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Mia Glaese, Rapha Gontijo Lopes, Youlong Cheng, Jason Teplitz, and Alex Paino introduce and demo GPT-4.5. source
New Turnitin Product Offers AI-Powered Writing Tools with Instructor Guardrails Academic integrity solution provider Turnitin has launched Turnitin Clarity, a paid add-on for Turnitin Feedback Studio that provides a composition workspace for students with educator-guided AI assistance, AI-generated writing feedback, visibility into integrity insights, and more. Utilizing an institution’s existing Turnitin workflow, students can access writing assignments within Turnitin Clarity, including instructions, grading rubric, and expectations around the use of generative AI, and write and edit their submission over multiple sessions, the company explained in a news announcement. Instructors can enable the tool’s optional AI writing assistant feature to allow students…
[pressed for time; please excuse brevity and typos]I have always felt that one of the most chilling episodes of Black Mirror was called Nosedive. As the Wikipedia summary puts it, “The episode is set in a world where people can rate each other from one to five stars, using their smartphones, for every interaction they have, which can impact their socioeconomic status.” Nobody would want to live in that world.Axios broke a story this morning that made my blood curdle. The State Department intends to revoke the visas of large numbers of foreigners (in this case largely student protestors) in…
Skills-based hiring has, in some ways, become a victim of its own success. The approach was touted as a solution to what employers perceived as endemic talent shortages, expanding the aperture for businesses that were hungry for talent but struggling to fill the most in-demand roles. Unsurprisingly, it led to pronouncements by CEOs, governors, and U.S. federal agencies that called for the removal of degree requirements for many roles. But only a few short years after the governors of Colorado and Maryland led the way in embracing skills-based hiring, the inevitable happened: Initial research findings indicated that skills-based hiring initiatives…
Published: 4 September 2024 The front door closes and you walk towards your vehicle. Opening the door and settling in for another journey, you place your phone in its cradle. You think of today’s to-do list, the groceries, the journey to see family or friends. You tap Sounds Daily to be greeted by a friendly, but not quite human voice welcoming you to “The best of BBC Sounds – made just for you”. The voice introduces a few programmes – some old favourites and some new unfamiliar shows. You trust Sounds Daily will choose programmes you love, in an order…
[Submitted on 22 Feb 2021 (v1), last revised 14 May 2021 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Abstraction and Analogy-Making in Artificial Intelligence, by Melanie Mitchell View PDF Abstract:Conceptual abstraction and analogy-making are key abilities underlying humans’ abilities to learn, reason, and robustly adapt their knowledge to new domains. Despite of a long history of research on constructing AI systems with these abilities, no current AI system is anywhere close to a capability of forming humanlike abstractions or analogies. This paper reviews the advantages and limitations of several approaches toward this goal, including symbolic methods, deep…
The White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence highlights the risks of large language models (LLMs) empowering malicious actors in developing biological, cyber, and chemical weapons.1 In collaboration with a consortium of experts, we release the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proxy (WMDP) benchmark, an extensive dataset of questions that serve as a proxy measurement of hazardous knowledge in biology, chemistry, and cybersecurity. Using this benchmark, we develop ‘CUT’—a state-of-the-art unlearning method which removes hazardous knowledge, while retaining general model capabilities. See the website here, and read the full paper here.The WMDP benchmark is a dataset of 4,157 multiple-choice questions that…
The news: Synchron, an Australian-founded competitor to Elon Musk’s Neuralink, is building a foundational AI model trained on brain signals.The AI, called Chiral, was showcased at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose. It’s built to work with Apple’s Vision Pro headset and Nvidia’s Holoscan medical AI platform.The context: Synchron is a leader in the nascent brain-computer-interface (BCI) industry. It creates devices that read brain activity and translate that into commands for a nearby computer.Its “stentrode” BCI has already been implanted in over 10 patients who, suffering from afflictions like motor neurone disease, are unable to use their hands. A video…
A new paper co-authored by the former CEO of Google has outlined a future where AI training data centers could be blown up by foreign nations.Eric Schmidt, along with Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and the Center for AI Safety’s Dan Hendrycks, warned that “destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict.”The paper lays out the concept of Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), modeled on nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD), where any “aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals.”This could involve espionage, cyberattacks, or kinetic strikes…