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Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI
Zuckerburg recently declared that we'll all have AI friends (lots of them, in fact), and now Meta is working on replacing designers with AI tools: The social-media company aims to…
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There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness
A recent NYTimes essay by Michal Leibowitz explores the growing childlessness and starts by mentioning a number of commonly postulated factors like climate change. But then the twist: I suspect…
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AI’s positive effect on education:
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For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here
“There are signs that entry-level positions are being displaced by artificial intelligence at higher rates,” the firm wrote in a recent report. And One tech executive recently told me his company…
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Sam Altman and Sridhar Ramaswamy Say the Quiet Part Out Loud About Enterprise AI
Altman’s blunt advice? Stop hesitating. “The companies that have the quickest iteration speed and make the cost of making mistakes low—those are the ones that win.” Ramaswamy agreed, adding that…
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Is AI Stealing Jobs? This Hiring Analyst Says Yes
“Looking at three years’ worth of job listings, Munyikwa found that the share of listings that include job duties that AI can do has already slipped by 19 percent. Deeper…
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Democrats set out to study young men. Here are their findings.
The prospectus for the two-year project, Speaking with American Men, was reviewed by the New York Times: The prospectus for one new $20 million effort, obtained by The Times, aims…
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Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different large language models
Mike Caulfield explores the problem of hallucinated links: If I am being harsh here it’s because we constantly hear — based on ridiculously dumb benchmarks — that all these models…