Category: AI
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Paper – Superhuman performance of OpenAI-o1 on clinical reasoning tasks
New study shows that OpenAI’s o1-preview model achieves superhuman performance in medical diagnosis and reasoning tasks, surpassing both previous AI models and human physicians. The model excels in differential diagnosis and clinical management decisions, though showing similar performance to existing models in probabilistic reasoning tasks.
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Podcast – Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI’s Trajectory
in AIGwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you’ve read his blog, you know he’s one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive.
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Revising AI-generated text leads to better outputs
The real advantage for knowledge workers using AI comes from using it as a writing partner – or more accurately – a thinking partner. And this is the value of working with AI; it can help get us out of our own heads.
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Writing with AI isn’t a binary proposition
We need to start developing a sense of taste for when to lean heavily on AI for content generation, and when we want to engage with it on a spectrum with either more, or less, AI-generated input.
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Update to Copilot and data access
in AIMicrosoft is updating Copilot to provide the same enterprise-level data protection for both the standard and 365 versions. This change makes Copilot more appealing for universities and colleges, ensuring that user data is securely handled and logged like other Office 365 data.
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Google’s AI-based research tool
Google has just revealed a new AI tool called Deep Research that lets you call upon its Gemini bot to scour the web for you and write a detailed report based on its findings.
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People will hand over control to AI, but probably not yet
“People are very much going to hand control over their computers to an AI. At a minimum, they are going to hand over all the information, even if they make some nominal attempt to control permissions on actions.” – Zvi Mowshowitz
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Link – The Biggest Week In AI Ever (Again!) — AI Mindset
in AIhttps://www.ai-mindset.ai/ai-mindset-newsletter/the-biggest-week-in-ai-ever-again It’s time to stop treating AI like a fancy tool and start treating it like essential infrastructure. Just like you wouldn’t build a modern business without cloud computing, you won’t build a future business without AI infrastructure. I think before we can treat it like infrastructure, it needs to be more reliable. I wouldn’t…
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Link – Two visions of AI’s future
in AIhttps://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-visions-of-ais-future …there is a possible world in which we take a breath and ask how we can build a better, more reliable AI that can actually serve society, taking steps to make sure that it is used safely, equitably, and without causing harm. §AI doesn’t have to lead to dystopia.But, left unregulated, it probably will.…
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Please comment on the IFOMPT Generative Conversations discussion document
This post is an invitation to the wider physiotherapy community, asking colleagues to comment on a discussion document aimed at stimulating conversation about generative AI in the profession.
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Claude now has custom writing styles
You can now specify writing styles in Claude, which brings us one step closer to a world where the default behaviour is to use AI more often.
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Paper – Reclaiming voice with AI
Mirza, F. N., Bogan, A., Beam, A. L., Manrai, A. K., & Ali, R. (2024). Reclaiming Voice with AI. NEJM AI, 1(12). In a world-first application, OpenAI’s Voice Engine was used to clone Ms. Bogan’s voice from just 15 seconds of preexisting audio, sourced from a school project she had filmed a few years prior. This enabled…
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The Coming Wave, by Mustafa Suleyman
I enjoyed this for it’s exploration of the potential near-term impact of advanced technology, AI in particular, on society.
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Swarm is a framework for developing multi-agent systems
Swarm is an experimental framework from OpenAI, for building, orchestrating, and deploying multi-agent systems.
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Link: AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse
https://restofworld.org/2024/ai-reshaping-call-center-work-philippines “The co-pilot is helpful,” he says. “But I have to please the AI. The average handling time for each call is 5 to 7 minutes. I can’t go beyond that.”“It’s like we’ve become the robots,” The thing is, a human being has set those limits. AI doesn’t have the agency to create the environment…
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Claude.ai can now adapt its writing style to yours
https://the-decoder.com/claude-ai-can-now-adapt-its-writing-style-to-yours/
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Podcast – How it feels to have your mind hacked by AI
https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/mind-hacked-by-ai-a-cautionary-tale-from-a-lesswrong-users-confession Nathan discusses a tragic incident involving AI and mental health, using it as a springboard to explore the potential dangers of human-AI interactions. He reads a personal account from LessWrong user Blaked, who details their emotional journey with an AI chatbot. The episode delves into the psychological impact of AI companionship, the ethical concerns…
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How you use generative AI may say something about who you are
in AIHow you engage with generative AI may say something about how you work, what you value, and possibly even who you are.
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AI is not neutral. Neither is education.
While critics debate AI and education neutrality, they’re missing the point: nothing humans create is value-neutral, including education.