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A group of current and former employees from leading AI companies, primarily OpenAI, have issued an open letter warning about the dangers of advanced AI. They highlight risks such as increased inequality, manipulation, misinformation, and loss of control over autonomous AI systems.
The letter calls for stronger government oversight and enhanced whistleblower protections, arguing that AI companies currently lack sufficient obligations to share critical information with the public and governments. They also criticize existing whistleblower protections as inadequate for addressing unregulated AI risks.
PROGRAMMING RESOURCES
SDKs are not always beneficial and can complicate the development process. They often organize API interactions differently to how developers want them, have hidden complexities, use outdated dependencies, and have learning overhead. Using direct API calls allows for offline development, custom typing information, and easier swapping of vendors. SDKs can still be useful for deep integration with a service, but for simple API integrations, they introduce too much unnecessary bloat and cognitive overhead.
Staging Ground is a private space where new askers on Stack Overflow can get help from experienced users to improve their questions before posting to the broader community. Reviewers provide feedback on how to improve questions by leaving comments and moving questions into different statuses based on how much the questions need to be improved. Staging Ground was created to improve the new user experience while also increasing the quality of questions on Stack Overflow. It is now available to all new question-askers on the platform.
Quadratic cost functions are ineffective in neural network training because they lead to a slowdown in learning. This occurs because the gradient of the sigmoid activation function, used in the quadratic cost, approaches zero as the input increases, causing the network to stop updating weights effectively. In contrast, cross-entropy cost functions do not suffer from this issue, allowing for more efficient weight updates and continued learning throughout the training process.
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Google has scaled back AI Overviews. The AI-generated answers are now appearing in around 11 percent of queries, down from around 27 percent when the feature was launched last month. The company is still in the process of refining the feature. AI Overviews are appearing most in health-focused searches, despite the company highlighting the tool's use for shopping, restaurant recommendations, and travel in its marketing.
Elon Musk redirected 12,000 H100 GPUs ordered by Tesla to X. He had told investors in April that Tesla had spent $1 billion on GPUs in the three months of the year. Tesla has been developing its own in-house supercomputer for AI, but Musk has previously said that it would be redundant if the company could source more H100s. X's order of 12,000 H100s will be redirected to Tesla.
Meta will refocus its core product suite to focus on the discovery of content relevant to younger audiences, put a greater emphasis on short-form videos within Facebook, and develop a professional mode to make the app more creator-friendly.
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Prompt: Develop a stakeholder communication plan for our [insert project name and details here, ex: healthcare IT implementation project]. Outline the key stakeholders, communication objectives, channels, and frequency of updates.You can adapt the prompt to your specific needs.
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