Tech & Society
The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman: Inside Sam Altman’s brief ouster from OpenAI
A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.
Tech & Society
The Impact of U.S. Tariffs on AI: Broad tariffs will create challenges for AI and beyond, but I see a few silver linings. Here’s what’s in store.
I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.
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Better Multimodal Performance With Open Weights: Qwen2.5-Omni 7B raises the bar for small multimodal models
Alibaba’s latest open-weights system raises the bar for multimodal tasks in a relatively small model.
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Chatbot Use Creates Emotional Bonds: ChatGPT may ease loneliness but increase dependence, studies suggest
A pair of papers investigate how increasingly human-like chatbots affect users’ emotions.
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Scraping the Web? Beware the Maze: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth traps scrapers with decoy pages
Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.
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Interactive Voice-to-Voice With Vision: MoshiVis adds image understanding to voice-first conversations
Researchers updated the highly responsive Moshi voice-to-voice model to discuss visual input.
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LLM Support for Tutors: GPT-4 boosts remote tutors’ performance in real time, study finds
Students benefit from tutoring, but training tutors is expensive. A study shows that large language models can boost tutors’ effectiveness in real time.
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Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works
The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
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Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works
The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
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Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding
Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.
Tech & Society
Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding
Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.
Tech & Society
Learn the Language of Software: AI won’t kill programming. There has never been a better time to start coding.
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
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Learn the Language of Software: AI won’t kill programming. There has never been a better time to start coding.
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
Tech & Society
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1
Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.
Tech & Society
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1
Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.
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