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Weak Baselines and Bad Management
The pressure is high in the AI world right now and baselines are wobbling.
Erica Greene
MoP #7: Social Contracts, and a Common Misunderstanding About LLMs
One of the clauses of the modern social contract is that adults should follow the news. This may sound onerous, but the bar is quite low. We’re talking about being aware of the big stories, maybe engaging with a bit of analysis from different perspectives, perhaps even spending a
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Introducing MoPE: An Evaluation Dataset for Professional Editing
Evaluating whether out-of-the-box LLM technology can assist with copy editing at a professional level.
The Mop Up
The Mop-Up #3: MoP Fixes the News Business
"I don’t know, but I am not ready to leave our democracy in the hands of citizen journalists on TikTok."
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MoP #6: The Murky and Evolving Ethics of AI
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What happens if The New York Times wins their case against OpenAI?
Low-risk models and the challenges of "extreme domain generalization".
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MoP #5: The Future of AI News Can Be Found In the Past
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There's Too Much Happening (Part 2)
To kick things off, Google DeepMind has some ideas about "self-training"
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There’s Too Much Happening (Part 1)
The announcements are streaming by and the FOMO is real.
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MoP #4: Believing in Spite of Everything, With Mike Fisher
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Where Are the Women in AI?
The drama at OpenAI has made it clear that we’re in the first season of a long-running reality show about the future of AI. If we’re signed up for episodes of mudslinging and backroom dealing, we may as well familiarize ourselves with the cast of characters. Luckily, The
The Mop Up
The Mop-Up #1 - Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley
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MoP #3 - The Future of Search (and OpenAI 🎪)
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The IHOP-ification of AI generated unleavened bread
Does OpenAI have a secret agenda to flatten the world’s rich collection of unleavened breads into the bland, American pancake?
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MoP #2 - Some Regulation, as a Treat
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Discussing AI at a Journalism Tech Conference
I recently attended SRCCON, a lovely conference held in Minneapolis that focuses on the tooling needed to help modern news organizations innovate and also, sadly, stay alive. AI came up a lot. The notes and transcripts from the sessions are online if you’re interested in reading (or auto-summarizing) them.