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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 curiosity, not caution, is the more valuable trait right now. “A lot of what we assumed about how things work just doesn’t hold anymore,” he said.

    And

    It’s a response that reveals how seriously they take the possibility of AI-driven scientific discovery. Both leaders expect next year will mark another inflection point where companies can assign their most critical problems to AI systems with massive computational resources.

    https://www.maginative.com/article/sam-altman-and-sridhar-ramaswamy-say-the-quiet-part-out-loud-about-enterprise-ai

  • 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 analysis, Business Insider reported, showed the sharp fall in certain types of job listings means companies are hiring fewer people for roles AI can do instead.”

    https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/is-ai-stealing-jobs-this-hiring-analyst-says-yes/91197705

  • 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 to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men, especially online. It is code-named SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” — and promises investment to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.” It recommends buying advertisements in video games, among other things.

    Cofounder of the project, Ilyse Hogue, talked about the importance of listening and using “language that young men are speaking.” From Politico:

    Hogue said part of SAM’s mission “super charg[ing] social listening” and progressive influencers on Discord, Twitch and other platforms in their fundraising proposal. They’re urging Democratic candidates to use non-traditional digital advertising, especially on YouTube, in-game digital ads and sports and gaming podcasts.

    “Democrats can’t win these folks over if they’re not speaking the language that young men are speaking,” Hogue said. “Most people I talked to, Democratic operatives, have never heard of Red Pill Fitness, which is just huge online.”

    Language and advertising are important, for sure, but it’s hard to believe that these tactics alone would stem the tide.

  • 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 are performing at “graduate level” of one sort or another. They are not, at least out of the box like this. Imagine giving a medical school student this question, and they say — yes the thing that says in the actual conclusion that the lack of sustained differences is probably due to people stopping their medication is proof that medication doesn’t work (scroll to bottom of this screenshot to see). Never mind that in the results it states quite clearly that all groups saw improvement over baseline.

    https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/differences-in-link-hallucination