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Evan Ratliff: Our Future with Voice Agents
On things that are not what they seem; and reflections on the Longform Podcast.
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daniel bashir
1:19:58
Meredith Ringel Morris: Generative AI's HCI Moment
On distinctions between fields, technological determinism, disability and AI, and why generative AI research needs more humanism.
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daniel bashir
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1:37:44
Update #83: AI Music Fraud and PlanSearch
We look at the mechanics of AI-assisted music streaming fraud; researchers develop a new algorithm for LLM code generation that leverages inference time…
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Cole Frank
Mini-Update #47: First International AI Safety Treaty and the WavTokenizer Codec
The UK signs on to the first international AI safety treaty and a novel audio codec model allows for high-quality information transmission in fewer…
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Ather Fawaz
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Jonathan Xue
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose
Kenneth Li argues that LLM chatbots are missing a "goal" for each conversation and proposes fixing this with human-in-the-loop model evaluations.
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Hugh Zhang
Davidad Dalrymple: Towards Provably Safe AI
On provably safe and beneficial AI and the UK's new research funding agency.
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daniel bashir
1:20:50
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