“Just like any new worker, you are going to have to learn its strengths and weaknesses; you are going to have to learn to train and work with it; and you are going to have to get a sense of […]
This is about software development, but I think it’s more broadly applicable. “I’ve seen (and been on) so many projects that claim success and move on to the next thing when they are 99% done and fail to complete the […]
“Med-PaLM M is a large multimodal generative model that flexibly encodes and interprets biomedical data including clinical language, imaging, and genomics with the same set of model weights. Med-PaLM M reaches performance competitive with or exceeding the state of the […]
“We hypothesize two failure modes of safety training: competing objectives and mismatched generalization. Competing objectives arise when a model’s capabilities and safety goals conflict, while mismatched generalization occurs when safety training fails to generalize to a domain for which capabilities […]
“In 1999 Connecticut had so many people in prison that it paid to send 500 of them to be incarcerated in Virginia. Nearly 25 years later, the state has not only sliced its number of imprisoned people in half, but […]
“What can we do to get a people’s e-bike that has 30 miles of range, requires no maintenance, travels 15-20 mph, and retails around $500?” ~ learn more
Google celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. ~ learn more
“The effort will be managed by the Department of Energy and will initially have a budget in the tens of millions…” ~ learn more
“Robots—and then humans—are going back to the lunar surface. Here’s what they’ll be doing.” ~ learn more
“Counselors vary substantially in their effectiveness at increasing high school graduation and college attendance, selectivity, and persistence. Counselor effects on educational attainment are similar in magnitude to teacher effects, but they flow through improved information and assistance more than cognitive […]