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Anthropic changes hiring policy after Business Insider reported it banned job applicants from using AI
- Anthropic updated its hiring policy to allow job applicants to use AI, aiming to balance AI proficiency with authentic human skill evaluation.
- Candidates can now collaborate with Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude, for tasks like refining resumes, crafting cover letters, and preparing for interviews.
- However, the company emphasizes that direct skills assessments and live interviews will remain strictly human-only, believing AI should enhance human capabilities, not replace them.
- The new hiring guidelines reflect tensions in the tech world on hiring AI-proficient talent without undermining core human skills evaluation, providing a playbook for others to navigate the automation-authenticity balance.
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How AWS is rewriting its marketing playbook with generative AI
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) has embraced generative AI in its marketing strategy, focusing on data-driven storytelling and personalized targeting at scale.
- Julia White, VP of worldwide AWS marketing, emphasized maintaining core principles like customer obsession while leveraging AI for one-to-one targeted marketing.
- AI marketing allows precise scaling and caters to diverse customer needs, providing timely and relevant communications for different customer segments.
- There is a cultural shift towards trust and peer influence in B2B marketing, with authenticity and trusted voices being key brand amplifiers in a content-saturated landscape.
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Hugging Face’s new robot is the Seinfeld of AI devices
- Hugging Face launched programmable Reachy Mini bots, open source AI robots with cartoonish features and limited functionalities out of the box.
- Reachy Mini garnered $500,000 in sales within the first 24 hours, being compared to the Seinfeld of AI hardware for its captivating nature despite not performing specific tasks.
- On TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, discussions included Grok’s recent events, Linda Yaccarino’s departure from X, Rivian’s micromobility spinoff, and LangChain's valuation reaching $1 billion.
- Equity podcast by TechCrunch, hosted by Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha, covers various weekly news updates and airs every Wednesday and Friday.
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Model mashups and AI agents: How AWS is preparing for the next workforce
- Amazon Web Services Inc. is gearing up for the next workforce by focusing on various models and AI agents.
- AWS is preparing for the upcoming AWS re:Invent with intelligent automation and agentic AI updates.
- AWS is developing intelligent AI agents that can follow instructions effectively, offering employability for cloud models.
- AWS has introduced tools like prompt routing and model distillation to enhance the capabilities of AI models, aiming to support customers with diverse model choices.
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Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’
- Goldman Sachs is testing Cognition's AI coding agent Devin as a 'new employee' in order to augment their workforce with potentially hundreds or thousands of instances of Devin.
- Despite the financial industry's reputation for being slow, Goldman Sachs is known to be cutting edge and has been using developer copilots internally since at least 2024.
- Devin, now on version 2.1, performs best on large codebases according to Cognition, although it initially struggled with more complex coding work.
- Goldman Sachs emphasizes a 'hybrid' workforce approach where humans will supervise instances of Devin with the aim of improving productivity, without replacing human developers.
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TRI: pretrained large behavior models accelerate robot learning
- TRI's study on Large Behavior Models (LBMs) explores robot training potential.
- Study shows LBMs can learn hundreds of tasks with 80% less training data.
- LBM pretraining offers consistent performance improvement and enables learning of new tasks.
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AI coding tools made some experienced software engineers less productive in a recent study
- Experienced software developers using AI code editors saw a 19% decrease in productivity in a recent study by METR.
- The developers were overconfident in the AI tools, expecting a 20% productivity boost despite the observed decrease.
- Critics note that the results may be site-specific as AI code editors have evolved since the study period.
- AI code editors are increasingly utilized in software development by tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
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Will Automation Make Experts an Endangered Species?
- MIT researchers, David Autor and Neil Thompson, in a working paper titled 'Expertise,' analyze the impact of automation on expertise.
- The researchers highlight that the effect of automation depends on which tasks are automated and whether expertise requirements for remaining tasks increase or decrease.
- Their analysis suggests that automation can either augment or replace expertise in different occupations, impacting wages accordingly.
