If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, until its battery died or its (way too small) tank filled up. Not that it mattered, though. You probably […]
A UC Berkeley study of more than 500,000 grades found that courses heavy on writing and coding saw grades jump after ChatGPT launched. The effect shows up mainly in homework, a sign that AI is replacing student work rather than improving learning. The article AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning appeared first on The Decoder .
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The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the camera system, dropping the continuous optical zoom telephoto that's defined the last four generations of Xperia phone. It's not all different. Sony staples like a […]
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At a Stanford talk, Sam Altman defended LLM scaling and hit back at skeptics, saying a whole generation of researchers slowed the field by underestimating what scaling could do. He cited OpenAI's recent disproof of a mathematical conjecture as evidence. The article Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do appeared first on The Decoder .
Thirty years ago, Cory Doctorow did an interview showing primitive inklings of the internet future (music, videos, etc.). At the time, it was easy to dismiss it as an irrelevant toy, and most people in power did just that. Around the same time, I wrote an article for Direct Marketing magazine outlining the future of […]
At its summit in New York, AWS unveiled two new services. Continuum automatically detects, prioritizes, and fixes code vulnerabilities. Context builds a knowledge graph from corporate data to give AI agents the business context they need. Both tackle the same problem: agents that write code fast but get things wrong too often. The article AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps appeared first on The Decoder .
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Evaluate AI agent, pinpoint issues, and fix with one click. Discussion | Link
Create trend motions in your browser! Discussion | Link
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Misc Changes Remove embedded Claude Code plugin marketplace: #94877 Credits Huge thanks to @gaojude for helping!
A notes app that lives in your MacBook's notch. Discussion | Link
An AI company is sending free cleaners door-to-door in a bid to train the robots it hopes one day will replace them.
Why some argue the social media ban could have a profound affect on how young people gain new knowledge and the rest of us move around online
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