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The growing reliance on large language models for coding support poses a significant problem: how best to assess real-world impact on programmer productivity? Current approaches, such as static bench-marking based…
In the rapidly evolving world of AI, challenges related to scalability, performance, and accessibility remain central to the efforts of research communities and open-source advocates. Issues such as the computational…
Uber and Lyft need to do more to support disabled passengers, especially those who are blind or visually impaired, according to protesters who gathered outside the companies’ headquarters on October…
AI companies claim to have robust safety checks in place that ensure that models don’t say or do weird, illegal, or unsafe stuff. But what if the models were capable…
As founders plan for an increasingly AI-centric future, Gusto co-founder and head of technology Edward Kim said that cutting existing teams and hiring a bunch of specially trained AI engineers…
Not everyone is convinced of generative AI’s return on investment. But many investors are, judging by the latest figures from funding tracker PitchBook. In Q3 2024, VCs invested $3.9 billion…
Open source might be many things, but one thing it’s not is a business model — by most estimations, at least. However, that hasn’t stopped Joseph Jacks and OSS Capital…
Throne is an Austin-based health startup. It sells a camera. That clips onto the side of a toilet bowl. It takes pictures of your poop. Currently in beta, the system…
At a protest in San Francisco, blind Uber and Lyft users claim that the ride-hailing companies aren’t doing enough to prevent drivers from turning them away.
Human beings possess innate extraordinary perceptual judgments, and when computer vision models are aligned with them, model’s performance can be improved manifold. Various attributes such as scene layout, subject location,…