- Evidence from occupations like accounting clerks and inventory clerks shows that changes in expertise due to automation can lead to either higher or lower wages for workers.
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The AI hype is lying to you
- The article discusses the overwhelming nature of AI hype and jargon, leaving many unsure of which tools can solve their problems.
- The author aims to have a practical conversation about AI tools, explaining their categories and how they can be applied in daily work.
- The main focus is on generative AI, which creates new content like text, images, code, audio, and video based on given instructions by learning patterns from vast data examples.
- The author breaks down complex technical terms like 'generative pre-trained transformers' and diffusion models to offer clarity on the topic.
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Enterprise AI development platform Vellum raises $20M to help businesses deploy apps faster
- Vocify Inc., also known as Vellum, raised $20 million in early-stage funding led by Leaders Fund, Socii Capital, and other investors to expand its product portfolio and grow in the market.
- Vellum offers a platform that enables technical developers and non-technical employees to prototype AI applications using both visual user interface and code, aiming to streamline the process from prototype to production.
- The company's platform provides infrastructure for hosting in the cloud or locally, supports development workflow orchestration, evaluation, testing, deployment, and monitoring after the application is deployed.
- Vellum's collaborative environment allows different team members, including engineers, developers, product managers, and domain experts, to work together on AI applications, with big customers like Drata Inc., Swisscom AG, Redfin Corp., and Headspace already using the platform for various AI use cases.
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Advanced fine-tuning methods on Amazon SageMaker AI
- The article delves into fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on Amazon SageMaker AI.
- It covers pre-training, continued pre-training, fine-tuning methods, alignment strategies, optimization techniques.
- Discusses Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Supervised Fine-Tuning.
- Additionally explores mixed precision training, gradient accumulation, and knowledge distillation for efficient model adaptation.
- Addresses practical implementation and considerations of cost, performance, and operational efficiency in AI.
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The Future of AI: Partner, Not Replacement
- AI has evolved from rule-based automation to models capable of learning, reasoning, and creating.
- Rather than aiming to replace humans, AI is more focused on augmenting human abilities in various fields like healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and creative sectors.
- The future is envisioned as a collaboration between humans and machines, emphasizing a hybrid model where AI complements human skills rather than replacing them.
- The key to navigating the evolving landscape of AI is to embrace change, blend skill sets, and focus on how humans can coexist and evolve alongside AI for mutual benefit.
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The new movie about OpenAI's Sam Altman sounds a lot like 'The Social Network.' Should he care?
- A new movie titled 'Artificial,' based on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is set to debut next year with a script reminiscent of 'The Social Network.'
- The film revolves around drama between the company's founders, portraying Altman in a controversial light, akin to Mark Zuckerberg in 'The Social Network.'
- The script includes Andrew Garfield playing Altman as a scheming CEO, drawing parallels to Zuckerberg's portrayal in the earlier movie.
- The potential impact of 'Artificial' on Altman's public perception, similar to how 'The Social Network' affected Zuckerberg and Facebook, is discussed amid contrasting political affiliations and opinions regarding Altman's character.
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Magnifi: Smart financial forecasting and capacity planning
- Magnifi is a powerful business tool offering smart financial forecasting and integrated capacity planning for businesses, providing actionable insights to optimize capacity and profitability.
- Key features include smart forecasting, capacity planning, rolling cashflow management, interactive reporting, and multi-layer consolidations for insightful data visualization.
- Benefits of using Magnifi include eliminating guesswork in business decisions, gaining financial visibility, and achieving clarity and certainty in future strategies.
- While suitable for any business, Magnifi is particularly advantageous for Australian service businesses using Xero with 10-100 employees, enabling clarity and control in financial management.
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Google AI Studio - The Game of WAR!
- A developer built a card game of WAR using Google AI Studio as part of the DEV Education Track.
- The game allows 1 player vs 1 player with simplified rules following the traditional game of WAR.
- The developer improved the UI with custom artwork for card faces and victory screen, animations, and optimization.
- The overall experience was positive, taking around 3 hours to complete, with occasional issues related to saving changes.
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