-source multimodal LLM in October, a research release called “Ferret” that can use regions of images for queries. The introduction in October to Github largely flew under the radar, with no announcement or fanfare for its introduction. The code for Ferret was released alongsideContinue reading “Apple’s ‘Ferret’ is a new open-source machine learning model,”

Will scaling work?

Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world modelers, and other considerations. When should we expect AGI? If we can keep scaling LLMs++ (and get better and more general performance as a result), then there’s reason to expect powerful AIs by 2040 (or much sooner) which can automate most cognitive labor and speedContinue reading “Will scaling work?”

The age of weaponized LLMs is here

The idea of fine-tuning digital spearphishing attacks to hack members of the UK Parliament with Large Language Models (LLMs) sounds like it belongs more in a Mission Impossible movie than a research study from the University of Oxford. But it’s exactly what one researcher, Julian Hazell, was able to simulate, adding to a collection ofContinue reading “The age of weaponized LLMs is here”

The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

LLMs are transforming the way people use software, and these AI and data-driven companies share first-hand how they’re seeing this change take place. LLMs are Democratizing Tech Someone was giving a course on data thinking at Princeton, teaching people how to ingest, query, and visualize data. He wasn’t teaching programming languages or higher-level tools thatContinue reading “The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini”

The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world.

There is little doubting the dedication of Sam Altman to Openai, the firm at the forefront of an artificial-intelligence (ai) revolution. As co-founder and boss he appeared to work as tirelessly for its success as at a previous startup where his singlemindedness led to a bout of scurvy, a disease more commonly associated with marinersContinue reading “The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world.”